Strangers & Canaries School Workshops
Date:
03/10/2011
Times:
TBC
Prices:
Free
Location:
TBC
Would your school benefit from free creative writing workshops and refugee awareness sessions during the academic year 2011?
Description
Free Creative Writing And Refugee Awareness Workshops
from Writers’ Centre Norwich
Would your Norfolk school benefit from free creative writing workshops and refugee awareness sessions during the academic year 2011?
Running during w/c 3rd October 2011, these ever-popular workshops are led by local and exiled writers who engage young people in the story of the Strangers, refugees who came here in the sixteenth century and whose impact can be seen throughout Norfolk today.
The sessions are suitable for students in Years 5 – 10 and there is no cost whatsoever to your school. Our aim is to build up strong relationships with a number of schools across Norfolk.
The deadline for expressions of interest for the workshops is Monday 6th June.
Strangers and Canaries and Letters to Europe are offered as a complimentary pair of workshops. Interested schools must sign up for both.
Please email Sam Ruddock sam.ruddock[at]writerscentrenorwich.org.uk with ‘Schools Workshops’ in the subject line, if your school is interested in taking part.
Additional Information
We have been running these workshops over the last five years as part of the Norwich City of Refuge community arts and education programme and have worked with many schools across Norfolk, reaching thousands of students. The feedback from the schools has always been very positive, and we can guarantee that your school children will benefit in many ways from the workshops.
Norwich City of Refuge
Under the auspices of WCN, Norwich joined the International Cities of Refuge Network (ICORN) in July 2006 and remains the only UK City of Refuge. We use literature to raise awareness of issues faced by asylum seekers and refugees in imaginative and engaging ways through a varied arts education programme.
Shahrazad
Norwich City of Refuge is part of this a Europe-wide collaboration between five International Cities of Refuge that spreads the stories of refugee and exiled writers who have found sanctuary in Europe through the Cities of Refuge Network (www.icorn.org). It is run by literary organizations in Barcelona, Brussels, Frankfurt, Stavanger, Stockholm and Norwich. www.shahrazadeu.org