On Friday the nohinohi of Ngāi Kete welcomed some storytellers for the afternoon. They were in residence in Ōtaki for ten days as part of the storytellers residency - 'In other words Ōtaki'
Ruth Paul (author of many books such as "My Dinosaur Dad" "Stomp" "The King's Bubbles")
Fifi Colston (author and illustrator of ,many books such as "The Last Crayon" "The Little Yellow Digger")
Peter Hambleton (actor and director)
These three wonderful people have been working on a project together and this residency in Ōtaki was an opportunity to really focus on their mahi as well as trial some ideas with students from the College, as well as with our tamariki at Ōtaki Kura.
Ruth started us off by selecting some tamariki to act out her story 'I am Jellyfish"
There were heaps of giggles as our actors tried on their costumes and acted out their parts.
THen Ruth shared her story "The Lion Guards the Cake"
"The Proud Pūteketeke" was the book up next. The was illustrated by Fifi, so she read this to us with Ruth managing a very cheeky pūteketeke beside her!
It really was a wonderful afternoon! We thoroughly enjoyed ourselves!
We often talk about authors and illustrators - it was great for tamariki to meet people that do creative things for their jobs. Someone that writes for their work. Someone that draws pictures to their work. Someone that works on stage, televison, movies. All things we learn to do at school. All options for our tamariki in the future.
He mihi ka tika ki ngā kaiwhakahaere o te ahurei "In other words Ōtaki"
He ahiahi pai rawa atu!
Ngā mihi.
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