Creative writing circle for Roma youth/students
The workshop approaches creative writing from a theoretical point of view, a method seen as a discipline that involves the first form of materializing reality. By training in creative writing we rediscover reason and imagination, and the basic course encourages and develops skills by exploring different themes, the novelty being brought by the approach in which we also use techniques from journalism. Through creative writing, group learning, assessment and feedback are stimulated in order to experience different types of analysis.
Creativity is stimulated by external sources and the context of writing includes the fictional world, characters and personifications, imagination, language, responsiveness, level of understanding and completion.
This creative writing circle was born as a starting point for disadvantaged or underserved environments by instructors of all kinds to put into practice the idea related to the creative writing workshop and the young generations of Roma.
The creative writing circle for Roma youth/students runs for 12 months, in 4 series, each series lasting 3 months (12 weeks) and bringing together 8-9 Roma youth/students.
• The creative writing circle for Roma youth/students takes place once a week and lasts 2 hours;
• Within it, the participants will learn to use both imagination and creativity in the most natural way;
• Aspects such as: composition, analysis, synthesis, technique will be addressed;
• Innovative themes and ways will be proposed:
• Rewriting the past starting from photographs or postcards;
• The power of words – starting from situations where words were much more important than deeds and had significant consequences;
• Explain in 100 words – starting from a topic about which the participant does not know much, documents and explains it, developing his critical thinking;
• Propose a title – starting from fragments read, images or articles from the Internet
• Depending on the interests of the participants, other topics will be established.
• Modern methodologies will be used, learning through play, the use of new media, phones, devices, the experiment;
• Creativity, the spirit of innovation and self-esteem will be developed, creating premises for increasing employability in the future.
• Participants will receive certificates of participation;
• The program will include 12 thematic conferences on creative writing, in a manner appropriate to the age and level of the participants; thus, within the 2 hours/weekly circle there will be a thematic creative writing conference held by the journalist (1 hour) and the practical development of the circle (1 hour), carried out by the trainer.
• The creative writing circle for Roma youth/students takes place once a week and lasts 2 hours;
• Within it, the participants will learn to use both imagination and creativity in the most natural way;
• Aspects such as: composition, analysis, synthesis, technique will be addressed;
• Innovative themes and ways will be proposed:
• Rewriting the past starting from photographs or postcards;
• The power of words – starting from situations where words were much more important than deeds and had significant consequences;
• Explain in 100 words – starting from a topic about which the participant does not know much, documents and explains it, developing his critical thinking;
• Propose a title – starting from fragments read, images or articles from the Internet
• Depending on the interests of the participants, other topics will be established.
• Modern methodologies will be used, learning through play, the use of new media, phones, devices, the experiment;
• Creativity, the spirit of innovation and self-esteem will be developed, creating premises for increasing employability in the future.
• Participants will receive certificates of participation;
• The program will include 12 thematic conferences on creative writing, in a manner appropriate to the age and level of the participants; thus, within the 2 hours/weekly circle there will be a thematic creative writing conference held by the journalist (1 hour) and the practical development of the circle (1 hour), carried out by the trainer.
We invite you to read below some of the compositions written by the students participating in the creative writing club!
