Spark Festival 2015

www.sparkfestival.co.uk

18 - 30 May 2015

For children 0 - 13 years

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Funders

The 29th May 1961 Charitable Trust • The Edith Murphy Foundation • Florence Turner Trust The Hinrichsen Foundation • John Salmon Fund • Leicestershire and Rutland Community Foundation Maud Elkington Charitable Trust • The P&C Hickinbotham Charitable Trust • PRS for Music Foundation

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Our all new City Play-ground taking place at venues across the city.

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Events created especially for under 5s.

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A feast of free fun activities over half term.

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Welcome A warm welcome to The Spark Festival 2015, our thirteenth year of bringing some of the world’s best artists and companies to Leicester to inspire and entertain you over thirteen fabulous days.

This year we are particularly excited to welcome back Arun Ghosh launching our very own Young People’s Jazz Club at The Cookie. Curve will host the gorgeous English National Ballet’s Swan Lake as well as international dance theatre from Nevski Prospekt, Hop. At Attenborough Arts Centre (formerly Embrace Arts) we have the superb Spitalfields Music’s Musical Rumpus and there is incredible Water Light Graffiti by French digital artist Antonin Fourneau at Phoenix.

In and around the festival there are workshops to get involved with and free activity for the whole family. This year’s all new City Play-ground will see Attenborough Arts Centre turn their venue into an Enchanted Forest, Curve will be hosting a Family Day, Digital Delights return to Phoenix, and the LCB Depot (home to the festival office) will bring the City Play-ground to a close with Show Off! - an opportunity to experiment, invent and show off your festival creations.

We hope you come and join us to see, hear, do and show off all your talents. It’s festival time!

Adel Al-Salloum, Director

What can you buy with a fiver these days?

How about using your fiver to support the Spark and help inspire the next generation? Become a Spark supporter from just £5 a month and we will enrol up to 4 children in our Rocket Club. Each child will receive an initial certificate and stickers and then a quarterly newsletter with things to see, do and make.

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Curve Family Day Saturday 23 May 10am - 6pm

This year’s Play-ground is taking place at venues across the city (see pages 4-7). The City Play-ground adventure sets off at Curve with a jam-packed day designed for the whole family.

Take a trip behind-the-scenes of Curve on the family backstage tour, enjoy storytelling by Leicester Library Services on the Foyer Stage, transform your look in the dressing up corner or find your voice with Kaine Kids choir workshops, all taking place throughout the day!

Join English National Ballet for a range of fun and interactive dance classes for children of all ages, and then watch them perform the latest from their My First Ballet series, Swan Lake (page 9). Alternatively, you can book to see the energetic clowning of Statik (page 11), a hilarious show about breaking the mould!

The perfect way to kickstart your half term - we look forward to seeing you at Curve and the other venues on our City Play-ground adventure.

Please call 0116 242 3595 to book the following activities: Family Choir Workshop 12pm & 3pm £3 Swan Lake Workshop 9am (ages 2-4), 11am (ages 5-7) £20 (parent & child) Swan Lake Workshop 3pm (ages 8-11) £12 (child only) Backstage Tour 10.30am £5 Suitable for: All the family Running Time: 10am - 6pm

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Tickets: Free events - just drop in (except for shows and workshops detailed above) Venue: Curve 0116 242 3595

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Phoenix presents

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Digital Sparks Tuesday 26 - Friday 29 May 11am - 5pm

Immerse yourself in amazing interactive experiences at Phoenix for The Spark Festival 2015.

We have a host of activities for all ages, from family films to short workshops, giving children the chance to engage, learn, play and create with some of the latest – and coolest! – digital technology around.

Water Light Graffiti

Antonin Fourneau, French digital artist extraordinaire, brings his unique interactive artwork Water Light Graffiti to Phoenix and invites you to create your own original ‘light art’.

Antonin has developed a remarkable smart surface from thousands of tiny lights that illuminate on contact with water, so you can draw in light simply using a wet paintbrush, water spray, or even your finger... and the wetter it is, the brighter the image.

Write, draw or just go for an abstract splash that looks like fireworks - Water Light Graffiti enables anyone to create magical, ephemeral lightworks, whatever their age.

There’ll also be lots of fun free activities taking place around Phoenix to fire up the imagination – see the venue brochure and website for further details.

Water Light Graffiti is a creation by Antonin Fourneau, produced by Art2M.

Suitable for: 2+ years Running Time: 11am - 5pm each day Tickets: Free events - just drop in Venue: Phoenix 0116 242 2800

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Attenborough Arts Centre presents

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Enchanted Forest Tuesday 26 – Friday 29 May 10am – 3pm daily

Embrace Arts is transforming into the Attenborough Arts Centre and our exciting new gallery is growing from the ground. Visit the Enchanted Forest in the café filled with magical creatures and treats, to play, create and spark your imagination...

Adventure through our dressing up box and turn yourself into a forest creature or fairy. Help us decorate our pillar trees with butterflies, birds and beasts. Create your own magical creature stick puppets to put on a show! Use our window woodland as your stage. All of this whilst listening to the sounds of birdsong, as we hear the Swithland Wood Recordings featuring tabla (Rishii Chowdhury) and sitar (Roopa Panesar), compiled by artist Lucy Stevens.

Make your mark on our café sketchbooks! Your drawings, poems and ideas will be locked away in our new gallery time capsule. We’d like to see the designs of your own gallery!

And for the adventurer in you, join us for the mythical creatures treasure hunt.

Animals are hidden all over our enchanted forest, throughout the mini Picasso exhibition and around the building. How many will you find?

Family Exhibition tours with La Pelle’s Factory Wednesday 27 May 10am, 1.30pm & 3pm Join our curious guides on a fun and energetic tour of our exhibition by local print maker, Peter Clayton. This friendly duo will welcome you to the show and bring the story of Peter’s work to life. (Free but booking essential) Suitable for: All the family Running Time: 10 am - 3pm daily

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Tickets: Free events - just drop in (booking required for Exhibition tours) Venue: Attenborough Arts Centre 0116 252 2455

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Leicester Arts & Museums present

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Diversions: Journey’s End Monday 18 - Friday 22 May, Monday 25 - Friday 29 May

It is with great pride that we unveil Maria Zahle’s works Sails and Dogs for the Spark Festival 2015.

This exhibition is the culmination of three years of play and exploration at New Walk Museum and Art Gallery. During the festival we will be inviting children and their families to explore the commission through workshops and free play. We hope that all of those involved with Diversions since 2012 will come back to see Maria’s work and help us to create and play games with her sculptures.

Maria Zahle’s commission was the Alexandra Reinhardt memorial award for 2014 and its creation was supported by the Max Reinhardt Charitable Trust and managed by engage, the National Association for Gallery Education.

Sails and Dogs Exhibitions 18 May to 22 May & 25 May to 29 May 11am - 3pm

Preschool Workshops Tuesday 19 & Wednesday 20 May 10am to 11am Suitable for: 0 - 1 years, Tuesday 19 & Wednesday 20 May 11.30am to 1pm Suitable for: crawlers to 2 years Tuesday 19 & Wednesday 20 May 2pm to 3.30 pm Suitable for: 2 - 5 years

Family Workshops Wednesday 27 May 1pm to 3pm Suitable for: 11 - 13 year olds Thursday 28 & Friday 29 May midday to 3pm Suitable for: families

Tickets: Free events - just drop in Venue: New Walk Museum & Art Gallery 0116 225 4900

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Scamp Theatre presents

Untied Artists presents

Stick Man

The Boy Who Bit Picasso

Touching, funny and utterly original, this delightful adaptation of Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler’s hugely popular children’s book Stick Man features a trio of top actors and is packed full of puppetry, songs, live music and funky moves.

"When I was a little boy, living on a farm, I had the most extraordinary friend.

He had a big wide smile and amazing hands. His name was Pablo Picasso."

Monday 18 May 2pm Tuesday 19 - Thursday 21 May 11am & 2pm

‘Stick Man lives in the family tree With his Stick Lady Love and their stick children three…’

The world outside the family tree is a dangerous place for Stick Man. A dog wants to play fetch with him, a swan builds a nest with him and he even ends up on a fire! How will Stick Man ever get back to the family tree?

Guarantees more fun than you can shake a stick at!

There will be a relaxed performance on Thursday 21 May 11am

Suitable for: 3+ years Running Time: 60 mins

Tickets: £10* - £14* *for transaction charge details see page 29 Venue: Curve 0116 242 3595

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Tuesday 19 May 11.30am & 2.30pm Wednesday 20 May 10.30am & 1.30pm Untied Artists bring their award-winning brand of theatre to family audiences for the first time in this colourful, exuberant homage to the power of art.

Tony wants you to come and play with his friend Pablo. It’ll be loads of fun!

You’ll get dressed up, let the animals loose, make crazy pictures, sing, dance, and sink your teeth into the delightful story of how a three-year old boy from Sussex became pals with one of the greatest artists who ever lived.

Be sure to wear some play-clothes, as it’s going to get messy, as you try out some of the techniques that changed the way we look at the world forever.

Suitable for: 4 - 8 years Running Time: 70 mins

Tickets: £7 / party of four £25 Venue: Attenborough Arts Centre 0116 252 2455

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New Art Club presents

English National Ballet and English National Ballet School present

Hercules: A Dance Cabaret

My First Ballet: Swan Lake

One extraordinary superhero, 12 impossible tasks…this is the story of Hercules as you've never seen it before!

Swan Lake is the latest of the classics to be recreated for young children in the My First Ballet series, a unique collaboration between English National Ballet and English National Ballet School.

Wednesday 20 May 11am & 7pm

Hercules is best known for his incredible strength, but who knew the guy could dance? This story of Hercules is told through hilarious dance routines and amazing speciality acts. It's a modern cabaret that the whole family will enjoy.

Created by the award winning dancing comedy double act Tom Roden and Pete Shenton of New Art Club, this innovative and life affirming show will have you up on your feet wanting to dance.

"I laughed 'til my face hurt" The Observer

Co-produced by Dance4 and Nottingham Playhouse.

Suitable for: 5+ years and families.

Running Time: 90 mins (including interval)

Tickets: £10* - £16* *for transaction charge details see page 29 Venue: Curve 0116 242 3595

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Friday 22 May 1pm & 4.30pm Saturday 23 May 10.30am, 1pm & 4.30pm

The evil magician Rothbart has turned the beautiful princess Odette into a swan: only at night can she return to human form. Will Prince Siegfried be able to save her, or will he fall for Rothbart’s sorcery?

With a narrator to help children follow the story, and Tchaikovsky’s wonderful music, this is a perfect way to introduce your children to the magic and wonder of ballet.

Children's dance workshops are also available alongside this performance (see page 4).

Suitable for: 3+ years.

Running Time: 1 hour 20 mins (including interval)

Tickets: £8* - £25* *for transaction charge details see page 29 Venue: Curve 0116 242 3595

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Half Moon presents a Tam Tam Theatre production

Bamboozle Theatre presents

Curious

Along the Riverbank

Journey into a playfully imaginative world where kitchen meets the garden, where dirt is good, and where messiness mischievously conjures the perfect birthday surprise.

Bamboozle invites you along to share Mole’s adventures into the big wide world as she discovers the dreamy dragon fly meadow, Ratty’s river and Toad’s mad ideas. Dare we enter Wild Wood where the up-to-no-good weasels are partying?

Tuesday 19 & Wednesday 20 May 10am & 1.30pm

A play with few words, Curious is a laugh-out-loud experience for the very young and the curiously inquisitive. At the end of the performance, children are invited onto the stage to create their own recipes, by digging in soft, moist soil themselves.

Suitable for: 0 - 3 years Running Time: 60 mins including 30 mins free-play

Tickets: Free performances for families registered at the following Sure Start children’s centres; please contact your centre for more information.

Contact: Rowley Fields, Rowlatts Hill, New Parks

and Thurnby Lodge Sure Start Children’s Centres

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Friday 22 May 1.15pm & 6pm

Inspired by Kenneth Grahame’s Wind in the Willows and described by The Stage as “totally engaging” the show draws the audience in with live music, “superb” puppetry and a real rowing boat!

The show has been developed by Bamboozle from the original co-production with The Royal and Derngate Theatre and specifically engages those who have a learning disabled child. Inclusive schools’ performance at 1.15pm.

Tickets £5, to book email: jade@bamboozletheatre.co.uk.

Suitable for: 5+ years (relaxed performance) Running Time: 60 mins

Tickets: £7* or £24* family of four *for transaction charge details see page 29 Venue: Curve 0116 242 3595

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M6 Theatre Company presents

Action Transport Theatre presents

One Little Word

Statik

This is a beautiful and gentle story of friendship, power struggles and the rich world of creative play.

It’s Mikey’s first day at work, preparing radios and tuning them in. But when a mystery voice unexpectedly comes through the airwaves, chaos ensues and rules fall away…

Saturday 23 May 11am & 1pm

We meet two characters who play together - exploring a new space, new objects, dressing up and taking turns - but struggles arise when one of them wants to be the ONLY Captain of the ship!

One Little Word captivates children's imaginations with a moving story told with original music and just ONE spoken word.

"Magical" The Stage

Part of the At Your School programme.

There will be a relaxed performance on Saturday 23 May 1pm Suitable for: 3 - 6 years.

Running Time: 35 mins

Tickets: £7 / party of four £25 Venue: Attenborough Arts Centre 0116 252 2455

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Saturday 23 May 11am & 2pm

Inspired by the wisdom of children, energetic clowning and a vibrant soundtrack combine in this hilarious show about breaking the mould.

Full of visual comedy with a quirky style, Statik shows a beautiful, regimented world and the chaos caused when one person can’t and won’t fit in!

“Action Transport Theatre have created an imaginative and warm piece of physical theatre that would appeal to anyone” Liverpool Daily Post

Suitable for: 5+ years.

Running Time: 60 mins

Tickets: £6* - £10* *for transaction charge details see page 29 Venue: Curve 0116 242 3595

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Mashi Theatre presents

The Y presents

Tales of Birbal

Bedtime Stories

Saturday 23 May 11am Hamilton Library 0116 221 2790

Saturday 23 May 2.30pm Belgrave Library 0116 299 5500

How many crows are there in this land? Which came first, the chicken or the egg? Only Birbal knows…

Whatever the question, Birbal, the cunning advisor to Mogul Emperor Akbar has the answer! Mashi Theatre’s travelling storytellers stop by to share the colourful, enchanting Tales of Birbal – ancient Indian stories akin to Aesop’s fables, featuring live music and puppetry.

Help craft your own tale of adventure and problem solving, and even learn a song on the way. Put your thinking cap on and join us to step into the world of Akbar and Birbal.

Part of the At Your School Programme

Suitable for: 6+ years Running Time: 60 mins

Tickets: £2 (Library members: children £1, adults free)

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Saturday 23 May 4.30pm

Gather around inside our cosy, comfy theatre where a range of traditional and new tales full of magic, warmth and giggles can be enjoyed.

Together with the Library Services, we bring you professional storytellers, warm drinks, cookies and lullabies, in a magical opportunity to share a bedtime storyland with others. Don’t forget to bring along your favourite mug!

Spaces are limited, book your place early to avoid disappointment.

Suitable for: under 8s and their families. Teddies are also welcome.

Running Time: 60 mins Tickets: £2 per child / adult - includes cookies and hot chocolate Venue: The Y 0116 255 7066

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The Spark Festival and Arun Ghosh Sextet present

Attenborough Arts Centre presents

Young People’s Jazz Club

Baby Disco - Underwater

This year Indo-Jazz clarinettist Arun Ghosh is launching our very first Young People's Jazz Club at The Cookie. These performances are aimed at families of all ages with the opportunity to hear great music in the intimate setting of a professional jazz club.

The Spark’s Baby Disco is back by popular demand, after a number of sell-out shows. Come along to this under-water special, where you’ll swim through boogeying-babies, tap-dancing toddlers and mini discodivas.

Saturday 23 May 3pm & 7pm

Come and experience music influenced by Jazz, South-Asian sounds and beyond, all driven forward with a style inspired by hip-hop, rock and dance culture.

Arun has released three albums, and performs both nationally and internationally. He is renowned for his charismatic and exciting performance style, and was awarded Jazz Instrumentalist of the Year at the 2014 Parliamentary Jazz Awards.

Suitable for: 6 - 13 years and families Running Time: 60 mins

Tickets: £5 child / £7 adult / £20 family of four plus online transaction fee Venue: The Cookie 0116 253 1212

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Sunday 24 May 11am, 1pm & 2.30pm

Attenborough Arts Centre will be transformed into a wonderful ocean to be explored, and your little ones can learn some dance moves from Alison Bacon, whilst dancing to DJ James Kelly's ocean-inspired soundtrack (which gets our seal of approval...).

Suitable for: 0 - 6 years.

Running Time: 60 mins

Tickets: £5 per child, accompanying adult free Venue: Attenborough Arts Centre 0116 252 2455

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Dizzy O'Dare presents

Horse + Bamboo presents

The Wonderful World of Mr E

Red Riding Hood

Sunday 24 May Knighton Park 12pm and 3pm

Monday 25 May Spinney Hill Park 11am Abbey Park 4pm

Mr E travels through imagination, visiting strange new lands and going on fun adventures in his converted steampunk caravan. Inside he has cupboards full of intriguing objects from strange and exotic worlds, and unusual creatures never seen before. Let Mr E and his two assistants take you on an adventure into imagination itself!

This award-winning outdoor theatre company brings you a marvellous and highly interactive show, featuring fantastical puppets, music, clowning, and storytelling.

Tuesday 26 & Wednesday 27 May 11am & 1.30pm

A young girl, a hungry wolf and a walk through the woods - it sounds like a recipe for disaster, but Red Riding Hood is not scared… well, maybe she is a little bit scared.

This is a gorgeously rendered re-telling of the classic girl-and-the-wolf tale.

Exquiste visuals blend with pantomime-style silliness and spooky moments to create an enchanting piece of theatre.

There will be a relaxed performance on Tuesday 26 May 1.30pm

A Fuse Medway Festival Sparks Commission and supported by Arts Council England.

Suitable for: 3+ years and all the family Running Time: 45 mins Tickets: FREE event - just drop by

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Suitable for: 4+ years Running Time: 55 mins

Tickets: £7 / party of four £25 Venue: Attenborough Arts Centre 0116 252 2455

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Monstro Theatre presents

Kazzum presents

BookStory

Nana’s Jumble

Wednesday 27 May 2pm & 6.30pm

In Brian’s library, the books are all in a muddle. The Romance is rubbing shoulders with the DIY manual and the Dictionary is sharing a shelf with the Whodunnit. To save their confused library (and its confused librarian) the books must work together – but how? Books can’t move… or can they? To discover their real powers the books will first have to face their deadliest enemies…

BookStory is a tiny puppet musical with some very big ideas, using songs, puppetry and dynamic performance to tell the story of the story in the digital age.

Suitable for: 7 - 12 years Running Time: 60 mins

Tickets: £7 / party of four £20 Venue: The Y 0116 255 7066

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Thursday 28 May 11.30am, 1.30pm & 3pm

Join in with Nana’s riotous storytelling performance for children. There’s sweets and squash, characters emerge from the jumble, and there’s even a tombola! But (and not even granddaughter Josie can deny it) the best things about this jumble sale are Nana’s amazing stories from her travels around the world…

Kazzum - renowned producers of “playful theatre in unusual places” invite you to look at the world differently, explore together as a family, and play with Nana and Josie at the most exciting jumble sale you’ve ever been to!

Suitable for: 4 - 10 years Running Time: 45 mins

Tickets: £5 Venue: The Guildhall 0116 253 2569

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Out of the Egg Productions presents

Spitalfields Music presents

Kid Carpet and the Noisy Neighbours

Musical Rumpus: Fairy Queen in the Forest

Will we ever get used to living in the new house? Are the neighbours really feeding cats to their dog? Why do they smell like lemons and cat wee?

Where has Dad mislaid the children this time? Can he be unarrested before Mum gets home? And why is that car on fire?

Musical Rumpus is Spitalfields Music's award-winning, interactive and multi-sensory opera series for babies and toddlers.

Thursday 28 May 1pm & 3pm Friday 29 May 11am & 1pm

Ed Patrick (aka Kid Carpet) is a Bristol-based theatre maker of nonsense music and rock’n’roll theatre shows. His funny and moving new show uses music, puppetry and projection to look at what it’s like to move into a new house in the city and find your place there.

Suitable for: 7 - 12 years Running Time: 45 mins

Tickets: £7* *for transaction charge details see page 29 Venue: Curve 0116 242 3595

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Friday 29 May 10.30am, 12.30pm & 2.30pm

In Fairy Queen in the Forest discover a magical world of fairies, mystical creatures, sounds, colours, storytelling and play. Set to music from Purcell's much-loved opera The Fairy Queen, this enchanting musical adventure is for you and your baby to enjoy together.

There will be a relaxed performance at 2.30pm for children 6 or under.

Suitable for: 0 - 3 years Running Time: 40 mins plus playtime

Tickets: £7 / party of four £25 Venue: Attenborough Arts Centre 0116 252 2455

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Nevski Prospekt (Belgium) and MOKO Dance present

Hop

Saturday 30 May 1pm & 4pm

A poetic physical dance theatre production for children aged 4+ years and their families, created by the critically acclaimed Nevski Prospekt from Belgium.

Mr Dedalus and his son Icarus are trapped on an island. They long for home, but there’s no way to get off. Luckily Mr Dedalus is a clever inventor, and he creates an ingenious plan to fly away, and hop high above the sea.

Hop tells of a dream of flying, of never giving up, and above all the special relationship between a father and son.

Show Off!

Saturday 30 May 11am - 4pm

We’re taking over LCB Depot in Leicester’s Cultural Quarter to bring an amazing funfair of creativity to all you budding artists and makers.

Experiment and invent with crafts and new technologies, then show off your creations in our special exhibition zone.

From making your own video game and building in Minecraft to DIY photography and print making, there are loads of brilliant activities to try.

All activities are free and you can drop in anytime, but with so much to see and do, the earlier you arrive, the more you’ll have to show off.

Hop promises to be a total experience that starts the moment you enter the building.

Organised by Phoenix, LCB Depot and The Spark, activities are being provided by Building Schools for the Future, Leicester Print Workshop, LoFi Photography, Phoenix Interact Labs and more.

Tickets: £7* *for transaction charge details see page 29 Venue: Curve 0116 242 3595

Tickets: Free event - just drop in Venue: LCB Depot 0116 261 6800

Suitable for: 4+ years Running Time: 60 mins including pre-show activity

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Suitable for: All the family Running Time: 11am - 4pm

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BBC Radio Leicester Open Day

Leicester Arts and Museums present

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Monday 25 May 10am - 4pm

Have a go at being a BBC presenter, find out what it is like to present the news and discover what goes on behind the scenes!

There are a host of opportunities for photos, so don't forget your camera!

Suitable for: all the family (children must be accompanied by an adult) Tickets: FREE - but call 0116 251 6688 to book your place

Follow our Young Reporters’ exclusive coverage as we introduce you to Janvi, Shivani, Bhavini and Jasmin from Takeover Radio. They will be joining forces with BBC Radio Leicester to bring you the latest Spark news and reviews during the Festival.

The Spark Newsroom

Tune in to Ben Jackson on BBC Radio Leicester on 104.9FM (3pm-6pm) and Takeover Radio on 103.2FM

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Ancient Egypt Week Tuesday 26 - Sunday 31 May 11am - 1pm & 2pm - 4pm

To celebrate the launch of the Secret Egyptians exhibition, New Walk Museum and Art Gallery is hosting a week of fun activities that explore the life and afterlife of this ancient civilisation.

Take part in the Pyramid build, make your very death mask or create your own funerary boat to take you to the afterlife! We will be creating the revered crocodile god “Sobek” and looking at how your internal organs would be stored in canopic jars.

For more information about the activities please visit www.leicester.gov.uk/museums

The Secret Egyptians exhibition is on display from 16 May to 27 September 2015.

Suitable for: all the family

Tickets: £2.50 - pay at the shop on arrival Venue: New Walk Museum & Art Gallery 0116 225 4900

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14/48:UK presents

14/48:Takeover presents

14/48:Takeover The World’s Quickest Theatre Festival

From Page to Stage Workshop

The World’s Quickest Theatre Festival is being taken over by Leicester’s Young Writers during half term (see right).

14/48:UK is looking for a team of young playwrights to work alongside professional writers to create four plays in a week!

Saturday 30 May 6pm

What will they produce? Come and watch four plays whipped up in only five days and see how our professional actors can bring the scripts to life in just 24 hours.

Suitable for: 7+ years Running Time: 60 mins

Tickets: £4 Venue: The Y 0116 255 7066

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Tuesday 26 – Friday 29 May 10am-3pm each day

A fantastic opportunity to improve your creative writing skills, share and develop your own ideas and see your play performed by professional actors at the end of the week!

Suitable for: 8-14 years Running Time: 10am - 3pm Tue - Fri Cost: £30 (limited places) Venue: The Y 0116 255 7066

Puppetry Workshop

Wednesday 27 May 10am - 4pm

Bring your fairytale characters to life with this fab puppet making and puppetry workshop with expert puppeteer Sue Pyecroft.

Explore a wide range of materials and techniques to create your own puppet to take away and keep.

Suitable for: 8-13 years Running Time: 10am - 4pm

Cost: £15 (lincluding materials) Venue: Attenborough Arts Centre

0116 252 2455

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Workshops @ Pedestrian Urban Art Workshop Graffiti

Urban Art Workshop Light Graffiti

Explore how to draw Graffiti Art lettering using professional paint pens and materials. Participants will design and create their own canvas to take away.

Create artwork with light. Work with a Visual Artist to design and create your own pieces of art by painting with light.

Wednesday 27 May 11am - 1pm

Please come in suitable clothing!

Suitable for: 8-13 years Cost: £10 including materials

Wednesday 27 May 1.30pm - 3.30pm

This workshop uses photography and digital art skills to explore graffiti.

Suitable for: 8-13 years Cost: £6

Venue: Pedestrian To book contact The Spark office 0116 261 6893

Music Production & Turntablism

Digital Art Workshop

Learn how to make your own music on industry standard software or have a go at scratching and mixing with Pedestrian's expert music and DJing tutors. Perfect for young aspiring DJs or children who just want to have a go.

Develop your photography and design skills with a professional photographer.

Thursday 28 May 11am - 1pm

Suitable for: 8-13 years Cost: £6

Supervised lunch break available, bring your packed lunch along if booked on to two workshops.

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Thursday 28 May 1.30pm - 3.30pm

An ideal way to learn how to use DSLR cameras and Photoshop to create your own pieces of digital artwork.

Suitable for: 8-13 years Cost: £6

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Workshops @ Phoenix City Threads

Invent with Ototo

Help digital pioneers Codasign create an amazing artwork in the Phoenix Café Bar.

Learn how to make your own crazy musical instruments.

Tuesday 26 May 11am - 4pm

Learn about basic electronics and programming and use your new knowledge and skills to build an artwork that blends sounds and textiles with some of the latest creative technologies.

Suitable for: 10+ years Cost: £5 child (parent free)

Venue: Phoenix 0116 242 2800

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Wednesday 27 May 11am - 3pm

From electronic drum kits made out of saucepans to a coat stand that sings when you place something on its peg, the Ototo kit lets you make music with almost anything.

Suitable for: 8+ years Cost: £5 child (parent free)

Build a Chocolate Block Synth

Thursday 28 May 11am - 1pm or 2pm - 4pm

Build your very own synthesiser a musical instrument that makes sounds electronically - in this parent and child workshop.

Learn together about electronics and music making and join in the finale performance of bleeps and boops!

Suitable for: 7+ years Cost: £5 child (parent free)

Pop Up Play

Friday 29 May 11am - 1pm or 2pm - 4pm

Step into the virtual world of Pop Up Play to explore and create an array of adventures, using a brand new programme that projects the player into a mixed reality world.

Take a dip with a shark. Sail the highest tides on a pirate ship. Shrink into your own small world. Rise to the challenge of our amazing mazes.

Suitable for: 7+ years Cost: £5 child (parent free)

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Schools Programme Monday 18 - Friday 22 May

The Spark Festival’s At Your School programme remains at the heart of the festival. We bring performances and workshops into Leicester schools and offer special theatre shows for school audiences at Curve & Attenborough Arts Centre (see pages 8 & 9).

As well as being enormously entertaining and inspiring, these performances are a powerful teaching tool, stimulating a wealth of classroom activity across Pre-school, Key Stages 1, 2 and 3. Productions are supported by resources for teachers and some offer practical workshops, led by the performers themselves.

Arts Award

The Spark Festival offers a fantastic opportunity for children and young people to explore the richness and diversity of art and culture. It is an easy way for schools to kick start their engagement with two Arts Award qualifications – Discover and Explore.

The Spark Arts for Children has trained Arts Award Advisers, who can help Leicestershire schools develop fun and flexible programmes for youngsters. Contact us on 0116 261 6893 for more information about Arts Award and how your school could benefit.

Our partners at Attenborough Arts Centre are also offering discounted tickets for young people to see performances. Please contact arts-education@le.ac.uk to find out more.

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At Your School

Some of the schools who will be visited by One Little Word (page 11) Recycled Rubbish Catapluf’s Musical Journey Tales of Birbal (page 12) Into the Rainbow

Alderman Richard Hallam Primary School, Braunstone Frith Primary School, Folville Junior School, Humberstone Infant School, Mellor Community Primary School, Sandfield Close Primary School, Woodland Grange Primary School

At Your School is supported by Cummins Employment Solicitors.

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Theatre-Rites presents

Serious presents

Wriggle Dance Theatre presents

Recycled Rubbish

Catapluf's Musical Journey

Into The Rainbow

For Key Stage 1 & 2

Come and join our two excavators as they scuttle through the muck, finding treasures hidden amongst a world of rubbish. This beautiful, silly and inventive world will engage youngsters with themes of recycling and the environment, whilst introducing them to some amazing puppetry.

Created by award-winning company Theatre-Rites, Recycled Rubbish was inspired by the hugely successful show Rubbish, which toured the UK in 2014 and appeared at last year’s Spark Festival.

“It is precious, and profound, and playfully inspiring”

Total Theatre

For Key Stage 1 & 2

Meet Catapluf, a character fascinated by sounds. His imagination travels to places where everything makes music: saucepans, water, drums and even the body!

Created by percussionist and composer Adriano Adewale, this show is full of music from every corner of the globe and packed with ideas that will fuel some great classroom discussions.

“Captivated by the array of instruments and sounds, within minutes the children were involved; moving and responding to what they could see and hear” Sophie McLoughlin, Music Teacher, Latchmere Primary School

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Interactive Performance Workshop for Foundation and Key Stage 1

This workshop is an opportunity for children to be a part of the creative process leading up to Wriggle Dance Theatre’s new show, Into the Rainbow.

During the workshop session participants will get the opportunity to take part in creative dance, movement and music activities exploring the theme of a magical world inside a rainbow.

This will include making rainbows and exploring characters that live inside the rainbow.

There will also be an opportunity during the workshop for the participants to watch sections from the show performed by some of the cast members.

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Libraries

The Spark’s On Your Doorstep programme goes from strength to strength through its yearround partnership with Leicester Library Service. Across this year’s festival we have performances taking place in Braunstone, Southfields, Hamilton , Belgrave (Tales of Birbal, page 12), St Matthews, St Barnabas, Beaumont Leys and Fosse Libraries (see below).

Some of the performances are programmed for local primary schools, others for families to enjoy over the holiday. We are thrilled to be able to present world class theatre on your doorstep and look forward to welcoming you into Leicester Libraries over the festival.

Rapunzel

We welcome tutti frutti with performances for schools of Mike Kenny’s delightful play about the curiosity and joys of growing up. (St Matthews and St Barnabas Libraries)

The Nose That Nobody Picked - a play reading with songs Saturday 23 May 2pm at Beaumont Leys Library

One day Christopher, a keen but unorthodox gardener, finds a living nose raised by slugs in his garden. In their hunt to find Little Big Nose a face, they encounter Doctor Skinner, an eccentric plastic surgeon, who has connections to the nose’s past and sinister intentions for its future.

FREE event suitable for all ages

Story Yarn Balls - Pasaku Kamoli Wednesday 27 May 2pm - 3pm at Fosse Library

A bilingual storytelling event in Latvian and English, these traditional knitting stories are told by grandparents. Featuring the poems and stories of Jānis Rainis, Aspazijas, Ojāra Vācieša and other Latvian storytellers. Discover how stories bring us all together as a story web is woven across the generations.

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FREE event suitable for 3 - 8 years with parents / carers

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A really BIG thank you to all of those who support The Spark Our Marathon runners!

Thanks to all those people who supported us by running the Leicester half marathon in October.

With their sponsors they raised over £7,000, which has made all the difference to us bringing the best possible festival to you this year.

Rocket Club Members

Thank you to all our supporters. A fiver goes a lot further than you think! We look forward to seeing you during the festival.

Business Supporters

We would like to thank Cummins Employment Solicitors for supporting the At Your School programme; and Kirby & West for supporting this year’s Adopt a School scheme, which enabled three schools to take their pupils on a trip to the theatre during the festival. Thanks also to our business donors: East Midlands Airport, East Midlands Trains, Maber Associates Ltd and Next.

Our School Heroes

Hero Day gives pupils and teachers the chance to dress up as their favourite hero for a day and raise valuable funds for the Spark. With this support we continue to bring world class performance into the school hall over the festival. A special thanks to Mellor Community Primary school who this year raised £370! Next year’s Hero Day is Friday 12th February 2016.

Become part of The Spark family

There are plenty of other ways in which you can support us, including lots of opportunities for individuals and businesses to get involved.

Please contact development@thesparkarts.co.uk for more details.

We can’t do it without you!

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Let's Dance International Frontiers

Leicester Belgrave Mela

Handmade Festival

Journeys Festival

29 April - 18 May 2015 www.ldif.co.uk

1 - 3 May 2015 www.handmadefestival.co.uk

The Spark Festival for children 18 - 30 May 2015 www.sparkfestival.co.uk

An Indian Summer

19 - 28 June 2015 www.indiansummer.org.uk

ArtBeat

19 - 23 June 2015 www.clarendonpark.net

Western Park Festival

4 July 2015 www.westernparkfestival.co.uk

Simon Says

25 - 26 July 2015 www.facebook.com/simonsaysleic

City Festival

August 2015 www.visitleicester.info/cityfestival

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29 August 2015 www.cosmopolitanarts.wordpress.com

31 August 2015 www.leicester-mela.co.uk 22 - 31 August 2015 www.journeysfestival.com

Leicester International Music Festival 17 - 19 September 2015 www.musicfestival.co.uk

Black History Month

October 2015 www.serendipity-uk.com

Festival2Funky

17 October 2015 www.2funkyarts.co.uk

Night of Festivals

3 - 4 October 2015 www.nightoffestivals.com

Dave’s Leicester Comedy Festival 3 - 21 February 2016 www.comedy-festival.co.uk/

Cultural eXchanges

February 2016 www.dmu.ac.uk/culturalexchanges

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Step into the virtual world of Pop Up Play

An exciting new software programme that uses existing home or school technology such as laptops, home gaming and webcams to project you into a digital adventure.

experience Pop Up Play at

Phoenix Friday 29 May (see page 21) and Show Off! Sat 30 May (see page 17)

FREE to DOWNLOAD NOW at

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DRAGON BREATH THEATRE AND PAPPLEWICK PUMPING STATION PRESENT The 2014 Nottinghamshire Heritage Award Winning

A Crack in Time on Wednesday 27th May & Thursday 28th May 2015

A day long, interactive theatre performance for Family Audiences exploring local history and global water issues in Papplewick’s magnificent museum, grounds and underground reservoir.

Meet a host of great Victorian characters, including Wilf the Boiler Boy, Jenny Sparrow from Broadmarsh, the mysterious Water Guardian and others who bring this revolutionary pumping station to life.

Tickets £3.50

Suitable for children aged 8 and above, who must be supervised by an adult at all times.

The performance starts at 10am, and ends 3.30pm, with lunch break.

Please bring all weather shoes, clothing and a picnic!

Some areas of the site are not wheelchair accessible or suitable for those with walking difficulties.

For more information, email book.dragonbreath@gmail.com Tickets must be booked in advance as numbers are limited available from Lakeside Arts Centre on 0115 846 7777

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Top Tips for your children s t BRUSHING

SNACKING

• Brush twice a day, at bedtime

• Avoid sugary and acidic

• Use a fluoride toothpaste

• Milk is a tooth friendly drink

• Always supervise under eights

• From six months onwards start

and at one other time.

containing at least 1,000ppm (parts per million). when brushing.

• Use just a smear of toothpaste on

the brush for under threes and a small pea-sized amount of toothpaste for over threes.

food/drinks between meals.

during the day, water is tooth friendly at any time.

using free flow or open top cups.

• Stop using the baby bottle

by one year of age.

• Spit - don’t rinse - when finished.

Find your local NHS dentist at nhs.uk/dentists or call Healthwatch on 0116 257 4999.

Look out for us during “National Smile Month’’ 18th May – 18th June. We will be doing roadshows and activities for children to be involved in, with FREE giveaways and education tips.

GET INVOLVED – with our new Oral Health Promoters working in your neighbourhood

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Venues Abbey Park

Abbey Park Road Leicester LE4 5AQ Attenborough Arts Centre formally Embrace Arts Lancaster Road Leicester LE1 7HA Ticket office: 0116 252 2455 www.attenborougharts.com BBC Radio Leicester

9 St Nicholas Place Leicester LE1 5LB Tel: 0116 251 6688

Beaumont Leys Library

Beaumont Way Leicester LE4 1DS Tel: 0116 299 5460 or visit the library Belgrave Library

Cossington Street Leicester LE4 6JD Tel: 0116 299 5500 or visit the library The Cookie

68 High St Leicester LE1 5YP Tel: 0116 253 1212 www.thecookieleicester.co.uk

Curve

Rutland Street Leicester LE1 1SB Ticket office: 0116 242 3595* www.curveonline.co.uk

*Transaction fee is £3 for all card payments. Excludes Members, Groups 10+ and customers printing tickets at home.

New Walk Museum and Art Gallery

53 New Walk Leicester LE1 7EA Tel: 0116 225 4900 www.leicester.gov.uk/museums

Mantle Road Leicester LE3 5HG Tel: 0116 225 4995 The Guildhall

Phoenix

Guildhall Lane Leicester LE1 5FQ To book call: 0116 253 2569 Hamilton Library

Maidenwell Avenue, Hamilton Leicester LE5 1BL (next to Tesco) Tel: 0116 221 2790 or visit the library Knighton Park

Palmerston Way Leicester LE2 3RR LCB Depot

31 Rutland Street Leicester LE1 1RE Tel: 0116 261 6800

Visit Leicester Information Centre 51 Gallowtree Gate, Leicester LE1 5AD Telephone: 0116 299 4444 www.visitleicester.info

Pedestrian

1st & 2nd Floors, 7-9 Rutland Street Leicester LE1 1RB To book call: The Spark 0116 261 6893

Fosse Library

More Information

4 Midland Street Leicester LE1 1TG Ticket office: 0116 242 2800 www.phoenix.org.uk Spinney Hill Park Mere Road Leicester LE5 5AY The Y

7 East Street Leicester LE1 6EY Ticket office: 0116 255 7066 www.ytheatre.co.uk

Tickets also available online at www.sparkfestival.co.uk

Getting to the Venue:

Directions to each venue are available from the venue themselves. They are also able to advise about car parking and any special requirements you may have.

Or visit www.sparkfestival.co.uk to see map links for each venue.

Travel Line: 0871 200 2233 National Rail Enquiries: 0845 748 4950

Park & Ride Meynell’s Gorse (Leicester Forest East), Enderby and Birstall.

Special family rate £3.50 for a Group Ticket (up to 5 people), under 5s travel for free. www.quicksilverbus.co.uk

Somewhere to stay

Contact the Festival’s Official Hotel for information about their family deal.

The Belmont Hotel De Montfort Street, Leicester LE1 7GR 0116 254 4773

Payment via PayPal - transaction fee 75p per booking

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For more information about all festival events please contact The Spark on 0116 261 6893, or go to www.sparkfestival.co.uk

Age Recommendations

To ensure everyone has the best possible experience please follow the suggested age suitability guidelines. Also it is usual for everyone to need a ticket or have a place reserved but if you are unsure please check with the venues when booking.

Unaccompanied Children

All shows, events and workshops are designed for children under 13 to be accompanied by an adult, unless otherwise stated.

Booking Tickets

Phone: contact numbers for all venues are on page 29.

On the Web: visit www.sparkfestival.co.uk for links to venues that offer online bookings or to buy tickets via PayPal for selected performances.

In person: venue addresses on page 29.

FREE events: please check if you need to reserve a place with the venue.

Thanks to:

All at Curve, Attenborough Arts Centre, The Y, New Walk Museum and Art Gallery, Phoenix, The Guildhall and Highcross Leicester. Sue Thorn, Rick Moore, Sarah Levitt, Maggie Shutt, Sarah Harrison, Paul Gobey, Steve Palethorpe, Bob Christer, Richard Fletcher, Nik Sharpe, Chris Slowe, Ellen Bianchini and all the local teachers and Head Teachers. The children and the parents who took part in our photo shoot.

Sue Pyecroft and Bamboozle Theatre for supporting the launch.

A special thanks to:

Rachael Mabe for all her hard work for The Spark and her magnificent Marathon fund-raising.

Relaxed Performance

Volunteers:

Access

To become a Spark volunteer email volunteers@thesparkarts.co.uk or call 0116 261 6893.

Relaxed performances are specifically designed to welcome people who will benefit from a more relaxed performance environment, including people with an autism spectrum condition, sensory and communication disorders, or a learning disability.

We want everyone to enjoy their experience of the festival so if you, or anyone in your party, have any special requirements please let the venue know when booking or call The Spark on 0116 261 6893 for more information.

Photography

There will be a Spark photographer at most events. Please let a member of staff know if you or your family do not wish to be photographed.

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We would like to thank all our volunteers for their support throughout the year and especially during the festival.

Design by:

Keith Turner at Mooli.

Spark photography by Pamela Raith Cover photography by Chris Denner

The Spark Arts For Children: Director – Adel Al-Salloum

General Manager – Harriet Roy

Press & Marketing Manager – Keith Turner

Development Manager – Carrie Carruthers 07716 372168

Marketing & Events Support – Maya Biswas Projects Coordinator – Gemma Kiddy

Arts Administration Intern – Laura Evans Student Placement – Abigail Battisto

Board of Trustees: Stephan Aal David Bell (Chair) Ravinder Kaur Mahmood Reza

Lucy Bani Mike Candler Vijay Mistry

Patron: Tim Crouch Festival Office:

LCB Depot, 31 Rutland St, Leicester LE1 1RE Email: admin@sparkfestival.co.uk Call us on 0116 261 6893 www.sparkfestival.co.uk www.thesparkarts.co.uk The Spark Arts for Children is a registered charity number: 1106952. Company Limited by guarantee 5254229

We reserve the right to make any changes that may be necessary where unavoidable.

This brochure is printed on Regency Gloss with 10% recycled pre-consumer content. Regency is now Carbon Balanced, making it a leading sustainable woodfree coated sheet.

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Diary MONDAY 18 MAY 2pm Stick Man TUESDAY 19 MAY 10am Diversions: Journey’s End 11am Stick Man 11.30am Diversions: Journey’s End 11.30am The Boy Who Bit Picasso 2pm Diversions: Journey’s End 2pm Stick Man 2.30pm The Boy Who Bit Picasso WEDNESDAY 20 MAY 10am Diversions: Journey’s End 10.30am The Boy Who Bit Picasso 11am Hercules: A Dance Cabaret 11am Stick Man 11.30am Diversions: Journey’s End 1.30pm The Boy Who Bit Picasso 2pm Stick Man 2pm Diversions: Journey’s End 7pm Hercules: A Dance Cabaret THURSDAY 21 MAY 11am Stick Man 2pm Stick Man FRIDAY 22 MAY 1pm My First Ballet: Swan Lake 1.15pm Along the Riverbank 4.30pm My First Ballet: Swan Lake 6pm Along the Riverbank SATURDAY 23 MAY 10am - 6pm Curve Family Day 10.30am My First Ballet: Swan Lake 11am One Little Word 11am Statik 11am Tales of Birbal 1pm My First Ballet: Swan Lake 1pm One Little Word

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2pm Statik 2pm The Nose That Nobody Picked 2.30pm Tales of Birbal 3pm Young People's Jazz Club 4.30pm Bedtime Stories 4.30pm My First Ballet: Swan Lake 7pm Young People's Jazz Club SUNDAY 24 MAY 11am Baby Disco - Underwater 12pm The Wonderful World of Mr E 1pm Baby Disco - Underwater 2.30pm Baby Disco - Underwater 3pm The Wonderful World of Mr E MONDAY 25 MAY 10am - 4pm BBC Open Day 11am The Wonderful World of Mr E 4pm The Wonderful World of Mr E TUESDAY 26 MAY 10am - 3pm Enchanted Forest 11am - 5pm Digital Sparks 11am - 4pm Ancient Egypt Week 11am Red Riding Hood 11am City Threads 1.30pm Red Riding Hood WEDNESDAY 27 MAY 10am - 3pm Enchanted Forest 10am Puppetry Workshop 11am - 5pm Digital Sparks 11am - 4pm Ancient Egypt Week 11am Invent with Ototo 11am Red Riding Hood 11am Urban Art - Graffiti 1pm - 3pm Diversions: Journey’s End 1.30pm Red Riding Hood 1.30pm Urban Art - Light Graffiti

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2pm BookStory 2pm Story Yarn Balls 6.30pm BookStory THURSDAY 28 MAY 10am - 3pm Enchanted Forest 11am - 5pm Digital Sparks 11am - 4pm Ancient Egypt Week 11am Build a Chocolate Block Synth 11am Music Production & Turntablism 11.30am Nana's Jumble 12pm - 3pm Diversions: Journey’s End 1.30pm Digital Art Workshop 1.30pm Nana's Jumble 1pm Kid Carpet and the Noisy Neighbours 2pm Build a Chocolate Block Synth 3pm Kid Carpet and the Noisy Neighbours 3pm Nana's Jumble FRIDAY 29 MAY 10am - 3pm Enchanted Forest 10.30am Musical Rumpus 11am - 5pm Digital Sparks 11am - 4pm Ancient Egypt Week 11am Kid Carpet and the Noisy Neighbours 11am Pop Up Play 12pm - 3pm Diversions: Journey’s End 12.30pm Musical Rumpus 1pm Kid Carpet and the Noisy Neighbours 2pm Pop Up Play 2.30pm Musical Rumpus SATURDAY 30 MAY 11am - 4pm Show Off! 11am - 4pm Ancient Egypt Week 1pm Hop 4pm Hop 6pm The World's Quickest Theatre Festival

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