Last update: 18/10/2018
KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 18 (Bernama) -- What started out as a small-time storytelling competition among primary and lower secondary school students in June this year is now set to become a hit as 28 students are expected to vie for the Champion Storyteller title on Oct 27 at the Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre.
Students from more than 160 schools had participated in the 2018 Storytelling Competition organised by Navagon Digital Sdn Bhd in partnership with Kifubon Malaysia to promote its books and the culture of reading books with valuable lessons.
“We started small and with the hope that students will take up the challenge, but what we did not expect was the very encouraging response with a good number of students participating and excelling in their story-telling ability,” said Vijaya Kunaseharan, business development manager with Navagon, and also the project manager of Kifubon Malaysia.
Navagon, a distributor of educational aid and the Malaysian representative of Kifubon International, was inspired by the Kifubon concept in coming up with the competition, said Vijaya in a press statement issued here today.
Kifubon in Japanese means to share and this act of sharing or distributing books that provide valuable lessons started 10 years ago in Japan, she said.
“A total of 500 students from 160 schools in Selangor, the Federal Territory of Kuala Lumpur, Penang, Perak and Johor participated in the competition, with both teachers and parents encouraging them all the way,” she said.
Apart from encouraging the students to tell the stories on stage with confidence and enjoying it, the competition also unearthed an amazing number of talented young storytellers.
Many of these youngsters were not only able to retell the stories in the book ‘Splitting The Arrow – The Business of Life’ authored by world-renowned Global Peace Ambassador Prem Rawat, in their own words, but they were able to explain the valuable lessons of the short stories.
In ‘Splitting the Arrow’, Prem Rawat presents a selection of stories drawn from his talks and travels around the world. These stories transcend different cultures and address the business of life: what success and prosperity really mean.
For the Grand Finals, to be held on Oct 27 at the Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre, a total of 28 students aged from seven to 14 will be competing for the Championship Trophy under four different categories.
The winners of the competition will also get to meet Prem Rawat, the author himself, later that day at the same venue where he is scheduled to present a talk entitled ‘Peace is Possible - Find Your Inner Strength’. Details on the ‘Peace is Possible’ event can be found at www.wopg.org/events.
-- BERNAMA
Students from more than 160 schools had participated in the 2018 Storytelling Competition organised by Navagon Digital Sdn Bhd in partnership with Kifubon Malaysia to promote its books and the culture of reading books with valuable lessons.
“We started small and with the hope that students will take up the challenge, but what we did not expect was the very encouraging response with a good number of students participating and excelling in their story-telling ability,” said Vijaya Kunaseharan, business development manager with Navagon, and also the project manager of Kifubon Malaysia.
Navagon, a distributor of educational aid and the Malaysian representative of Kifubon International, was inspired by the Kifubon concept in coming up with the competition, said Vijaya in a press statement issued here today.
Kifubon in Japanese means to share and this act of sharing or distributing books that provide valuable lessons started 10 years ago in Japan, she said.
“A total of 500 students from 160 schools in Selangor, the Federal Territory of Kuala Lumpur, Penang, Perak and Johor participated in the competition, with both teachers and parents encouraging them all the way,” she said.
Apart from encouraging the students to tell the stories on stage with confidence and enjoying it, the competition also unearthed an amazing number of talented young storytellers.
Many of these youngsters were not only able to retell the stories in the book ‘Splitting The Arrow – The Business of Life’ authored by world-renowned Global Peace Ambassador Prem Rawat, in their own words, but they were able to explain the valuable lessons of the short stories.
In ‘Splitting the Arrow’, Prem Rawat presents a selection of stories drawn from his talks and travels around the world. These stories transcend different cultures and address the business of life: what success and prosperity really mean.
For the Grand Finals, to be held on Oct 27 at the Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre, a total of 28 students aged from seven to 14 will be competing for the Championship Trophy under four different categories.
The winners of the competition will also get to meet Prem Rawat, the author himself, later that day at the same venue where he is scheduled to present a talk entitled ‘Peace is Possible - Find Your Inner Strength’. Details on the ‘Peace is Possible’ event can be found at www.wopg.org/events.
-- BERNAMA
