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Two large workshops are planned for the school holidays. The first one will be at the Clanwilliam Living Landscape Project (CLLP) in the Cederberg from 30th June to 3rd July. We will be working with an exciting new music and books theme with our workshop manager Anele Mhlahlo and his violin as well as books […]
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The Cederberg Stories Project will be holding a workshop on Friday 4th April on Music and Stories – Stories and Music. Anele Mhlahlo will play his violin for the grade 6 children who have been invited to attend (11 years old) and Lesley Beake will read and tell stories about music. Professor john Parkington will
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During April 2014 we changed the plans somewhat as the weather continued extremely hot and we delayed the planned topics: People of the Cederberg in the past and one on conservation and nature. Instead we held one on the topic of friends and how important they are – and the difference, in fact, between friends,
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On Saturday 1 March CBN will collect six representatives of Rotary Skelleftea in northern Sweden. They will be four high-school students with their teacher and Philip Cohen of Rotary Skelleftea and they will be gusts of CBN and Rotary Cape of Good Hope. Their arrival will signal the beginning of the iPad Project and we
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On Saturday 15th February there will be a storytelling marathon at the Centre for the Book, 62 Queen Victoria Street in Cape Town. There is a fabulous array of storytellers who will perform between 10 am and 5 pm – and it is FREE! CBN is proud to be associated with this project, which is
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We have planned a slow start to the year, allowing for the high temperatures in the area during January and February, escalating to a major workshop during the winter holidays when we will facilitate various music events and performances. Another major focus will be the spring holidays with exhibitions of work and performances during Heritage
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Even given the dreaded proviso ‘funding permitting’, CBN has some exciting plans for the coming year. We are currently planning, and will begin implementing, in February, an ambitious year-long programme of workshops and related events in the Cederberg Mountains (about three hours north of Cape Town). This will include developing ideas to excite children about
December Story Festival Building is still continuing at Red Hill’s new library, so CBN has elected to bring the children to the nearest library in Simon’s Town for an end-of-the-year celebration of story. This will include storytelling, music of different kinds and general fun for everyone. It will be at 2.30 in the library hall
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The Red Hill workshop was the beginning of a process. We learned a lot. Hopefully, so did the children. The children’s own writing can be found here, the pieces include writing on ‘Who am I’ as well as reflections on living in Red Hill in the ‘Winters Day’ pieces. The workshop encouraged the children to
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Q: What two animals are mentioned in the familiar English sentence that uses all the letters of the alphabet? A: Fox and dog Q: What author was awarded the first ever posthumous Carnegie Medal in 2009 for her novel Bog Child? A: Siobhan Dowd The 22nd international Kids Lit Quiz will be taking place in
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Jay Heale Editor: www.bookchat.co.za / Email: jayheale@afrihost.co.za PO Box 53047, Kenilworth 7745 15 March 2013 SYMPOSIUM on Wednesday 15 May Hosted by the Children’s Book Network Dear …. Children’s Book Network IBBY SA Biblionef SA PRAESA; Nal’ibali Fundza SCBWI Franschhoek Schools Outreach BookMark You are invited to an unofficial meeting representative of some (not all)
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SYMPOSIUM Wednesday 15 May 2013 at the Green Room, La Fontagne, 19 Dirkie Uys Street, Franschhoek 1 pm to 4.15 pm AGENDA 1 pm Finger lunch provided by the Franschhoek Literary Festival. 2 pm Symposium starts. Guests welcomed by Chairman, Jay Heale, independent children’s book enthusiast, editor of Bookchat. 2.05 Presentation by Lesley Beake concerning
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2013 Symposium Participating organisations with contact addresses Bookchat Jay Heale : jayheale@afrihost.co.za Children’s Book Network (CBN) Lesley Beake : Lesley@lesleybeake.co.za & Sindiwe Magona: smagona@mweb.co.za IBBY SA Nonique Mashologu : nonique@mweb.co.za Centre for the Book Phakama Matoti : phakama.matoti@nlsa.ac.za Society of Children’s Book Writers & Illustrators (SCBWI) Marjorie van Heerden : Marjorie@grafikon.co.za BookMark Kathy Madlener :
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This is the full text of the presentation prepared by Niki Daly for the 15 May 2013 Symposium. Because of time constraints, he omitted the first 5 paragraphs, marked here in square brackets. [Most of you will know that I have been writing and illustrating books for many years – my first picture book, The
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OCL GROUP of Organisations connected to Children’s Literature Minutes of Symposium taken by Jay Heale held at La Fontaine, Franschhoek on 15 May 2013 at the invitation of the Children’s Book Network Those present: Jay Heale (Chair), Lesley Beake (Convenor), Sindiwe Magona, Nonique Mashologu, Jean Williams, Carole Bloch, Mignon Hardie, Marjorie van Heerden, Margie Cunnama,
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The Centre for the Book in Cape Town will host the second symposium of W Cape organizations working in reading.
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