As an oral storyteller I sometimes wish it was an offence under the Trade Description Act to read aloud a story and describe it as ‘storytelling’ – the two activities are that different! Reading aloud is important, and something that every parent should do regularly to their young kids to demonstrate their love of reading …
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The Lament of Lonesome George Lonesome George, the last known individual of the subspecies, Pinta Island tortoise died June 24, 2012 at the age of 101. However I first learnt about him via a report in the Straits Times in 1991 and I wrote this elegy, though he still had two more decades of solitary …
23 December Seren Chen and I audio described Wild Rice production of Alfian Sa’at’s SNOW WHITE & THE SEVEN DWARFS We had a group of (coincidentally but very appriately) seven visually impaired members of the audience. Wild Rice continues to be a committed promoter of access and inclusion in Singapore theatre. We were joined in …
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If you’ve visited my Plethora of Quora Poetry page you’ll know that, from time to time, I like to respond to poetic questions or challenges in kind. However sometimes the question is specifically directed towards the writing of poetry, presumably in the hope that the person asking will receive guidance to writing their own. …
Roger Jenkins – the poet? From time to time I like to answer questions on QUORA relating to poetry. Mostly these are poetic responses, though sometimes the question is answered with a prosaic tip (or quip!) Updated 4 August 2024 What counts as a line in a poem? I was taught That each line in …
I spent an hour with each of the seven Year 6 classes at the Australian International School (Singapore) in September 2023 as part of their unit on poetry. Using photographs mainly culled from Pixabay as triggers, I was able to build on the excellent work done their teachers. Afterwards, the students forwarded their work in progess …
This looks like being a wonderfully busy month for me. 4 Eton House Pre-school, Sentosa – a story ansd drama class with Year 1 and 2, exploring the idea of making choices. The Two Goats on the Bridge got us thinking about working togerther (what does ‘co-operative’ mean?!) 5/12 FEAST Foundations of Oral Storytelling; delighted …
I spent a thoroughly enjoyable four mornings (20-23 Feb) at the Ghurka Camp working with 30 volunteers from the Reading Club and Mums&Toddlers, sharing ways of telling stories in an interactive and engaging way. They were so creative in making up stories with tangrams, and re-telling a story using key still-images and then adding lines of dialogue …
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BhuFeSto was a wonderful celebration Held in conjunction with the Hockey world Cup in Bhubaneshwar, this was a delightful experience from first to last. Four stages scattered across four beautfiul parks spread around the city attracted large crowds every day for 4 days, and manyin the audience stayed pretty much the whole time from 2.30 …
BHUFESTO 2023: I am delighted to be participating in Bhubaneswar’s storytelling festival (13 – 17 January). This will be my first time in this city, and I am looking forward to meeting up with my fellow international tellers Ariyo Zidni (from Jakarta, and an active member of FEAST from the very beginning) and Antonio Rocha …
