Type: - Type - Performance Workshop Family Event Grown-ups Performance 14/48:UK 14/48:Takeover - Performance The World’s Quickest Theatre Festival is being taken over by Leicester’s Young Writers! Dates: Mon 28 May Age: 8 - 13 years Family Event The City Playground 14/48:Takeover Design Team Ever wanted to help design a Theatre set? Help fill The Y with a colourful collage of creativity. Dates: Sat 26 May Age: 6+ years Workshop 14/48:UK presents 14/48:Takeover Writer’s Workshop This is your chance to Takeover the Theatre! Create 4 plays in just 3 days! Dates: Sat 19, Sat 26 & Sun 27 May Age: 8- 14 years Performance Daryl Beeton A Square World An honest, touching and bizarrely quirky piece of theatre for young audiences. Dates: Mon 21- Fri 25 May Age: 3-6 years Performance Adriano Adewale Animus Soundscapes created by children inspired by animals, using song and percussion. Dates: Thu 24 May Age: 6+ years Family Event The City Playground Art Explorers Drop-in themed visual arts activities for the whole family to get involved with. Dates: Sat 26 May Age: 4+ and families Performance Teater Pero (Sweden) Aston's Stones A lovely story about Aston, the little dog who wants to take care of all the stones he can find. Dates: Sat 26 & Sun 27 May Age: 3-6 years Performance Attenborough Arts Baby Disco - Jungle Move to the beat through our multi-sensory creation with disco lighting and projections. Dates: Sun 27 May Age: 6 months - 6 years Performance Leicester Library Service Bedtime Stories Stories full of warmth, wonder and giggles, with hot chocolates and cookies! Dates: Sat 26 May Age: 2-8 years Family Event The City Playground Curve Family Day Roll up, roll up, for Curve’s fabulous fantastic circus Family Day! Join us for lots of free activity! Dates: Sat 26 May Age: All the family Family Event The City Playground Day Dreaming Day Dreaming for under 5s, drop-in arts workshops in response to Sky. Dates: Sat 26 May Age: Under 5 years Family Event The City Playground Digital Playground Interactive digital arts activities on the theme of music making. Dates: Sat 26 - Mon 28 May Age: 4+ and families Workshop New Walk Museum and Art Gallery Exciting Egyptians – Visit the Bazaar! Discover the sights, sounds and smells of Ancient Egypt in our interactive prop boxes. Dates: Sun 27 & Mon 28 May Age: 7-11 years Performance Arun Ghosh Funky Punky Jazz Party! A special music performance for early years by award winning clarinettist Arun Ghosh. Dates: Tue 22 & Wed 23 May Age: 2- 5 years Family Event The City Playground Giant Drawing! Join us and help transform Two Queens with some giant drawing! How big can we go? Dates: Sat 26 May Age: 4+ years Performance Windmill Theatre (Australia) Girl Asleep (Film) A film journey into the absurd, scary and beautiful heart of the teenage mind. Dates: Thu 24 (Schools) Fri 25 - Sun 27 May (public screenings) Age: over 12s only Performance The Egg and Toby Thompson I Wish I Was A Mountain Rhyme, live music, and just a smattering of metaphysical philosophy. Dates: Wed 23 & Thu 24 May Age: 7+ years Family Event Phoenix and Michael Davis presents Illumaphonium The Illumaphonium is a musical sculpture that ripples with changing patterns of light and sound. Dates: Sat 26 - Mon 28 May Age: 2+ families Performance Andy Cannon and Red Bridge Arts Is This a Dagger ? The Story of Macbeth A thousand-year journey from fact to fiction and back again. Dates: Sat 26 May Age: 8+ years Family Event The City Playground Little Raptors! Join Mr Cleaver's Monsters for feathered-dinosaur papercraft fun. Dates: Sat 26 & Sun 27 May Age: 6+ families Family Event The City Playground Mega Monoprints Create your own printed billboard using monoprint techniques. Dates: Sat 26 & Sun 27 May Age: 4+ and families Performance The Spark Arts for Children Mellow Baku A magical musical performance from vocalist, songwriter,guitarist and storyteller Mellow Baku. Dates: Mon 21- Fri 25 May Age: 5+ years Performance Turned On Its Head presents Mrs Pockets Come, dance with Mrs Pockets and help us make a show. Sensory play, dance and performance. Dates: Wed 23 & Thu 24 May Age: Early Years Workshop Pedestrian Music Beats and Bars Learn how to make and hone your own beats and bars. Dates: Sat 26 May Age: 8-13 years Family Event Spark Arts for Children presents Musical Rumpus An afternoon of mischief and mayhem, with music, storytelling, dressing up and dancing. Dates: Monday 28 May Age: All the family Family Event The City Playground Ready or Not? Drop In A new exhibition exploring play with drop in workshops to design and build new games. Dates: Sat 26 - Mon 28 May Age: 0-13 years Workshop The Gallery, DMU Ready or Not? Game Theory Design and build your own board game from scratch and add it to our exhibition. Dates: Monday 28 May Age: 8- 11 years Workshop The Gallery, DMU Ready or Not? Hide-go-Seek Playing traditional physical games like Hide and Seek , Tag and Marbles. Dates: Sun 27 May Age: 4-7 years Workshop The Gallery DMU Ready or Not? Peek-a-Boo A workshop for younger children exploring sensory gameplay though sound, sight and touch. Dates: Sat 26 May Age: walkers - 3 years Performance Teater Minsk (Denmark) Sky Everything is changing in this lyrical piece of dance theatre for the very young. Dates: Fri 25 - Sat 26 May Age: 18 mths - 5 years Performance Mimbre presents The Exploded Circus A story told with breath-taking mix of acrobatics, aerial feats, and masterful juggling. Dates: Sat 27 & Sun 28 May Age: 6+ years Workshop Pedestrian Urban Art Graffiti Explore how to draw Graffiti Art lettering using professional paint pens and materials. Dates: Sat 26 May Age: 8-13 years Performance M6 Theatre in association with Polka Theatre Whatever the Weather Two whimsical characters learn to share in this humourous, beautiful and highly visual show. Dates: Tue 22 - Wed 23 May Age: 3+ years
