Some of Canberra’s brightest school students are learning important lessons about creativity and storytelling during their Artists’ and Writers’ Festival.
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Turner School has invited in a range of authors, artists and journalists to present lectures during a 10-day festival that might unearth the next generation of creative Canberrans.
Students will also take part in practical workshops, led by people ranging from tattoo artists to political cartoonists to childrens’ book authors.
The festival will feature four book launches in its second week and lots of games and activities during lunch times.
One fun feature of the event will be "Poem In Your Pocket", where every member of the Turner community has been asked to carry a poem with them to read to anyone who asks them.
This is the school’s first Artists’ and Writers’ Festival and has been planned by the school’s hard-working teachers with some valuable help from students.
Year 3 student Abbie Marceau, 9, said the festival would be an excellent learning experience.
"It will improve our illustrations and writing. I think the artists and writers festival is about meeting actual writers and artists and learning from them," Abbie said.
Year 4 student Féy Etherington, 9, said: "It's about showing books and things."
The festival began on Wednesday morning with a pretty boring presentation by The Canberra Times’ ACT Editor John-Paul Moloney.
He discussed how newspapers have evolved from being print alone into an exciting and challenging world of online news.
He also described how a news story is produced by The Canberra Times’ digital team.
