FAMILY PROGRAM This year the Festival introduced a new Family Week in the Village, focusing on children aged 12 and younger. Ali McGregor’s Jazzamatazz! made a spectacular return to The Aurora Spiegeltent while David Collins entranced crowds at The Luck Child in The Famous Spiegeltent. Outdoors, families had a range of free activities including music on the bandstand with Vintage Quartestra and The Vegetable Plot, Maserinspired fabric print workshop with Hotbed Designs and the enchanting Dear Hope Street by Maybe(_)Together. The City of Sydney Lawn Library returned and presented talks, story time, music lessons and craft workshops while the Australian Museum kept the youngest revellers entertained with the Animal House building blocks and for the older kids they curated a program of talks and workshops. Beyond the Village, we presented a wellreceived family program in theatre venues across the city. Cirque Alfonse’s Timber! and Michael Sieders’ The Very Hungry Caterpillar Show played to almost 12,000 people in Parramatta. Kate Mulvany’s Masquerade played at the Sydney Opera House to 5,600 people and The Listies Make You LOL! played at the Seymour Centre to 2,700.
Upper left to lower right: Ali McGregor’s Jazzamatazz!, photo Prudence Upton; The Luck Child, photo Jamie Williams; Family Week, The Vegetable Plot, photos Prudence Upton.
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