Seniors’ Complete Writing Workshop
The Bermuda National Library (BNL) and the Minister of Education and Workforce Development, the Hon. Diallo Rabain, JP, MP awarded certificates of achievement to twelve participants in the Seniors’ Writing Workshop facilitated by Mrs. Florenz Webbe Maxwell.
The workshop ran for five weeks from in June at the Bermuda National Library. Participants met twice a week on Mondays and Fridays and were tasked with writing a memoir that they believe provided an inspirational message or lesson for young people. Seniors’ Writing Workshop was made available through a grant from the Department of Community and Cultural Affairs to the Friends of the Bermuda National Library.
Ms Joanne Brangman, Director of Libraries and Archives stated, “I want to thank the Department of Community and Cultural Affairs for providing the grant to the Friends of the Library that made this workshop possible. The dedication and enthusiasm displayed by these twelve senior citizens, ranging in age from 60 to 91 years, was an example to all of us who watched them turn up early each week for the workshop!”
It is planned that stories will be published in an anthology of Bermudian Memoir for Young People, edited by Mrs. Maxwell and Dr. Kim Dismont-Robinson.
The participants were:
Brenda Wilson
Dr. Muriel Wade Smith
Lawrence Sticca
Cecille Snaith-Simmons
Claudette Cann
Dr Arnold Hollis
Rev. Dr. Gwyneth Lightbourne
Gwendolyn de la Chevotiere Creary
Ismay Cartwright
Marlene Warren
Frances Furbert
Marion Matthews
