Wheee!
Lakeside’s International Children’s Theatre and Dance Festival
Family Weekend in the Park
Saturday 4 & Sunday 5 June
(Luminarium from 11am, other events from 12 noon)
Our festival weekend is hugely popular with families and children of all ages, including a wide range of outdoor activities to try as well as some impromptu performances in the park, the majority of which are entirely free of charge!
Look out for these wacky and wonderful things to see, make and do. A detailed timetable will be available on our website www.lakesidearts.org.uk closer to the time.
See …
Creature Encounter present The Hairy Chairs
Two giant walking armchairs complete with big slippers carry their young charges - Freya aged ten, and her adopted younger brother the philosophical monster Gumf – around Lakeside’s parklands, stopping to chat to passers by, and tell wondrous stories of friendship and adventure. Don’t miss this double act who fuse slap-stick comedy with clever animatronics puppetry.
Dave Fearless International Stunt Man
Is it a bird, is it a plane… no it’s Dave Fearless – International Stuntman. Heroic, fearless and brave beyond belief, you will gasp in awe as you witness Dave’s world famous stunts including the twisted spike of steel death or the inflatable space hopper of doom! Be prepared to be astonished…
Maison Foo present
Seaside Shinanigans
In need of a holiday? Never fear Maison Foo are here to bring bathing bedlam to the festival with their uniquely portable seaside. Relax and join the holiday spirit in True Maison Foo style as their very special beach travels across Lakeside.
The Mobile Library (Ans)
Two intriguing and rather nosy librarians are on a mission to stamp, file and collect you and your stories as they venture through the park posing as a rather curious-looking mobile library! So hide those overdue books, get your library cards at the ready and prepare to be thoroughly investigated. P.S. Shhhhhhhhhhh!
The Gramophones
Look out for this Nottingham-based, all-female company’s latest witty and interactive theatre piece. Always played with a twinkle in their eyes, the Gramaphones appeal to the joyful and mischievous side in us all.
Ahoy!
All aboard the Little Duck for a journey that isn’t quite shipshape. Follow our intrepid and slightly inept adventurers as they embark upon a voyage into the unexpected. Straying into unchartered waters, they find strange and fantastic things begin to happen, leaving them bursting with questions... like... Does a canal boat go backwards as well as forwards? Where did I put my hamster? And just who is that hiding in the laundry basket?
Notts Circus
Using all sorts of clever circus skills involving ropes and high wire, Notts Circus reveal a playful, humorous tale about a mischievous cat and her owner. Suitable for all the family, look out for this brand new theatrical adventure of enormous heights and potential catastrophe!
Dans La Poche
In a Lakeside debut for this exciting French company, travelling haberdasher Gracie Spoon arrives amongst us with a tray full of buttons, tricks and tales, weaving together a patchwork wonderland of magic and stories to delight and amaze everyone....
www.danslapoche.com
Lakeside Youth Theatre Present
Our Day Out!
Lakeside 11-14 Youth Theatre premiere their newest piece of clown-like theatre. This new walkabout show explores some playful aspects of day trips where queuing, grumbling, and getting lost is all part of the big adventure.
Make …
Look out for stalls where you can participate in a range of great activities including
Do …
The Natural Environment …
Meet Nottingham City Park Rangers and discover lots of ways to explore Highfield Park’s beautiful natural environment, including den building, learning about natural habitats, tracking mini beasts as following a nature trail around the lake.
Circus Workshops
Ever wondered how it would feel to fly through the air, or climb up a rope in the style of a circus performer? Find out by having a go with Notts Circus in these trapeze sessions for beginners.
Sandpits
Look out for the Lakeside Sandpits complete with Life Guards.
The Lost Cuckoo
Interactive Community Sculpture
Many visitors to the children’s festival in 2009 will remember Marcus Rowlands’ Heron Island: a vast flock of pyramid-shaped charcoal drawings that stretched out across Highfields Park.
We are delighted that Marcus is joining us again this year with creative collaborators 2hd, the Nottingham-based architect’s practice.
Heron Island was a great success largely because of you, the public, and this year you will be invited to shine once more as you construct a modular sculpture on a similarly grand scale. You will be playing with shapes alongside the artists and families from Bilborough who have been driving the research and design stage of this exciting project as the interlocking modular forms have evolved.
Architects of air
Luminarium: levity III
Saturday 28 may - Sunday 5 June 11am - 5.30pm (last admission)
Highfields Park
£3 (15 minute visit at peak times)
Sessions for adults (16+) only
Friday 27 & Saturday 28 may 6 - 7.30pm (last admission)
Children under 16 must be Accompanied by an adult. The Luminarium is wheelchair Accessible
Nottingham-based, internationally renowned, Architects of Air are an eagerly anticipated and essential element of Lakeside’s children’s festival. This year we’re delighted to introduce the company’s stunning installations to the Nottingham European Arts and Theatre Festival audiences too. To this end, we’ve added two evening sessions for adults only in response to requests from our regular audiences.
Designer Alan Parkinson creates truly wonderful labyrinthine structures in which visitors are encouraged to wander, relax, meditate and wonder. Discover tunnels and pods, central pillars and domed meeting points, and be immersed in sheer colour and light. Enter and be amazed!
“An awesome walk-through inflatable sculpture full of colour and light.” Sunday Mail, Brisbane June 2010
www.architects-of-air.com
*All the activities in the park are free apart from the Luminarium which is £3 and theatre performances in the thetare.
Part of Wheee! Lakeside’s International Children’s Theatre & Dance Festival and NEAT 2011 (Nottingham European Arts and Theatre Festival)