It received a remarkable lively interaction from children and adolescents
“The Spirit of the Story” in a proactive workshop within the “21st Narrator Forum”
Every year narrators, storytellers and narrators gather in Sharjah to celebrate the living human treasures.
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The pre-emptive workshop, titled “The Spirit of the Story” in writing animal stories, as part of the proactive workshop program that precedes the launch of the 21st edition of the Sharjah International Narrator Forum, met with a lively and remarkable interaction by children and adolescents, who participated in the workshop at the headquarters of the Sharjah Heritage Institute and the Institute’s office In Dibba Al-Hisn, and Al-Dhaid Cultural and Sports Club, which was presented by the poet and storyteller who specializes in writing for children, Qassem Saudi, and the workshop targeted children and adolescents from eight to 15 years old.
September is the core of the story and its horizon
Chairman of the Sharjah Institute for Heritage and Chairman of the Higher Organizing Committee of the Forum, Abdulaziz Al-Musallam, said that “the program of proactive workshops, which constitutes a vital model in preserving stories and narrators, is full, and opens spaces without borders in front of the imagination of children and young people, to be the backbone of those workshops that precede the launch of the Sharjah Forum.” The 21st International Narrator, and the Spirit of the Story workshop moved on writing animal stories in three locations across the emirate, as it lasted three days at the Sharjah Institute for Heritage, Dibba Al-Hisn Office, and five days at the Sharjah Heritage Institute, the Institute’s headquarters, the International Organizations Center for Folk Heritage building, and three days Al Dhaid Cultural and Sports Club.
Al-Musallam added: “After 21 copies of the Sharjah International Narrator Forum, September has become the core, horizon and depth of the story. Preserving it and passing it on to new generations, as the focus is on children and young people and their active and vibrant participation with passion in this amazing world.”
fantasy energy
For his part, the poet and storyteller who specializes in writing for children, Qassem Saudi, said: “The spirit of the story is an aesthetic practice that opens a window on the heritage and contemporary heritage of the most important animal stories. It is a workshop for writing animal stories, and the students participating in the workshop surprised me for their ability to learn.”
He pointed out that "the workshop witnessed throughout its days mental and writing exercises on paper, and through this we opened the maximum extent of the imagination's energy, in order to liberate language and ideas, and the stories written by the children and adolescents participating were exclusively inside the workshop, so that the child gains confidence in himself."
tree of tales
He added: "We presented with the children a tree of beautiful stories and tales, which expressed the culture of children, and children are the spirit of Sharjah, the spirit of the Emirates and the spirit of the world, and they dealt in their writings with many aesthetic, human, behavioral, educational and social values. He wrote about a giraffe that wants to open a vegetarian restaurant, or a snake that wants to be a goalkeeper on a soccer team.”
goal pack
The workshop focused on several axes, most notably: “Why do we love animal stories, animal stories in the Arab oral heritage, the energy of imagination, the idea of the story, exercises and narrative applications, and it worked to achieve a set of goals, foremost among which is the promotion of the creative and aesthetic presence of animal stories in the Arab heritage.” Through the trilogy of Authenticity, Modernity and the Future, by presenting the most important modern methods and methods in writing animal stories, which contributes to enriching the linguistic and expressive memory of the participants, and opens the door of imagination accompanied by new ideas that interact with the aesthetic stock of the presence of the tale in the material and oral heritage rich in renewal and creativity. .
Abdulaziz Al-Muslim: “After 21 copies of the Sharjah International Narrator’s Forum, September became the core, horizon and depth of the story.”
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