I have never seen so much talent in the same room at the same time. Ladies and gentlemen were oozing with it in all directions of that room at the Goethe Institut. Personally I came half-baked to this workshop, literally of course, but after the give-and-take session that followed I was full of ideas on how to improve my work.
Authors were displaying some of their best creations such as poems and articles that completely blew me away.Falko Hennig, a great German author and a member of the Reading Stage fraternity in Germany gave good direction during the workshop on how to establish and run a reading stage.
The first piece was a first hand experience of an unborn child in the womb where we take a rivetting journey with her through the intrigues of nature inside a woman's womb.Mmmh!! I was smiling through the whole reading of that story that relates us so fondly with a greater existence. Beatrice Tangai surely knows how to weave the unexpected into gold.Kudos!!
Another nice piece was read by Khainga O'Okwemba. It was a poem based on the U.S Presidential hopeful, Barack Obama's visit to Kenya and written a few hours after his speech at the University of Nairobi.
Wonderful off-the-cuff narrations were done beautifully by Philo Ikonya and Mshai Mwangola during the two day workshop.
In addition were Neema Mawiyoo, a poet and musician, who acted as the workshop coordinator alongside Eliphas Nyamogo.
It was an enriching experience to share and talk to all these greatly talented people.
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