Children’s Storytelling Workshops with Sita Brahmachari

 
 

Award winning author, Sita Brahmachari will be conducting
a series of workshops in Galle and Colombo
from the 12th-15th of October.
For teachers, young writers and authors of children’s books.

 
 

Story Telling Workshops Programme :




12th October - Finding your Voice
A/L Students of English, Galle District
NOT OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

In this practical, fun, and creative workshop, Sita Brahmachari will share with G.C.E. ‘A’ Level students of English, some tricks on narrative craft so that students can imaginatively express their own voice through creative writing.

If you…

  • Find yourself running away with your imagination;

  • Find yourself writing a diary, journal, song, or poem to express yourself and your feelings about your community, country, and the world;

  • Love listening to stories told by older members of your family about time past;

  • Want to learn how to write creatively better;

Then this workshop is for you! (Nominations for participation will be from schools in the Galle District).





13th October - In Their Voice: Teaching Narrative
Teacher of English, Galle District
NOT OPEN TO PUBLIC

In this workshop Sita Brahmachari will share with you how to teach creative writing focusing on tricks of craft and narrative devices through which your students can explore their imagination, their worlds and find their own voices.

  • If you are a teacher of English at the G.C.E. Ordinary or Advanced level;

  • If you want to pick up tips on how to teach narrative;

Then join this workshop! (Nominations for participations will be from schools in the Galle District).





14th October - Writing Treasure Hunt
Children: Ages 12- 16 years
Colombo - British Council Library - 3.00 - 5.30 p.m.

Join Sita Brahmachari in a treasure hunt of the imagination as she shares with aspiring writers some storytelling treasures that will help you create your own magic with words.

If you…

  • Are a doodler and a daydreamer or have an imagination that can dream up magical lands, adventures, future worlds, animals, and characters;

  • If you love reading stories and creating your own

Then join Sita to begin your own writing treasure hunt! Bring along a photo, picture, drawing or object that contains a writing inspiration for you.

Email us at [email protected] to reserve your spot!
Limited seats available. First come first serve basis.

Applications Closed!





15th October - Writing Into Childhood – A Masterclass
Published authors of Children’s Books
Colombo – Lakmahal Community Library - 09.30 am to 04.00 pm

Sita Brahmachari shares her patchwork storytelling process with authors of Children’s Literature. In this practical, creative writing Masterclass Sita will focus on a constant refrain in her work - the writer and the child reader finding their voice.

Participants will engage with the rites of passage moments in childhood and be encouraged to enter a magical world of possibilities that all children need to inhabit. The Masterclass will explore styles and narrative devices at the heart of Sita’s writing including magic realism, oral history, character building, child rights, engagement with communities, culture, landscapes, belief, history, and research.

Sita will discuss her publishing journey and encourage writers to explore the patchwork pieces that form the palette of their own storytelling journeys. Bring along a writing journal!

Open to all Sri Lankan writers who have published children’s and young-adult fiction in English, Sinhala or Tamil.

The master class will be conducted in English.  Limited seats available.

To register for the event, please send us an expression of interest with the following on, or before 1st Oct 2023.

  1. A brief account of your latest book (published/ upcoming) in less than 250 words

  2. A personal statement which includes what you would expect from the master class in 350 words.







 
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