I am thrilled to be part of this!
Cape Town Libraries, in conjunction with the Book Lounge and the Fugard Theatre, are involved in an event called Writing My City which is to encourage Capetonians to write stories and poetry about the city they live in.
Cape Town is home to a multiplicity of voices, however some voices are missing. This initiative is aimed at finding those voices and giving them the opportunity to tell their stories to a wider world. In this way, more local community stories can be told and shared.
The aims of the project are wider than just the stories though. This is an opportunity to celebrate and deepen the understanding of who and what makes Cape Town the city it is. By improving understanding, we hope to build better social cohesion. It is also an opportunity to highlight the importance of libraries in the community and widen access to writing and publishing for people who would not otherwise see their work in print.
The winning submissions are to be compiled into a book for publication during the Open Book Festival in Cape Town in September.
Having responded to a call for facilitators, I shall be leading a series of writing workshops at one of our local libraries over the coming weeks. My aim is to bring the stories of ten local women (who I’ve not met yet) to life. The first session’s next week. I’ll keep you posted!
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Wow! Sounds really cool. Hope it all goes well! 😀
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Thanks Tom! I hope so too.
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How exciting! Please let us know how it unravels.
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I certainly will…it’s going to be an interesting journey.
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Looking forward to it.
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Coolness! That sounds like it will be really fun! 😀
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Oh that’s so exciting! Looking forward to seeing what you create… 🙂
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It is also an opportunity to highlight the importance of libraries in the community and widen access to writing and publishing for people who would not otherwise see their work in print. – I hadn’t thought of it that way, but this is so true. Access to libraries and writing leads to more improved involvement in writing. Really, libraries are such a wonderful gift to communities. I hope the project goes well and that one day we can all read the stories of women from Cape Town. I recently read Born a Crime by Trevor Noah, so I hope I get to read some more books from the perspective of women from South Africa. 🙂
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Hi Sophia, I love libraries, they’re such a wonderful resource. I sometimes go to my local library to write among the children and young people doing their school projects.
No matter whether our group’s stories are published as part of the #writingmycity project, I’m determined to get them out there!
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I’ll be cheering you and them on! I hope to see their stories soon! 🙂
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Thanks Sophia. I’m hoping too…
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wow this is an exciting and really interesting thing to do, hope it goes well, I’d love to see the finished book
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It was a really great experience! Unfortunately I don’t think copies made it much beyond Cape Town, but it did appear between Philip Pullman and Margaret Atwood’s new released in The Book Lounge’s top three best sellers for a couple of weeks.
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Never mind then, I’m sorry to have missed it. Take care now.
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