CHILDREN'S PROGRAMME
Families are very much at the heart of the whole Serenata Festival Experience.
Pleasance is delighted to be programming the Kidzone at Serenata this year. Enter our music-filled Jurassic world of weird and wonderful creatures and giant tipis. Look out for Peter and The Wolf and a Jumping Mouse. Come to Storysack with Andy, Alex and Mike from Cbeebies. Take part in our STOMP percussion and movement workshops, sing songs with Playsongs Plus and make a junk instrument with Retune It. Get creative and make your views known at the Mischief Makers Protest Camp. Watch Little Angel’s Brilliant Bag Show, interact with their marionettes and make puppets in their special workshops. Listen to stories, watch Andrew The Brilliant Balloon Man as he’s eaten alive by a monster balloon. Listen to music and talk to young musicians from the Royal Academy of Music, then have a Mad Hatter’s Tea Party at wonderful Clavell’s Kids Café. Then round off the day at our special Serenata Children’s Concert.
Clavells Cafè from Kimmeridge will be open daily in the Kidzone from 9am for breakfast until 7pm. Enjoy home cooked, child friendly fodder, including lunch boxes and icecreams, with light lunches and tea available for adults. A place for adults to relax with a drink and the papers, while the children play!
Pleasance Theatre Trust is a registered charity that supports emerging talent in the arts. For more information about us please go to www.pleasance.co.uk.
Serenata would like to thank Clayesmore School for their generous sponsorship of the Pleasance Kidzone.
Thursday 26th August
Performance Tent |
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1200-1300 |
Sea Legs Puppet Theatre – Peter and The Wolf    Welcome to Russia! Travel with Rob and his suitcase full of surprises into deepest darkest Russia, to old man Prokofiev's house in the woods, where lives the big, hungry Wolf. |
1315-1400 |
Playsongs Plus   Come for a ride in Rosie the Little Red Car, chug along on the tractor, dance with the five little owls and find the squeaky button in your tummy A fun live music session with songs, rhymes and instruments for under 5s (but adults can join in too!). Nickie and Gill live in Dorset where their community based singing groups for parents, babies and toddlers have become the highlight of many a family’s week. They have a real passion for providing fun, live music for even the youngest of children! At dusk, the sound of their haunting lullaby CD can be heard floating from bedroom windows, while their most recent album, Rosie the Little Red Car, has become a must for car journeys! www.playsongsplus.com |
1415-1515 |
Sea Legs Puppet Theatre – Peter and The Wolf |
1615-1700 |
Story Sack
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1800-1845 |
Children’s Classical ConcertListen to The Zilia String Trio and The Renard Ensemble, from the Royal Academy of Music and local young Musicians perform a concert of popular music, specifically tailored for children. |
Andy Day and Alex Winters from Cbeebies join with Mike James to create something silly for the Festival. With fun, laughter and lots of interaction 'Story Sack' brings these three together for an Epic but Short, Large but Tiny, Massive but Little adventure. Who's invited? You are!Arts and Craft Tent |
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1200-1300 |
Build a Phartapone out of Junk
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1330-1430 |
Build a BatonkaIn this workshop we will be building batonkas, using recycled materials, and learning about how sound and music is made. We will create a Scrap Heap Batonka Orchestra to play at the end of the workshop. This is a great way to get children working together and playing music, regardless of ability or training. |
1500-1600 |
Build a Phartapone'Phartaphones' are a hit with kids of all ages, and adults too. We will make 'Phartaphones' from everyday packaging and you can then customise them in whatever way you like. We will be adding tuning pipes to the basic 'Phartaphone' so that we can perform simple tunes together. Design, Recycling, teamwork, performance, this workshop has everything |
1630-1900 |
Free Art
Colour and draw on our special Kidzone activity sheets or make a hat for the Mad Hatter’s Tea Party! |
Playtent |
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1100-1200 |
Andrew The Brilliant Balloon Man International Star, Specialist Balloon Artiste and Entertainer, Andrew The Brilliant Balloon Man, appears daily at the Kidzone with his Magical Balloon Show. Watch his incredible speed of dexterity and creativity as he creates amazing balloon sculptures including a Monkey up a Tree and Gorgeous Goofy sitting on a Tricycle (often bigger than the child he goes home with!) then watch him being eaten alive by the Monster Man Eating Balloon! Smiles and laughter GUARANTEED! "Charming, funny, unexpected and very ingenious. We have not stopped talking about you since".Nicky Shaw http://www.brilliantballoons.com/ |
1300-1500 |
Free play
Come and listen to stories with TaleTime Audio Stories, play with some toys, get your face painted or just relax and listen to some live music on our giant beanbags!    Enter a myriad of magical worlds; Greek myths, tales from around the world, pirates, traditional tales, legends, fables and fairies. Traditional performance storyteller Victoria Parsons weaves stories together to create an energetic and engaging show for children and adults alike. http://taletimeaudiostories.com/ |
1500-1600 |
Andrew The Brilliant Balloon Man |
1700-1800 |
Mad Hatter’s Tea Party Sip your tea and snarffle some jammy scones at the cafe, to some funky jazz from the streets of the world. These musicians have travelled the globe, from Cuba to Cairo, Talinn to Timbuktu and New Orleans to Zanzibar collecting riffs, grooves and silly songs to bring a smile to the cloudiest day |
Friday 27th August
Performance Tent |
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1100-1145 |
Story Sack
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1230-1300 |
Stomp Workshop (for under fives) The Multi-award winning show STOMP has no words - everyone can understand it. It has little or no melody in the traditional sense, so it doesn't matter if your taste in music is jazz, classical, dance or pop. STOMP is about rhythm, which is common to all cultures. Everyone knows rhythm, if only from the beating of their own heart - it is the basis of all music. Come and explore your physicality, co-ordination, and dexterity, with our STOMP rhythm and movement workshops. The experience begins with the basic building blocks of rhythm and invites you to explore performance and music using everyday objects. http://www.stomp.co.uk/ |
1315-1400 |
Stomp Workshop (for ages 5-8) |
1415-1500 |
Story SackA repeat performance of Andy, Alex and Mike’s show. |
1530-1600 |
Stomp Workshop (for under fives) |
1615-1700 |
Stomp Workshop (for ages 5-8) |
1800-1845 |
Children’s Classical ConcertListen to The Zilia String Trio and The Renard Ensemble, from the Royal Academy of Music and local young Musicians perform a concert of popular music, specifically tailored for children. |
Andy Day and Alex Winters from Cbeebies join with Mike James to create something silly for the Festival. With fun, laughter and lots of interaction 'Story Sack' brings these three together for an Epic but Short, Large but Tiny, Massive but Little adventure. Who's invited? You are!Arts and Craft Tent |
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1100-1200 |
Andrew The Brilliant Balloon Man |
1400-1630 |
Mischief Makers Protest Camp   Are you a young person with something to say? Do you have ideas that must be heard? Creative, rebellious children are invited to join us to make a colourful installation of cloth banners, placards and peg doll demonstrations. The Mischief Makers are visual artists who work with young people enabling them to express themselves visually. We use recycled materials to create beautiful cloth banners, hand held placards and peg doll protests. We encourage young people to have a voice, previous slogans have included 'Oi grown ups, stop wasting our balloons!' and 'I want to surf on the moon. (have attached their flyer). http://themischiefmakers.wordpress.com/ |
1645-1700 |
Mischief Makers Protest March!Join the Mischief Makers Protest March around the Festival Site and make your views known! |
1700-1900 |
Free Art
Colour and draw on our special Kidzone activity sheets or make a hat for the Mad Hatter’s Tea Party! |
Playtent |
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1100-1145 |
Playsongs Plus |
1215-1300 |
Playsongs Plus |
1300-1500 |
Free play
Come and listen to stories with TaleTime Audio Stories, play with some toys, get your face painted or just relax and listen to some live music on our giant beanbags! |
1500-1600
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Andrew The Brilliant Balloon Man
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1700-1800 |
Mad Hatter’s Tea PartySip your tea and snarffle some jammy scones at the cafe, to some funky jazz from the streets of the world. These musicians have travelled the globe, from Cuba to Cairo, Talinn to Timbuktu and New Orleans to Zanzibar collecting riffs, grooves and silly songs to bring a smile to the cloudiest day |
Saturday 28th August
Performance Tent |
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1100-1130 |
Little Angel Theatre – Brilliant Bag Show  Ronnie Le Drew presents The Brilliant Bag Show: A bagful of puppets who tell their own stories. A delightful, gentle entertainment for the very young and a great introduction to live theatre. Ronnie is better known as Zippy from ITV's Rainbow and has also appeared with Harry & Matthew Corbett on The Sooty Show. Little Angel Theatre in Islington is one of only three puppet theatres in England. Known as ‘the home of British Puppetry’ they have been inspiring children and adults for nearly 50 years with high quality puppet theatre and workshops. "wonderful work that celebrates the possibilities of theatre"- The Guardian |
1200-1300 |
Unpacked Theatre – Jumping Mouse Gorgonzola! Set on a red double-decker, Jumping Mouse is a totally full-throttle adventure guaranteed to get you absolutely revved up. Jump on the second bus! The drivers saved you a seat. Come with us and meet a bull frog blues band, a clapped-out bison, a forgetful wolf... and a most unusual little mouse, who's about to have a very big adventure. Unpacked use live music and songs, puppetry, high-octane physicality and bits of a London bus to tell a magical story of growing up, adapted from a well-loved Native American folk tale. |
1330-1400 |
Little Angel Theatre – Brilliant Bag Show |
1415-1500 |
Andrew The Brilliant Balloon Man |
1500-1545 |
Little Angel Marionettes |
1600-1700 |
 Unpacked Theatre – Jumping Mouse |
1800-1845 |
Children’s Classical ConcertCome and listen to Royal Academy of Music Student ensembles – The Zilia String Trio and The Renard Ensemble and local young Musicians perform a concert of popular music, specifically programmed for children. |
Arts and Craft Tent |
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1100-1200 |
Little Angel Puppet Making WorkshopCome and see a professional puppeteer in action, demonstrating how to manipulate classic short-string marionettes. These marionettes were last seen on stage in Little Angel’s production of Petrushka, set to the music of Stravinsky. And if you want to have a go yourself, you can also make and decorate your own simple puppet (suitable particularly for age 5-10) to take away with you and enjoy for the rest of the festival! |
1215-1300 |
Little Angel Puppet Making Workshop |
1315-1400 |
Little Angel Puppet Making Workshop |
1400-1800 |
Mischief Makers Protest Camp |
1645-1700 |
Mischief Makers Protest March!Join the Mischief Makers Protest March around the Festival Site and make your views known! |
1700-1900 |
Free Art
Colour and draw on our special Kidzone activity sheets or make a hat for the Mad Hatter’s Tea Party! |
Playtent |
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1100-1200 |
Andrew The Brilliant Balloon Man |
1215-1900 |
Free play
Come and listen to stories with TaleTime Audio Stories, play with some toys, get your face painted or just relax and listen to some live music on our giant beanbags! |
1700-1800 |
Mad Hatter’s Tea PartySip your tea and snarffle some jammy scones at the cafe, to some funky jazz from the streets of the world. These musicians have travelled the globe, from Cuba to Cairo, Talinn to Timbuktu and New Orleans to Zanzibar collecting riffs, grooves and silly songs to bring a smile to the cloudiest day |
Daily
Clavell’s Café and Outdoor Play Area |
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1700-1800 |
Mad Hatter’s Tea PartySip your tea and snarffle some jammy scones at the cafe, to some funky jazz from the streets of the world. These musicians have travelled the globe, from Cuba to Cairo, Talinn to Timbuktu and New Orleans to Zanzibar collecting riffs, grooves and silly songs to bring a smile to the cloudiest day. 
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Outdoor Play Area |
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0900-1900 |
Clamber on the climbing cubes, bounce and race our Happy Hopperz, ride around our mini race track, get your face painted, or just run around! |
