Knowledge, creativity workshops to expand kids’ horizons this SCRF
sharjah — Discovering knowledge will be the theme of the 11th edition of the Sharjah Children’s Reading Festival (SCRF), which begins from April 17 to 27 at the Expo Centre Sharjah.
Organised by the Sharjah Book Authority (SBA), the 11-day festival includes diverse interactive workshops to advance children’s knowledge and expand their creative horizons.
On offer will be a series of workshops at the SCRF will be a STEAM laboratory featuring fun-filled science, technology, engineering, arts and mathematics experiments.
Those interested in exploring solar energy, music, video game design and life skills will have the opportunity to do so at workshops dedicated to each of these themes.
The ‘Let’s write a Story’ will teach participants the basics of writing an attractive and expressive story, while the fast-paced ‘Words and Pictures’ workshop, will look at how both of them can interact together to tell a story.
Participants in ‘The Missing Story’ workshop will have to complete
comic scenes of an unfinished, yet, simple story then invents the remaining events and use the correct drawings.
The ‘Expression’ workshop will teach participants how to add expressions and emotions to characters, such as joy, anger and sadness, making them more real and lively.
Design and illustration is also a part of the extensive creative workshops during the SCRF.
The ‘Amazing Covers’ workshop is available to teach participants how to design and create compelling and attractive covers for comic books, while the ‘Story world’ workshop seeks unleash the creativity of children in designing distinctive and lively comic characters.
At the ‘History of Comics’ workshop), Shihab Al Deen Almusharaf will be teaching story writing and character building, with a focus on Japanese Manga.