Writing from The Heart: Workshop for Singaporean Children (Ages 7 - 14) for South East PSG Family Camp at Changkat Primary School, Bedok (March 21, 2015)

Writing from The Heart

"Writing from The Heart" is a workshop on creative writing, creative drawing, and creative drama. There are three available versions of this workshop: one for beginners on the secondary, tertiary, and graduate levels, and another for practitioners. A third version of this workshop is designed as an outreach program to disadvantaged and underserved audiences such as the disabled, the poor and the marginalized, victims of human trafficking, battered women and abused children, drug rehabilitation center residents, child combatants, children in conflict with the law, prisoners, and gang leaders. This third version incorporates creativity and problem awareness, conflict resolution, crisis intervention, trauma therapy, and peacemaking.

Monday, March 23, 2015

Workshop for Singaporean Children (Ages 7 - 14) for South East PSG Family Camp at Changkat Primary School, Bedok (March 21, 2015)

During this workshop I used the publication Inang Bayan's New Clothes, easily adapting its messages to the Singaporean setting, especially on the occasion of the country's year-round celebration of its independence.

The story book and exercise sheets imparted to the participants:

--The importance of a written story

--The possibility of adapting a story set in another country to one's own country

--The symbolism of color

--Historical and cultural influences on costume

--Combining pieces of apparel to create different appearances

--Imagining a symbolic dress for one's mother, grandmother, or sister

--Imagining a symbolic dress for one's mother country

--Appreciating a story while engaging visual-motor skills

--Appreciating not only one's own work but the work of others as well

--Working in groups, or teamwork