Children’s Festival

A huge effort is made to ensure that children enjoy the festival as much as the adults with  a full programme of family entertainment  You are in for a great weekend !

This year, Southwell Theatre Club will be premiering  a short  community play entitled – ‘The Thief of Time. It’s suitable for all the family aged 8 – 98.  There’ll be some singing, some dancing, a love story and a dragon! Sound effects will be by audience participation.  The play is based upon a true event in 1752 when, to make the calendar right with the rest of the world, eleven days were taken off. People went to bed on 2 September and when they woke up it was 13 September.  Everything due to happen in the intervening eleven days was disturbed or disappeared.  Watch this space for further details. 

The programme for 2011 included:

• Ramshacklicious– amazing street theatre
• Goronwy Thom – hilarious entertainer
• Pete Coe’s Tall Tailes
• Keith Donnelly’s Children’s Show
• Master Storyteller Hugh Lupton
• Jeff Warner’s American tales
• ‘Off We Go’ Songs and Nursery Rhymes
• Flint St Nativity – A hilarious play by Tim Firth; laugh out loud comedy and dramatic pathos rolled into one.

Plus:

• Jan’s Blackboard Van
• All Juggled Up – circus skills
• Craft Times -  a wide range  of ‘make and take’ workshops  -  some free some with a small charge.
  Friday – Light Stick Lanterns
  Saturday – Kinetic Toy
                      – Wind Mills
                      – Dancing/Wrestling Electric Creatures
  Sunday -  Kinetic Toy
                    – Recylcled Can Floer/Herb Pots/mini Hanging Basket
                   -  Metal Candle Stand or a lightweight Hanging Basket Bracket
                  
• Music and dance workshops (instruments, clogs provided!)

For the whole Family – you can enjoy

• Ceilidhs every day with top bands and callers
• Concerts featuring top bands and local artists
• ‘Americana’ Afternoon – Sunday
• Huge selection of food outlets
• Craft Marquee and Chill Out Zone
• Music and Song Workshops
• Dance Displays