Sheffield Children’s Festival Saturday 15 June to Saturday 6 July 2013 www.sheffieldchildrensfestival.org Introduction VINCI Construction UK Limited is again pleased to be sponsoring the 2013 Children’s Festival. This is the 7th year that we have provided sponsorship of this hugely successful event and we believe reflects our on-going commitment to the City and its young people. Over recent years we have worked in partnership with to deliver a significant number of exceptional facilities and learning environments and we are delighted to be able to continue to complement our core activities by sponsoring this unique festival; a festival that encourages and inspires young people within the city. This year the festival will once again give the young people of Sheffield the chance to work alongside professional artists in school and provide a platform for the young people of the city to showcase their amazing talents working alongside the wonderful ideas of the artists involved. VINCI Construction UK hopes that you will take part in this year’s Children’s Festival and whether you are taking part or coming along to enjoy an exhibition or performance we sincerely hope that you have a wonderful time. Keith Shivers Keith Shivers Regional Director of VINCI Regional Director Construction UK, starts VINCI Construction UK the domino topple - see page 8

Photography by Timm Cleasby

2 Welcome We are delighted to welcome you to Sheffield Children’s Festival 2013. The event is one of the largest festivals for children in the UK. For more than 20 years it has been engaging thousands of children in the arts - giving them a chance to make art and see it displayed and to perform on stage in shows, musicals and plays. We believe that involvement in enriching experiences does make a real difference to the aspirations, attainment and life chances of children, young people and families in our City and the Children’s Festival activities are a great way to get involved! We would like to thank VINCI Construction UK for their generous sponsorship of the festival. The ‘Join In’ family events are supported by Arts Council and we are also grateful to all of our supporters and event partners who have contributed to the festival this year - so a big thank you goes to them too! This year the festival offers an expanded programme of Join In events for families, children and young people taking place each weekend of the festival including puppet shows, theatre, storytelling, workshops, poetry and even a big ‘domino’ topple at Devonshire Green on the opening day. Please take a look through the festival programme at all the fantastic events and activities on offer. We do hope you enjoy the festival and look forward to seeing you there. Councillor Vickie Priestley The Lord Mayor of Sheffield Inyerface Arts Councillor Isobel Bowler Cabinet Member for Culture, Sport and Leisure Councillor Jackie Drayton Cabinet Member for Children, Young People and Families Contents Creative Classrooms Page 6 Sir Norman Adsetts OBE Patron Join In Page 14 More Join In Page 23 Showtime Page 27 Booking/Information Page 34

Cover Illustration © James Green Printworks 3 Dinosaurs are Dynamite! Animal and Plant Sciences School’s Summer Lecture Date Thursday 13 June presented by Professor Charles Wellman Time 12.30pm Venue The Octagon, Student’s Union, Ever wanted to know how much a Tyrannosaurus rex ate every day, why sauropods swallowed Western Bank, Sheffield 10 stones or what a hadrosaur sounded like? Well this is your chance to find out! Tickets Admission FREE The inspirational Prof. Charles Wellman will present an interactive talk for a thousand pupils (and their teachers) in The Octagon. He will show you how big dinosaurs really To Book Places must be booked were, explore their amazing biology and introduce you to their direct descendents. Tel. 0114 273 4400 or email michelle.taylor-steer@ This inspirational event will be packed with hands-on demonstrations, experiments, sheffield.gov.uk amazing video footage and the chance to meet some of the closest living relatives to dinosaurs. Age Suitable for Y5, Y6 and Y7 You can look at specimens and demonstrations up close and talk to students and staff about science and being a scientist. Be blown away by this truly terrific session which demonstrates how much fun learning can be. Please note this event is for school groups only

Sponsored by University of Sheffield Public Engagement with Research Team 4 www.sheffield.ac.uk 5 Creative Classrooms Each year we run a programme of large school art projects during which, hundreds of children get to work with professional artists making art of all kinds. The work then goes on display during the festival. This section of the programme is all about what they’ve been doing and where you can see the beautiful work they have created. Admission to all exhibitions is free. 6 Words Aloud Local arts group Art in the Park have devised this unusual writing project. Children have worked with a professional poet and delved into Sheffield’s rich and varied past using their new found knowledge to create writing with a historical twist. The children will recite and record their words and anyone including mums, dads, relatives and of course the children themselves will be able to hear the work by visiting www.artinthepark.org.uk and clicking on the link as directed. An app from the website can also be downloaded to telephones. Thank you to the staff and children at the following schools for taking part: Rainbow Forge Emmaus Catholic Primary Monteney Primary School Handsworth Grange Mosborough Primary Visit www.artinthepark.org.uk to hear the words

7 Topple Responsible Fishing UK is the artistic team behind the domino toppling craziness that is Topple. Using a larger than life set of dominoes children have had fun designing their own amazing school hall topples, creating stunning patterns and learning toppling tricks. The culmination of the children’s work – the Big Topple- was performed in front of an audience of teachers, children and parents at the end of each day and filmed for posterity. The film of all the school topples, and one started by Keith Shivers in the office of festival sponsors VINCI Construction UK, can be viewed on YouTube from 15 June – see - Sheffield Children’s Festival Big Topple 2013 by Responsible Fishing UK. The film will also be on show at the Big Topple on Saturday 15 June where you can also join the fun and create your very own topple at the event, or bring along any unwanted VHS videos and help build an ambitious outdoor domino topple extravaganza – see page 15 for details. Thank you to the staff and children at the following schools for taking part: Emmaus Catholic Primary Hinde House Primary 8 Photograph by Timm Cleasby Steel City Cascade To celebrate the Centenary of Stainless Steel, artist and sculptor Lucy Coyne has worked with children to create a large suspended sculpture using wire, up-cycled steel and re-used metals. Exploring the qualities of wire and sheet metal each child has made an individual piece. The multitude of light and airy components have been fabricated into one stunning artwork which will cascade from the roof of the Winter Garden – a centrepiece of Sheffield Children’s Festival. Date 15 June – 4 September Venue Winter Garden, Tudor Square, Sheffield 1 Tickets Admission FREE Thank you to the staff and children at the following schools for taking part: Forge Valley Community Rainbow Forge Primary Marlcliffe Primary Bents Green Limpsfield Junior Concord Junior Thanks to Jonathan Taylor at Forge Valley Community School. Our thanks go to the following in kind sponsors for their support of this project. 9 A Little Print of Sheffield Leonard Beaumont (1891-1986) was a Sheffield born artist and designer especially skilled in creating lino prints. The Power of the Print: Leonard Beaumont Rediscovered shows the amazing work of this Sheffield artist at Graves Art Gallery until 14 September 2014. Working with artists at Museums Sheffield and taking inspiration from Sheffield’s collections, children have produced their own print related to Sheffield – Leonard Beaumont style. All the work produced by children as part of the Little Print of Sheffield project will be included digitally in the Colour Coded exhibition at from 22 June – January 2013. A selection of the prints will also be displayed within the activity room window at Weston Park Museum and also in the Graves Gallery Education Cases. You can also see the orginal image created by James Green Printworks for the cover of this year’s Sheffield Children’s Festival brochure at Weston Park Museum. Thank you to the staff and children at the following schools for taking part: Rainbow Forge Primary Emmaus Catholic Primary Ashdell Prep Seven Hills School 10 By Leonard Beaumont Dobcroft Infant Glass Harp A Glass Harp is a series of tuned glasses that can be rung by rubbing the rim of each glass. Working with Sheffield arts organisation Kidology, Handsworth Grange Community Sports College have learnt how to play this ancient instrument and composed and performed their very own sports themed music. Thank you to the staff and children at Handsworth Grange CSC for taking part A cultural event for Sainsbury’s School Games

Photograph by Timm Cleasby 11 100 Metres Print On your marks, get set – paint! Children from seven schools have taken part in this imaginative sport inspired painting workshop devised by Sheffield arts organisation Kidology. The children have used rugby boots, bicycle wheels, basket balls, running spikes, shuttlecocks and even fencing foils to create their artwork. They have studied the various textures and patterns found on sports equipment and made marks on their painting by imitating the way sports equipment is used – some have rolled a bicycle wheel across their painting or put on a pair of running spikes and run along it! Thank you to the staff and children at the following schools for taking part: St Thomas More Catholic Primary Emmaus Catholic Primary Brightside NI Birkedale Prep Monteney Primary Firs Hill Community Primary King Edward VII A cultural event for Sainsbury’s School Games 12 Fun activities evening, weekends and school holidays

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Activity Sheffield Activity Sheffield offer play, dance, sport, physical activities and arts for children and young people across the city. Sainsbury’s School Games 12–15 September 2013 We provide over 400 sessions every week in your local parks, schools, community The Sainsbury’s School Games 2013 is a multi-sport event that will take centres, sports halls, youth clubs and place from 12–15 September in eight venues across Sheffield including church halls! From diving to dodgeball, and Pond’s Forge. climbing to crafts there’s something for Around 1,600 of the nation’s finest young sports stars will compete. Several you! School Games alumni went on to be part of London 2012 Team GB & There are activities on evenings, weekends Paralympics GB. and holidays throughout the year which are This year’s games will give us insight into the make-up of our teams for both open to 5-16 year olds. the 2016 and 2020 Games, so this is an opportunity for you to see the next generation of sporting stars in action in our very city! Call our dedicated team of staff on tel. 0114 273 4266, visit www.sheffield.gov.uk/ Tickets go on sale in June. For more information and to purchase tickets, activitysheffield, email activity.sheffield@ please go to www.2013schoolgames.com sheffield.gov.uk or visit www.facebook. com/activitysheffield 13 Join In The events in this section are ones you can enjoy as a family. This year’s family events programme has been funded by Arts Council England. There’s something for everyone – please come and join in! Please note that, unless otherwise specified, children must be accompanied by an adult. Events are for families or young people - see individual events for age range guidance.

Scarabeus Aerial Theatre in association with Little Angel Theatre present La Tempesta - see page 16 14 Big Topple Gary Bridgens – DJ Foxtrot Everyone loves a domino topple. Bang on! Are you ready to mash that event Responsible Fishing UK will be creating up? Are you ready to throw some shapes? an amazing large scale domino style line Catch a set from the original scratch mixer up with videos, wooden blocks, books and DJ Foxtrot - totally mobile, mixing stuff up more ready for the Big Topple at 4pm. anytime and anywhere! You can help James and Timm build Hear a powerhouse set from the finest the Big Topple and also create your own exponent of Edwardian Thrash with Phat domino topples throughout the day, don’t Gramophone tunes all scratched for your forget to bring along those unwanted VHS entertainment with the hardest needles. We videos. can guarantee that you won’t have heard Organised by Responsible Fishing UK - an anything like this before! Pop Up Portraits art collective established by artist James Date Saturday 15 June Have you always wanted to have your Brunt and photographer Timm Cleasby. Time 11am, 1pm and 3pm portrait painted? Perhaps you would like Date Saturday 15 June to learn some tips on drawing or painting Venue Devonshire Green, yourself? Then come along to the Pop Up Time 10am – 4pm Devonshire Street, Art Studio and work with artist Nick Hersey. Big Topple at 4pm Sheffield 1 Nick is a talented British artist with an Venue Devonshire Green, Tickets Admission FREE Devonshire Street, Sheffield 1 international background. He specialises in To Book No need to book creating beautiful portraits in a variety of Tickets Admission FREE Age Suitable for all ages media, and whether you have yours painted To Book No need to book or create your own, you can take the work Age Suitable for all ages home with you. Date Saturday 15 June Time 11am – 4pm Venue Devonshire Green, Devonshire Street, Sheffield 1 Tickets Admission FREE To Book No need to book Age Suitable for 5 years and over 15 Scarabeus Aerial Theatre in Colour Coded association with Little Angel This brand new exhibition, created by Theatre present La Tempesta Museums Sheffield and drawing on the city’s A house has been swept away by a flood... collections, celebrates the history, science A bed suspended above the audience’s and significance of colour throughout the heads, a gothic house full of puppets, ages. From the first synthetic dye that set magically transforming into aerialists... the Victorian fashion world ablaze, to the colourful art of Patrick Caulfield, Colour Allow yourself to be swept by the tempest Coded will celebrate the emotional power in this beautiful and unusual outdoor which colour continues to hold over us. performance. All the work produced by children as part Take the plunge into a sea of delight. An of the Little Print of Sheffield project will immersive performance for 3-7 years old be included digitally in the Colour Coded Colour Coded and their families. exhibition at Weston Park Museum. A “An immensely stylish piece of puppet selection of the prints will also be displayed theatre…a must-see for kids.” The Sunday within the activity room window at Weston Times for the The Snow Queen Park Museum. Colour Coded Launch Day Date Saturday 22 June Date 22 June 2013 – Join us as we launch the new Colour Coded Time 2pm and 4pm 26 January 2014 exhibition in style, with colour-themed creative activities for all the family. Venue Weston Park, Western Bank, Time Weston Park Museum Sheffield 10 opening times Organised by Museums Sheffield Venue Weston Park Museum, Tickets £4.50 Date Saturday 22 June To Book Tickets from Arena Box Office Weston Park, Western Bank, Sheffield 10 Time 10am – 4pm Tel. 0114 256 5567 www.arenaticketshop.co.uk Tickets Admission FREE Venue Weston Park Museum, In person at , To Book No need to book Weston Park, Western Bank, Sheffield 10 Motorpoint Arena, Crucible Age Suitable for all ages Theatre and on the door For information on opening times and the Tickets Admission FREE (subject to availability) exhibition please visit www.museums- To Book No need to book Age Suitable for 3-7 years sheffield.org.uk/museums/weston-park/home Age Suitable for all ages 16 Big Poetry Illustration Workshop with A wordtastic family day out with poets, Emily Evans storytellers and musicians. Go on a Poem Emily Evans graduated from the London Hunt, chalk a poem on our Poem Board, College of Communication in Illustration spot a real live poet lurking behind a and Graphic Design in 2008. banana leaf. Since then the Hackney based illustrator There’ll be hidden worm-poems, lurking has worked extensively on commissions limericks and secret slug-songs. Write and collaborations for respected your own poems with the help of Writing independent brands in music, fashion and Yorkshire’s expert poetry growers. film. See your poems proudly presented in our In this illustration workshop Emily will special installation space, The Cube and demonstrate techniques of drawing, watch them grow into real live poems with graphic design and collage so you can the help of our light projecting equipment. design and create your own contemporary Before you leave, add your words to artwork. Sheffield’s longest recorded public poem, Date Saturday 22 June Illustration Workshop with Emily Evans and take home your own carefully crafted piece of poetic art. Time 2pm – 4pm Organised by Writing Yorkshire. Venue Jackson Room, Central Library, Pop Up Portraits Surrey Street, Sheffield 1 Date Saturday 22 June See page 15 for information. Tickets Admission FREE Time 10am – 4pm To Book Places must be booked – Date Saturday 29 June Venue Winter Garden, tel. 0114 273 4400 or Tudor Square, Sheffield 1 Time 11am – 4pm email: lesley.webster@ Venue Winter Garden, Tickets Admission FREE sheffield.gov.uk To Book No need to book Tudor Square, Age Suitable for 11-16 years Age Suitable for all ages Sheffield 1 Young people do not need to be Tickets Admission FREE accompanied by an adult To Book No need to book Age Suitable for 5 years and over 17 Babbling Vagabonds Storytelling Theatre Company presents The Brothers Grimm Shelter from a raging storm with two brothers and their suitcase filled with objects that tell tales as dark as the night and wild as the winds. Hear stories to dance up your spine and whisper magic in your ears. Discover the world of The Brothers Grimm, a world of danger and adventure where wishing sometimes works and you need to be afraid of the big bad wolf. A spell binding show of storytelling, shadow play, puppets and pop ups. Date Saturday 29 June Time 11am and 2.30pm Venue The Montgomery Studio, Surrey Street, Sheffield 1 Tickets £4.50 To Book From Arena Box Office tel. 0114 256 5567 www.arenaticketshop.co.uk In person at Sheffield City Hall, Motorpoint Arena, Age For brave children aged 4 years and over Please note: The Montgomery does not yet have disabled access. 18 The Brothers Grimm Take the Mic Babbling Vagabonds Storytelling Heartwood Performance Poetry Workshop Theatre Company presents Storytelling with Shonaleigh with Mark Doyle Shadowy Stories Shadow Shonaleigh is one of the foremost storytellers Mark Doyle is a Sheffield based poet and Puppet Workshop in the UK. This magical storytelling art writer. His work has been published in A watch, learn, make and play workshop performance is set in a mythical wooded city The North, The Sheffield Anthology and with the Babbling Vagabonds, exploring the - with lots of similarities to our very own city Artist’s Newsletter. In 2012 he performed craft of shadow puppetry. Learn all about of Sheffield. for Word Life’s 21 Poets for Sheffield shadow puppets, what they are, how they The people of the City of Silver have all their project. work and what they look like. needs provided for by their King. One day Turn your experiences into poems and Then design and make your very own the King goes hunting never to return and so learn how to perform them in this fun and puppet and bring it to life on the specially begins the story of a quest by three brothers practical one hour session. made shadow puppet screen. Everyone will to find him. This is a storytelling performance of love and loss, courage, strength and Build your confidence, generate material, take home their puppet and the skills to adventure. learn stage tricks and mic techniques and carry on playing with the world of shadow get your words out there! play! Date Saturday 29 June Time 2pm Date Saturday 29 June Date Saturday 29 June Time 1 – 2pm Venue Showroom 5, Showroom Time 11am – 12noon Cinema, Paternoster Row, Venue Carpenter Room, Venue The Montgomery Studio, Sheffield 1 Surrey Street, Sheffield 1 Central Library, Tickets £4.50 Tickets Admission FREE Surrey Street, Sheffield 1 To Book From Arena Box Office Tickets Admission FREE To Book Places must be booked – tel. 0114 273 4400 or tel. 0114 256 5567 To Book Places must be booked – email: michelle.taylor-steer@ www.arenaticketshop.co.uk tel. 0114 273 4400 sheffield.gov.uk In person at Sheffield City Hall, Motorpoint Arena, Crucible Theatre Age Suitable for 11-16 years Age Suitable for 7 years and over Age Suitable for 7 years and over Young people do not need to be Please note: The Montgomery does not yet accompanied by an adult. have disabled access.

19 Griffin Theatre Arts present Once Upon a Time... Meet dragons, boggarts and witches during this exciting family day as you explore traditional Yorkshire and Derbyshire folklore plus brand new stories inspired by the local area. In the morning you will take part in a dragon building workshop and in the afternoon in an interactive storytelling performance workshop that will bring myths, legends and dragons to life! Organised by Griffin Theatre Arts Date Sunday 30 June Time Dragon Building Workshop A 9.30 – 11am Dragon Building Workshop B 11.15am – 12.45pm Storytelling Performance 1.30 – 3pm Venue Montgomery Studio, Surrey Street, Sheffield 1 Tickets Admission FREE - Places must be booked in advance

20 Once Upon a Time... To Book Workshop A and the Storytelling Babbling Vagabonds Date Sunday 30 June Performance Visit: Storytelling Theatre Company Time 10am, 11am, 12noon, http://onceuponatime1- 1.30pm, 2.30pm es2002.eventbrite. present Secret Stories Venue Weston Park, Western Bank, co.uk/?rank=10 If you go into the park today you’re sure to find a surprise. Get your hands on one Sheffield 10 To Book Workshop B and the Storytelling of our missing maps, follow the clues and Tickets Admission FREE Performance Visit: keep your eyes peeled till you can uncover To Book No need to book. If any story http://onceuponatime2-es2002. Secret Stories... part performance part session becomes full, places will eventbrite.co.uk/?rank=11 treasure hunt. be allocated for the next available Age Suitable for 5-8 years If you fancy yourself as a storyhound, session on a first come first and you can find them, the vagabonds will served basis For information tel. 0114 221 0241 or entertain you with a selection of tales to email: [email protected] Age Suitable for 4 years and over delight and enthrall. Please note: The Montgomery does not yet For more information visit: have disabled access. www.babblingvagabonds.co.uk

Secret Stories 21 Perpetual Motion Machines Lawrence Speck presents Help save the planet and beat the Vivari, off The Boggle world alien invaders who are waiting to take John’s dad warned him about the strange over the Earth. creature that lives on their farm. Then The inter Galactic council have decreed that John forgets to feed the Boggle and the only if humans can show real ingenuity and mischievous creature wreaks havoc. How beat the Vivari in a competition to create the far will John go to be rid of the troublesome longest running Perpetual Motion Machine Boggle? Find out in this brand new family in the Galaxy will the Earth be saved from show drawing on the strange world of English alien reptile invasion. folklore. Workshop: Discover how the art of play Come down with your family and learn can help actors young and old. Lawrence, a what makes machines tick. Using recycled trained drama teacher and professional actor, material you will build and run your own will lead carefully designed activities linked to awesome perpetual motion machine and the themes raised within the show. restore world order! Organised by Montgomery Arts Centre Sheffield Organised by The Blue Shed Date Saturday 6 July Date Saturday 6 July Time Performance 2pm Time 10.30am – 4pm Workshop 3.30pm Venue The Blue Shed, Venue The Montgomery Theatre, 410 Brightside Lane, Surrey Street, Sheffield 1 Sheffield S9 2SP Tickets £6 show only, £8 show and workshop Tickets Admission FREE To Book Box office: Montgomery Theatre. To Book Places must be booked – org.uk tel. 0114 256 5567 tel. 0114 261 1126 or or in person at City Hall Box Office email: [email protected] Suitable for children 6 years and Age Suitable for all ages over. No drama experience required for workshop All materials provided. Please wear clothes Please note: The Montgomery does not yet you don’t mind getting space fuel on! have disabled access 22 Photograph by Matt Tullet The Euro-Sawchestra More Join In Charles Hindmarsh Caroline Watsham, Andi Fitzner, Edgar Guerreiro, We are lucky to Ken Bainbridge 2013 will mark 100 years since Harry have so many great Brearley discovered stainless steel in organisations running Sheffield. To celebrate this, the Children’s Festival has brought together musical saw events and activities players from across Europe and the UK to form The Euro-Sawchestra. for children and These six talented musicians will be playing families in Sheffield. Art Works a most unusual instrument – a steel saw. Children from schools across Sheffield The Sawchestra is led by Yorkshire’s own In this section you have contributed beautiful works of art saw player Charles Hindmarsh. will find information to this exhibition. From landscapes to The saws are only produced in one place cityscapes, prints to portraits this exhibition in the UK – Sheffield! Hear music with on some of those showcases the work of some of the city’s a difference and you might even get the talented young artists. Organised by The chance to have a go. organisations and Montgomery Arts Centre. Date Saturday 6 July the events they Date 12 June – 27 July Time 2pm are contributing to Time Mondays – Saturdays Venue Winter Garden, various times – for details visit Tudor Square, Sheffield 1 Sheffield Children’s www.TheMontgomery.org.uk Tickets Admission FREE Festival. Unless Venue The Montgomery, Surrey Street, Sheffield 1 To Book No need to book otherwise specified Tickets Admission FREE Age Performance suitable for all ages. To Book No need to book Have a go sessions suitable for 10 years children must be and over and adults. Young people will accompanied by an Age Suitable for all ages require the permission of a parent/guardian Please note: The Montgomery does not to play the saw. adult. have disabled access. 23 Kelham Island Museum presents Date Sunday 16 June Baby Friendly Picnic The Story of Ironie by Harry Time 12.30pm and 2.30pm Come and join us for a baby friendly picnic Brearley – a Puppet Show Venue Kelham Island Industrial and help celebrate Breastfeeding Awareness Museum, Alma Road, Week. There’ll be activities to keep your Ironie is a children’s story written and Sheffield S3 8RY toddlers entertained while you feed your illustrated by Harry Brearley, the inventor of baby. stainless steel. Tickets Normal museum admission: £5 / £4 (concessions) The event will be a fun but safe haven The original manuscript is held at Kelham accompanied Children FREE for parents, carers, babies and toddlers. Island in the Sheffield Industrial Museums admission Please bring your own picnic. Trust collection, a unique example of To Book Places are limited - please book Brearley’s desire to explain his scientific Organised by the Early Years Team in advance on 0114 272 2106 discovery to young people. or at Kelham Island Museum Date Monday 17 June This performance, developed by Emily admissions desk Time 11am – 1pm Capstick, uses storytelling, theatre, music, Age Suitable for 5 -11 years Venue Winter Garden, Tudor Square, multi-sensory props, magic and puppetry Part of 100 Years of Stainless Steel - find Sheffield 1 to create an exciting interactive family out more at www.simt.co.uk experience. Tickets Admission FREE To Book No need to book Organised by Sheffield Industrial Museums Trust Age Suitable for 0 years and over

24 Arts Award Event for Teachers Abbeydale Industrial Hamlet To Book Tickets available at the event Your pupils’ involvement in the Children’s presents Age Suitable for 5-16 years and families Festival can get them an Arts Award! Live Life at Abbeydale - For information tel. 0114 272 2106 At this event, experts from CAPE UK will Family Tours outline how to embed Arts Award into A £1 million Heritage Lottery funded project the work you are already doing, what the Help us bring the Hamlet to life with to restore the hamlet starts 2013! Arts Award has to offer, and provide an dressing up and living history performances Find out more at www.simt.co.uk opportunity for you to find out about its where YOU join in the fun! benefits. Enjoy Mr Tyzack Family Tours and find out Date Thursday 20 June more about who lived and worked at the Time 4.15 - 6.00pm Hamlet. Organised by Sheffield Industrial Museums Trust. Venue Electric Works, , 3 Concourse Way, Date Sunday 23 June Sheffield 1 Time 11am – 4.45pm – for tour start Tickets Admission FREE times visit www.simt.co.uk To Book Places must be booked. Please Venue Abbeydale Industrial Hamlet, email the name of attendees Abbeydale Road South, your school and contact details to: Sheffield S7 2QW [email protected] or Tickets Adults £3 / accompanied Tel. 0114 399 7760 Children FREE admission 25 Griffin Theatre Arts present Chance to Dance Music In the Round Come Rain or Shine Sheffield’s festival of community dance is Music in the Round’s education and Rain, rain and more rain! It’s 2007, the water back and the city centre will come alive with outreach programme, Music in the is rising and so are the umbrellas. For Jasmine music and dance. Dancers of all ages come Community, presents activities for children and Eddie, locked in their classroom, the rain is together to perform and then invite everyone and young people across the city. the least of their worries as mysterious people to join in. From Salsa to Street, Belly to Inspirational resident musicians Ensemble from the past start to appear. This showcase of Ballroom, this is your Chance to Dance! 360 and project leaders Polly Ives and a brand new play, inspired by ’s Organised by Chance to Dance Robin McEwan have been working with young people, will capture the imagination. Date Saturday 13 July students age 5-16 and teachers from 15 Date Friday 28 June Time 11am – 4.45pm schools. Time 1.30 - 2.30pm Venue Sheffield City Centre including In June and July events for the Powerplus Venue The Blue Shed, 410 Brightside Barkers Pool, Tudor Square, composition project will take place in Lane, Sheffield S9 2SP Peace Gardens, Winter Garden, partnership with the Sheffield Music Hub Tickets Showcase free to teachers, Upper Chapel Norfolk Street and the Music Box project. librarians or community venue Tickets Admission FREE For more information about Music in programmers either by them- To Book No need to book selves or with young people. The the Community please contact info@ Age Suitable for all ages musicintheround.co.uk new play will be touring in the For information visit www.chancetodance.org 2013-4 academic year. For more information tel. 0114 221 0241 or email [email protected] 26 Show Time! Every year we invite schools and young people’s performing arts groups to perform shows and musicals in Sheffield’s professional theatres. The standard of performing is always very high so you can be assured of a good night out at the theatre if you come along. Please note that The Montgomery does not yet have disabled access

27 Together We Dance presents Open Minds Theatre Company Open Minds Theatre Company Dream big, Dance big presents Hamlet presents Romeo and Juliet Dancers from across Sheffield come together Performance designed and directed by Anne Walker, Jo Play devised and directed by Mike Parkinson, Neil to perform lots of different dance styles and Bolton, Richard Shaw, David Wilson and Celina Webster. Pacheco, Jane Maxfield, Verity Watts and Faith Wallbank. encourage you to try dance too. The event Open Minds Theatre Company takes a fresh Open Minds Theatre Company present one has been created by 4 local college students look at the famous story of the Prince of of Shakespeare’s best loved plays. to raise money for The Sick Children’s Trust Denmark through the eyes of the pupils from The stage will be shared by pupils from at Sheffield Children’s Hospital. Brinsworth Howarth Primary School. Springwell Community Special School, Organised by Together We Dance Date Wednesday 19 June Ferham Primary School and Kiveton Park Date Saturday 15 June Time 7pm Meadows Primary School. Venue The Octagon, Time 2pm Date Thursday 20 June Western Bank, Sheffield 10 Venue The Blue Shed, Time 7pm 410 Brightside Lane, Tickets £4 Sheffield S9 2SP To Book On the door (subject to availability) Venue The Octagon, Western Bank, Tickets £3 / £2 (concessions) £10 Family Families of performers can pre book tickets Sheffield 10 Ticket (2 adults and 2 children) through their child’s school. For more Tickets £4 To Book email: dancebigdreambig@ information please either contact your child’s gmail.com Tickets on the door school or call Open Minds Theatre Company To Book On the door (subject to (subject to availability) on tel. 01709 829 446. availability) Age Suitable for all ages Age Suitable for all ages 28 Families of performers can pre book tickets Razzamataz Theatre School! Newfield School presents through their child’s school. presents The Razz Factor Journeys For more information please either contact An exciting performance of street dance, Students across Key Stages one, two, three your child’s school or call Open Minds pop singing, musical theatre and drama by and four will dazzle you with devised drama, Theatre Company on tel. 01709 829 446. Sheffield based theatre school Razzamataz. energetic dance and vocals. Suitable for all Age Suitable for all ages As well as showcasing local talent, all the family - sit back, relax and enjoy the Open Minds performances are part of the proceeds from this production will be show! Shakespeare Festival donated to the SAFE@LAST Sheffield Date Monday 24 June based charity which works with young Time 7pm For more information about the Rotherham people at risk through running away. Venue Montgomery Arts Centre, Shakespeare Festival please contact Date Sunday 23 June Surrey Street, Sheffield 1 Katherine Fletcher at Open Minds Theatre Company on tel. 01709 829 446 or email: Time 6pm Tickets £4 / £2 (concessions) [email protected] Venue The Blue Shed, To Book Tickets available from Newfield 410 Brightside Lane, School or send a SAE with details Sheffield S9 2SP of tickets required along with a cheque made payable to Newfield Tickets £8.50 / £6.50 (concessions) School for the total amount to: To Book Tel. 0114 303 0455 or email: Newfield School, Lees Hall Road, [email protected] Sheffield S8 9JP Age Suitable for all ages Age Suitable for all ages 29 Athelstan Primary School Sheffield Theatres presents Fusion Youth Theatre presents presents Charlie and the Take the Stage Checking Out: The Musical Chocolate Factory By Roald Dahl The Crucible Theatre will be a buzz with Supermarkets are strange places aren’t Hold onto your golden ticket and open your local young talent from schools across the they? Fusion Youth Theatre bring a brand imagination as you enter the world of Mr city as they take to the stage! new musical to Sheffield. Featuring songs Willy Wonka’s chocolate factory. A fantastic double bill of great plays for from artists including the Pet Shop Boys and Join Charlie and Grandpa Jo amongst young people will be performed each Bruce Springsteen alongside well-known others as they meet the Oompa-Loompas evening. musical numbers as you’ve never seen them before, Checking Out: The Musical shows in a world beyond their wildest dreams. The Organised by Sheffield Theatres what really goes on in the aisles. show is performed by Year 6. Date Wednesday 26, Thursday 27 Date Thursday 27 and Friday 28 June Date Tuesday 25 June and Friday 28 June Time 7.30pm Time 7pm Time 7pm Venue The Montgomery Theatre, Venue The Montgomery Theatre, Venue Crucible Theatre, Surrey Street, Sheffield 1 Surrey Street, Sheffield 1 55 Norfolk Street, Tickets £10.00 / £8.00 (concessions) Sheffield 1 Tickets £5 / £3 (concessions) To Book Call or text 07702 701 453 or To Book Tickets available from Athelstan Tickets £6.00 / £5.00 (concessions) email: sheffield@fusionyouth Primary School To Book Crucible Theatre Box Office theatre.com or on the door Tel. 0114 269 2301 Tel. 0114 249 6000 (subject to availability) Age Suitable for all ages www.sheffieldtheatres.co.uk Age Suitable for all ages 30 Grenoside Community Primary St. Wilfrid’s Catholic Primary Watercliffe Meadow Primary School presents It’s not about School presents School presents 28 Pillbox Road the money A Play by Phil Tuffin A Midsummer Nights Dream Written by Watercliffe Meadow Primary Y6 After a year of staggering success, the St Wilfrid’s take to the stage with a Happy-Ever-Afters have decided to split up wonderful re-imagining of A Midsummer Join us for a journey into a forgotten world and pursue their own individual musical Night’s Dream. Fairies, donkeys and gods of hidden secrets… When Harry discovers directions. Hilarious adventures lie ahead play their part combining singing, dancing an old sewing box under his grandmother’s including solving the rat infestation in and acting to sooth the most cynical soul. floorboards he becomes absorbed in his great grandfather’s diary. Take a trip back in Hamelin and helping one fair maid spin The perfect show for anyone who likes a life time to 1940 and to the lives and stories of straw into gold. magical or dreams of a day spent with a god those living at 28 Pillbox Road during WW2. Date Tuesday 2 July or goddess! Time 7pm Date Wednesday 3 July Date Wednesday 3 July Time 7pm Time 7.30pm Venue The Montgomery Theatre, Venue The Blue Shed, 410 Brightside Venue The Montgomery Theatre, Surrey Street, Sheffield 1 Lane, Sheffield 9 Surrey Street, Sheffield 1 Tickets £6 / £4 concessions Tickets £5 / £3.50 (concessions) To Book Available from Grenoside Tickets £8.50 / £6.50 (concessions) To Book Available from Watercliffe Meadow Community Primary School To Book Tel 0114 236 5529 or email: Primary School or or tel. 0114 246 7380 [email protected] tel. 0114 232 6603 Age Suitable for all ages Age Suitable for 6 years and over Age Suitable for 8 years and over 31 Arbourthorne Community St. Marie’s Theatre Club High Storrs School presents Primary School presents presents Sweeney Todd: School Romeo, Juliet, Gladys and Bill Panto Pandemonium Edition When enemies Gladys Oldale and Bill By Roger Parsley and Ruth Kenwood Performed entirely by students Blowers are sentenced to community service Four children take us on an adventure Music & Lyrics by STEPHEN SONDHEIM in Verona they are charged with keeping through pantoland, recovering three objects Book by HUGH WHEELER From an adaptation by the peace between two families even more in order to defeat the wicked witch. In true CHRISTOPHER BOND. opposed than their own and caught up in the panto style there’s plenty of booing and Originally directed by HAROLD PRINCE Originally greatest love story ever told. ‘Romeo, Juliet, hissing and audience participation. Will produced on Broadway by Richard Barr, Charles Gladys and Bill’ is probably the second they defeat the wicked witch? Find out as Woodward, Robert Fryer, Mary Lea Johnson, Martin greatest love story ever told. you join in the panto pandemonium! Richards in association with Dean & Judy Manos. Date Thursday 4 July Time 7pm Date Friday 5 July This amateur production is presented by arrangement Venue The Montgomery Theatre, Time 7.15pm with JOSEF WEINBERGER LTD. Surrey Street, Sheffield 1 This musical thriller tells the infamous tale Tickets £4 Venue The Montgomery, Surrey Street, of the unjustly exiled barber who returns to To Book Tickets available from Sheffield 1 London seeking revenge. Arbourthorne Community Tickets £4.50 / £4 (concessions) Primary School tel. 0114 239 8163 His thirst for revenge leads to the murder email: enquiries@arbourthorne. To Book tel. 0114 230 1904 or email: of his unfortunate customers and the sheffield.sch.uk [email protected] resourceful proprietor of the pie shop Age Suitable for all ages Age Suitable for all ages 32 Off the Shelf Festival of Words 12 October – 2 November 2013 Off the Shelf is one of the UK’s most exciting, innovative, and popular literary festivals with audiences of over 25,000 people in 2012. The wide ranging programme includes downstairs soon has the people of London Inyerface Arts presents popular author events, debates, poetry, workshops, walks, storytelling and lining up in droves with her mysterious new Movies and Musicals meat pie recipe! competitions. There’s also a wonderful Enjoy favourite songs from movies and strand of imaginative events for Date Friday 5 July and Saturday 6 July musicals, performed by talented youngsters children, young people and families Time 7pm from local schools and colleges and also bringing books to life. Saturday at 2pm and 7pm featuring the Inyerface ‘RockFace’ singing Previous guests include Michael Venue Crucible Theatre, group. A great evening’s entertainment Morpurgo, Jacqueline Wilson, 55 Norfolk Street, Sheffield 1 including songs from ‘Wicked’, ‘Les Cressida Cowell, Benjamin Zephaniah Misérables’ and ‘Skyfall’ Supporting St and Michael Rosen to name just a few. Tickets £8.00 / £6.00 (concessions) Lukes Hospice and . Off the Shelf is organised by Sheffield To Book Crucible Theatre Box Office Date Saturday 13 July tel. 0114 249 6000 City Council’s Major Events Service. Time 7.15pm www.sheffieldtheatres.co.uk For more information or to join our Venue Library Theatre, Tudor Square, mailing list please e-mail offtheshelf@ Age May not be suitable for younger Sheffield 1 sheffield.gov.uk Tel. 0114 273 4400 children – box office will advise Tickets £7 / £5 (concessions) www.offtheshelf.org.uk To Book Tel. 07939 256 269 or on the door (subject to availability) Off the Shelf Festival of Words Age Suitable for all ages Supporting St Lukes Hospice and Weston otsfestival Park Hospital. 33 Booking Tickets can only be booked on-line, by Festival Office phone or in person at the Box Offices upto Sheffield City Council Major Events Information 1pm on the day before the performance. Service, Room 311, Town Hall, After this time they can be purchased on Pinstone Street, Sheffield S1 2HH See individual events for booking the door at the event subject to availability. Tel. 0114 273 4400 information. Box office on the day opens 30 minutes email: [email protected] before the start time of the event. Tickets for Scarabeus, Babbling Find us on Facebook (Sheffield Childrens Vagabonds and Shonaleigh are available Please note adults require a ticket as well Festival) and Twitter (childrensfest) from Arena Ticket Shop, Sheffield City as children. Sheffield Children’s Festival is organised Hall, Crucible Theatre, please see below for Unless otherwise stated all children must by Sheffield City Council’s Major Events details for each box office. be accompanied by an adult. Service. No booking fee charged if paying in person Lesley Webster No tickets exchanged or refunds given. in cash. 10% booking fee charged if Maria de Souza and Su Walker, Sheffield booking on line or by phone. Children’s Festival Managers Michelle Taylor-Steer, Administration and The Arena Ticket Shop Tel. 0114 256 Acknowledgement Business Support 5567, Broughton Lane, Sheffield S9 2DF. Richard Johnson was Manager of Jake Hilton, Festival Support Opening times Mon – Sat 9am – 6pm Sheffield Children’s Festival from 2008 www.arenaticketshop.co.uk Every effort has been made to ensure until he left the post in early 2013. that programme details are correct. Sheffield City Hall Tel. 0114 278 9789, We would like to sincerely thank However, Sheffield City Council cannot Barkers Pool, Sheffield S1 2JA Richard for his vision, effort and accept responsibility for any inaccuracies, Opening times Mon – Sat 9.30am – commitment to Sheffield Children’s omissions and consequences arising 5.30pm www.sheffieldcityhall.co.uk Festival over those years. therefrom. Sheffield Theatres Tel. 0114 249 6000, Crucible Theatres, Tudor Square, Sheffield S1 1DA. Opening times Mon – Sat 10am – 8pm. On www. l.org non performance days the box office closes sheffieldchildrensfestiva at 6pm www.sheffieldtheatres.co.uk

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