A three day retreat for young writers from 5 wards in the Vryheid district was held over the long weekend of the 27th April. This was a great way for a writing workshop as educators ... Continue Reading →
KZN Premiers Priority Project started at Tugela Ferry in Msinga, with the training of 18 educators in right brain creative writing, all from different schools. This training will enable ... Continue Reading →
18 Educators from schools in the St Lucia area were trained as Mentors to run Dancing Pencils Writing Clubs in their schools. This Premier Priority Project of the Premier of KZN is ... Continue Reading →
On Monday and Tuesday, 21 and 22 of November, it was the turn of Kokstad educators to get a chance of unlocking the talents of their right brains. A full complement of 20 educators ... Continue Reading →
Dancing Pencils Writing Clubs came from Empangeni, Estcourt, Umbumbulu, Msinga, Howick, and locally to launch their new books at this year’s Playhouse launch.
Here is Mentor Maimoonah ... Continue Reading →
Dancing Pencils Writing Clubs are as varied as people are. At Drakensview Primary School in Estcourt, under the competent Mentorship of Sthembile Magubane, a new writing club launched ... Continue Reading →
The story highlights changes in a child's life from having the opportunity to learn to write stories and to read. The child starts out as an orphan in a squatter camp, and finishes up as a bright little girl with her own book launch and published story. It aims at getting funding in our NPO to enable the NPO to help with literacy by training children to write stories, publishing them and then giving books to disadvantaged children and so encouraging reading of child written books. This helps with literacy as children will read what children write.. The little orphan is the daughter of Bonga Zondo, who was the cameraman and editor. The teacher is Bonga's wife. The script was written by Felicity Keats who is also a right brain trainer and a niche publisher. the voice is Detlev Diegel, also a colleague.
Scenes at some of the Dancing Pencil book launches
Grade 3 Learners in five districts in the Free State, South Africa write books in five different home languages.