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Creative writing isn’t about learning to write properly! It isn’t about spelling and grammar: it is a way to express, discuss, illuminate and laugh at the lives we lead and all that happens around us. It allows us to be emotional and express things that would be hard to say out loud, even to friends and family. The creative writing workshops are designed to tap into young people’s experiences and language and enable them to develop real skills that will be of real benefit throughout their lives. Using personal experiences, music and visual prompts, each student will be lead through a series of exercises that will encourage and produce a collection of short pieces of work. The workshop will result in each student reading and/or performing their piece to the rest of the group and the possibility of collecting the work created into a book/magazine. Workshop leader Dee Reynolds has been writing for many years and her work includes short stories, plays and film scripts. She is currently writing her first novel.
Black
Butterflies has been successfully working with young people, and
with children in schools to explore their creativity, and to raise
awareness and appreciation of African Caribbean history and culture
through, literature, music and art for over 12 years. They work
locally and nationally
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