Ptuj 2011: Children’s Creative Workshop

A children’s creative workshop took place as part of the Days of Poetry and Wine Festival (of Studentska Zalozba) in Ptuj, in association with the Center interesnih dejavnosti Ptuj (CID).

Children were invited to create illustrations based on the poem Lepa Vida v akciji by Andrej Rozman Roza. The workshop was led by Andreja Brulc,.

Even though it was a very hot day during the summer holidays, the workshop was attended by 12 children.

The story of the poem is as follows. A beautiful woman called Vida goes to Trieste to buy pills for her ill husband and baby’s nappies. While in the park, she meets an African who offers her the job of a dojilja (wet nurse) in some far exotic land, where she would be well paid. She has problems at home – a baby who cries non-stop and a husband who is ill, unemployed and has lost all social benefits – so she takes the job. However, she is not happy in the work, and as soon as she gets her first salary and can afford the call, she phones home. But she gets no answer, so calls the neighbours. She is told something terrifying, bloody and moving – but if you want to know more, says the poem, check the newspaper. The poem also adds that if she had purchased a better mobile phone package, the story would have ended more happily because she could have phoned home earlier.

The pages were assembled into a picture book. Each child was sent the book in a digital format.

For a full showcase of the children’s illustrations for the Book of Lepa Vida click Flickr.

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