UNISA Storytelling Festival and Conference on Reading Promotion and Storytelling for Children

Announcement and call for papers 2nd UNISA Storytelling Festival and Conference on Reading Promotion and Storytelling for Children 6-9 October 2010
Organised by the Department of Information Science of the University of South Africa and the Children’s Literature Research Unit of the Department. 6-8 October: University of South Africa, Pretoria 9 October: Polokwane, Limpopo Province (Venue to be announced) We welcome: 1) Abstracts (of not more than 250 words) that address particular issues regarding reading promotion for children and storytelling to children. Theoretical papers as well as more practical presentations about specific projects are welcome. 2) Proposals for workshops on storytelling and reading promotion for children. Please indicate the cost involved. 3) Names of storytellers who can be approached to participate in the Storytelling Festival, in particular from Limpopo Province. In Polokwane workshops on storytelling as well as on writing of stories for children will be presented. The idea is that these workshops should lead to the publishing of a collection of stories and folktales from Limpopo Province. Due date for abstracts: 30 June 2010. Notification of acceptance will be made within one week. The programme, information on accommodation, registration fee, as well as the registration form will be published at a later stage on the webpage: http://www.unisa.ac.za/dept/infsc Mail abstracts and direct enquiries to: Prof Thomas van der Walt, Department of Information Science, University of South Africa, PO Box 392, 0003 Pretoria, South Africa Fax: +27 12 4293792 e-mail: vdwaltb@unisa.ac.za