Bookaroo Children’s Literature Festival, a two-day literary feast
View(s):It will be a feast of storytelling, fun workshops, books and art & craft for 4–14-year-olds when the Bookaroo Children’s Literature Festival takes place on May 10 and 11 (Friday and Saturday) at the BMICH’s Mihilaka Medura/Kamatha.
Presented by LPF Schools and Bridge2Peace Foundation, the festival is from 9 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. on Friday and from 10 a.m. to 2.30 p.m. on Saturday.
The exciting programme will see some 21 speakers taking part and 50 sessions. “It is with delight that we anticipate Bookaroo’s second international foray outside India. We have a great mix of Sri Lankan and international speakers speaking on diverse subjects and bringing flavours from different parts of the world. The sessions range from activities to poetry to illustration workshops to an ongoing all-day, all ages activity to keep those children who may have missed entering a session busy,” says Swati Roy, Festival Director.She adds, “We would like to thank our collaborators in Sri Lanka – especially Bernie Anderson in LPF and Adityavikram More whose zeal helped make this edition a reality. We look forward to working with the LPF team to make this a success.” The Colombo edition is being presented by LPF (La Petite Fleur) Schools to celebrate 30 years of service to the child.
The authors include Arefa Tehsin, Chantal-Fleur Sandjon, Professor J. B. Disanayaka, Janaki Galappatti, Nadishka Aloysius, Rukhshanie Weerasooriya Wijemanne and Shehan Karunatilaka. The Illustrators include Ashok Rajagopalan, Canato Jimo, Deepa Balsavar, Irushi Tennekoon, Lavanya Karthik, Nina Sabnani, Priya Kuriyan, Savio Mascarenhas and Shenuka Corea along with storytellers Alicia Dongjoo Bang, Champa Saha and Lavanya Prasad.
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