{"id":2845,"date":"2013-05-13T15:00:57","date_gmt":"2013-05-13T05:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/inthenews\/?p=2845"},"modified":"2015-04-29T13:39:41","modified_gmt":"2015-04-29T03:39:41","slug":"boori-monty-pryors-compelling-storytelling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/boori-monty-pryors-compelling-storytelling\/","title":{"rendered":"Boori Monty Pryor&#8217;s compelling storytelling"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2846\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2846\" style=\"width: 315px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/files\/2013\/05\/Boori.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-2846\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/files\/2013\/05\/Boori.jpg\" width=\"315\" height=\"194\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2846\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">RCH patients Jacob and Oliver with Boori Monty Pryor<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Much loved Australian children\u2019s author and Australian Children\u2019s Laureate, Boori Monty Pryor, visited The Royal Children\u2019s Hospital (RCH)\u00a0today to run a storytelling workshop with patients.<\/p>\n<p>The session was coordinated by the RCH Education Institute and included readings of Boori\u2019s popular books to children and families in the hospital.<\/p>\n<p>The visit comes in time to help RCH patients plan their inaugural Jumbunna Film Festival (Jumbunna is the Woi Wurrung word for storytelling form the Wurundjeri people). The children and young people in the hospital will coordinate all aspects of the festival, from event management, promotion and publicity to the writing, directing and editing of films.<\/p>\n<p>Boori\u2019s visit\u00a0was sponsored by the State Library of Victoria and Australian Children\u2019s Literature Alliance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of Australia&#8217;s most loved children&#8217;s authors, Boori Monty Pryor, visited the RCH for a storytelling workshop with patients. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2845","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/66"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2845"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2845\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2858,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2845\/revisions\/2858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}