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We're delighted to announce that we are now expanding our weekly range of activities to offer early years classes in Edinburgh on Sundays, at the Royal Botanic Gardens. 

You can come along to one class to try it out (£11). 

The Junior…

Brave Steps is an environment designed for very young children and their parent/carer taking them into sensory experiences and helping parents to see the amazing learning that their children do every day. Part of Brighton Children's Festival, Brave Steps will be in the mezzanine at the Dome Theatre on Saturday 14th April and is presented by a group of artists working with Re:create Trust. …

Hackney Children's theatre is East Londons newest venue for children's performance . We are situated in a 700 year old building and have a fantastic versatile, changeable playing space.

We are a once monthly Saturday morning event and are looking for contemporary , dynamic and innovative productions that can use our space, have no lighting requirements and require minimal technical setup . Our fast growing audience is 3+ and their families. We like dance, clowning, physical…

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http://www.itstheforest.com

Why should parents bring their children to see something like my company's dance piece 'The Forest'?

When it’s half term and I scan the pages of the ‘what’s on for children’ sections of magazines I want to know that the experiences I choose for my children will be, to be honest, worth the effort, that they will enjoy it, that they will be enriched in some way, in any way, by what they’ve…

We're in the 2nd week of rehearsals for a revival of our show The Forest, and I've been thinking a lot about how the piece works, and why we made it the way we did.  It's a piece in which we tried to recreate the sensations and rhythms and feelings of being in a forest - to do with play, fear, light, space, texture, movement - and we hang this loosely around a visual structure: a simple journey while day turns to night.  It's pretty abstract!  

It has always felt important to…

Help Helium's story come true for children in hospital - Support our project, receive a personalised gift and be in with the chance to win tickets for Mary Black in Concert, Big Maggie at The Gaiety, a voucher from award-winning Zeba Hairdressers, recipe books and Mothercare vouchers plus other prizes.



The Storytellers' New Gambit is a storytelling and technology performance project for children in hospital in which the artists will design storytellers' costumes with embedded…

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Helium (the Irish children's arts charity working to improve the lives of children in hospital) has been shortlisted for 2012 Charity of the Year with Mykidstime.ie and we need your vote.



The winning charity with the most votes by midnight 29th January will become Mykidstime.ie Charity of the Year and receive support and advertising throughout the year.



This is a great opportunity to help build awareness around the positive difference…

Three exciting new roles for motivated, creative and enterprising professionals to enhance our central team including a Business Development Manager, Marketing Research Assistant and Junior Web Developer. If you want to work as part of an amazing freelance team, make a big difference in the lives of young children, and share our values for social enterprise please find out more …

NEXT GENERATION Call Out

The Next Generation Network is a new network connected to a programme…

Earlyarts, the largest national network for people working creatively with children and families in the arts, cultural and early years sectors has welcomed three new members to their Advisory…

Here is a better film of The Invitation than the one I posted before - we'd love to do it again in a suitable building and expand the idea through working with more young people in the cast and crew.

We are now looking for shows to perform at Takeoff Festival of Theatre for Children and Young People, 10th - 16th November 2012, Durham City.

The Takeoff Festival of Theatre for Children and Young People is the UK’s leading sector development event for those working in the field of theatre for young audiences. Since 1997, the annual festival has taken place in various locations across the North East of England and, in recent years, with a more steady home in Darlington, the festival…

Would you like to be the guest programmer for Takeoff Festival 2012?

We are now recruiting! If you think you've got what it takes, please apply by December 12th 2011.

Download an application form here - http://www.theatrehullabaloo.org.uk/takeoff-festival-downloads.asp

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Share the most exciting and inspiring creative activities you use to support children's play and learning and receive 20% off your next order of Earlyarts Creative Play Postcard Sets, PLUS the best ideas could win 35 sets to give away.

We'll publish your ideas on our website along with all the others we receive.

Designed by Earlyarts members and parents,…

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I just wanted to post this little film of a week long performance in a creche that we made in January. I thought it might be of interest to some folk…

We're just embarking on a research project to explore how children, especially very young children, can give feedback on their experience of performance without that feedback having to be mediated by adults.  We had our second brainstorming conversation today and realised what a very very steep learning curve we're on.  If you have any thoughts or experiences in relation to all this, we'd love to hear more...

Thought I'd share a short film from a show called 'The Invitation' made for White Night in Brighton that combines projected imagery with live action and shadow puppetry. The detail in the images are a bit bleached out, but it gives the general idea!

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