Pioneering the Representation of African-Caribbean & Dual Heritage Children In Literature
Children & Authors' Literary Fanfare Event, Oct 2024
INVITATION TO A GALAXY OF CULTURE AND CURIOUS ADVENTURES!
We are excited to partner with Manchester’s Museum, The University of Manchester to bring
this enriching event to the community once again.
Our Children & Authors’ Literary Fanfare Events (CALFE 2024), is starting online on:
Fri, Oct 04th, 17:00-20:30 BST
Sat, Oct 19th, 10:00 – 4:00 @ Manchester Museum, The University of Manchester,
Sat, Oct 26th, Oct 10:30 – 4:00 @ Chelmsford Museum
Finale Fri, Nov 1, 11:00 – 3:00 @Colchester Red Lion Books
Here is a Sneak Peek of what we got up to last year: CALFE 2023
This vibrant event serves as a celebration for Black History Month 2024 and designed for children aged 4-11 years.
As a Manchester-based, award-winning children’s author of culturally diverse books, I am thrilled to share this unique opportunity with you.
The event, funded for the second consecutive year by Arts Council England, will feature an array of engaging activities led by CALFE authors, publishers, and creatives who are renowned in their fields.
Activities Include:
Meet-the-author sessions
Storytelling, traditional singing, and creative writing workshops
Traditional African Mancala game for problem-solving
African fashion, crafts, and illustration workshops
African artefact handling and Spice & Utensil workshops
CALFE 2024 promises to be a fun cultural, educational, and memorable intergenerational
experience, and we would love for you to be a part of it!
Register Here or Scan The QR Code.
This FREE vibrant cultural celebration – with lots of children’s authors, will keep the children, parents, carers, and families entertained in a truly extraordinary way.
The University of Manchester June 2024
Join me Carrol May Nelson,
Author of much-loved children’s book, Dolly May, and the Magical Enchanted Garden,
on Saturday 8th June 2024 at Manchester University Bicentenary Festival.
For an interactive storytelling session drop-in that takes children on a magical journey of discovery.
Saturday 8th June from 10.30-1pm.
The University of Manchester Students Union,
The Hive, Oxford Road, M13 9PR.
Children's & Author's Literary Fanfare Event October 2023
Children’s Author’s Literary Fanfare Event-CALFE 2023 our 1st physical Event BHM BLAST🚀off over in Chelmsford Museum🏛
So, in case someone is asking, what CALFE is about, just show them this clip or get out a pen🖊 and make a list!
CALFE is an interactive, fast-past, engaging, entertaining, child-focussed storytelling, poetic, artistic, quizzing, Authors buzzing, EVENING that takes place online where we engage with children and book📚 lovers from across the world🪐
Everybody has a story to tell and by meeting these Kiddie-Writes Children’s AUTHORS📚 and their friends, you get to decide which of the wonder books and magical reads you would love to add to your own bookshelves!
It’s been an Online evening affair up till now, and… for the first time ever, we were live, as in-person event at @chelmsfordmuseum on 28th Oct 2023 from 10.30-3.30pm.
With a plethora of Culturally Diverse Children’s Author and Artists📚
Supported by Arts Council England, Essex Cultural Strategist, Chelmsford Museum Chelmsford Community.
It was a great experience sharing our children’s story with the community.
Looking forward to you seeing👀 you at our CALFE 2024 .
Black British Book Festival - 17th Sept 2023
BBC Radio Manchester July 2023
Spent a brilliant day here at our BBC Radio Manchester Bad Parenting Club, with our awesome Presenter Simone Riley & her amazing team, and the amazing Maths teacher Sandra Smith, and myself Carrol May Nelson, Author of Children’s book.
Discussing a range of issues on joys, and challenges of parenting.
Women of Worth Prestigious Award June 2023
Nomination for the Women of Worth Prestigious Award June 2023
Literacy Events 2023
Summer School Event 2022
Carrol May Coleman Nelson.
Children’s Book Author and Publisher of Diverse Stories.
My books captivate children’s imagination while promoting
the representation of culturally diverse children’s literature.
Windrush Day Event 2022
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