KID’S STORY DAY – ALL EVENTS
Story Week: Be Heard – Be Seen

Kids are great storytellers with powerful imaginations. Word Travels opens a box of inspiring activities for kids including workshops on how to illustrate your words, tell awesome tales and slam your own poetry. Cheer on performances, settle in to hear readings by fantastic writers or take the mic yourself in a Kid Slam.

Kid’s Story Day is crafted for 7 to 12-year-olds. Stay for the day or drop-in to individual sessions.

COST: $50 for the day or $15 for each session (parent/guardian attends free).
Kid's Story Day is a Service NSW Creative Kids approved activity. Email us at Word Travels if you would like to book Kid's Story Day day passes using your Creative Kids vouchers.

FEATURING: Andrew Cox, Nazeem Hussain, Charmaine Ledden-Lewis, Solli Raphael, Mel Ree and Luke Patterson

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HOW TO PLAN A PRANK
9.15am-10am

Harry Hyena is the king of pranks. When they work they’re "Hy-larious", when they don’t… watch out!

Nazeem Hussain takes us for a wild ride 396 km from home; reading from his new Hy-larious Hyena book Get Lost.

PERFORMING WRITER: Nazeem Hussain

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TELL YOUR OWN STORY
10.30am-11.30am

Everybody’s got one. Bubbling away inside our heads are adventures ready to share. It’s time to let your story, your poem or lyrics…whatever you do with words – out. Learn to create stories with two incredible writers who specialise in live performance.

PERFORMING WRITERS: Solli Raphael and Mel Ree

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KID SLAM
12.00pm-1.00pm

So you have a little bag of words from your workshop, or maybe some pages you dug from under your dirty socks at home or even a poem scrawled on the pizza box last night. Gather them, it’s time to bring out your dreams. Take the stage and star in your own poetry slam made just for kids. Speak for two minutes and hear the crowd go wild.

HOST: Solli Raphael

PERFORMING WRITER: Andrew Cox

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DRAWING INSPIRATION
1.30pm-3.30pm

Bring your lines to life in this family day hybrid illustration and poetry workshop. Whether you have an eye for colour or an ear for alliteration, bring your kin’s creative powers together to create an artistic alliance of words and visuals where the rhythmic cadence of words is translated into vibrant images, and vice verses.

FEATURING: Charmaine Ledden-Lewis and Luke Patterson

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See the full Story Week 2023 program at Word Travels.

This project is assisted and supported by the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body; City of Sydney; Copyright Agency; and NSW Government through Create NSW.

Before booking your tickets, please read the information on our website regarding our current COVID-19 safety measures.

Photo:12-year-old Solli Raphael was crowned the first ever Youth Champion of the Australian Poetry Slam in 2017