ALL activities will include local talent and bring forward skills already existing in the community.
WRITING
Individual journals and stories
Themes: Home and Landscape
• Identifying with the distant past.
• Heritage based interviews and discussion with elders and family
• Life for children now and then – an archive of childhood
• Projection into the future
• Poetry and dramatization
Making books
Each participant will create a book of self: Me in My Place. Techniques will include research and interview, journals.
Digital Stories
Working as a team to make a digital record of community and place
Photo-journalism
Preparing group articles for local newspapers and magazines. Submitting to national publications. Children’s own illustrations, photographs and words.
Mapping
In words and illustration, recreating home and landscape on paper
Communicating
Comparing and sharing landscapes with children in other environments (Sweden: Stories South to North)
MUSIC
Song-writing
Songs to build a nation! – Children’s Anthems, hopefully with James Hollingworth (Sweden) and Pedro the music man (SA and Spain)
Singing
With members of the UCT choir and friends
Drumming
With Basse and Kabbo (Senegal)
Marimba and Steel bands
To be contacted with a view to sharing skills and building
ART
Landscape in Art
Examining the old images of the mountains
Looking at people through new eyes
