The Wellington Free Family Day gives children (and
adults!) a chance to meet their literary heroes - authors, illustrators,
storytellers or book characters. Listen
to authors give talks, watch the illustrators at work, be enchanted by the
storytellers as well as loads of arts and crafts, face-painting, performances
and competitions. See you there!!
OK I couldn't help myself!!! There are so many entertaining, enthralling
and exciting events and activities going on, that I have included below a
selection of ones that are sure to be a big hit on the day!
The Newtown Movie School, that work with kids in the area
of stop-motion animation. They provide
fully interactive movie making programmes for creative kids, aged 9 to 15, who
enjoy hands on experiences, with some majorly epic results! They will be showing some of the short videos
that children have produced and have a small working set onsite to give you an
idea of what goes into creating your own stop-motion animations.
Something fun from illustrator Harriet Bailey will be the
Drawing Blind activity. Not to be
confused with drawing blood, Harriet will take to the stage and while
blind-folded attempt to draw while under direction from the audience. There's sure to be plenty of confusion, a
whole lot of creative license and a heap of laughs with this rather random
activity!
The author of 'The Taniwha of Wellington Harbour', Moira
Wairama will be in Storytelling mode to deliver the legend of Ngake and
Whataitai, the two taniwha of Wellington Harbour. Also a fluent Te Reo Maori speaker, Moira
will be delivering a session in English and Te Reo.
For those who have aspirations of a musical nature, why
not try your hand at the ukulele?? We
will have a couple of ukulele lesson sessions, for people to learn some chords,
strum along to some Kiwi favourites and make some beautiful music together.
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