More Than A Literary Festival

Children’s Storytelling Caravan

The festival season starts with a series of storytelling sessions with the NGC Children’s Bocas Lit Fest Storytelling Caravan at venues all around the country throughout March and April. This year is the 14th children’s festival taking the Caravan to ten locations throughout Trinidad and Tobago.

For the first time ever, the NGC Children’s Bocas Lit Fest Storytelling Caravan will include a schools’ tour in our endeavours to reach some of the more remote locations throughout Trinidad and Tobago; and to engage in more focused story creation workshops.

Last year’s Caravan produced an anthology of 18 stories created by the nation’s children, which will soon be released. During these FREE sessions, our storytellers tell stories, then encourage the children to craft a story based on a suggested title, unleashing and guiding their creativity and inspiring them to value self-expression through the written word in a story writing workshop.

Register your child for a FREE Storytelling Caravan Workshop near you at a NALIS Public Library below.

School sessions are not available for registration. Only 30 spaces per session, so register now below or email [email protected] or call 48-BOCAS.

The Scorpion Pepper Competition
St Mary’s Gov’t Primary, Moruga
1:00 PM – 3:00 PM
The First Peoples' Festival
Arima Public Library
10:00 AM – 12:00 PM
Pedro and The Small Boat
Cedros AC Primary, Cedros
1:00 PM – 3:00 PM
Thursday 07 March 2024
Saturday 9 March 2024
Thursday 14 March 2024
The Moonlit Guardians
Matura RC Primary, Matura
10:00 AM – 12:00 PM
Saved by The Hermit Crab
Salybia RC Primary, Salybia
1:00 PM – 3:00 PM
Monday 18 March 2024
Monday 18 March 2024
The Ghost of Brechin Castle
Couva Public Library, Couva
10:00 AM – 12:00 PM
Drama At The Chutney Show
Debe Public Library, Debe
10:00 AM – 12:00 PM
Saturday 6 April 2024
Saturday 13 April 2024
The Mystery of The Oil Spill
Scarborough Children’s Library, Tobago
1:00 PM – 3:00 PM
A Royal Visit
Princes Town Public Library, Princes Town
10:00 AM – 12:00 PM
Wednesday 17 April 2024
Saturday 20 April 2024
The Boy Who Refused To Read
NALIS Port of Spain
10:00 AM – 12:00 PM
Saturday 27 April 2024

The Caravan Colouring Books!

The NGC Bocas Lit Fest is Trinidad and Tobago’s annual literary festival but it is Caribbean in scope. The festival season starts with a series of storytelling sessions with the NGC Children’s Bocas Lit Fest Storytelling Caravan at venues all around the country throughout March and April. This year is the 14th children’s festival taking the Caravan to ten locations throughout Trinidad and Tobago. For the first time ever, the NGC Children’s Bocas Lit Fest Storytelling Caravan will include a schools’ tour in our endeavours to reach some of the more remote locations throughout Trinidad and Tobago; and to engage in more focussed story creation workshops. Last year’s Caravan produced an anthology of 18 stories created by the nation’s children, which will soon be released.

During these FREE sessions, our storytellers tell stories, then encourage the children to craft a story based on a suggested title, unleashing and guiding their creativity and inspiring them to value self-expression through the written word in a story writing workshop.

The workshop teaches the construction of a story and we record the contributions made by children in the group.

The stories are then edited and put into a book with their names listed as authors. The stories are also published in the Sunday Express.

Who is Dragonzilla?

Dragonzilla is the mascot of the NGC Children’s Bocas Lit Fest. This smiling friendly dragon lives in the Bocas del Dragón (Dragon’s Mouths) in the Gulf of Paria, but comes out to visit children who take part in the Children’s Storytelling Caravan, helping them to develop a love for reading, writing and storytelling. 

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