Festivals, Arts and Theatre Co's
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 2 Turven Hoog 12th International Festival for Early Years |
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A2: Arts Active Taking inspiration from the diverse programmes of St David's Hall & the New Theatre and using them as a powerful catalyst for creative endeavours, we aim to encourage people, from the youngest to oldest, to engage in and enjoy arts activity. |
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Action Transport Theatre Action Transport reflects the ideas and experiences of children and young people, creating theatre which amazes, enriches and sometimes change lives. |
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Agor Drysau / Opening Doors March 2010 - Wales’ biennial international festival of theatre for children and young people. |
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Apples and Snakes Apples & Snakes is establishing a network for performance poetry across the country by appointing coordinators based in different regions |
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A Thousand Cranes (Tales from Old Japan) Visual, vibrant, physical theatre inspired by stories from Japan and Europe which celebrate and unite the two differing cultures |
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Belfast Children’s Festival May/June 2010 - One of Northern Ireland's leading children's arts charities. |
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Artybobs We love art! You and your children will too after attending one of our Clubs! |
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Baboro International Arts Festival for Children - Ireland To explore with children the wonder of their world through the magic of creative expression. Baboro International Arts Festival for Children is recognised as the leading Irish arts festival devoted exclusively to children. |
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Barking Dog Theatre Company Presenting shows written and designed for children |
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Ciao! Festival 21st to 27th June 2010 - CIAO! runs festivals of professional performing arts for children and young people. |
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BRAVO! The International Children's Theatre Festival Bravo! – The International Theatre Festival for Children and Youth will be held for the sixth time in Helsinki, Espoo and Vantaa on 14th to 21st March. |
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Big Wooden Horse High quality theatre for younger audiences across the UK |
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Black Cat Theatre The company provides puppet and shadow theatre performances, workshops, residencies and training in schools, theatres and community venues throughout the UK. |
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Carnival Arts This unique online hub has been built as your portal to all things carnival |
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Catherine Wheels Scottish children's theatre company |
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Blunderbus Theatre Company The magic of live theatre |
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Children's Discovery Centre Discover is a magical place for children aged 2 to 7 to visit with their families and friends or in class groups with their teachers. Story-building helps children to use their imaginations and express themselves. |
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Children's Music Playhouse Unlike other early years music organisations, we believe that music is the most universal of languages, and that it is a potent medium for bringing people together across every kind of barrier. |
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Cie Balabik Cie Balabik is a dance theatre company based in the south of France, dedicated to supporting young children and their families through dance and movement. Two of their shows are available for viewing on Earlyarts YouTube account: 'O': http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXDiNZyXJXY and 'Pestacle': http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWzo5D8OrW4 |
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Cornelius & Jones Original Productions Cornelius & Jones is a small touring theatre puppetry company which performs for children and adults in schools and theatres. |
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Dance in a Bag Are you making the most of your children's creative potential? Do you want to enrich your children's creative opportunities? Dance in a Bag will give you new and innovative approaches to implement the curriculum requirements from Early Years Foundation Stage, Key Stages 1 and 2 and special educational needs. |
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Dynamic New Animation The basis of all DNA's work is grounded in puppetry, utilising traditional puppetry techniques in contemporary practice, whilst devising new approaches to create hybrid visual theatre forms. With over thirty years of combined experience as puppetry practitioners, DNA's artistic management team have consistently delivered high-quality national and international touring productions, education and professional training residencies as well managing festivals and events. Two of their shows are available for viewing on YouTube - Ball Pond Bobby http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=enIcsoAexCE and Atishoo! http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=2UNhRHADqjI |
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De Molecula A show for children 18 months to 3 years. Watch their video here: http://www.myspace.com/demolecula/videos |
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Fishwife Show The Fishwife show is modern adaptation of the Brothers Grimm classic the Fisherman and his Wife. |
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Freehand Theatre High quality theatre for children: a heady mix of original puppetry, good design, rich language, striking concepts, beautiful music and gentle humour |
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Fevered Sleep We make visual theatre, installation and site specific performance. All our work is design-led, devised collaboratively, and grows through improvisation and play from an initial idea. The work is grounded in ideas and in research not in form, and each project is radically different from what has gone before it. |
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Freshwater Theatre Company Freshwater Theatre Company is proud to be one of the most respected drama-in-education companies in the UK. |
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Frontaal Theaterbureau - Amsterdam A youth theatre agency focusing on modern dance performances and visual theatre. |
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FUSE: New Theatre for Young People Fuse is an innovative theatre company that produces memorable theatre experiences for children and young people. |
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Giant Productions To enable any child under 12 years to engage in a creative life by accessing high quality collaborative art form experiences. |
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Half Moon Young People's Theatre Half Moon Young People's Theatre aims to produce and present professional theatre for and with young people that informs, challenges and shapes their artistic potential, placing these creative experiences at the core of our policies and practices. |
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Gomito Productions Gomito produces new visual theatre for anyone who enjoys original stories |
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Hoipolloi Theatre HOIPOLLOI create and tour entertaining, accessible and popular new theatre to venues across Britain and internationally. The company offers a range of workshops and talks for schools and other groups. |
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Het Filiaal - Utrecht he company creates various forms of music theatre for family audiences and performs with great success throughout the Netherlands and Flanders in small and medium-sized theatres and concert halls. Our productions vary from sensational music theater for halls of up to a thousand people, to well thought-out art projects on a much smaller scale wherein children get acquainted with all aspects of theater. |
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Helios Theatre HELIOS Theater has received many awards for their special artistic way of thinking and playing theatre for children. Through a multitude of activities in the region in the last seven years the HELIOS Theater is fast becoming the 'theatre of the region'. The children theatre house will always be a supra-regional platform for current questions about theatre and especially the theatre for children and teenagers. |
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Horse & Bamboo Theatre Horse & Bamboo theatre tours unique preformances and runs education projects. The Company uses masks, puppetry, and music to create a distinctive and intelligent visual theatre, and it organises various training courses and workshops. |
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Ion Creanga Theatre - Romania The theatre's aim is to organize and develop specific activities for professional theatre shows, festivals, projects and programs dedicated to children and youth. |
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International Theatre Festival for Children 1st to 8th October 2011 in Bucharest |
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La Compagnie Piccoli Principi Italian theatre company producing shows for children |
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Imaginate Festival 2010 May/June 2010 - The UK's largest performing arts festival for children and young people |
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Imaginary Theatre Unlocking the transformative power of the imagination |
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Just So Festival The Just So Festival is a boutique, weekend-long festival of creativity aimed at children, young people and their families. |
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Kazzum - Paper People A fun and engaging show for children and their families |
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KJ Smile KJSmile, Inc., founded in January 2003, is a non-profit corporation designed to accentuate the positives of life in all ages…to promote healthy self-esteem and harmony through song/story. |
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Jenny Harris Drama Jenny Harris is a professional drama workshop leader based in Manchester UK, who has led workshops and taught drama since 1989 |
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Kolibri Children and Youth Theatre The Kolibri Children and Young Theater was founded by the General Assembly of Budapest in 1992 - the first children and family theatre in Budapest. |
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L'Art et les Tout Petits 9th to 30th May 2010 in Charleroi, Belgium. Theatre performances and shows for children aged 0-6 years and their parents and carers |
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La Baracca Founded in 1976, La Baracca has been working in the field of the theatre for children for over 25 years. The founders belong to that generation fascinated by a different kind of theatre, ground-breaking compared to the traditional and repertory one. They were actors, puppeteers and people who were trying to create a new way of communication through new stimuli and exciting projects in order to form a new idea of theatre characterised by a playful and creative energy. |
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La Compagnia Il Melarancio Theatre for children |
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La Casa Incierta La Casa Incierta is a company established in Madrid (Spain) and dedicated to the creation and achievement of scenic activities. It was founded in October 2000 by professionals with much experience in scenic arts. |
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Ludus Dance Ludus uses dance as an art form to recognise cultural diversity and difference which is accessible to all through education, participation and recreation. |
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LA Società della Civetta La Società della Civetta aims to create an original theatrical language that addresses children and adolescents with a special attention to early childhood, through the production of shows and workshop for the pre-school age. |
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M6 Theatre Company Founded in 1977, M6 has built a reputation as one of the country's leading touring theatre companies, developing imaginative and powerful forms of theatre for a range of age groups. From its base in Rochdale, M6 reaches over 15,000 people per year. Productions tour to theatres, schools, festivals and a range of early years settings. |
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Magic Carpet Theatre Professional Theatre for Children touring to theatres, schools and festivals in the UK and abroad |
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Theatre Mala Scena Mala Scena is one of the leading Croatian theatres for children and young people, based on number of performances as well as the number of awards which our plays have won domestically and abroad. |
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Mimika Theatre Award winning theatre company appearing in the UK and abroad |
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Manasamitra Manasamitra, an artist led organisation based in the Yorkshire region was formed in February 2005 with objective to promote the traditional Asian music and dance. |
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Mini Stages Baby and toddler music groups. |
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Mirage Theatre - Pocket Full of Nothing A multicultural touring children's theatre company, aiming to take high quality theatre and puppetry to children who would not normally get the opportunity to experience them |
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Theatre Resource Theatre Resource is a dynamic and forward-looking professional arts organisation, specialising in the area of disability arts and social inclusion. Our work promotes the creativity, culture and heritage of disabled people and socially excluded groups, for the benefit of all |
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Moving and Learning If you're a parent, caregiver, teacher, or health professional living or working with children birth to eight, you can promote fitness, self-esteem, self-confidence, learning, and a lot more without specialised knowledge, fancy equipment, or a lot of money. Moving & Learning can help you learn how. |
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Oily Cart OILY CART tours to schools and nurseries, theatres and art centres providing theatre for two vital and often neglected audiences: the Very Young and Young People with Severe Learning Disabilities. |
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Oogly Boogly An event for babies and their grown ups |
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Pandemonium Teatro Theatre for early years in Italy |
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Pandora's Daughter Pandora's Daughter is a puppetry and storytelling company, which has toured in theatres, schools, libraries and art galleries for many years. |
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O'Navio Theatre Theatre performances for children from 12 months to 4 years of age. |
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Puppet Centre Based in Battersea Arts Centre, run on-line 'Animations' magazine and provide lots of information on courses, festivals, etc. |
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Petits Bonheurs Petits Bonheurs is a cultural event in Montreal, for children aged zero to six, which aims to educate toddlers to different artistic disciplines and enable them to explore the world of creation. 2010 Festival runs from 6th to 16th May 2010 |
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Paper Birds The Paper Birds aim is to discover the means to express, convey, discuss and evoke human emotions |
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Planet JR Productions - Netherlands Theatre production for young children. |
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Pied Piper Theatre Company Pied Piper works in schools, theatres and art centres, specialising in new writing or new adaptations of favourite stories or books. |
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Piccoli Principi Theatre Founded in 1979, the Piccoli Principi Theatre Company produces and distributes theatre, and organises cultural activities projects of various types for public organisations, theatres, museums and schools. |
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Polka Theatre Polka Theatre is a pioneer of theatre for young people. Polka provide theare productions and workshops for schools with support for teachers. |
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Quicksilver Theatre Quicksilver Theatre commissions and produces new plays and performs them to children the length and breadth of Britain and abroad, providing many with their first experience of live theatre |
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Pori Centre for Children's Culture - Finland The Pori Centre for Children's Culture functions as an umbrella organisation for the existing actors in the Pori region - cultural establishments, educational institutions, universities and academies - by integrating, developing and redirecting their activities and cooperation in the field of children's culture. |
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Puppet Link Presenting puppetry for all sorts of people in all sorts of places. |
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RadioWaves RadioWaves is a unique network of online radio stations providing schools with their own stations and international broadcast platform. |
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Replay Productions Since 1988 award winning Replay Productions has been producing an exciting programme of work providing high quality educational theatre performances, activities and accompanying resource materials to primary, secondary and special schools throughout Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland. |
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Raganiuke Little Witch Theatre - Lithuania Theatre for young children. |
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RASA - Belgium and Netherlands Arts for children in Belgium and The Netherlands. |
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Rhythmic Connections Rhythmic Connections presents the innovative, interactive, inspiring work of Mary Knysh. Mary's enthusiastic facilitating style and her knowledge of world music traditions inspire everyone to participate in the joyful experience of music improvisation. |
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Rhythmweave Rhythmweave run storytelling, singing, drumming and percussion workshops for all ages and abilities. Making music together is a fantastic team-building, confidence boosting experience which, by its very nature, encourages listening, co-operation and sharing. And it's FUN! |
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Satellite Arts We create exciting performances and workshops using songs, stories, drama, dance, puppetry and live music for schools, village halls, theatres and community venues. |
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Scottish Youth Theatre Scottish Youth Theatre's Annual Report for 2009/2010 |
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Shoestring Puppets In these days of computers and TV, children are still enthralled by puppets. A puppet show is a true interactive theatre experience - the puppets can answer back! |
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Spark Children's Festival 31st May to 13th June 2010 - The Spark Children's Arts Festival is a two-week summer festival of the performing and visual arts for children in Leicester and Leicestershire, which takes place every year in May and June. |
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Sticky Fingers Festival 2011 2011 - Promotes and develop high quality arts and cultural events for children aged 0 to 8, their families, teachers and carers |
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Szene Bunte Wahne - Austria From the 20th to the 28th February 2009 the SZENE BUNTE WÄHNE Tanzfestival will present 12 international dance and performance pieces for a young audience in Vienna. |
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Take Off Festival Takeoff is the North East's annual showcase festival of professional theatre for children and young people run by Theatre Hullabaloo. |
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Tam Tam Theatre Tam Tam Theatre brings imaginative play and refreshing sense of fun to simple fables garnered from around the world. |
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Teatro Allimprovviso A professional company of theatre for children. |
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Tell Tale Hearts Tell Tale Hearts devise and deliver participatory touring theatre productions exclusively for primary children and younger years in schools, theatres and community venues. |
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Teater Fot Teater Fot was established in Trondheim in 2004 as a production unity for children´s theatre. Lise Hovik is artistic director and also works as a drama teacher at Dronning Mauds Minne, College of Early Childhood Education. In 2008 she started on her PhD on theatre for the very young. |
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Theatre Hullabaloo Theatre Hullabaloo is a pioneering theatre company creating quality work for young audiences. |
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The 3Foot People Festival 7th, 8th, 9th July 2010 Three days of wonder for preschool children and their carers |
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Theatre Sans Frontieres UK based touring theatre company working with actors from around the world to create international theatre in its original language. |
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The Ark - Dublin A cultural centre for children. |
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The Bare Toed Dance Company The Bare Toed company was set up in 2001 to bring together the energy of three local movement artists who were keen to share skills, expertise and visions and so create new work. |
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Theatre Iolo Theatr Iolo aims to produce and programme the best of live theatre, making it widely accessible to children and young people in Cardiff and the Vale of Glamorgan. |
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