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6 - 11 March 2020 #BCF20 @Young_at_Art Young at Art @youngatartbelfast
CONTENTS
3 Welcome 18 Acoustic Picnic
4 Principal Funder Message 19 Dragtime Stories with Cherrie Ontop
5 Booking & Access Info 20 Family Comedy Club with Paul Currie
6 Your PLACE Family Day 21 Mini Midweek Magic
7 Tetris 21 The Secret of Kells
8 Stick By Me 22 Ecology Today
9 Hermit 23 Virtually There
10 Jabberbabble 24 Songs and the Soil
11 Garden of Spirited Minds 25 Colour of Sound
12 0AR 26 Babaithe Cultúir
13 The Untold Truth of Captain Hook 27 Book Clinic
14 Inside the Speaker 27 The Right Twig
15 KinderMusik 28-31 For the Grown-Ups
16 Priming the Canon 32-35 At a Glance
17 Baby Rave
18 Mini Moon Disco
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WELCOME
What can Tetris tell us about how we connect with one another and how we belong? Do you want
to know why a man’s best friend is a stick? What happens when a Hermit decides to leave the house?
Can four birds stick together when all they have in common is Jabberbabble? Have you heard the
truth about Captain Hook? Have you ever wondered what the world is like for the partially-sighted?
All these questions will be posed and answered at the 22nd Belfast Children’s Festival as we explore
the concepts of home, place and belonging.
A B O U T YO U N G AT A R T
Young at Art is Northern Ireland’s leading arts Whatever your answer, we hope you can join us
provider for children and young people and home for this year’s festival to explore this very special
to Northern Ireland’s flagship international place, the city of Belfast, as we take it over for six
arts and cultural event for children, the days with a wide range of fun, thought provoking
annual Belfast Children’s Festival. and creative activities.
We create and curate exceptional arts If you’re a BCF regular it’s great to see you again!
experiences for children and young people, and If you’re new to the festival – ‘welcome!’ and we
the adults in their lives, throughout the year. hope you enjoy your first experience with us.
Whether it’s skipping along the cobblestones of
WELCOME TO BCF20! Belfast’s Cathedral Quarter to our Your PLACE
family day out, raving with your baby in the
The Belfast Children’s Festival (BCF) turns festival hub the MAC or taking in one of our
22 this year! And what a 22 years it has been, wonderful international or local performances -
as we’ve grown to become, the terms of visitor we hope you find BCF to be your perfect place
footfall, one of the largest children’s art festivals this year.
in the UK and Ireland.
Look forward to seeing you there!
This year the festival theme is PLACE. Eibhlín de Barra, Director
What creates a sense of place?
What makes a place special? For full details, go to
What are your favourite places? WWW.YOUNGATART.CO.UK
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MESSAGE FROM OUR
PR I N C I PA L F U N D E R
‘It’s always a pleasure to welcome a new Belfast The Arts Council supports the annual Belfast
Children’s Festival programme. Each year, this Children’s Festival, as well as Young at Art’s activities
remarkable event brings our younger audiences throughout the year, through a mix of Government
and their families amazing creative experiences and National Lottery funding. As the National
that will inspire, delight and live with them Lottery celebrates its 25th birthday this year, I
long into the future. would take this opportunity to acknowledge the
invaluable role that the Lottery plays in enabling arts
As one of the leading children’s arts festivals on organisations throughout Northern Ireland to deliver
these islands, it attracts the best acts from around enriching arts and cultural experiences for everyone
the world. This year, we look forward to a strong to enjoy.
Dutch contingent appearing alongside the best of our
home-grown talent, including the always excellent With the help of this investment, Young at Art
Replay Theatre Company, celebrated dancer Helen continues to achieve great, ambitious things, as it
Hall and the stunning Belfast Ensemble. These artists enables young people to enjoy the very best of the
will introduce audiences to the stories of the lives arts and explore their creative potential to the full.’
of people from other countries and other cultures,
helping to awaken children’s curiosity about the world Roisín McDonough, Chief Executive,
around themselves. Arts Council of Northern Ireland
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USING THIS BROCHURE BOOKING TICKETS
Young at Art is committed to offering a festival Many festival events sell out so book early to avoid
accessible to all. Using icons provided in this disappointment. Maximum ticket price is £10 per
brochure you will be able to find out details on person (plus £1.50 booking fee per transaction*).
venue accessibility. There is more information
on access and resources available on our website: Babes in arms (under 2yrs): free
www.youngatart.co.uk (Excludes Baby Rave, Garden of Spirited Minds &
Babaithe Cultúir) If you would like your toddler to
Icons Guide— have their own seat, please purchase a ticket
Guide Dogs Welcome *Some venues whose booking transaction fee may differ to ours will
also be selling tickets for events. For more information on this and
our full booking policy, terms and conditions,
Wheelchair Friendly please go to the website.
Induction Loop System available BOOK ONLINE (24hrs):
Buggy Park WWW.YOUNGATART.CO.UK
or by telephone: 028 9024 3042
RP Relaxed Performance
(Suitable for children with autistic (Telephone booking line open from Wed 8 Jan to Wed 11 March;
Mon – Fri 10am – 2pm)
spectrum conditions)
SCHOOLS & GROUPS PROGRAMME
GET IN TOUCH We have a specially-selected Schools Programme
of international and local performances, which
To be the first to hear about festival news and take place during school time. It promises to
updates subscribe to our mailing list on: be the perfect outing for children aged 2 and
www.youngatart.co.uk or follow us on social media upwards. Subsidised ticket deals and classroom
#BCF20 resources linked to the curriculum mean it can be
a deeper learning experience and much more than
@Young_at_Art just a tick box exercise.
Young at Art
Find out more at: www.youngatart.co.uk
@youngatartbelfast or call 028 9023 0660
5
Yo u r P L A C E Age: All Ages
Duration: Drop In
Our Big Family Day Out in the heart of
Belfast’s Cathedral Quarter!
Join us for a bumper day of fun filled activities for all the family.
Explore our theme of PLACE
with a wide range of events
and activities across the city’s
Cathedral Quarter.
Climb aboard the ArtCart,
drop in for an appointment at the
Book Clinic, stop by for Dragtime
Stories, pop into our pop-up cinema,
and decide where the Longest Story
Ever Told goes next.
With pop-up performances, art
workshops and so much more, there
really is something for everyone!
Check out full details on
www.youngatart.co.uk
CATHEDRAL QUARTER
Dates & Times:
Sun 8 March 2pm-5pm
Tickets:
FREE
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TETRIS Age: 5+
Duration: 60 min
Arch8 (Netherlands)
Inspired by the game Tetris,
this extremely physical dance
quartet explore how we connect DANCE
with one another and how we belong
to a community. It investigates
how we build private languages to
communicate and then gently invite
others to enter into our world.
It is for the kids who can’t
sit still, for the ones who like
to climb walls and those who can
imagine further than they can see.
‘It’s a feel-good, fully inclusive ending to a work of
intensive artistry.’
www.londondance.com
DOWNSTAIRS AT THE MAC
Dates & Times:
Wed 11 March 7.15pm
Tickets:
£10 DUTCH FOCUS
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STICK BY ME Age: 3-6
Duration: 40 min
Andy Manley & Red Bridge Arts (Scotland) Tickets:
£10
When I wake up, you are there.
Ready? Let’s run, play, hide.
Follow me. Don’t get lost.
I will stick by you. If you will
stick by me.
Stick By Me is a beautifully
crafted, joyful and quirky show. It
is about friendship, invention, play
and the importance of treasuring the
little things.
Together these new pals explore the
limits of friendship and boundaries
with hilarious, and at times moving,
consequences. A non-verbal, physical
performance that delights young
and old alike.
‘...a joyful and funny show...
a master-class in comic choreography.’
The Guardian
UPSTAIRS AT THE MAC
Dates & Times:
Sat 7 March 2.15pm (Relaxed Performance), 4.15pm
Sun 8 March 2.15pm, 4.15pm THEATRE / NON VERBAL
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HERMIT Age: 2-6
Duration: 35 min
Simone de Jong (Netherlands)
There is a cube. Is it a house?
There is sound. What’s happening
inside? A lid opens. Is there
something inside?
What is inside? Who is inside?
Hermit is a non-verbal physical
performance about a mini house and
its shy inhabitant. He is not at
home, but we do hear him.
Celebrating the joy of discovery,
this is a gentle, funny and moving
performance about being alone
and coming home.
‘...a lovely theatrical treasure for all ages.’
UPSTAIRS AT THE MAC
Dates & Times:
Tues 10 March 6.30pm
Wed 11 March 6.30pm
DUTCH FOCUS
Tickets:
£10 THEATRE / NON VERBAL
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JABBERBABBLE Age: 6+
Duration: 55 mins
Theatergroep Kwatta (Netherlands)
Jabberbabble is a show about BRIAN FRIEL THEATRE, QUB
four birds and one nest. What
happens when birds of different
feathers flock together?
Nobody understands the jibber jabber Dates & Times:
lingo at first. But in time they Tues 10 March 10am, 11.45am
find ways to communicate, even if Wed 11 March 10am, 11.45am
they don’t speak the same language. Schools Programme
Maybe, before long, they won’t be
strangers anymore but will find a way Tickets:
to make room for one another. Part of Schools Programme
To book contact 028 9023 0660
A delightful show that is entirely
sung, as it should be with birds!
THEATRE / MUSIC
DUTCH FOCUS
10GARDEN OF Age: 0-12 Months
Durational performance
SPIRITED MINDS
Dalija Acin Thelander (Serbia/Sweden)
Part performance, part installation, BRIAN FRIEL THEATRE, QUB
The Garden of Spirited Minds
is a multi-sensorial experience
for babies aged 0-12 months and
their parents/carers. Created
and performed by Stockholm-based Dates & Times:
choreographer Dalija Acin Thelander Fri 6 March 10am-11.30am, 11.30am-1pm
in collaboration with Noah Hellwig, Sat 7 March 10am-11.30am, 11.30am-1pm
babies are invited to move freely, Sat 7 March 2pm-3.30pm, 3.30pm-5pm
enjoy the multiple perspectives, Sun 8 March 10am-11.30am, 11.30am-1pm
explore, be active and/or relax Sun 8 March 2pm-3.30pm, 3.30pm-5pm
and chill!
Tickets:
The performance is durational and £10 (includes baby and adults)
has no set start or finish, instead
you are invited to come
and go as your baby pleases within
your allotted time.
INTERACTIVE
110A R Age: 5+
(Under 5s are welcome, with assistance from their grown-up)
AΦE (UK) Duration: 10min
(Drop in, limited capacity)
Enter 0AR, an immersive
Augmented Reality (AR)
0AR is an immersive AR experience
merging dance and technology.
Explore a collection of short dance
works using connected tablets
and move and interact with the
performance, where your actions have
a unique influence on the piece.
The experience lasts
approximately 10 min.
‘I was intrigued and transported by it…..It’s like a brief
but exhilarating brush with another world that exists
inside, or alongside, our own.’
-The Times
ULSTER UNIVERSITY BELFAST
Dates & Times:
Sat 7 March 11am-1pm, 2pm-4pm
Sun 8 March 11am-1pm, 2pm-4pm
Tickets:
Free
DANCE / INTERACTIVE
12THE UNTOLD TRUTH Age: 7+
Duration: 60min
O F C A P TA I N H O O K
Replay Theatre Company (Northern Ireland)
Even a villain can be the hero of
his own tale.
THEATRE
Lost Boys, shipwrecks, mermaids,
crocodiles, and pirates.
You may know the facts, but do you
know the truth?
Join us for an awfully big
adventure through the time before
Neverland, in this brand new show
full of classic charm.
NAUGHTON STUDIO, LYRIC THEATRE
Dates & Times:
Fri 6 March 7pm
Sat 7 March 2pm, 4pm
Sun 8 March 2pm, 4pm (Relaxed performance)
Tickets:
£10
13INSIDE THE SPEAKER Age: 10+
Duration: 60min
Helen Hall (Northern Ireland)
What do you see, what do you hear,
what do you feel?
Come with us and step Inside the
Speaker into the world of partially
sighted-dancer and choreographer
Helen, where she invites you to
experience dance differently. DANCE
Through light, sound and movement,
Inside the Speaker takes you
on a journey of the senses and
challenges how we experience
the world around us.
Inside the Speaker celebrates
the idea of difference and how
that difference can actually
make the world around us
a very interesting place.
THE CUBE, CRESCENT ARTS CENTRE
Dates & Times:
Sat 7 March 2pm, 4pm
Sun 8 March 2pm, 4pm
Tickets:
£10
14KINDERMUSIK PROJECT Age: 6+
Duration: 45min
The Belfast Ensemble (Northern Ireland)
The Belfast Ensemble - the
city’s most exciting new music
group - present a world Premiere
for tiny ears! Written for
narrator, chamber ensemble and
toy instruments, KinderMusik
uses nursery rhymes, nonsense songs
to explore what a tune ‘means’,
how we hear it and perhaps, how
we’ll play it ourselves some
day! Performed in one of the
city’s hidden gems and using live
video, this is a must for anyone
who values the power of music
in a child’s life.
ST MARTIN’S CENTRE,
88 NEWTOWNARDS RD, BELFAST
Dates & Times:
Fri 6 March 7pm MUSIC
Sat 7 March 4pm, 7pm
Sun 8 March 4pm, 7pm
Tickets:
£10
15WORK IN PROGRESS
Age: 10+
Duration: 60min
PRIMING
THE CANON
Abbey Theatre (Ireland)
The Abbey Theatre’s Priming the
Canon is a series of commissioned
plays for young people which brings
classic Irish characters into the
heart of the classroom. Join us
for a work-in-progress performance
of the latest in the series,
based on JB Keane’s Sive.
MAC FACTORY
Dates & Times:
Sat 7 March 5pm
Tickets:
£5
THEATRE
16B A B Y R AV E Age: 0-4
Duration: 60min
Young at Art Events (Northern Ireland)
It’s back! The original,
and the best.
Get down to the beat with a fun-
filled rave designed especially for
the under 4s in the accessible,
family-friendly surrounds of the
festival hub, the MAC.
A team of friendly and energetic
dance leaders encourage parents
and babies to dance and explore
rhythm and music. Relive your
dancing days with uplifting
tracks you’ll recognise.
Babies love it too!
DOWNSTAIRS AT THE MAC
Dates & Times:
Sat 7 March 10.30am, 12pm, 2pm, 3.30pm
Sun 8 March 10.30am, 12pm, 2pm, 3.30pm
Tickets:
£10 (1 Adult & 1 baby)
Additional tickets £5 each
MUSIC / DANCE / INTERACTIVE
17MINI MOON DISCO ACOUSTIC PICNIC
Black Box (Northern Ireland) Oh Yeah Music Centre
(Northern Ireland)
Age: 0-7 Age: All ages
Duration: 50min Duration: Drop In
If you have a young child with any Join us for a family-friendly
kind of disability, why not join afternoon of live music, crafts,
Mini Moon for an afternoon boogie? games and activities for
children and young people.
With understated music coloured
lights, bubble machines & moving Relax with a coffee, listen to live
visuals, soft cushions, sensory music and take part in fun games and
toys and lots of dancing, activities. Families are welcome to
conditions will be perfect for bring their own picnic lunch.
everyone to enjoy themselves.
BLACK BOX OH YEAH CENTRE
Dates & Times: Dates & Times:
Sun 8 March 1pm-3pm Sat 7 March 1pm-4pm
Tickets:
Tickets:
Free (booking essential)
Free
Mini Moon is a free, monthly event and
supported by BBC Children In Need.
MUSIC
MUSIC / DANCE
18DR AGTIME STORIES Age: All Ages
Duration: Drop In
with Cherrie Ontop (Northern Ireland)
Join Cherrie Ontop for a
storytime like no other in a
fun-filled afternoon of fun,
laughter, glitter and stories
that celebrate individuality,
imagination, inclusivity and the
importance of being yourself!
Cherrie Ontop is one of Belfast’s
most loved and respected drag
queens and one of the biggest
names on Belfast’s cabaret circuit
See website for more details
www.youngatart.co.uk
CATHEDRAL QUARTER
Dates & Times:
Sun 8 March 2pm-3.30pm, 4pm-5pm
Tickets:
Free
STORY TELLING
19F A M I LY Age: 6+
Duration: 50min
COME DY CLU B
With Paul Currie (Northern Ireland)
The creator of the extremely
popular Pigeon and Plum’s Family
Vaudeville Cabaret returns with his
pioneering family comedy club.
Paul Currie will unleash his unique
style, which fuses traditional
stand-up with puppetry, clowning
and sheer exuberance.
Enjoy an original and refreshing
comedy performance for families that
goes straight for the funny bone.
Winner: Edinburgh Fringe Award 2018 Best Show
(Comedian’s Choice)
Winner: Edinburgh Fringe Award 2017 Artists Award
”Paul Currie’s style of stand-up defies expectations
and labels.” ★★★★ -The Times
BLACK BOX
Dates & Times:
Tue 10 March 7pm
COMEDY
Tickets:
£10
20MINI THE SECRET
MIDWEEK M AGIC OF KELLS
Seedhead Arts (Northern Ireland) Directed by Tom Moore and Nora Twomey
The ‘grown up’ version has been A young boy embarks on a new life of
packing out the Black Box Green adventure when a celebrated master
Room for years, so Seedhead Arts illuminator arrives carrying an
have put together this special ancient book, brimming with secret
family version for BCF20. wisdom and powers.
They’ll wheel out some of the Magic, fantasy and Celtic mythology
best magicians around for a this come together in this Oscar
special one-off show to thrill nominated animation that is as
young and old alike.
beautiful and magical as the
illuminated manuscript itself.
You’ll see close-up magic, stage
magic and maybe even learn some
Followed by celtic story
cool new tricks yourself.
telling workshop.
BLACK BOX GREEN ROOM
STRAND ARTS CENTRE
Age: 5+ Age: Cert PG, 7+
Duration: 90min Duration: Film 75min
Dates & Times: Workshop 60min
Wed 11 March 4pm, 6pm
Dates & Times:
Tickets: Sat 7 March Film - 12pm FILM
£8 Workshop - 1.15pm
Tickets:
INTERACTIVE Movie free (booking advised)
Celtic Storytelling Workshop £3 (booking essential)
21E C O L O G Y T O D AY Age: All Ages
Duration: Drop In
NMNI (Northern Ireland)
The environment and climate change exhibitions, workshops, talks and
are really important for children discussions, interactive activities
today, with many young people and so much more.
demonstrating a greater awareness
and desire for change than adults. See website for full details.
www.youngatart.co.uk
Bring your voice to the
discussion and join us for an ULSTER MUSEUM
afternoon dedicated to ecology
and the environment.
See our planet through the lenses
of the scientists themselves and Dates & Times:
learn how ecologists are working Sat 7 March 2pm-5pm
to develop solutions to global
problems. Discover the part you Tickets:
can play through ecology-themed Free
INTERACTIVE
22V I R T U A L LY T H E R E Age: All Ages
Duration: Drop In
Kids Own Publishing Partnership (Northern Ireland)
For 13 years, Virtually There has ULSTER UNIVERSITY BELFAST
delivered innovative and in-depth
art practice in schools in Northern
Ireland. Teachers and artists have
partnered to collaborate with Dates & Times:
children to explore, engage and Fri 6 - Wed 11 March 10am-7pm
experiment with contemporary art, (Please note: exhibition continues to 28 March)
connecting classroom and studio
through the interactive whiteboard. Tickets:
Free, Drop In
This exhibition offers a glimpse
of the rich and varied work that has
emerged through nine partnerships
in eight schools. It showcases
the breadth, depth and energy of
children’s creativity, nurtured year
by year by artists and teachers
working closely together.
VISUAL ART
23SONGS AND THE SOIL Age: All Ages
Duration: Drop In
Mark Garry (Ireland)
Two and-a-half years in the making, And for the duration of BCF20, the
Mark Garry will transform the MAC exhibition itself will undergo
for the duration of this exhibition. its own transformation, as local
The Upper Gallery will feature an children from the Colour of Sound
indoor meadow with hundreds of exhibition ‘take over’ Garry’s work.
dried flowers accompanied by an eight
hour musical composition made of
prerecorded birdsong. THE MAC
Songs and the Soil will also include
a new film work entitled An Lucht
Siúil (The Walking People.) which
explores the relationship between Dates & Times:
Irish travellers and Modernism Fri 6 March – Wed 11 March 11am-5pm
(please note: exhibition runs 30 Jan – 19 Apr)
Tickets:
Free
VISUAL ART
24COLOUR OF SOUND Age: All Ages
Duration: Drop In
Young at Art (Northern Ireland)
What colour is sound? For the six days of this year’s
What sound does colour make? festival the creative conversation
extends into Garry’s Songs and
Young at Art artists Jane Butler the Soil exhibition.
and Duncan Ross asked these
questions to schoolchildren across Join us to discover how,
Belfast and, following a visit to and join the conversation.
Songs and the Soil to meet and chat
to artist Mark Garry, invited the MAC COMMON ROOM
children to explore the answer.
This exhibition is the result
of that creative exchange; an
investigation of the COLOUR Dates & Times:
OF SOUND through our children’s Fri 6 March – Wed 11 March 11am-5pm
eyes and ears.
Tickets:
Free
VISUAL ART
25B A B A I T H E C U LT Ú I R Duration: 120min
Age: 0-4
Cultúrlann McAdam Ó Fiaich (Northern Ireland)
Young at art
Young at Art in partnership technical skills as well as offering
with Cultúrlann McAdam Ó Fiaich a wonderful way to spend one-on-one
time with your child.
Tiocfaidh tuismitheoirí agus
caomhnóirí le chéile le páistí Delivered in Irish.
óga idir 0-4 bliana d’aois le sult All levels of Irish welcome.
a bhaint as ealaín agus cultúr!
CULTÚRLANN McADAM Ó FIAICH
Cuideoidh Babaithe Cultúir le
forbairt féinmhuiníne, scileanna
idirphearsanta agus teicniúla na
leanaí óga agus is bealach iontach
é am a chaitheamh le do pháiste. Dates & Times:
Join us for a special festival Tuesday 10 March 10am-12pm
edition of Babaithe Cultúir (Culture
Babies), a range of interactive and
Tickets:
creative experiences that support
£4 per child
young children’s creative expression
£2 per additional child
by enabling them to try new things,
and the freedom to get as messy
and as creative as they want, in
a safe, fun and welcoming Irish
language environment.
Babaithe Cultúir will help to build
very young children’s
self-confidence, interpersonal and
INTERACTIVE
26CHILDREN’S BOOKS THE RIGHT
IRELAND TWIG SHOWCASE
BOOK CLINIC New theatre by young playwrights
Fighting Words Belfast & Lyric Theatre
Are you a young reader? Looking A showcase of rehearsed
for a new series to delve into? readings of new theatre writing
Feeling uninspired by your by young playwrights.
bookshelves at home?
Brand new plays by NI’s newest
Then pop along to the Book playwrights (aged 14-18)
Clinic and get a prescription for developed in a series of
an exciting new read. in-depth workshops and brought
to the stage with professional
The doctor will see you now…. directors and performers.
ULSTER MUSEUM & The Right Twig gives young
writers the opportunity to learn
ULSTER UNIVERSITY BELFAST
from theatre artists and create
plays of their own. We can’t wait
to show you the results!
Age: All ages NAUGHTON STUDIO, LYRIC THEATRE
Duration: Drop In
Dates & Times:
Sat 7 March Ulster Museum 2pm-5pm Age: 14+
Sun 8 March Ulster University Belfast 2pm-5pm Duration: 120min (including interval)
Tickets: Dates & Times:
Free Mon 9 March 6pm
LITERATURE Tickets: THEATRE
Free (booking essential)
27FOR THE GROWN UPS
T YA N I S H O W C A S E THE ‘R’ WORD
Fri 6 - Mon 9 March In association with Theatre NI
TYANI (Theatre for Young Resilience /rɪˈzɪlɪəns/ noun
Audiences Northern Ireland) presents • the capacity to recover quickly
a showcase of some of the finest from difficulties; toughness
performance work for young audiences • the ability of a substance
being created right here in NI. or object to spring back
into shape; elasticity
The showcase will include
performances, works-in-progress, Resilience is a word we are hearing
‘ScratchWorks’ performances, more and more. Reductions in public
guided gallery visits, discussions subsidy in a time of economic
and networking events, and an restraint means we need to build
opportunity to see some of the resilience. But how do we become
Belfast Children’s Festival’s more resilient? What does resilience
international programme. look like, and feel like, in
practice in the arts sector?
For full details of performances
and activities, please see: Join panellists Gill Robertson
www.youngatart.co.uk/delegates (Catherine Wheels) Niall Cleary
(Grafitti) and Paula McFetridge
Delegate Package: £70 (Kabosh Theatre Company)
LAB AT THE MAC
Duration: 60mins
Dates & Times:
Sat 7 March 3.30pm
Tickets: TALKS
TALKS Free (booking essential)
28Duration 2.5hrs
PHYSICAL PERFORM ANCE Age: Grown ups
AND MODERN MIME WORKSHOP
with Simone de Jong
The difference between an actor
and a physical actor is their
starting point. The first starts from
text or a problem, the second starts
from the body. In this workshop,
suitable for theatre professionals
and performance students, you
will find different ways to perform
and explore sensitivity, movement
qualities and physical awareness.
Simone de Jong is a performer,
director and teacher specialising
in modern mime and music theatre.
Educated at the AHK Mimeschool
(Amsterdam) she trained with o.a.
Lorna Marshall and Andrew Morrish.
She has invented children’s
performances since 2015. Her show
Hermit, part of this festival’s
programme, tours internationally.
LAB AT THE MAC
INTERACTIVE
Dates & Times:
Mon 9 March 2pm-4.30pm
Tickets:
Free (booking essential)
29C R E ATI N G WO R K FO R V I R T UA LLY TH E R E
YO U N G AU D I E N C E S S YM P O S I UM
Age: Grown ups Kids’ Own Publishing Partnership
Duration: 60min Age: Grown Ups
We all know when we’ve seen a great
Duration: 90min
piece of performance work for young
What does collaboration really mean?
audiences, we can ‘feel’ it. But it’s
Kids’ Own Publishing Partnership,
not ‘child’s play’, to create a great
as part of the Virtually There
piece. A truly memorable work is
exhibition, will host this event
a carefully crafted entity. So what
for artists, teachers and anyone
makes a great performance work for
interested in arts in education.
young audiences ‘great’? Are there
Attendees will be introduced to the
key elements and if so, what are
long-running and pioneering project
they? Or is it simply just alchemy?
in which artists, teachers and
children worked together virtually
So come and join the conversation.
between studio and classroom.
Our panellists include Tom Maguire
As well as launching a report
(Ulster University), Tony Reekie
comprising two years’ research
(Catherine Wheels), Josee Hussaarts
on the Virtually There project,
(Theatergroep Kwatta) and Simone
the event will include a panel
de Jong (Simone de Jong Company).
discussion with participating
Chaired by Jen White (the MAC)
artists and teachers to
explore the question, What
UPSTAIRS AT THE MAC does collaboration really mean?
Dates & Times: ULSTER UNIVERSITY BELFAST
Tues 10 March 2pm
Tickets: Dates & Times:
Free (booking essential) Sat 7 March 1pm-3.30pm
Tickets:
TALKS
TALKS Free (booking essential)
30C H O R E O G R A PH I C S TO N E S O U P
PR AC TI C E FO R B A B I E S In association with Theatre NI
Dalija Acin Thelander (Serbia/Sweden) Age: Grown Ups
Duration: 60min
Age: Grown Ups
Duration: 90min ‘Stone Soup’ is a folk tale in which
hungry strangers convince people
Dalija Acin Thelander’s of the town to each share a small
(Garden of Spirited Minds) amount of their food in order to
choreographic practice for babies make a meal that nourishes everyone.
is a synergy of choreography and
installation art. Join her to hear And that’s what we invite you to
about the latest developmental do in this very special discussion
scientific research on infants, in which you bring the topic
and get an overview of her for discussion.
choreographic methods and main
approaches as she encourages There is just the one rule:
us to rethink and challenge the ‘F’ Word is not allowed
the concepts and aesthetics of (F = funding).
performing arts for babies.
Hosted by Tony Reekie
QUEEN’S DRAMA DEPARTMENT
Includes a bowl of soup!
BLACK BOX GREEN ROOM
Dates & Times:
Fri 6 March 3pm
Dates & Times:
Sun 8 March 12.30pm
Tickets:
TALKS
Free (booking essential) Tickets:
Free (booking essential)
TALKS
31FRI 6TH
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10am-7pm VIRTUALLY THERE ULSTER UNIVERSITY ALL 23
10am-11.30am GARDEN OF SPIRITED MINDS BRIAN FRIEL THEATRE ALL 11
11.30am-1pm
11am-5pm SONGS AND THE SOIL MAC ALL 24
11am-5pm COLOUR OF SOUND MAC ALL 25
3pm CHOREOGRAPHIC PRACTICE QUEENS (DRAMA Grown 31
Ups
FOR BABIES DEPARTMENT)
7pm THE UNTOLD TRUTH LYRIC (NAUGHTON) 7+ 13
OF CAPTAIN HOOK
7pm KINDERMUSIK PROJECT ST MARTIN’S CENTRE 6+ 15
SAT 7TH
10am-7pm VIRTUALLY THERE ULSTER UNIVERSITY ALL 23
10am-11.30am GARDEN OF SPIRITED MINDS BRIAN FRIEL THEATRE 0-12 11
11.30am-1pm (Months)
2pm-3.30pm
3.30pm-5pm
10.30am, 12pm BABY RAVE MAC (DOWNSTAIRS) 0-4 17
2pm, 3.30pm
11am-5pm SONGS AND THE SOIL MAC ALL 24
11am-5pm COLOUR OF SOUND MAC ALL 25
11am-1pm 0AR ULSTER UNIVERSITY 5+ 12
2pm-4pm
12pm THE SECRET OF KELLS STRAND ARTS CENTRE 7+ 21
(Cert
PG)
B O O K O N L I N E : W W W.Y O U N G A T A R T . C O . U KSAT 7TH
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1pm-3.30pm VIRTUALLY THERE SYMPOSIUM ULSTER UNIVERSITY Grown 30
Ups
1pm-4pm ACOUSTIC PICNIC OH YEAH CENTRE ALL 18
2pm & 4pm THE UNTOLD TRUTH LYRIC (NAUGHTON) 7+ 13
OF CAPTAIN HOOK
2pm & 4pm INSIDE THE SPEAKER CRESCENT ARTS CENTRE 10+ 14
2pm-5pm BOOK CLINIC ULSTER MUSEUM ALL 27
2pm-5pm ECOLOGY TODAY ULSTER MUSEUM ALL 22
2.15pm (RP) STICK BY ME MAC (UPSTAIRS) 3-6 8
& 4.15 pm
3.30pm THE ‘R’ WORD MAC (LAB) Grown 28
Ups
4pm & 7pm KINDERMUSIK PROJECT ST MARTIN’S CENTRE 6+ 15
5pm PRIMING THE CANON MAC (FACTORY) 10+ 16
SUN 8TH
10am-11.30am GARDEN OF SPIRITED MINDS BRIAN FRIEL THEATRE 0-12 11
months
11.30am-1pm
2pm-3.30pm
3.30pm-5pm
10am-7pm VIRTUALLY THERE ULSTER UNIVERSITY ALL 23
10.30am, 12pm BABY RAVE MAC (DOWNSTAIRS) 0-4 17
2pm & 3.30pm
11am-1pm 0AR ULSTER UNIVERSITY 5+ 12
2pm-4pm
11am-5pm SONGS AND THE SOIL MAC ALL 24
11am-5pm COLOUR OF SOUND MAC ALL 25
BOX OFFICE: 028 9024 3042SUN 8TH
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12.30pm STONE SOUP BLACK BOX Grown 31
Ups
(GREEN ROOM)
1pm-3pm MINI MOON DISCO BLACK BOX 0-7 18
2pm-5pm OUR PLACE FAMILY DAY CATHEDRAL QUARTER ALL 6
2pm & 4pm (RP) THE UNTOLD TRUTH OF LYRIC (NAUGHTON) 7+ 13
CAPTAIN HOOK
2pm & 4pm INSIDE THE SPEAKER CRESCENT ARTS CENTRE 10+ 14
2pm-3.30pm DRAGTIME STORIES CATHEDRAL QUARTER ALL 19
4pm-5pm WITH CHERRIE ONTOP
2pm-5pm BOOK CLINIC ULSTER UNIVERSITY ALL 27
2.15pm, 4.15pm STICK BY ME MAC (UPSTAIRS) 3-6 8
4pm, 7pm KINDERMUSIK PROJECT ST MARTIN’S CENTRE 6+ 15
MON 9TH
10am-7pm VIRTUALLY THERE ULSTER UNIVERSITY ALL 23
11am-5pm SONGS AND THE SOIL MAC ALL 24
11am–5pm COLOUR OF SOUND MAC ALL 25
2pm PHYSICAL PERFORMANCE AND MAC (LAB) Grown 29
Ups
MODERN MIME WORKSHOP WITH
SIMONE DE JONG
B O O K O N L I N E : W W W.Y O U N G A T A R T . C O . U KMON 9TH
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6pm THE RIGHT TWIG SHOWCASE LYRIC THEATRE 14+ 27
(NAUGHTON)
TUES 10TH
10am-7pm VIRTUALLY THERE ULSTER UNIVERSITY ALL 23
10am-12pm BABAITHE CULTÚIR AN CULTÚRLANN 0-4 26
10am, 11.45am JABBERBABBLE BRIAN FRIEL THEATRE 6+ 10
11am-5pm SONGS AND THE SOIL MAC ALL 24
11am-5pm COLOUR OF SOUND MAC ALL 25
2pm CREATING WORK FOR MAC (UPSTAIRS) Grown 30
Ups
YOUNG AUDIENCES
6.30pm HERMIT MAC (UPSTAIRS) 2- 6 9
7pm FAMILY COMEDY CLUB BLACK BOX 6+ 20
WITH PAUL CURRIE
WED 11TH
10am-7pm VIRTUALLY THERE ULSTER UNIVERSITY ALL 23
10am & 11.45am JABBERBABBLE BRIAN FRIEL THEATRE 6+ 10
11am-5pm SONGS AND THE SOIL MAC ALL 24
11am-5pm COLOUR OF SOUND MAC ALL 25
4pm, 6pm MINI MIDWEEK MAGIC BLACK BOX (GREEN ROOM) 5+ 21
6.30pm HERMIT MAC (UPSTAIRS) 2- 6 9
7.15pm TETRIS MAC (UPSTAIRS) 5+ 7
OTHER
6th–11th March SCHOOLS PROGRAMME VARIOUS 2+ s e e w e b sit e
BOX OFFICE: 028 9024 3042Principal Funder:
Funders & Supporters:
ANNE BLAKE
Partners:
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