Keep your children occupied at this specially-created educational playground for kids that promises an exciting line-up of workshops, interactive exhibitions and fun stories.
Telling stories was what people used to do before they had entertainment like the radio, television or the Internet! Re-live the oral tradition, and see the stories come to life for the kids through performances and interactive programmes. Inspired by the new NHB children's book, "Attack of the Swordfish and Other Singapore Tales", these interactive activities will engage the young ones with the well-loved legends that are truly Singaporean!
CHILDREN'S WORKSHOPS BY ACT3 INTERNATIONAL
(15 - 25 JULY)
Everyone has a story to tell, big or small. If we are prepared to listen with an open heart, we can learn quite a few things from the story, the person who is telling it, and we also learn about ourselves as we respond to the story told to us.
Telling Stories is what people use to do when they did not have entertainment like radio, television, and the Internet. People drew from their imagination and their experiences, and crafted them into stories to entertain, engage and inspire others.
With the programmes in Kids on Board!, we hope to demonstrate the importance of Oral History, its effectiveness and necessity for promoting it so that we can continue to pass on our heritage to our young. We shall engage in old famous stories, in new stories and even in personal stories. Through these various stories, we hope to encourage the young to be good listeners as well, and to develop an understanding that stories bind us together as we discover our heritage in the stories unraveled before us.
Theme: TELLING STORIES
The theme of TELLING STORIES is appropriate to the Singapore HeritageFest thrust this year in reliving stories that teach us about our history, ourselves, and engaging the young in the appreciation of the tradition of Oral History.
Based on the theme of TELLING STORIES, the programming and activities for KIDS CORNER will approach the theme in 3 ways:
- Retelling stories
- Real People, Real Stories!
- Making stories
RETELLING STORIES
For age groups 4 - 6, and 7 - 9
Maximum audience size: 100
With the launch of the National Heritage Board children's book "Attack of the Swordfish and Other Singapore Tales" at the Singapore HeritageFest, one part of the programme will be to share with our young these well-loved legends that belong to us.
Dramatic and expressive reading of the stories from the book will bring to life the six very special tales from the book, promoting the book and the tales. More importantly, the activity will showcase storytelling and the importance of Oral History, and the stories will pass on values of friendship, resourcefulness, and belief in the human strength to prevail and overcome adversities.
Storytelling sessions of 30 minutes each will be conducted. Timings are:
| Weekdays (15, 18 - 22, 25 July)* | |
| 10.30am to 11am | Attack of the Sword Fish |
| 11am to 11.30am | Sisters' Islands |
| 11.30am to 12pm | Kusu Island |
| 2.30pm to 3pm | Attack of the Sword Fish |
| 3pm to 3.30pm | Sisters' Islands |
| Weekends (16, 17, 23, 24 July)* | |
| 12pm - 12.30pm | Attack of the Sword Fish |
| 12.45pm - 1.15pm | Sisters' Islands |
| 1.30pm - 2pm | Kusu Island |
| 6pm - 6.30pm | Attack of the Sword Fish |
| 6.45pm - 7.15pm | Sisters' Islands |
| 7.30pm - 8pm | Kusu Island |
REAL PEOPLE, REAL STORIES!
For everyone
Maximum audience size: 80
In Real People, Real Stories, we present Singaporean grandfathers, grandmothers, aunties and uncles who have lived a lifetime of adventures, experiences, and situations. Each will tell his or her story with the help of a moderator/emcee.
Weekends (16, 17, 23, 24 July)*
12.30pm - 12.45pm
1.15pm - 1.30pm
6.30pm - 6.45pm
7.15pm - 7.30pm
MAKING STORIES
For 7 and older
Maximum participants per session: 40
Using Drama, Music and Improvisation, audience and artistes come together in a story circle and make up stories using given objects, pictures, and text. The items used will be a combination of things from the past as well as the present. The purpose is to draw from children, and adults alike, their responses to the objects to create a story made together as a group.
Ethnic music will be the link that will thread and underscore the 'new story'. Drama specialist will facilitate the activity and direct the making of the story with the participants from the audience and intermittently communicate and explain to the watching audience (if any) the goings-on of the activity. At the end of the programme, the group showcases the story it made.
This is an activity-based programme and the maximum number of participants is 20 per session. The session runs for 30 minutes at the end of which the story leader recaps the story to "playback" the story newly created.
Weekdays (15, 18 - 22, 25 July)*
10.30am to 11.10am
11.20am to 12pm
2.30pm to 3.10pm
Weekends (16, 17, 23, 24 July)*
12.15pm - 1pm
1.15pm - 2pm
6.15pm - 7pm
7.15pm - 8pm
* Weekday sessions are reserved for school organised groups. Weekend sessions are open to the public.
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