Unleashing
the power of stories on oral telling!
Roundup
'05 and reporting on 1st quarter '06
The past two years have been exceptionally
hectic and interrupted by intermittent bouts of bad
news spinning around especially this part of the world
in South and East Asia – being hit by the bird-flu,
the mysterious SARs, earthquakes and tsunami –
during the past two years there were moments when one
cried out and wondered if Asia’s woes would end
!
Thankfully as we near the end of the
first quarter of year 2006 it is with a sigh of relief
that although the region’s problems are far from
being over, it does appear though that things have either
melted down or turned quieter so hopefully we may be
able to look to more stability ahead.
New Group WordKnights
Certainly some unexpected good also came out of these
regional woes as these pandemic, the quakes and the
tsunami inspired us to write about them in our journals
and even in creations of verses and poems. From these
writings spawned the birth of our new baby in Bones-n-Flesh
Arts – and this is our Society's writers' small
group which is only barely 3 months old but has attracted
18 writers coming from six different countries meeting
monthly every 4th Thursday in Singapore under the banner
of Bones-n-Flesh Arts “WordKnights.”
The first WordKnights' Meetup was in January 06.
Storytellers’
Performances and Workshops
Our Read-n-Tell storytellers
are continuing to do dedicated work researching, scripting
and preparing storytellings. Read-n-Tell storytellers
presented the Story Festival @ Nanyang Academy of Fine
Arts with a 3-monthlong season of diverse arts showings
including a Children's Art Camp and 3D Art Exhibition
followed by Storytelling and Lantern-making Craft exhibition
from June to Sept all in celebration of the 200th Anniversary
of Hans Christian Andersen.
Hot on the heels a month later, our
Biblical Storytellers network put up
a wonderful storytelling season entitled “Classic
Tellings” during which we unrolled a series based
on the Books of EXODUS, 1ST & 2nd Kings which were
presented in 8 workshop performances over 3-months of
creative Biblical Telling season from Oct – Dec
2005.
Having been caught up with founding
our new WordKnights Writers’ group, the Society
has not organized any Storytellings so far in 2006 but
the first one is coming up in the second weekend of
May 2006. The performance venues are currently in the
process of being negotiated. So look out for these
announcements appearing next month !
Stop Press ! Watch out for our new
publication coming to you on 1st May 2006
Another exciting new announcement
– Bones-n-Flesh Arts will be publishing and releasing
our first journal on 1st May 2006. Watch out for its
release coming to you. The “e-section” of
the journal which forms 50% of the publication will
be free of charge and can be downloaded from this website.
The complete journal is available only in printed copy
for an annual subscription of $15 a year which gives
you 3 bumper issues including postage mail to your address.
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| It
started with a few Bukit Batok mothers reading
bedtime stories to their children in the privacy
of their own homes. |
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a while, they began holding these sessions
at their block's playground. |
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| Now,
at least 30 children across the island get
to enjoy listening to stories every fortnight
at two Housing Board playgrounds. |
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| One
of the parents doing the reading is Madam
Alicia Blackwell, 39, the vice-president of
a society called Bones-N-Flesh Arts, which
has taken on the running of the reading sessions. |
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| They
are getting so popular, volunteers are needed
to help the society out. Its arts president,
Mrs Nellie Har-Ko, 53, who works in the marketing
and media industry, said: “We've got
two story-telling groups going now, but we
want to reach out to children in all housing
estates.” |
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