This year’s theme: Flip into Wonder – Stories and Places poses yet another challenge to last’s Bigger Dreams… Yet, the outcome extends beyond Chelmsford City Council’s Skills Festival itself as the best 20 entries will be selected for an exhibition at Chelmsford Library in October. A winner and runners-up, will be chosen by a panel of professional artists include Tolu.
Relevant still, are the concerns of decline in Readership amongst the young..So, Go All In! is the National Literacy Trust ‘s strategy to rekindle a love for reading. I attended a wedding last week and sat next to a young man standing in place of their estranged father, giving his sister away in marriage.He after […]
Let’s play the Mancala! Playing Our Way Through History 📚🌍At our CALF-Events, we believe literature is not only what’s written. It’s what’s carved, spoken, passed down, and played. That’s why we’re shining a light on MANCALA – an ancient African strategy game that is far more than entertainment. It is an awesome vessel of cultural […]
So, The Balloons Weren’t Just Balloons In 2018, I had a naive, hopeful, determined idea as a new author with little understanding of how to navigate the Author persona. So I created a small WhatsApp group: The Kiddie-Writers Forum. We supported each other through endless questions, messy drafts, rejections, social media following, and honing our […]
Welcome to Calf-Events Greetings! This blog post has been a long time in the making, lurking quietly in the background as we waited for the “perfect moment” to introduce who we are, what we do, and how far we’ve come. But if there’s anything we’ve learned, it’s that there’s no perfect time—only the right energy. […]
