FunDza hosted its first Write4Life Creative Writing Workshop on 27 and 28 March 2012. Participants came from Fezeka Secondary School, Gugulethu, and Ikamva Youth, Makhaza and Nyanga.
Here are our fabulous course conveners, Dorothy Dyer and Ros Haden.
Read some of the writing produced on the course:
Write4Life Bio-Poems
There are stories about…
Eating a Cadbury’s Eclair
This culture
With my own two hands
Sometimes when it rains…
Sometimes when it is hot
HIV and AIDS
Seasons change action
16 June
Sometimes when I’m sad
Where would I find a father like you
Court orders and other poems
Be strong so you cannot fall
Old Age
What education means to me
God is everything
What does reading mean to me?
Can I, and other poems
A day I’ll never forget
Real love does not exist
Good people can be cruel sometimes
The day that changed my life
I remember
Meet our course participants:
Anita & Kuhle
Akhona & Nopinki
Cinga & Vuyolwez
Yonela & Anathi
Nomie & Talita
Esethu and Lelethu
Lusanda & Naledi
Amanda & Siya
Zinhle & Abenathi
The Write4Life workshop was made possible through the kind support of the Claude Leon Foundation. Thanks also to our sponsor hosts, Juta and Company in Claremont, and to NoMU Foods for sponsoring gift packs.
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We’re already receiving feedback on the course. Here’s some from Lusanda:
“Today was the most wonderful day because I learned about awesome things like new words. And, I also learned about how you can make your own stories and how to use direct and indirect dialogue in the story you create. Another thing that made this day an awesome day was the stories that we were read by the facilitators. They inspired me and I liked the tension in all of the stories. The other thing that I learned from the stories we were read was that they had a good start, and that there were some words that gave a visual picture of what the story-teller described. Some stories started well and had conflict in the middle. But others ended with conflict. And, even other resolved their problems. FunDza is making a difference in our lives. In the coming future, they will be making a difference in our communities and even in the world.”
(We hope so too, Lusanda!)