IMAGINATE FESTIVAL Scotland’s international festival of performing arts for children and young people 6-13 may 2013 TICKETS:0131 228 1404 WWW.TRAVERSE.CO.UK Image: Brian Hartley IMAGINATE FESTIVAL FUNDERS & SUPPORT ABOUT IMAGINATE Every year Imaginate receives financial and in kind support from a range of national and international organisations.We would like to thank them all for their invaluable support of the Imaginate Festival. Imaginate is a unique organisation in Scotland,leading in the promotion,development If you would like to know more about our supporters or how to support us,please visit: and celebration of the performing arts for children and young people. www.imaginate.org.uk/support/ We achieve this through the delivery of an integrated M A J O R F U N D E R S BEYONDTHE FESTIVAL annual programme of art-form development, learning supported through the partnerships and performance, including the world Imaginate believes that a high quality creative Scottish Government’s Edinburgh Festivals Expo Fund famous Imaginate Festival, Scotland’s international development programme is the key to unlocking festival of performing arts for children and young people. creativity and supporting artistic excellence in the performing arts sector for children and young people in THE IMAGINATE FESTIVAL Scotland. This programme creates regular opportunities for artists and practitioners, whether they are students, T R U S T S A N D F O U N D AT I O N S PA R T N E R S Every year the Festival and Festival On Tour attracts established artists or at the beginning of their career. an audience of thousands of children and young based at people, their teachers, families and carers, alongside Imaginate continually works with many partners in the Artspace national and international delegates. areas of research, advocacy and audience development, with the aim of increasing access and participation and Imaginate’s Festival in Schools programme offers THE MACKINTOSH FOUNDATION enhancing the experience of attending a performing arts FREE performances of award winning theatre from event for children and young people. the UK for schools that do not have the resources to independently support visits to the Festival. For more information on Imaginate’s annual programme, The Festival is produced by please visit our new website www.imaginate.org.uk Imaginate’s Festival Family Fringe gives local artists promoting and developing performing arts for and performers opportunities to create, perform children and young people in Scotland. Imaginate 45a George Street, Edinburgh EH2 2HT and experiment with new ideas for family audiences. T: 0131 225 8050 • F: 0131 225 6440 Imaginate is a company limited by guarantee. Company No. SC115855 Charity No. SC016437 Fun packed and full of variety, this programme of short E: [email protected] performances takes place in the Traverse café bar during the Festival. Promoting Sustainable Please recycle this brochure. Once you have finished with your copy, Design: map.ref.ltd. Forest Management x please consider passing it on to a colleague or friend or recycle it. [0141.429.7956] HOWTO BUYYOURTICKETS FORALL FESTIVAL PERFORMANCES BOX OFFICE INFORMATION Traverse Theatre Box Office 10 Cambridge Street, Edinburgh, EH1 2ED Telephone: 0131 228 1404 Box Office open Monday - Saturday 10.00 - 18.00 (or until the performance starts) Online: www.traverse.co.uk During the Festival, the Traverse Box office will be open: Monday 6 May 10.00 - 19.00, Tuesday 7 May 9.30 - 19.00, Wednesday 8 May 9.30 - 18.00, Thursday 9 May 9.30 – 19.00, Friday 10 May 9.30 - 19.00, Saturday 11 May 9.30 - 18.00, GREAT FAMILYAND FRIENDS Sunday 12 May 9.30 - 17.00 & Monday 13 May 8.30 - 18.00 Tickets: £10 Tickets bought before Sunday 28 April can be posted to you (a £1 surcharge applies). Tickets bought SAVINGSAREALSO ON OFFER from Monday 29 April onwards can be collected from the appropriate venue from at least 30 minutes before the performance. FAMILY OF 2 ( 1ADULT & 1 CHILD ) £16 FAMILY OF 3 ( MIN 1 CHILD ) £24 ON THE DAY FAMILY OF 4 ( MIN 2 CHILDREN ) £32 Tickets for Festival performances at Artspace, Church Hill Theatre, Dance Base, FAMILY OF 5 ( MIN 3 CHILDREN ) £40 National Museum of Scotland and North Edinburgh Arts can be purchased at the FAMILY OF 6 ( MIN 3 CHILDREN ) £48 venue, immediately before the performance, subject to availability. (please see Exceptions below) EXCEPTIONSTOTHE STANDARD FULL PRICE You can get this document on tape, in braille, large print and various computer formats if you ask us. Please contact ITS on 0131 242 8181 and quote reference AND FAMILYAND FRIENDSTICKET PRICES: number 12-0866. ITS can also give you information on community language translations. You can get more copies of this document by calling 0131 225 8050. The Incredible Book Eating Boy All tickets £3 PLEASE NOTE: Online bookings are not available for The Incredible Book Eating Boy. Please 12-0866 telephone the Traverse to make your booking. The Intergalactic Nemesis - Live Action Graphic 12-0866 Novel - Book One: Target Earth Tickets for the ‘red carpet’ evening performances 12-0866 on 10 and 11 May are £12 (full price) and £10 (Family and Friends) each. 12-0866 ALL SEATING IS UNRESERVED. If your booking includes a wheelchair user or if 12-0866 you have any access requirements, please inform the Box Office at the time of your booking. Join our e-newsletter mailing list to find out more about Imaginate’s annual programme and the Festival at www.imaginate.org.uk Maas theater en dans Het Lab Utrecht (Netherlands) (Netherlands) Age Age Wanted:Rabbit 3!5 Alles (All) 4!7 Three police officers are looking for a rabbit that has FESTIVAL PERFORMANCES In this rhythmical,colourful and dynamic performance,two FESTIVAL PERFORMANCES escaped from prison.Will you help us solve this case? extraordinary dancers celebrate and play with the idea of NB This show is presented in two CHURCH HILL THEATRE STUDIO doing everything at once! different venues: Rabbits don’t play by the rules, you see. They dig holes without asking Friday 10 May 11.30, 13.30 & 15.30 permission, eat carrots that they haven’t paid for, poop on the street DANCE BASE Saturday 11 May 11.30, 13.30 & 15.30 They sing songs and jabber. They dance and drum. They transform into and even though they have big ears, they don’t listen. Sunday 12 May 11.30, 13.30 & 15.30 water, earthquakes and helicopters. Tuesday 7 May 10.30 & 13.30 During the pursuit, finger-puppet rabbits appear all over the miniature Monday 13 May 09.30, 11.30 & 13.30 ALL is a song, ALL is a dance, ALL is a movement, a rhythm, a word. Wednesday 8 May 10.45 & 13.30* city until it is overrun with them and even the police chief starts to ALL is the same. ALL is different. Sunday 12 May 11.30* grow rabbit ears! Duration 30 minutes “A real treat. Both children and their parents will love watching the This show is made especially This show is made especially for a increasingly cheeky rabbits hop throughout the city.” Trouw for a small audience! small audience! ARTSPACE Thursday 9 May 10.30 & 13.30 Saturday 11 May 14.00 Duration 55 minutes *RELAXED PERFORMANCES These performances are designed for anyone who would benefit from a more relaxed performance environment; especially for people with profound and complex learning or sensory needs. Audience members are free to come and go and make noise if they want to. Imaginate Festival Director says: “A show that’s guaranteed Imaginate Festival Director says: to have you smiling from one “Fabulously inventive dance floppy ear to the other.” that is utterly compelling for its young audience. And for us www.tdmaas.nl older ones too!” www.hetlabutrecht.nl/alles Image: Moon Saris Image: Anna van Kooij Bootworks Theatre Compagnie ChaliWaté (England) (Belgium) The Incredible Age Age 4!7 Îlo 5+ Book Eating Boy FESTIVAL PERFORMANCES In a faraway desert,a mysterious looking man helps FESTIVAL PERFORMANCES a thirsty plant in a search for precious water... NATIONAL MUSEUM OF SCOTLAND TRAVERSE THEATRE LEARNING CENTRE, LEVEL 1 the last drops of blue gold. Henry loved books,but not like you and I love books,no. Saturday 11 May 14.30 Henry loved to EAT books. Within each of the one hour time periods detailed below there will be 10 Using movement as the central means of expression and without any Sunday 12 May 17.00 performances available for booking. words, Îlo is a beautifully poetic and comical performance that gives us Monday 13 May 10.15 Using live performance, puppetry and projection, this exciting theatre food for thought on the importance of water. adaptation of Oliver Jeffers’ award-winning children’s book by Bootworks Saturday 11 May 10.15 - 11.15 Duration 45 minutes With acrobatic figures, games of cat and mouse and dance steps, they follows the story of a boy with a voracious appetite for books. 12.15 - 13.15 14.15 - 15.15 work together in the hope of reaching a happy ending. And better still, he realises the more books he eats, the smarter he gets. But a book-eating diet isn’t the healthiest of habits, as Henry soon Sunday 12 May 12.15 - 13.15 “incessantly creative and convincing… Îlo takes us on a journey filled finds out! 14.15 - 15.15 with humour and mild folly, where everything fits perfectly.” 16.15 - 17.15 Le Soir Imaginate Festival Director says: “What a delight this show is - a joy from start to finish.” Duration 5 minutes “Highly engaging, highly ##### The Scotsman (Audiences are advised to arrive inventive and great quality.” 15 minutes before their allocated The Incredible Book Eating Boy is performed inside Bootworks' world performance time) www.chaliwate.com famous Black Box theatre installation to an audience of one person (child or adult) or a maximum of two people (one child and an All tickets £3 accompanying adult) at a time.