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Small Wonders

Small Wonders is child-led, parent powered, and artist facilitated. 

Exciting creative play and storytelling sessions for young children (ages 0-4) and their families are coming to five libraries and four children’s centres in Leicester. These sessions will empower children through the creative process, enabling their voices to be heard in both real and imagined worlds. Join us to play, explore, create, and move with our amazing Spark artists!

Who’s it for?

Small Wonders sessions are for babies and toddlers ages 0-4 years old and their grown ups.

What will I do?

Take part in creative play and story-telling activities with amazing Spark artists.

How can I book?

Small Wonders sessions are FREE drop-in events at the libraries and Children’s Centres.

You can find Small Wonders sessions at:

Beaumont Leys Library

Beaumont Leys Children, Young People and Family Centre

Highfields Library

Highfields Children, Young People and Family Centre

Pork Pie Library

Saffron Children, Young People and Family Centre

Babies under 12 months only.

St Barnabas Library

Braunstone Children, Young People and Family Centre

The Brite Centre

Dates and times

ARIST
DATE
TIME
VENUE
Dave 'Stickman' Higgins
Monday 18th November
9.30am - 11am
Beaumont Leys Library
Dave 'Stickman' Higgins
Tuesday 19th November
12.30pm - 2pm
Highfields Library
Sian Watson Taylor
Friday 22nd November
10am - 11.30am
St Barnabas Library
Dave 'Stickman' Higgins
Monday 25th November
9.30am - 11am
Beaumont Leys Library
Dave 'Stickman' Higgins
Tuesday 26th November
12.30pm - 2pm
Highfields Library
Anusha Subramanyam
Thursday 28th November
1pm - 2.30pm
Highfields Children's Centre
Sian Watson Taylor
Friday 29th November
10am - 11.30am
St Barnabas Library
Dave 'Stickman' Higgins
Monday 2nd December
9.30am - 11am
Beaumont Leys Library
Rachel Scanlon
Monday 2nd December
1pm - 2.30pm
Saffron Children, Young People and Family Centre
Dave 'Stickman' Higgins
Tuesday 3rd December
12.30pm - 2pm
Highfields Library
Sian Watson Taylor
Friday 6th December
10am - 11.30am
St Barnabas Library
Dave 'Stickman' Higgins
Monday 9th December
9.30am - 11am
Beaumont Leys Library
Rachel Scanlon
Monday 9th December
1pm - 2.30pm
Saffron Children, Young People and Family Centre
Dave 'Stickman' Higgins
Tuesday 10th December
12.30pm - 2pm
Highfields Library
Dave 'Stickman' Higgins
Wednesday 11th December
1pm - 2.30pm
Beaumont Leys Children's Centre
Sian Watson Taylor
Friday 13th December
10am - 11.30am
St Barnabas Library
Dave 'Stickman' Higgins
Monday 16th December
9.30am - 11am
Beaumont Leys Library
Rachel Scanlon
Monday 16th December
1pm - 2.30pm
Saffron Children, Young People and Family Centre
Dave 'Stickman' Higgins
Tuesday 17th December
12.30pm - 2pm
Highfields Library
Sian Watson Taylor
Friday 20th December
10am - 11.30am
St Barnabas Library

With our Spark Artists:

Dave ‘Stickman’ Higgins

Dave draws on inspiration from his cultural background as a British Barbadian jazz drummer, percussionist, performance poet, actor and educator. Dave is a facilitator for expressing and celebrating musicality around the world in his unique way. As ‘Stickman’ he has made creative connections with all ages and abilities through dynamic delivery encompassing music, rhythm and vocalisation.

Rachel Scanlon

Rachel explores creativity through play, illusion and scale. Using sensory materials to engage the curiosity of children of all ages, her workshops are empowering and confidence building. 

Karla Jones

I’m a Freelance Dance Artist based in the East Midlands and I love spreading the joy of movement to everyone I’m lucky enough to work with. I offer young children and their families chances to physically bond with each other through play, storytelling and creative movement. I’m so pleased to be able to work with The Spark Arts on the Small Wonders project and I can’t wait to bring dance to Leicester’s Libraries and Children Centres! 

Peter Wynne-Willson

I have done a lot of different kinds of drama with children – sometimes as an actor, sometimes as a writer, but in recent years my favourite work has been story-making with the youngest children, because of how open they are to the world of imagination.  I have the best job in the world, just playing alongside the best small story-makers, putting together the best new stories, pretending, singing, inventing, and acting out. 

Sian Watson Taylor

Sian specialises in running visual art and movement workshops that help find ways of broadening the learning experiences of children and families, working towards using imaginative re-thinking to gain a deeper understanding of how children learn from the spaces around them. Her work includes drawing, sculpture, installations, performance and sound.

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