Arts & Kids Week: Top Half Term Events!
As part of Classic FM Arts & Kids Week, we’re bringing you hundreds of children’s arts events. Here’s a selection of the best ones taking place today!
Friday 28th October
Bones & Stones with the Paper Cinema
10am – 4pm, Prema Arts Centre, Uley, Nr Dursley. £15 (ages 7-14)
Prema’s come over all Jurassic and a bit supernatural this Autumn – maybe it’s the longer evenings, the gravestones and our big excitement at the return of Nic Beard and his group of animators from The Paper Cinema. The PC Gang use drawings and paper to create eerie, atmospheric films. Today they take you on a journey into the world of creaky bones, between the cracks in the rocks to help you locate the things which go bump in the night.
Make sure you seize this rare opportunity to get making and doing with one of the UK’s very hottest, most imaginative artistic companies. Book good and early as we’re gonna be busy! Suitable for young people aged 8 and over.
Plague Week
24 Oct 11 – 28 Oct 11, 1pm-4pm, Thackray Museum, Leeds. Free with usual Museum Admission Prices (ages 0-16)
A week of drop in activities will be held at Thackray Museum , 1-4pm every weekday during October Half Term.. Come and make your own Plague Rat, create a pus filled Buboe and try to cover up the smell with your very own Tussy Mussy!
Play in a Day – Haunted House!
10am – 4pm, The Berry Theatre, Southampton. £15 includes free sharing for family and friends (ages 8-11)
‘Play In A Day’ Workshop led by Milk Presents Theatre Company. It’s Halloween and things are getting a bit spooky… Are you ready for the challenge of creating a play in a day from scratch? Join us and work alongside our fun and skilled theatre practitioners; exploring drama skills and techniques as well as gory, blood curdling stage effects and make-up.
At the end of the workshop you will have the chance to perform your work to family and friends!
Saturday 29th October
Tales From the Shed
9 Sep 11 – 29 Oct 11, 11.30am on Friday, 10am and 11.30am on Saturday at Chickenshed, London. £5.50 (ages 0-7)
Step into a world of music and magic – Tales from the Shed brings stories, both original and traditional, to life in a land of colour, characters and fun. This interactive performance for the under 7’s introduces them to a universe where there is no edge to the stage, so children and performers travel a theatrical journey together.
The Tales from the Shed format allows the Tales team to react to the children’s thoughts, experiences and requests and to use them within the show. No show will ever be the same – so for first time visitors or serial guests – another tale is now beginning!!
The Day of the Dead
Doors open at 6:30; Performance starts at 7:30pm, Ancient Technology Centre, Canborne. Adults: £10 and Children (10 – 14yrs): £5. Not suitable for under 10.
This year, the Crick Crack Club’s quirky and bizarre homage to this Mexican festival, will come to the Ancient Technology Centre’s Earth House in Cranborne. Performance storytellers Ben Haggarty, TUUP and Xanthe Gresham will dig deep into their potent repertoires to dance hand-in-hand with that dynamic trio – God, the Devil and Death. Here dead ancestors are honoured and Death is mocked, cheated and saluted by turn.
Join us for what promises to be a sometimes poignant, sometimes irreverent, evening of stories selected in response to, or simply bent to fit, The Day of the Dead. Expect ritual, stories, and magical mayhem…
Hansel & Gretal
5.00pm, The Bacon Theatre, Cheltenham. Adults £10.00, Children and concessions £8.00, Family ticket £32.00 (ages 5-11)
Image Musical Theatre present Hansel and Gretel. This timeless Brothers Grimm fairytale is given the innovative Image Musical Theatre treatment, for an evening of family entertainment at its very best. Join the young brother and sister on their brave adventure through a dark wood, where they encounter a mysterious gingerbread house and a wicked witch and discover that with a bit of faith in each other they can overcome anything!
Blending beautiful story-telling with audience participation, Image Musical Theatre create a magical theatre experience for the whole family. There will be a special opportunity for selected children to take part as actors in the drama, whilst the whole audience supports the action as the chorus from the comfort of their seats.