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From July to December WWYA will be delivering four creative writing courses at Rimutaka Prison.
The first course at Arohata Upper Prison will focus on dramatic writing. Unit 9 have been creating amazing poetry and dialogue using alliteration, assonance and onomatopoeia. We are grateful to Corrections for helping us get these courses off the ground and to Wellington City Trust for a grant which helps finance them. We were extremely happy and grateful to find out last month that our application to the Wellington Community Trust General Grant was successful.
The money from Wellington Community Trust will go toward funding four eight-week courses at Arohata Upper Womens' Prison and Unit 9 at Rimutaka Prison. The money will help us pay facilitators and create booklets of the writers work. We are very grateful to Wellington Community Trust for this generous grant. Read more about Wellington Community Trust here Thanks to everyone who attended the WWYA Movie Fundraiser last month. We were able to raise $800 which will go toward paying facilitators and creating workbooks.
Thanks also to Lighthouse Cuba for making us feel so welcome and to Unity Books for providing the spot prize. The Bookshop Sunday June 3rd @ 6pm At Lighthouse Cuba You can book tickets here Please support our efforts by attending our movie night fundraiser. Plus, plus - your ticket gets you entry into the draw for a Unity Books voucher. Since our last fundraiser, Write Where You Are has had a great year. • We taught more than 100 teaching hours. • We collaborated with the Wellington Writers' Festival to take writers into prisons and present the work of incarcerated writers to an audience. • We brought new teachers on board and added classes at Community Corrections. We have plans for more such initiatives and hope that this fundraiser will help us realise them. If you're unable to attend this event but would like to support our work you can make a donation at our Give-A-Little page Writers who had participated in Write Where You Are workshops participated in Prison Voices an event which was part of the 2018 New Zealand Festival Writers & Readers Week You can read about this event: What I Learned About Writing From the Women INside New Zealand's Prisons an article in Vice Magazine by Charlotte Graham-McLay From Inmates to Authors: How creative writing helps change lives an article in The Dominion Post by Jack Barlow Creative writing programme at Wellington prisons helping inmates find their voices an article in The Dominion Post by Ruby MacAndrew 30 November 2016
You can read an article on our latest course at Arohata on the Arts Access Aotearoa website |
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