Red Hill children will be examining the concept of Courage – in life as well as in small aeroplanes – on the morning of Saturday 24th October. The workshop is in association with the landing of a historic flight being made by Johan Wiklund in a De Havilland 60 Moth biplane from Stockholm to Cape […]
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CBN will hold a workshop on the afternoon of Thursday 15th October at Clanwilliam Living Landscape project as part of the Heritage Symposium being held in Clanwilliam between 15th and 17th October. This workshop will be an opportunity to show the work the children have done during an intensive year of workshops (ten workshops in
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CBN first heard about the Cape to Cape project when one of our Rotarian friends, Leif Sundqvist, visited us from Skellefteä. He described an adventure that our children would love to be part of – and they are going to be. Children from Red Hill informal settlement will welcome the pilot of a Moth (early
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Two workshops and a small party! Winter is the main focus for CBN workshops, when the temperature is right and the holiday is long. The school holidays are the perfect time for four-day workshops and getting a serious amount of work done and a serious number of books read. We call them workshops, but our
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It is wonderful to see how children begin to form a group and to trust and accept the facilitators. Once the initial shyness has worn off, of course, it gets more difficult to command attention – but these workshops are in school holidays and are voluntary. Part of what we want to achieve is building
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We continue! Twenty-four children attended the second day of a four-day workshop for younger children on the theme of archaeology and the Olifants River Valley (Time and the Valley). We began (after much-needed hot chocolate on a very old morning) by introducing new CBN facilitator Nadia Woodward and welcoming Anele Mhlahlo back once again. Books
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Today was the first day of a four-day workshop for younger children on the theme of archaeology and the Olifants River Valley. We began with the delightful stories of Christopher Houghton – which had nothing to do with archaeology at all, but which meant we could sit and laugh in the sun on a freezing
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A small, but important workshop will be held for new readers on Tuesday 14th July. This will be at the same time as the bigger workshop for Grade 4,5,6 & 7 that will take place fro 13th to 16th July and will need community support and helpers This event has been asked for by a
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Some days are just wonderful. The last three days of CBN workshop in Clanwilliam have been days we will never forget – and we hope that none of the seventeen teenagers who attended will forget them either. The theme was Time and the Valley, encompassing the archaeology, the history, the botany, the stories the culture
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Next week (June 29th to July 2nd) CBN will be holding the first Winter Workshop, for High School learners, with an amazingly exciting programme. To start each day, we will have input from the archaeologists working on the rescue archaeology around the Clanwilliam Dam. Participants will learn about rock art and stone tools and make
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Last week I had the excitement of finally meeting the amazing team behind Book Dash (http://bookdash.org/). Book Dash is an innovative organisation based in Cape Town. They gather together professional authors, illustrators and designers for a day of stimulation, fun and learning; A day of stimulation, fun and learning through the somewhat stressful process of
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On Friday afternoon 29th May CBN held a presentation workshop for teenagers at the Clanwilliam Library as part of the Clanwilliam Dam Community Project. No less than twenty young people presented themselves at three o’ clock and participated with energy and enthusiasm, reacting strongly to the chosen stories and showing interest in the outline of
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Today a very important and (for once one can accurately say), unique collection of books moved home. Jay Heale’s collection of South African children’s books dating back as early as about 1897 (that particular book is undated) is in transit to Hermanus where it will be available for teachers and children in the library of
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On Friday 29 May at 3.00 we will have a meeting at the library with high school students to explain what CBN does, how we have been working with primary school children over the last three years and how we can expand this programme to meet the needs of teenagers. There will be a four-day
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this month’s theme has been tracks and tracking – both in hunting and in archaeology. For full reports of these (and all other) workshops, please go to: https://www.childrensbook.co.za/workshops/reports
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On Friday 15th and Saturday 16th May a full complement of children attended a workshop at Clanwilliam Living Landscape Project linking the art and science of tracking and the art and science of archaeological research. We are slowly building on previous work. This workshop was enhanced by visiting archaeologist Dr Jeremy Hollmann and filmmaker Musi
On Thursday 14th May CBN visited Elizabethfontein Primary School, over the Pakhuis Pass from Clanwilliam. Many older children attend workshops in Clanwilliam, but the school has requested class visits for children in the younger grades. We began with Grade Four. Our theme for May has been to link the signs followed by hunters in the
This was a very interesting event to attend. Morag Styles is an expert in the history of children’s literature. She is professor of Children’s Poetry at the University of Cambridge. In her talk at UCT she gave us a brief history of how children’s literature gained momentum originally from very lyrical and musical poetry in
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Tonight (Monday 11th May) at UCT there will be a conversation between Morag Styles, Emeritus Professor of Children’s Poetry, University of Cambridge, and Finuala Dowling, local author. Please find the booking form and poster with information attached below for download. Follow up article: https://www.childrensbook.co.za/news/2015/05/12/meeting-morag-styles
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We were invited to attend the Sharjah Children’s reading festival in Sharjah (UAE) on 30th April and 1-2 May 2015. It was a very different and very exciting event. The festival was huge. Lasting for eleven days, by three days before the end an estimated 60 000 people had attended – and many, many of
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