Storytelling workshop: Fingers, Chants, Music and Action: Encouraging audience participation during storytelling Date and Time: Saturday, 17 September 2016 (9.30am - 12.30pm) Fee: $52.50 Registration details: HERE Sign up by 2 September 2016!
Synopsis
Experienced storytellers and workshop trainers Wong Swee Yean and Karen Lee will teach techniques such as finger-play, oral refrains, action, music and rhythm which will encourage children to participate actively during a storytelling session.This workshop is suitable for beginners and anyone interested in storytelling especially teachers and care-givers who work and play with children.
Reading workshop: Pre-reading and Post-reading Activities Date and Time: Saturday, 24 September 2016 (10.00am- 12.00pm) Fee: $47.38 Bundle fee available for this workshop and 16 Oct's Read me a story workshop Registration details: HERE
Synopsis
Reading is a thinking activity. We read better when our brains are switched on. Activities before reading and activities after reading offer fertile ground for dialogue between students and between students and teachers. Language specialist Dr George Jacob will explain these activities and provides participants with opportunities to experience these activities and to plan their own. These reading activities can be conducted at the upper primary and lower secondary level.
Writing & Publishing workshop: The truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth…Exploring the world of creative non-fiction Date and Time: Saturday and Sunday, 15 and 16 October 2016 (9.30am - 5.30pm) Fee: $231.88 ( Fee for Singapore Citizens and Permanent Residents) / $257.50 ( Fee for non- Singapore Citizens and Permanent Residents) Registration details: HERE
Synopsis
Creative non-fiction allows writers to bring imagination and creativity to telling the truth. Trainer and former Melbourne Writers' Festival CEO Simon Clews will help participants develop their own story/book ideas and explore the literary techniques necessary to bring them to life. Some of the thematic exercises from the workshop will be brought together in a short e-anthology that will be produced after the course.
Writing & Publishing workshop: Good, clean copy - How editing can make good writing great Date and Time: Tuesday and Wednesday, 18 and 19 October 2016 (9.30am - 5.30pm) Fee: $296.45 ( Fee for Singapore Citizens and Permanent Residents) / $329.25 ( Fee for non-Singapore Citizens and Permanent Residents) Registration details: HERE
Synopsis
Trainer and former Melbourne Writers' Festival CEO Simon Clews will look at a wide variety of editing techniques and will use practical assignments to show the positive impact that a red pen can have on a writer's work. The two-day workshop will also explore how to develop something of a split personality where you can switch off your writer's brain and switch on your editor's brain to make the most out of the two very distinct approaches that these very different roles have to your writing. It might sound odd, but it works!
Writing & Publishing workshop: Copywriting workshop Date and Time: Thursday, 27 October 2016 (9.30am - 5pm) Fee: $288.25 Registration details: HERE
Synopsis
Is your copy vivid and engaging, or are you guilty of using tired adjectives such as comprehensive and essential? Perhaps you’d love to write more exciting copy but don’t have the time, or colleagues feel it’s not ‘appropriate’ for your product? If you can relate to this, join us on this fun workshop by trainer Rachel Maund from Marketability (UK) Ltd and prepare to feel liberated! The course is suitable for anyone in a marketing or editorial role within publishing or sectors such as museums and galleries, libraries and institutions.
Publishing workshop: Commissioning and managing digital publishing for book publishers Date and Time: Friday, 28 October 2016 (9.30am - 5pm) Fee: $288.25 Registration details: HERE
Synopsis
Managing digital projects start with how we identify projects and the new questions we need to ask: Blended or born digital, how do you decide what’s right for your customers? Will customers pay for it? Do you have the required customer relationships and channels? With just enough technical content so that you understand the issues you most need to, this is delivered by independent commercial adviser Linden Harris whose experience has encompassed ‘traditional’ print publishing through to born digital, and who also sees the challenges from the perspective of a commissioning editor. This course is suitable for Editors with responsibility for digital publishing of book related content,
DISCOUNTS & GRANTS AVAILABLE A) ALAP'S BRING A FRIEND: Bring a friend and enjoy a 10 % discount on each ticket
B) ALAP'S THREE N MORE: Form a group of three or more and also enjoy a 15 % discount on each ticket
C) Kinokuniya privilege card holders: 10 % discount on the ticket of the card holder
D) Productivity and Innovation Credit (PIC) scheme
