Dr Sipho Lombo was in the Durban South Department of Education in 1997 when I first met him. To highlight difficulties in deep rural areas, he was instrumental in finding a rural school ... Continue Reading →
Felicity ran a Writing Marathon for all ages at the BAT Centre on Saturday 23rd of February.
The mentors for both the junior club and the adult club were present. Veena Gangaram takes ... Continue Reading →
Members of the Blue Moon Dancing Pencils Writing Club that runs at the SABC Head Office on a Sunday afternoon were lucky to have a free upper level film script writing workshop on ... Continue Reading →
Sethembile Magubane first became a Mentor in 2003 when Felicity trained teachers from 7 schools in the Estcourt area to run Dancing Pencils Writing Clubs.
Sethembile ran a Dancing ... Continue Reading →
Nhlanhla Nxele, SABC radio journalist, writes a novel!
Nhlanhla Nxele interviewed Felicity Keats for SABC radio in January 2012 . Their interest was in the success of right brain ... Continue Reading →
Sipho Pro Dludlu began his writing career in the Phendukani Dancing Pencils Writing Club in Newcastle.
* A fascination for story writing led him to writing a play which did very well. ... 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.