by Felicity Keats
(This article appears in a new magazine called ChangeNOW)
There are enormous differences between our right and left brains. The latter is linear, verbal, critical ... Continue Reading →
In 1998, when I was at Parkview Primary School in Glenwood, Durban, I published a book with Felicity Keats.
Though it was a children’s book that made little sense in the real ... Continue Reading →
Joseanne Capelo (left) is photographed at the Dancing Pencils Annual book launch with Veena Gangaram (right) who was her Mentor at the BAT Junior Dancing Pencils Writing Club where ... Continue Reading →
A new right brain novel writing course for adults started on Sunday 12th May at the SABC headquarters in Durban. Here Vera Castleman is working on a book about a paraplegic child ... Continue Reading →
Last year, through the initiative of the Premier’s Priority Project and in conjunction with Youth Education Specialists from the Department of Education, two right brain trainings ... 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.