Sheffield Children’s Festival Saturday 7 June to Sunday 6 July 2014 www.sheffieldchildrensfestival.org Introduction CapeUK, in partnership with Sheffield Culture Consortium, and cultural sector to build a new network with a shared is delighted to be supporting the 2014 Sheffield Children’s commitment; to publicise, increase and enrich the arts Festival. This successful and unique event gives Sheffield’s and cultural opportunities on offer to children and young young people a chance to shine by providing a platform to people in Sheffield. Go to page 15 to find out more about the celebrate and share their talent and passion for the arts. network and our plans to create a comprehensive ‘one stop It also offers them the opportunity to work alongside an shop’ directory where young people will be able to go online amazing range of professional artists living and working in and find out about arts and cultural activities in Sheffield. the city. We hope you’ll JOIN IN by supporting as well as enjoying This year CapeUK has worked with Sheffield Children’s participating in this year’s Sheffield Children’s Festival. Festival and the arts and cultural community to expand the Join In programme. Throughout the festival and on 14 Pat Cochrane and 15 June we’ve organised a fantastic variety of family CEO, CapeUK activities you can take part in, giving you a tiny taste of some of the fabulous arts and cultural activities on offer for CapeUK is part of a national network of 10 bridge children and young people in our city. organisations, funded by Arts Council England to use our We want these opportunities to be available to all children experience and expertise to connect children and young and young people in Sheffield, in local communities, all year people, schools and communities with art and culture. round. Over recent months we’ve been working with the arts 2 Welcome We are delighted to welcome you to Sheffield Children’s of exciting events on offer this year, most of them with Festival 2014 and our packed programme of exhibitions, free admission. We believe that involvement in creative events and activities. Once again, the festival is proud to and enriching experiences makes a real difference to the celebrate the exceptional talent, creativity and enthusiasm aspirations, attainment and life chances of children, young of Sheffield’s children and young people and the ideas and people and families and Sheffield Children’s Festival activities inspiration of the artists involved. For 22 years the festival are a great way to get involved! has been engaging thousands of children in the arts - giving We would like to thank VINCI Construction UK, The Moor them a chance to make art of all kinds, to see their work and CapeUK for their generous support of the festival. exhibited in professional spaces and to perform on stage in shows, musicals and plays. Please take a look through the brochure at the fascinating array of events and activities on offer. We do hope you enjoy We have a “Big Ambition” for Sheffield and that is “Every Sheffield Children’s Festival this year and look forward to child, young person and family achieves their full potential, seeing you there. by raising expectations and attainment and enabling enriching experiences”. We believe that the Sheffield Children’s Festival activities will help us make our ambition Councillor Peter Rippon become a reality for all and be a great way for children, The Lord Mayor of Sheffield young people and families to get involved and have fun. Councillor Isobel Bowler Please look out for the Join In programme of weekend Cabinet Member for Culture, Sport and Leisure events for families through the festival. We hope that Councillor Jackie Drayton many children and their families will enjoy the wide range Cabinet Member for Children, Young People and Families 3 Contents Date Time Event Thurs 5 June 6pm Growtheatre Workshop page 11 Sat 7 June 10am - 6pm Garden Up page 11 Creative Classrooms Page 6 Sat 7 June 11am S1 Sculpture workshop page 12 Join In Page 10 Sat 7 June 2pm - 4pm S1 Printmaking workshop page 12 Showtime Page 31 Sun 8 June 10am - 5pm Garden Up page 13 Information Page 42 Sat 14 June 10am - 4.30pm Anyone Can Draw! Art Day page 14 Sat 14 June 11am S1 Sculpture workshop page 12 Sat 14 June 11am - 3pm Step Up! Dance on The Moor page 16 Sat 14 June 12noon Let the Wild Rumpus Start! page 18 Sat 14 June 2pm - 3.30pm S1 Cast your Head Workshop page 18 Sun 15 June 10.30am - 5pm Activity Day page 19-22 A few of our highlights Tues 17 June 11am Baby Friendly Picnic page 23 Sheffield Children’s Festival is jam packed Fri 20 June 7pm Handbell Ringers of Great Britain page 24 with events and activities. Here is a list of some of the events in the Join In Fri 20 June 11am Baby Friendly Picnic page 25 programme for children, young people and Sat 21 June 12 noon Hop Aboard the Cat Bus! page 25 families. We don’t have the space to list all Sat 21 June 1pm-3pm Make Do and Mend! page 25 the exhibitions, theatre performances, school shows, workshops and activities in the Sun 22 June 11am - 3pm Abbeydale Hamlet Story Tent page 26 festival so please take a good look through Sat 28 June 10am - 4pm Games Britannia page 28-29 the brochure to find out more . Sat 28 June am/pm Razzamataz Theatre Taster Sessions page 26 Sun 29 June 10am - 4pm Games Britannia page 28-29 Sat 5 July am/pm Celebrate the Tour de France page 27 Sun 6 July am/pm Celebrate the Tour de France page 27 4 Creative Classrooms Each year we run a programme of large scale art projects during which hundreds of children and young people get to work with professional artists making art of all kinds. Their work is then on display during the festival. This part of the programme is all about what they have been doing and where you can see the beautiful work they have created. Admission to all exhibitions is free. Turn the page to see what Sheffield’s children and young people have created this year. 5 Tales from a Tommy History lives on with this imaginative project designed by Griffin Theatre Arts to commemorate the centenary of the start of World War I. Professional actor practitioners have delivered in-role living history sessions re-creating characters from local and wider UK history and exploring different aspects of World War I including a tale from a soldier and the home front. The sessions have created an exciting springboard for the children to create their own visual art, creative writing and literacy work inspired by what they have experienced. A selection of the work produced by each school will be displayed as part of Sheffield Children’s Festival as follows: Date Sunday 22 - Thursday 26 June Display in Winter Garden, Tudor Square, Sheffield 1 Monday 23 - Friday 27 June Display in Central Lending Library, Surrey Street, Sheffield 1 Time Normal opening times for both venues Thank you to the staff and children at the following schools for taking part: Prince Edward Primary, Ecclesall C of E Junior, Southey Green Primary, St. Theresa’s Catholic Primary, Talbot Specialist School 6 Re-inventing the Wheel It’s a very special year for Yorkshire with the Tour de France Grand Depart coming to the region. To celebrate this arts practitioner Jenny Seymour has worked with children to create beautiful pieces of visual art shaped like old fashioned bicycle wheels with spokes. As well as learning about the visit of the Tour de France to Sheffield, children have also discussed what is special about where they live and have created a picture of a favourite place - their home, their school, a park. Each picture has been placed within their group’s bicycle wheel so that the end result is a colourful representation of the local area on two wheels which you can view during Sheffield Children’s Festival. Date Tuesday 17 - Saturday 21 June Time Normal Opening Hours Venue Winter Garden, Tudor Square, Sheffield 1 Thank you to the staff and children at the following schools for taking part: Clifford C of E Infant, St. Thomas More Catholic Primary, Monteney Primary 7 Garden Up: The Sculpture Trail Sheffield’s Botanical Gardens are the inspiration for this project to create a fantastic series of sculptures forming a sculpture trail through the Botanical Gardens. The trail will be launched as part of a major event, Garden Up, to be held at the gardens on 7 and 8 June 2014 and will remain in situ throughout the summer. Artist and sculptor Lucy Coyne has worked with schools helping them create unique sculptures to be suspended or ‘rooted’ along the trail in the gardens. Pupils have used materials including wire, metal sheet, yarns and recycled materials and techniques such as wirework, weaving, and printing. The inspiration has come from the plants, trees and wildlife found in the Botanical Gardens and the incredible details, textures and structures of the natural world. Date from 7 June and on show throughout the summer Time Normal Opening Hours Venue Botanical Gardens, Clarkehouse Road, Sheffield 10 Thank you to the staff and children at the following schools for taking part: Porter Croft C of E Primary Academy, Forge Valley Community, Bents Green, Westfield, Fox Hill Primary Our thanks go to the following in kind sponsors for their support of this project: 8 Roman Sheffield In the year 43 AD the Romans invaded Britain.