International Children's and Youth Literature

_09.00_children and young adults
Haus der Berliner Festspiele | Seitenbühne

Readings for pupils
Medieval Venice: Lucrezia leads her visitors through the masonry of an extraordinary museum. Here, the coded messages of authors, adventurers and globetrotters are preserved in bottles. Messages in a bottle from Edgar Allen Poe, Robinson Crusoe, Tom Sawyer and Sinbad the sailor. Well, that’s what the old cat Lucrezia says in any case. Xosé Antonio Neira Cruz (Spain) presents stories from his children’s book “Gatos e leóns“ (t: Cats and Lions).
School years: 4/5
Closed event. Registration required under tel. 0049-30-27 87 86 66

_09.30_children and young adults
Weinmeisterhaus

Writing Workshop with Anne-Laure Bondoux (France)
Workshops for pupils
The author who developed prizewinning writing workshops for children and young people, will work together with young people on their own texts.
In French. School years: 1x 7-10
Closed event. Registration required under tel. 0049-30-27 87 86 66

_09.30_children and young adults
Weinmeisterhaus

Poetry Workshop with Ted van Lieshout (Netherlands)
Workshops for pupils
Taking as a starting point his work as a graphic artist, poet and author, Ted van Lieshout, who also speaks German, brings stories, poems and drawings to life with children.
School years: 1x 4-6
Closed event. Registration required under tel. 0049-30-27 87 86 66

_10.00_children and young adults
Labyrinth Kindermuseum Berlin

Picnic with cake. Comic workshop around Thé Tjong-Khing’s (Indonesia/Netherlands) picture books
Workshops for pupils
Why has the chameleon got a red bottom? Why is the baby hare always crying? Or: what is the goat annoyed about? Which house does Mrs Sheep live in? Who’s eaten the fruit from the tree? And above all: who’s nicked the cake? These questions and many others are asked when studying Thé Tjong-Khing’s picture books “Where is the cake?!” and “Picnic with Cake”. In his works, that are effortlessly told without words, the illustrator tells the story of the theft of freshly-baked delicacies and of the hunt for the thieves undertaken by a whole crowd of wood-dwellers and fantastic animals – a hunt through hedge and heath, fields and fells, up and down a steep mountain. Looking at the panoramic pictures is like taking part in an exciting game which incites the reader to unravel ever more stories on the way to solving the mystery.
During the project, children will develop ideas as to how the story “Picnic with Cake” could be narrated and will create speech bubbles with dialogues, commentaries or exclamations.
Project dates: 19.09. / 22.09. / 23.09.2008, each day 09.00-13.00. Today: Meeting with Thé Tjong-Khing
Led by: Tanja Schmidt (artificial and literary work), Sophie Neander (diploma social-pedagogue)
Participance at the 4-part project: 10€ each child. School classes: 1x 4/5
Closed event. Registration required under tel. 0049-30-27 87 86 66

_10.30_children and young adults
SMB Museum für asiatische Kunst

Of Magic and Prophecies. With Nahoko Uehashi (Japan)
Workshops for pupils
The fantasy author spirits us off into a world full of archaic magic and ancient prophecy with her “Guardian of the Spirit". When the bodyguard Balsa, armed with her short spear, returns to the kingdom of Shin-Yogo, she is witness to an accident in which Prince Chagum falls into a raging torrent. The quick-witted Balsa saves the emperor’s son. In the second empress’s palace, she gets involved in a fateful mystery - Chagum seems to be possessed by a foreign power. The emperor is sure that this power is a demon, and wants to have his child killed. Balsa takes the child into her protection and flees the palace with him. Soon afterwards she realises that Chagum is guarding the egg of the water spirit, which is only reborn every hundred years. Chagum is carrying the fate of the whole empire…
During a tour of the Japanese section of the Museum für Asiatische Kunst, in which the meeting with Nahoko Uehashi takes place, the young participants will investigate which elements of millennia-old Japanese narratives, art and graphics influence the fantasy epic.
School years: 2 x 8/9
Closed event. Registration required under tel. 0049-30-27 87 86 66

_11.00_children and young adults
Haus der Berliner Festspiele | Seitenbühne

Readings for pupils
A magnificent oak provides the setting for this fast paced adventure novel “Toby Alone” by Timothée de Fombelle. Toby is just one and a half millimetres tall and has a dangerous mission to fulfil! One day Toby’s father, a respected professor falls foul of the tree council, and his family is sentenced to death. Toby is able to flee at the last moment and must race against time to free his parents.
School years: 5/6
Closed event. Registration required under tel. 0049-30-27 87 86 66

_11.00_children and young adults
Die Gelbe Villa

Fairy tales, myths and legends. With Farshid Shafiee (Iran)
Workshops for pupils
11.00: Farshid Shafiee presents fairy tales, myths and legends from his homeland, Iran. The children’s book “Zarbâl“ (t: Golden-Wing Falcon) tells of two falcons with beautiful silver and gold wings, and of their attempt to escape from an unscrupulous hunter. The artist will display illustrations full of warm colours and will talk abut growing up in contemporary Iran.
12.00: Lunch in the children’s and youth restaurant “Five Seasons” run by Berliner Tafel e.V./die gelbe Villa.
12.30: Workshops based around Shafiee’s pictorial stories: painting workshops will experiment with colours and shapes; in the Snoezel room dream-stories can be experienced, a costume and photograph workshop will spirit the participants off to Oriental worlds; and a puppet and cartoon workshop allows them to direct their own films.
For those over 7 years old. School years: 2x 2/3
Lunch: 1 € per child/ Fee for materials: 1 € per child
Reservation via die gelbe Villa on Tel. 0049-30-76 76 50 12