Creatives called to volunteer for book-making event
A children’s book publisher, which produces titles through a unique process, needs writers, illustrators and designers to volunteer for their next event in Kloof in October.
BOOK-creating organisation Book Dash is a social-impact publisher of free children’s books, and they will be back in Durban at the end of October.
Book Dash is calling for the creative community to register for their book-making event.
Book Dash, with the stated mission to ‘make sure that every child owns a hundred books by the age of five’, is in Durban once more, for the first time since 2015.
The Durban event will be held in Kloof at the TWIMS Kloof Campus on October 29. Writers, illustrators and designers are supported by Book Dash facilitators to complete the book-creating process, which would usually take months from start to finish.
On each Book Dash day, the creative volunteers split into ten teams to create African children’s books that anyone anywhere can freely access, print and distribute. Each team comprises a writer, illustrator and designer who have 12 hours to create their book. Creative volunteers are required to be able to attend in person on the day.
Book Dash has published 176 books with this process since 2014, and the organisation has printed and distributed more than two million books to South African children.
According to the Book Dash website, this event is the ‘Comrades of creativity’, and they would love Durban creatives to join them in their book-making mission.
Go to bookdash.org to find out more.
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