Roots & Seeds: Creative Writing & Storytelling Programme
In 2020, Sierra Club BC offered a brand-new arts-based programme with youth participants across Canada, developed by Alyssa Martens. Youth developed oral and written storytelling skills while exploring how plants of all kinds connect a person to place. Participants also exchanged personal stories with an older adult (50+) that they already knew, connecting about their relationships to plants and places, including tree-climbing, forest foraging, gardening and how plants are connected to health and celebrations.
Integrate Arts & Environmental Learning in Your Classroom
The Roots & Seeds curriculum, learning resources for use by Facilitators of Learning (teachers) to engage youth ages 11-15 in a six- to eight-week writing journey, is available for download. This programme can be offered through interactive online workshops or in-person.
Participants will learn useful interview skills to gather stories and consider the many uses of all kinds of plants. They will be guided in pulling out their bright thinking to adapt ideas and stories into creative nonfiction and poetry.
