Showing posts with label Going West. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Going West. Show all posts

Saturday, September 22, 2012

Bums and Roses at the Going West Storyfest



Pretty cupcakes for the Storyfest






Party Food for Girls was once more on tour, today at the Storyfest with another sugar roses' workshop for children (of all ages) and a baking demonstration too. We started with baking cupcakes at 10am, and then we moved to our workshop table to show the kids how to make sugar roses and decorate their own cupcakes.


 
Arantxa and Martina teaching the children how to make sugar roses.





Next table down we had lovely Dawn McMillan (pictured here with Libro International children book editor Carolyn Lagahetau). Dawn is the author of I need a new bum!, an hilarious new book all about ... Bums! She was at the Storyfest with illustrator Ross Kinnaird who did a lot of sketches for the children present. And we had so many children around, all reading books and attending all the creative workshops that Storyfest had to offer. 



Literally hundred of children came to our stall to make sugar roses, here is what some of them made.




I would like to thank Martina and Arantxa for helping all day long (9:30 to 4:30!), and everyone at Going West for organizing another wonderful Book & Writers Festival. Well done!

Photos by Alessandra Zecchini ©

Sunday, August 12, 2012

The Wordsmith Tour of schools and the Going West Books and Writers Festival






On August 13 the annual Going West Books & Writers Festival, will kick off with the Wordsmith Tour of schools. 

Going West Books and Writers Festival is a month-long festival, celebrating the word in Aotearoa, New Zealand and featuring over five major events. 
From the local schools touring programme (Wordsmith) to the infamous Books and Writers Weekend, there is something for everyone to enjoy.
Join us to see New Zealand literature in action as the west of Auckland is transformed into a hotbed of literary discussion, debate, oration and performance.




The Wordsmith Tour of schools


The Wordsmith Tour aims to inspire kids in intermediate and high schools to write, and to become writers!  Every year three writers are chosen to tour the schools and talk to the students, and this year I am thrilled to be one of them, alongside Phillip W. Simpson and Johnny Angel

We will start tomorrow, speaking to 700 kids at Block House Bay Intermediate, and then we will have ten more sessions in other schools around West Auckland. Wish us luck! 

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