Schools Programme WELCOME A recent study found that children who regularly attended theatre with their school had higher aspirations and better hopes about their future lives. This news sent my heart soaring as this is what this job is all about! The productions presented this year are surprising and eclectic, taking the spectator along visually interesting pathways. The works include a wide variety of theatrical genres from spoken text to puppetry, from dance theatre and musical explorations to acrobatics. Many of the productions are non-text based making them accessible to a broader audience. Central to the Festival are four exciting shows by Scotland based companies as well as a regional focus on Flanders, the Dutch-speaking northern part of Belgium, one of the world’s leaders in producing innovative theatre and dance for young audiences. We have also extended the dates of the Festival to accommodate the increased demand from schools with three international productions opening in the week prior to the main Festival week. In line with our mission, this will allow more children access to high quality theatre. I hope that the 2020 Edinburgh International Children’s Festival is full of special moments for you and your students. Exquisitely theatrical experiences that encourage children and young people to wish, desire and aspire beyond their own lives and immediate neighbourhoods, into their potential future selves.
Focus on Flanders supported by:
Noel Jordan Festival Director
Beyond the Festival: • Creative learning project Imaginate offers a year-round programme Artist-led workshops inspired by of projects for schools including: and linked to some of the Festival’s productions • Theatre in Schools Scotland (TiSS) High quality theatre and dance shows • Artists in Residence touring into schools across Scotland Partnerships with schools to enable artists, pupils and teachers to work • Teachers’ Theatre Club together for a term or longer Professional development project for teachers to increase confidence and For more information, go to our website skills with live performance or contact [email protected] (TiSS) or [email protected] (other schools projects).
2 To book: www.imaginate.org.uk | [email protected] | 0131 225 8050 PROGRAMME AT A GLANCE
LITTLE TOP SPARROW BOKS SCOTLAND NORWAY BELGIUM 4 5 6 Nursery (0–18 mths) Nursery (0–2 yrs) Nursery – P1 (2+ yrs)
HERMIT LIGHT! PLOCK! THE NETHERLANDS BELGIUM BELGIUM 7 8 9 Nursery – P1 (2+ yrs) Nursery – P2 (3+ yrs) P1 – P4
WHIRLYGIG THE PROBLEM THE RIDDLE OF SCOTLAND WITH PINK WASHPOOL GULLY 10 CANADA AND FRANCE 11 AUSTRALIA 12 P2 – P6 P2 – P7 P3 – P7
LEARNING TO FLY UDUL INUK SCOTLAND SPAIN BELGIUM 13 14 15 P3 – S1 P3 – S3 P3 – S3
ROBOT SONG SOUND SYMPHONY BIRDBOY AUSTRALIA SCOTLAND IRELAND 16 17 18 P4 – S2 P4 – S6 (ASN) P5 – S3
To book: www.imaginate.org.uk | [email protected] | 0131 225 8050 3 Jassy Earl Jassy “A gentle but hugely engaging series of skills, tricks and tumbles, which has its tiny audience members bright-eyed and itching to join in.” The Stage
Venue: Assembly Roxy LITTLE TOP Wed 27 May 10.00, 13.00 STARCATCHERS & SUPERFAN Thu 28 May 10.00, 13.00 SCOTLAND Fri 29 May 10.00, 13.00 Duration: 40 minutes + 10 min playtime Curriculum for Excellence: Seating: Cushions The performers’ own discoveries through Capacity: 20 balancing, tumbling and playing echoes Level: Nursery (0–18 mths) the children’s own world. This imaginative approach to enquiry and discovery is at the Flashing lights, non-verbal heart of Creativity Across Learning. A magical first circus experience for babies and their grown-ups. Little Top’s beautiful set creates a At a time in their development when colourful, cosy and welcoming space where young children are discovering their professional circus acrobats and jugglers own physicality and the pleasures and perform up close in babies’ line of sight, perils of gravity, Little Top invites babies making eye contact, and interacting and to experience spectacular balances, responding to their young audience. Babies astonishing tumbles and inventive and adults alike are transported into a juggling in a specially-designed set that joyous, topsy-turvy world where patterns miniaturises the magic of the Big Top. fill the air and anything is possible.
4 To book: www.imaginate.org.uk | [email protected] | 0131 225 8050 Venue: Traverse Theatre SPARROW Fri 29 May 10.30, 14.00 TEATER FOT Curriculum for Excellence: NORWAY The playful interaction with the characters Duration: 30 minutes on stage encourages the children to join Seating: Cushions in and make discoveries. That sense of Capacity: 40 creative discovery links well with Social Level: Nursery (0–2 yrs) Studies and Health and Wellbeing. Non-verbal from each other is perhaps the scariest Sparrows are small and chubby and they of all. usually appear in a flock. They aren’t too afraid, almost a bit brazen and they Encouraged by unpredictable stay close to people all year round. Most improvisations on the double bass and children know the sparrows, and maybe the quirky bird-like movements of the they can see that they are curious and performers, Sparrow allows for both playful, just like themselves. In this individual and collective interaction sparrow-inspired performance, birds are between those present. The piece is first hatched under the sun’s warming rays, find and foremost a celebration of play and their way out of the egg and try to tackle social interaction in an atmosphere of their first challenges in life. Straying away light, dance and music.
“Sparrow was a complete
sensorial experience; Lundstr�m Sivert a beautiful and poetic performance where anything can happen.” Scenekunst
To book: www.imaginate.org.uk | [email protected] | 0131 225 8050 5 FOCUS ON FLANDERS
Venue: Assembly Roxy BOKS Wed 20 May 10:00, 13:15 DE SPIEGEL Thu 21 May 10:00, 13:15 BELGIUM Fri 22 May 10:00, 13:15 Mon 25 May 10:00, 13:15 Duration: 40 minutes Tue 26 May 10:00, 13:15 Seating: Bench seating Capacity: 54 Curriculum for Excellence: Level: Nursery – P1 (2+ yrs) A humorous performance with skilful physicality and lively percussion that offers Non-verbal its young audience the opportunity to BOKS is a physical production with an consider friendship and the importance of original, composed soundscape that offering help and support to others, a key is created live – a dance theatre piece feature within Health and Wellbeing. about reaching out to someone, about togetherness. discover that they are not alone. Gradually Two people find themselves stuck in a they warm to each other, though not confined space, a box. They can’t get away without the inevitable tensions, clashes, from each other. There is confusion, fear caresses and emotions. Uneasiness turns and a sense of unfamiliarity. They also to laughter and infectious amusement. Laure-Anne Iserief Laure-Anne
6 To book: www.imaginate.org.uk | [email protected] | 0131 225 8050 “A lovely theatrical treasure
for all ages.” Saris & den Engelsman Theaterkrant
Venue: Scottish Storytelling Centre HERMIT Wed 20 May 10:00, 11:45, 14:00 SIMONE DE JONG Thu 21 May 10:00, 11:45, 14:00 THE NETHERLANDS Fri 22 May 09:30, 11:15, 13:45 Mon 25 May 10:00, 11:45, 14:00 Duration: 35 minutes + 10 min playtime Tue 26 May 10:00, 11:45, 14:00 Seating: Theatre seating Capacity: 89 Curriculum for Excellence: Level: Nursery – P1 (2+ yrs) Exploring the idea of stepping out into the world, this visual and moving performance Non-verbal encourages the children to join the Hermit is an original, visual, funny and hermit on a journey of imagination and moving performance about being alone curiosity. Literacy and Social Studies offer and coming home. opportunities to reflect on these themes. There is a square and some strange sounds. Is it a house? A lid opens. Is there work based around music, movement and something inside? imagination, with performances which With a background in music theatre and appeal to the multiple senses of its young modern mime, Simone de Jong creates audience, in a secretive way.
To book: www.imaginate.org.uk | [email protected] | 0131 225 8050 7 FOCUS ON FLANDERS Emilie Jacomet Emilie
Venue: The Studio LIGHT! Wed 27 May 10:30, 13:30 TOUT PETIT Thu 28 May 10:30, 13:30 BELGIUM Fri 29 May 10:30, 13:30 Duration: 30 minutes + 20 min playtime Curriculum for Excellence: Seating: Theatre seating This delightful production experiments Capacity: 86 with light and encourages the audience to Level: Nursery – P2 (3+ yrs) discover, with the dancers, the effects of light and shadow. Their responses can be Non-verbal explored in Science and Expressive Arts. light! is a performance in which the light is dancing. Tiny lights and big spots traverse The performance teases the senses and the stage. The light dances in rounds and sparks the imagination and little ones get the performers follow suit. The audience the chance to experiment with shadows slowly discovers a world of nuances and and light at the end of the performance light intensity – the gloom of a torch, the when they are invited to join the bright light of a larger spot, each radiating performers on stage. a different atmosphere. “tout petit creates light dance The performers’ feet dance softly, then for toddlers in a playful and stomp, march shuffle. Their movements caught in the rays of light, sometimes tender way.” smooth, soft or powerful. Theaterkrant
8 To book: www.imaginate.org.uk | [email protected] | 0131 225 8050 “Acrobatic painting with a PLOCK! original. rolls: hispainting doesnotresemble the no matter howhetwists,turns,jumps,or containers? Heusesall hisbodyparts, but need to workwithbrushes,sticks, orentire throw, pourorsplash thepaint? Doeshe right blot ontherightspot? Should hedrip, Jackson Pollock. Buthowcan hemake the Jakob triesto copy thepainting ofhishero Non-verbal Level: Capacity: 57 Seating: Duration: BELGIUM GRENSGEVAL Circus Magazine playful layer ofcraziness.” P1 –P4 Bench seating 55 minutes
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Geert Roels 10 To www.imaginate.org.uk book: |[email protected] | 0131 225 8050 AND REDBRIDGEARTS CATHERINE WHEELS THEATRE COMPANY DANIEL PADDEN, CO-PRODUCED BY WHIRLYGIG seen before. will happeninways you have never theatrical experience where music situations. Jointhemfor anextraordinary wonderful musicunderthetrickiestof four performers boldly attempt to play impeccable comic andmusical timing, the countless musical puzzles to solve. With four brave musicians,30instruments,and A madcap musical adventure. WhirlyGig is Non-verbal Level: Capacity: 260 Seating: Theatre seating Duration: SCOTLAND P2 –P6 50 minutes
“An exuberant hourofmischief Expressive Arts. creative andmusical abilitieswithinthe to reflect onanddiscover theirown mischief thatwillencourage thechildren A musical adventure, fullofenergy and Curriculum for Excellence: Fri 29 May Thu 28May Wed 27 May Venue: Brunton Theatre thrills andspillsofmakingmusic. Arts andCatherine Wheelsto celebrate the together withaward-winning Red Bridge Musical maverick Daniel Padden comes The Herald and music.” 10:30, 13:30 10:30, 13:30 10:30, 13:30
Mihaela Bodlovic “The show is rich and
thoughtful and will help Verchère Jean-Charles anchor tolerance and openness in children.” Teacher
THE PROBLEM WITH PINK LE PETIT THÉÂTRE DE SHERBROOKE AND Venue: Traverse Theatre LA PARENTHÈSE / CHRISTOPHE GARCIA CANADA AND FRANCE Thu 28 May 13:30 Fri 29 May 10:00 Duration: 45 minutes Seating: Theatre seating Curriculum for Excellence: Capacity: 191 Concepts of identity, gender clichés and Level: P2 – P7 fitting in are at the heart of this vibrant and exhilarating dance theatre The problem with pink is that it’s performance. The need for dialogue and everywhere! So if pink is just for girls, openness can be developed further within things might get complicated. That’s the Religious and Moral Education and Health topic that divides a group of four happily and Wellbeing. rambunctious friends who previously had never known a moment of worry in their cozy and... pink play space! When a fear of exhilarating dance drama provides children judgment creeps into their world, division with a space to reflect on the clichés and mistrust take hold. If the colour pink associated with boys and girls. It invites is only for girls, how will this change the them to enter life with their bundle of world in which they live and play? unique experiences and to conceive While the question of gender identity the future with boldness, brightness is at the heart of societal issues, this and freedom.
To book: www.imaginate.org.uk | [email protected] | 0131 225 8050 11 “Vividly imagined and Mathew Peter meticulously realised with beauty, wit and immense heart.” The Mercury
THE RIDDLE OF WASHPOOL GULLY DAVID MORTON, PRODUCED BY TERRAPIN Venue: Traverse Theatre PUPPET THEATRE IN ASSOCIATION WITH DEAD PUPPET SOCIETY Mon 25 May 13:45 AUSTRALIA Tue 26 May 10:00, 13:30 Wed 27 May 10:00, 13:30 Duration: 55 minutes Seating: Theatre seating Curriculum for Excellence: Capacity: 75 This powerful story, full of tension and Level: P3 – P7 excitement, explores what lies beneath the surface and its themes of fear of others, Far beyond the outskirts of the big city, land use and family relationships relates near a tiny town that nearly everyone well to Social Studies and Literature. forgot, lay a dry creek bed of no special significance. Once upon a time it was called Washpool Gully. But the world had Combining old-fashioned storytelling with moved on from insignificant things, and contemporary puppetry and miniature no one had time for dry creek beds. Except sets, The Riddle of Washpool Gully is a in Washpool Gully something was stirring. reimagined tale of Australian mythology Shaken by the rumble of engines and about incredible creatures that might still the darkening of the sky, something long live in the uncharted corners of a vast asleep had decided to wake up. country.
12 To book: www.imaginate.org.uk | [email protected] | 0131 225 8050 LEARNING TO FLY BARROWLAND BALLET Venue: Traverse Theatre SCOTLAND Mon 25 May 13:30 Duration: 50 minutes Tue 26 May 10:30, 13:45 Seating: Theatre seating Wed 27 May 10:30, 13:45 Capacity: 186 Level: P3 – S1 Curriculum for Excellence: This new production will spark discussions Inspired by the Greek legend of Icarus, this about the need to keep safe, risk-taking is the story of a girl who doesn’t fit in, a and the power of stories to shape us. girl who’s learning to fly. Washed up on a These ideas can be explored in tiny island, she studies the birds, her only Religious and Moral Education and companions, and begins to work out her Health and Wellbeing. escape.
With unfolding wings, she soars up, up and THE FESTIVAL ON TOUR away… To book tickets, please contact each venue directly Learning to Fly is about the power of 22 April Platform, Glasgow imagination and the sheer determination 30 April An Lanntair, Stornoway 11 May Paisley Arts Centre that lets you fly when forces all around 15 May The Barn, Banchory want to pull you down. The award- 20 May Beacon Arts Centre, Greenock winning Barrowland Ballet use intricate Co-produced by Imaginate and Barrowland Ballet and choreography, wit and humour to tell this funded through the Scottish Government’s Festivals evocative new story. Expo Fund. Jassy Earl Jassy
To book: www.imaginate.org.uk | [email protected] | 0131 225 8050 13 “This is a unique and original UDUL take on circus LOS GALINDOS noir, it’s clowning SPAIN and acrobatics Duration: 60 minutes combined in a Seating: Bench seating manner leaving Capacity: 72 you spellbound Level: P3 – S3 and pondering Non-verbal what exactly just Step into the enchanting world of Los happened.” Galindos, the award-winning Catalan company who perform the enchanting Devizine and highly entertaining UduL in a small intimate Mongolian yurt. The four-strong cast explores a roller coaster of emotional and physical confrontations using circus-style acrobatics, bicycles, carpets and farcical nonsense. This unique performance full of misunderstandings, false politeness and clashing egos is delivered with wonderful humour. Sitting on the edge of the stage in the round, audiences are taken on an intimate journey encompassing moments of supreme ridiculousness and instances of soaring grace.
Venue: Summerhall Thu 28 May 10:45, 13:45 Curriculum for Excellence: Emotional and physical encounters are portrayed in this surprising and humorous show, encouraging the audience to consider misunderstandings and opposing points of view in relationships. These concepts can be explored further in Health and Wellbeing. Manel Sala
14 To book: www.imaginate.org.uk | [email protected] | 0131 225 8050 FOCUS ON FLANDERS Phile Deprez Phile
Venue: Lyra INUK Wed 27 May 13:00 STUDIO ORKA Thu 28 May 10:15, 13:00 BELGIUM Fri 29 May 10:30, 13:30 Duration: 80 minutes Curriculum for Excellence: Seating: Theatre seating A heart warming tale of four strangers Capacity: 73 who seek refuge and go on to explore Level: P3 – S3 the meaning of friendship. The emotions evoked and ideas explored can be reflected Four strangers find themselves stranded on in Expressive Arts, Religious and Moral at a hotel searching for refuge on a stormy Education and in Health and Wellbeing. night, longing for a shoulder to lean on. Sheltering from the weather, they find out action, transported to a hotel lobby with a something about themselves, regain their storm raging outside, for a unique site- confidence and discover their voice. specific experience. A funny, heart-warming This beautiful production from one and unforgettable show, Inuk is about of Europe’s most prestigious theatre friendship, family ties and finding peace.
companies, is full of poetic, playful and Supported by the PLACE programme, funded by the magical moments. Performed in a specially Scottish Government (through Creative Scotland), the built set, audiences are immersed in the City of Edinburgh Counicl and the Edinburgh Festivals. “Inuk is a magical fairy tale about taking refuge and feeling at home. It’s warm, deeply human, dreaming out loud theatre.” De Standaard
To book: www.imaginate.org.uk | [email protected] | 0131 225 8050 15 John Fish “Gorgeously told and superbly crafted, a must-see for young people who need to understand that difference should be seen as an asset.” ABC Radio
ROBOT SONG ARENA THEATRE COMPANY Venue: The Studio AUSTRALIA Wed 20 May 10:30, 13:30 Duration: 65 minutes Thu 21 May 10:30, 13:30 Seating: Theatre seating Fri 22 May 10:30 Capacity: 142 Mon 25 May 10:30, 13:30 Level: P4 – S2 Tue 26 May 10:30, 13:30 Contains haze and strobe lighting Curriculum for Excellence: When 11-year-old Juniper May receives a We are invited into a teen’s world and petition signed by her entire class stating asked to consider the effect of bullying and that she is ‘the most hated person in the how possible it is to support and celebrate school’ her life is thrown into complete difference rather than conformity. The meltdown. She stops eating, refuses to questions raised can be explored in Health return to school and her parents become and Wellbeing. increasingly desperate. After exhausting all other avenues they finally resort to the only window into writer/director Jolyon James’ thing they have left, a giant singing robot. experience parenting a child on the Autism Spectrum. Employing cutting edge digital technology, animatronics and a beautiful original The show explores how we support, foster musical score, Robot Song is also a and celebrate difference in our children deeply personal story. It shares an honest, in the face of an increasingly rigid and intensely funny and often unconventional homogenised world.
16 To book: www.imaginate.org.uk | [email protected] | 0131 225 8050 SOUND SYMPHONY ELLIE GRIFFITHS, CO-PRODUCED BY Venue: North Edinburgh Arts INDEPENDENT ARTS PROJECTS AND OILY CART Mon 25 May 10:30, 13:30 SCOTLAND Tue 26 May 10:30, 13:30 Wed 27 May 10:30, 13:30 Duration: 50 minutes Thu 28 May 10:30, 13:30 Seating: Chairs and cushion seating Capacity: 8 young people (with carers Curriculum for Excellence: and/or parents) This inclusive and participatory approach Level: P4 – S6 to music making and performance sensitively uses visuals, vibrations and Non-verbal physical interactions to engage the Please note the young people’s parents are encouraged audience as well as reacting to individual to attend the performance (max one parent per child) needs and abilities. An experience that fits Sound Symphony is a new, highly well in Science and Expressive Arts. interactive, sensory performance made especially for young audiences with provides a sensory rich environment, complex autism. The show is a playful where the audience will feel music through journey through music, sound and silence. their whole body. It celebrates making music your own way, weaving together live classical instruments, This performance is responsive to each singing and a wide range of weird and audience member, allowing them to wonderful sounds. Sound Symphony become co-composers in their own “Sublime… A deeply moving symphony of sounds. The highly interactive nature of the show enables young people piece of theatre.” with the most complex needs to access Sunday Herald high-quality theatre. Brian Hartley
To book: www.imaginate.org.uk | [email protected] | 0131 225 8050 17 18 BIRDBOY Seating: Theatre seating Duration: IRELAND UNITED FALL space. Full offunandsorrow, thisvisually and external stimuliall compete for whirring mind,thoughts,worries,fantasies world where fittinginishard to do. Inhis his interior landscape ofgrowing upina Birdboy isatripinsidehishead, through be free ofall hisworries. bird. Hewishedhecould justfly away and Once there was aboy whowishedhewas a Flashing lighteffects Level: Capacity: 240 To www.imaginate.org.uk book: |[email protected] | 0131 225 8050 P5 –S3 40 minutes
“Exquisitely andsuperbly and connection. imagination and offers avisionofhope Kevin Coquelard, celebrates thepowerof stunning showperformed by dancer at theheart of Creativity Across Learning. questions raised andtheskillsneededare anxiety, loneliness andresilience. The the audience willencounter themesof Through theskillandenergy ofthedancer Curriculum for Excellence: Tue 26May Mon 25May Venue: Brunton Theatre choreographed, itweaves an Arts Review onGirlSong irresistible magic.” 10:30, 13:30 10:30, 13:30 10:30,
Ewa Figaszewska-Fatima Caballero FESTIVAL PROGRAMME COMPANY CREDITS
Little Top: Supported by Creative Scotland. Français, Région Provence Alpes Côte d’Azur, Région Pays de la Loire, Conseil Général du Maine et Loire, Sparrow: Co-produced with Trøndelag Teater. Conseil départemental des Bouches-du-Rhône, Norsk Kulturråd, Scenekunst/KUNSTLØFTET, Ville de Marseille et Ville d’Angers. Sør-Trøndelag Fylkeskommune og Trondheim kommune. The Riddle of Washpool Gully: By David Morton. Produced in association with Dead Puppet Society. BOKS: Supported by Flanders state of the Arts. Terrapin is supported by the Australia Council for light!: Supported by Co-production P2 - the Arts and Arts Tasmania. cultuurcentrum Hasselt & Theater a/h Vrijthof UduL: With the support of Fira Trapezi of Reus, Maastricht i.k.v. interlimburgse subsidies, C-mine Passage Festival of Helsingor, Kulturzentrum cultuurcentrum and with the support of the Tollhaus of Karlsruhe, Teatre Auditori of Granollers Flemish Government and Teatre Olot. Creation supported by: Territori Plock!: Supported by The Flemish Government, Creatiu, Fira Tàrrega / Ca L'Estruch, Sabadell / Can De Kopergietery, aifoon vzw, De Grote Post, Gassol, Mataró. Dommelhof/Theater op de Markt, Circuscentrum, Inuk: Co-production: Studio ORKA, BRONKS, Via Zuid. De Grote Post. In cooperation with: Learning to Fly: Commissioned by Imaginate, Arenbergschouwburg, C-mine cultuurcentrum. supported through the Scottish Government’s Supported by: The Flemish Government, the City of Festivals Expo Fund, and in association with Ghent, Province of East-Flanders. Platform and The Work Room. Robot Song: Supported by Australia Council for the WhirlyGig: Supported by Creative Scotland. Arts | Creative Victoria. The Problem with Pink: Le Petit Théâtre de Sound Symphony: Supported by Creative Scotland, Sherbrooke - Supported by : Conseil des arts et des Paul Hamlyn Foundation, Arts lettres du Québec, Conseil des arts du Canada, Ville Council England. de Sherbrooke. La parenthèse / Christophe Garcia Birdboy: Funded by The Arts Council of Ireland. - Supported by : Drac Pays de la Loire, Institut Supported by Visual, Artlinks and Culture Ireland. Imaginate sponsors and supporters: Baillie Gifford, Walter Scott & Partners Limited, The Cruden Foundation, The Nancie Massey Charitable Trust, The John Watson’s Trust, The Bank of Scotland Foundation, EIS
VENUE INFORMATION Southside Community Centre 117 Nicolson St, Edinburgh, EH8 9ER Assembly Roxy www.southsidecommunitycentre.co.uk 2 Roxburgh Pl, Edinburgh EH8 9SU www.assemblyroxy.com Scottish Storytelling Centre 43–45 High Street, Edinburgh EH1 1SR Brunton Theatre www.tracscotland.org/ Ladywell Way, Musselburgh EH21 6AA scottish-storytelling-centre www.thebrunton.co.uk Summerhall Lyra 1 Summerhall Place, Edinburgh EH9 1PL Artspace, Niddrie Mains Terrace, www.summerhall.co.uk Edinburgh EH16 4NX www.lyratheatre.co.uk The Studio 22 Potterrow, Edinburgh EH8 9BL North Edinburgh Arts www.capitaltheatres.com 15a Pennywell Court, Edinburgh EH4 4TZ www.northedinburgharts.co.uk Traverse Theatre 10 Cambridge Street, Edinburgh EH1 2ED www.traverse.co.uk
To book: www.imaginate.org.uk | [email protected] | 0131 225 8050 19 Kat Gollock Kat
HOW TO BOOK 1 Select the shows Schools booking opens 15 January 2020. Select the shows you would like to attend. Our schools programme regularly sells out. Please also provide alternatives as some Send your booking form by 21 January to shows have limited capacity and sell out be considered in our first round of ticket extremely quickly. allocations. Bookings received after 21 January will
2 Date and times need to fit around those who have Let us know which dates/times you cannot booked earlier. make so we can try and accommodate your Please note that: group(s). • Bookings can only be considered 3 Complete a booking form following receipt of a completed booking form You can either complete a paper copy or go online at www.imaginate.org.uk/ • You will receive an invoice and festival/schools information on our travel subsidy with your booking confirmation. 4 Send your booking form • If we are unable to accommodate your • Complete your booking form online group(s) we will contact you to look at at www.imaginate.org.uk/ alternative performances. festival/schools • Email your booking form to For further help or to check [email protected] availability, please contact Julian • Post your booking to Schools Almeida on DD: 0131 290 2404 or Booking, Imaginate, 30B Grindlay email: [email protected] Street, Edinburgh EH3 9AX
20 To book: www.imaginate.org.uk | [email protected] | 0131 225 8050 WHAT WE OFFER Low ticket prices
• £6 per ticket Eion Carey • FREE teacher/accompanying adults: › Buy 10 tickets for one show, get one ticket free (for state schools) › Buy 5 tickets for one show, get one ticket free (for nurseries) › Buy 3 tickets for one show, get one ticket free (for special schools) This is Imaginate’s free ticket allowance and not a guideline for recommended adult/child supervision ratios. Q&A Sessions at the Festival Imaginate Travel Subsidy There will be a 10–15 min Q&A session at the end of all performances scheduled To help reduce your travel costs we also in the morning (for shows aimed at offer financial assistance for school groups primary/secondary aged children). This travelling to and from the Festival by bus or is just one way of increasing the learning coach. Details will be sent to you with your opportunities for students, providing booking confirmation. We offer: them with a first-hand insight into artists’ • 100% refund of travel costs for creative process. special schools. Accessibility • 80% refund of travel costs for state nurseries, primary and Imaginate has a strong commitment to secondary schools. accessibility and equality. We welcome children from all backgrounds and ability. As part of our Environmental Policy, we To make your trip as smooth as possible, strongly encourage local schools to walk we offer the following: to venues whenever possible. • Accessible venues and coach drop-off. Curriculum for Excellence • Guides to meet and assist groups on and resources arrival at all festival venues. We provide information about the themes • Children with additional support needs of the shows and the areas of the CfE can attend any of our performances which they relate to. You will find further but some shows are more suitable than details and learning resources on our others for those with complex needs. website, including an interactive online Contact us for advice. tool where pupils are guided through a step-by-step process by an animated You can request a copy of this document theatre critic. Go to: on tape, in Braille, large print and various www.imaginate.org.uk/resources computer formats. You can also request more copies of this brochure.
To book: www.imaginate.org.uk | [email protected] | 0131 225 8050 21 SCHOOLS FESTIVAL DIARY
WednesdayShow 20 May Level Starts Ends Venue BOKS Nursery – P1 (2+ yrs) 10:00 10:40 Assembly Roxy Hermit Nursery – P1 (2+ yrs) 10:00 10:45 Scottish Storytelling Centre Robot Song * P4 – S2 10:30 11:35 The Studio Hermit Nursery – P1 (2+ yrs) 11:45 12:30 Scottish Storytelling Centre BOKS Nursery – P1 (2+ yrs) 13:15 13:55 Assembly Roxy Robot Song P4 – S2 13:30 14:35 The Studio Hermit Nursery – P1 (2+ yrs) 14:00 14:45 Scottish Storytelling Centre
Thursday 21 May BOKS Nursery – P1 (2+ yrs) 10:00 10:40 Assembly Roxy Hermit Nursery – P1 (2+ yrs) 10:00 10:45 Scottish Storytelling Centre Robot Song * P4 – S2 10:30 11:35 The Studio Hermit Nursery – P1 (2+ yrs) 11:45 12:30 Scottish Storytelling Centre BOKS Nursery – P1 (2+ yrs) 13:15 13:55 Assembly Roxy Robot Song P4 – S2 13:30 14:35 The Studio Hermit Nursery – P1 (2+ yrs) 14:00 14:45 Scottish Storytelling Centre
Friday 22 May Hermit Nursery – P1 (2+ yrs) 09:30 10:15 Scottish Storytelling Centre BOKS Nursery – P1 (2+ yrs) 10:00 10:40 Assembly Roxy Robot Song * P4 – S2 10:30 11:35 The Studio Hermit Nursery – P1 (2+ yrs) 11:15 12:00 Scottish Storytelling Centre BOKS Nursery – P1 (2+ yrs) 13:15 13:55 Assembly Roxy Hermit Nursery – P1 (2+ yrs) 14:00 14:45 Scottish Storytelling Centre
Monday 25 May BOKS Nursery – P1 (2+ yrs) 10:00 10:40 Assembly Roxy Hermit Nursery – P1 (2+ yrs) 10:00 10:45 Scottish Storytelling Centre Robot Song * P4 – S2 10:30 11:35 The Studio Sound Symphony P4 – S6 10:30 11:20 North Edinburgh Arts Birdboy * P5 – S3 10:30 11:10 Brunton Theatre Plock! * P1 – P4 10:45 11:40 Southside Community Centre Hermit Nursery – P1 (2+ yrs) 11:45 12:30 Scottish Storytelling Centre BOKS Nursery – P1 (2+ yrs) 13:15 13:55 Assembly Roxy Learning to Fly P3 – S1 13:30 14:30 Traverse Theatre Robot Song P4 – S2 13:30 14:35 The Studio Sound Symphony P4 – S6 13:30 14:20 North Edinburgh Arts Birdboy P5 – S3 13:30 14:10 Brunton Theatre Plock! P1 – P4 13:45 14:40 Southside Community Centre The Riddle of Washpool Gully P3 – P7 13:45 14:40 Traverse Theatre Hermit Nursery – P1 (2+ yrs) 14:00 14:45 Scottish Storytelling Centre
Tuesday 26 May BOKS Nursery – P1 (2+ yrs) 10:00 10:40 Assembly Roxy Hermit Nursery – P1 (2+ yrs) 10:00 10:45 Scottish Storytelling Centre The Riddle of Washpool Gully * P3 – P7 10:00 10:55 Traverse Theatre Learning to Fly * P3 – S1 10:30 11:30 Traverse Theatre Robot Song * P4 – S2 10:30 11:35 The Studio Sound Symphony P4 – S6 10:30 11:20 North Edinburgh Arts Birdboy * P5 – S3 10:30 11:10 Brunton Theatre Hermit Nursery – P1 (2+ yrs) 11:45 12:30 Scottish Storytelling Centre
22 To book: www.imaginate.org.uk | [email protected] | 0131 225 8050 ShowTuesday 26 May (cont'd) Level Starts Ends Venue BOKS Nursery – P1 (2+ yrs) 13:15 13:55 Assembly Roxy The Riddle of Washpool Gully P3 – P7 13:30 14:25 Traverse Theatre Robot Song P4 – S2 13:30 14:35 The Studio Sound Symphony P4 – S6 13:30 14:20 North Edinburgh Arts Birdboy P5 – S3 13:30 14:10 Brunton Theatre Plock! P1 – P4 13:45 14:40 Southside Community Centre Learning to Fly P3 – S1 13:45 14:45 Traverse Theatre Hermit Nursery – P1 (2+ yrs) 14:00 14:45 Scottish Storytelling Centre
Wednesday 27 May Little Top Nursery (0–18 mths) 10:00 10:50 Assembly Roxy The Riddle of Washpool Gully * P3 – P7 10:00 10:55 Traverse Theatre Light! Nursery – P2 (3+ yrs) 10:30 11:20 The Studio Learning to Fly * P3 – S1 10:30 11:30 Traverse Theatre Sound Symphony P4 – S6 10:30 11:20 North Edinburgh Arts Little Top Nursery (0–18 mths) 13:00 13:50 Assembly Roxy Inuk P3 – S3 13:00 14:20 Lyra Light! Nursery – P2 (3+ yrs) 13:30 14:20 The Studio WhirlyGig P2 – P6 13:30 14:20 Brunton Theatre The Riddle of Washpool Gully P3 – P7 13:30 14:25 Traverse Theatre Sound Symphony P4 – S6 13:30 14:20 North Edinburgh Arts Plock! * P1 – P4 13:45 14:40 Southside Community Centre Learning to Fly P3 – S1 13:45 14:45 Traverse Theatre
Thursday 28 May Little Top Nursery (0-18 mths) 10:00 10:50 Assembly Roxy Light! Nursery – P2 (3+ yrs) 10:30 11:20 The Studio WhirlyGig * P2 – P6 10:30 11:20 Brunton Theatre Inuk * P3 – S3 10:15 11:35 Lyra Sound Symphony P4 – S6 10:30 11:20 North Edinburgh Arts Plock! * P1 – P4 10:45 11:40 Southside Community Centre UduL * P3 – S3 10:45 11:45 Summerhall Little Top Nursery (0–18 mths) 13:00 13:50 Assembly Roxy Inuk P3 – S3 13:00 14:20 Lyra Light! Nursery – P2 (3+ yrs) 13:30 14:20 The Studio WhirlyGig P2 – P6 13:30 14:20 Brunton Theatre The Problem with Pink P2 – P7 13:30 14:15 Traverse Theatre Sound Symphony P4 – S6 13:30 14:20 North Edinburgh Arts Plock! P1 – P4 13:45 14:40 Southside Community Centre UduL P3 – S3 13:45 14:45 Summerhall
Friday 29 May Little Top Nursery (0–18 mths) 10:00 10:50 Assembly Roxy The Problem with Pink * P2 – P7 10:00 10:45 Traverse Theatre Sparrow Nursery (0–2 yrs) 10:30 11:00 Traverse Theatre Light! Nursery – P2 (3+ yrs) 10:30 11:20 The Studio WhirlyGig * P2 – P6 10:30 11:20 Brunton Theatre Inuk * P3 – S3 10:30 11:50 Lyra Little Top Nursery (0–18 mths) 13:00 13:50 Assembly Roxy Light! Nursery – P2 (3+ yrs) 13:30 14:20 The Studio WhirlyGig P2 – P6 13:30 14:20 Brunton Theatre Inuk P3 – S3 13:30 14:50 Lyra Sparrow Nursery (0–2 yrs) 14:00 14:30 Traverse Theatre
* Relaxed performance * Q&A session after the show
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Cover photo: Richard Hedger Art direction and costume design: Alphabet Studio Brochure design: Tom Holmes