Learners in a high school in the Valley of a Thousand Hills were given the first rule of unlocking the right brain – ten minutes of non-stop writing!
This is the first step towards ... Continue Reading →
Trauma
When something happens to us that hurts our feelings, we experience pain in our heart, and usually also anger and fear of it happening again. But what do we do with these feelings? ... Continue Reading →
With ten years of publishing behind Dancing Pencils Writing Clubs, a few mentors together with a quorum of Dancing Pencils Literacy Development Project board members have given the ... Continue Reading →
Have you ever had the feeling that there is more of you than you are aware of right now? Perhaps you have experienced the feeling that something is missing. But that you just cannot ... Continue Reading →
Purpose: This project was established by Felicity Keats with the vision of building literacy in sub-Saharan Africa. There is an enormous need for literacy and a lack of material ... 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.