Jim Everett and Kim Scott were guests at the Vancouver Arts Centre, Albany, Western Australia last month. Here is Jim’s round-up of their very busy and wonderfully engaging time.
Sunday 22nd February – 5.30 pm to 7 pm
Kim and Jim interviewed by local author Sarah Drummond at the Vancouver Arts Centre, Albany. This was an interesting interview where Kim’s background differed from Jim’s, and the discussions covered writing to politics, to family history and Country. Questions were taken and the ensuing discussions could have gone on for some time if not for the time limit for others to take the room.
Monday 23rd February
Kim and Jim held a 2 hour workshop with students from 4 schools – 19 participating students and their 4 teachers/carers. Kim has a teacher’s experience and led the workshops, which worked very well. The students were very attentive and showed great interest. We all enjoyed this first day of short story writing, and sharing stories written by students.
Tuesday 24th February
2 hour workshop – Kim led the workshops again, with Jim taking a role with writing exercises. The students came with some ‘homework’ for the workshop exercises of the day. Included music and song writing as a means of introducing a form of creative writing. Other writing exercises were undertaken on poetry, and discussions on ‘why write’, and ‘finding ways’ to write, ‘triggers’, and family characters etc.
The students were well pleased with the workshops, and said they wanted more, and longer workshops set on Country, and camps. I can say that we all enjoyed the experience of writing in a workshop, and that the whole event was well worth doing.
There was also a bit of a write up in the local press:
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