On 16 and 17 July children from Red Hill informal settlement attended a CBN workshop at Simon’s Town Library. Seventeen children attended on both days, with some changes in the group after day one, and they travelled on two minibus taxis to the venue. Summary There was an exciting programme involving making and performing a […]
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Monday 7th July was an important date for Children’s Book Network at the Centre for the Book in Queen Victoria Street. It was the launch of a new phase of our work – and all three founders were there. Lesley Beake gave an introduction to CBN and spoke about the importance of books for children,
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Venue: Simon’s Town Library (on main road, opposite police station and after the shops stop. It is up a steep driveway on your right and there is plenty of parking at the top) Theme: Books and music. Early people, San, rock gongs There is a report about the Clanwilliam workshop on this theme for those
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Listening Beautifully With Gçina Mhlophe, Sindiwe Magona, Anele Mhlahlo and croc E moses. This event will not only be a magical evening of stories and music but also acts as a fundraiser for Children’s Book Network. Tickets are R150 and include wine and nibbles. We would be very grateful if you could also share this
Rock Gong Workshop in Clanwilliam Twenty-five children from three schools in the Cederberg took part in a four-day workshop at Clanwilliam Living Landscape Project (CLLP) between 30 June and 3 July. It was incredible! This workshop has been a long time in the dreaming. We wanted to try some new ideas, inspire the children with
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At the four-day workshop held in Clanwilliam between 30th June and 3 July, 25 children had the chance to use the CBN iPads for the first time. Two of them are on loan from Digicape in Cape Town, two were lent by workshop facilitators and one is CBN’s very own iPad! It was donated by
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Our first day at Clanwilliam. We had a beautiful successful day with the children. They were so amazingly easy to work with, so far we have worked with iPads (with Phumla, Mary and Hugh in charge), made shadow puppets with Rosemary and Emily shared stories with Lesley – and Anele and Croc E made music
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SONG OF BE by Lesley Beake (Maskew Miller Longman) The moving story of Be, a modern Bushman/San girl. Its opening sentence: “I have just killed myself” catches both the drama of the Bushman girl’s situation and the threat of extinction to her people – or at the very least, of their traditional way of life.
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Elzaine I love my grandmother because she tells me things in te history. I like to have a grandmother. She tells me stories from her history. My grandmother is the best person in the world. Ursula Grandmother lived in a family village. She was happy there. There was good food to eat. There was water
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My grandmother is a very good grandmother – and she makes very good bakes. She works at the shop in the town. She is very nice!
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Franchey My grandmother is a very good grandmother – and she makes very good bakes. She works at the shop in the town. She is very nice!
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Aneline My grandmother loves to tell stories about her past. She tells us how they lived. Sometimes it went good and sometimes it went bad. One stormy night she told us how she slept through the noise. My grandmother is a hardworking person. I’m glad to have a granny like that.
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My grandmother is a very cool grandmother and she works very hard. Granny had four sisters and one of them is my mother. M mother is very nice too! My grandmother works at Sederbery Primere in the kitchen. She always saves something nice for me! Luchane
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In Saturday stories, we worked with books and stories about grandparents and discussed (in the winter sun) how important they are in our lives. The children then wrote and painted around the theme. By Deoni My grandfather is the most kind and grateful man I have ever met. He is like my dad and I
A TWO-DAY Workshop 16th & 17th July Themes for these days will be:Time, People and working with music and the rock gongs. The children will work with musicians, clapping, humming and singing. Start 9.30 Breakfast. 10.00 Library Hall: Begin Books and Stories session 10.00 – 11.00 including performances / interaction from Croc E, Anele and
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This 4-day workshop will give us time to complete some large projects – shadow puppets with San themes, beautiful words poetry project, iBooks on the iPads and working with the rock gongs on site. DAYS 1-3 Themes for these days will be: Time People Land. Start 9.30 Breakfast. 10.00 Hall: Begin Books and Stories session
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My friend gives me special feelings – like a sister. She makes me feel happy. She plans surprises like birthday parties. She is respectful of me and my family. But one day we had a fight! We were talking and one of us said something about someone else. It sounded to me as if it
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First published in the ReadRight educational supplement of the Sunday Times. Commissioned and published in book form by the Parliament of the Republic of South Africa in 2009 Children have a great deal to say and a great deal to offer. In a series of workshops that were designed to give them a voice, stories
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On Saturday 14th June children in Clanwilliam remembered the children and young people who were part of the freedom struggle in South Africa, particularly those involved in the Soweto uprising that will be commemorated on Youth Day, 16th June. We read stories from a book of children’s writing that was commissioned by the Parliament of
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A retelling of a story from southern Nigeria In the very old days, everybody lived in the same village. Everybody, that was, except Moon and Sun. They had to live in the sky so that the rest could see what was going on. But everyone else – rain, wind, rainbows; ice – they lived in
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