Posts Tagged: Festival

Kids Surrey — 1 Comment
7
Jul 10

Guilfest – The Family Festival in Surrey

Not too big, not too small, GuilFest remains an independently run, family festival with a very friendly atmosphere, held in the beautiful surroundings of Stoke Park, Guildford over the weekend of the 16th, 17th and 18th July 2010. Visitors can expect a weekend of live musical entertainment coupled with comedy, children´s entertainment, theatre, art/craft exhibitions, and caterers from around the world providing a variety of meals in a truly festive atmosphere.

With its beer tent serving our very own GuilFest bitter, Calypso cocktail bar, Comedy Zone, Theatre tent, Ceroc Dancing Area, 70s Disco, Dance tent, extensive KidZone and much much more, GuilFest caters for young and old alike – for local visitors or families wanting to just come for the day, or for the whole weekend for a 3 day mini holiday! Guildford´s outdoor swimming Lido and Spectrum Leisure Centre on either side of the festival grounds offer easy breaks from the main festival site with a refreshing swim as well as a showering opportunity for the campers. All in all, GuilFest has something for everyone with its friendly relaxed vibe and eclectic mix of music and entertainment, so come along and see for yourself why GuilFest is the UK’s best family festival!

Started in 1992 by Tony Scott, who still runs and directs the festival, The first festival attracted 1,500 people per day. Now in its 19th year, GuilFest is attracting up to 20,000 visitors each day and has truly established itself as one of the UK’s leading festivals, winning the prestigious ‘Best Family Festival Award’ at the UK Festival Awards in 2006 and being consistently nominated for the family festival award and best medium sized festival award in the UK over the last few years.

To buy tickets, visit the website by clicking here

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Kids Suffolk — No Comments
2
Jul 10

Harvest at Jimmy’s Family Festival 2010

Harvest At Jimmy’s Farm Suffolk will be taking place on 11th and 12th September this year.  You can book your tickets now.  It is a summer celebration of food, music, friends and family and is perfectly suited to a weekend beautiful surroundings of the farm.   This video will give you a better feel about the event:

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Kids London — No Comments
23
Jun 10

Festival Brazil at Southbank London

Bringing the vibrant, dynamic culture of contemporary Brazil to the heart of London, Festival Brazil celebrates the country’s rich cultural heritage – including music, visual arts, dance, literature, debates and food.

Festival Brazil features UK performances at Royal Festival Hall by cultural icon Maria Bethânia, superstar singer song-writer Gilberto Gil, the legendary psychedelic rock band Os Mutantes. From the favelas of Salvador, the world masters of capoeira leap, flip, kick and spin at breathtaking speed in Brazil! Brazil! a new show for all ages.

Brazil’s most evocative writers and poets form the heart of 2010′s London Literature Festival. Plus two ground-breaking Hayward Gallery exhibitions, featuring some of today’s most exciting international artists, challenge our expectations of art, sculpture and design.

Enjoy an exclusive taste of Brazil this summer: from samba-sushi to traditional moqueca and xinxim, an array of caipirinhas, food markets and outdoor stalls, you’ll find a feast of Brazilian food, drink and gifts.

And look out for the many free performances that take over the Southbank Centre site during the Festival.

The Festival will continue until 5th September.

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Kids London — No Comments
21
Jun 10

London LolliBop Festival for Kids 16 & 17 July

LolliBop is a new Kids Festival which will be taking place on 16th and 17th July in Clissold Park, Stoke Newington N16.

The event is aimed at children under 10 and their families and involves amazing interactive activities, workshops, games and performances.

Both the young and the young at heart will take part in an all day treasure hunt through a landscape filled with giant whales, fire breathing dragons, blue trees, cardboard castles and, of course, giant lollipops! They will be able to try their hand at fantastic experiments with mad scientists in the laboratory, enter the world’s smallest nightclub- The Miniscule of Sound, win a race at the school’s out sports day, take time out with the animals at Dr Doo’s little zoo, learn some incredible circus tricks in the big top, dance and sing with Mr Whippy at his ice cream van, take part in the Lollipolympics and all before having lunch in the clouds! Along the way there will be the chance to win prizes and access to the VILP (Very Important Little Person) area.

LolliBop is open to children of all ages but is targeted at those under 10 and their families. The festival promises to be an interactive sensation like no other children’s festival seen before. All activities will advocate the importance of play with parents and families, peer interaction, skill development, creativity and imagination.

Visit the Lollibop website to buy your tickets.

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Kids Berkshire / Kids London — No Comments
4
Jun 10

Legoland Festival of Imagination

This weekend, on 5th & 6th June, Legoland is inviting visitors to take part in a brand new family festival celebrating all things creative! Each day there’ll be interactive story time sessions with a host of children’s favourite characters including Noddy, Peppa Pig, Peter Rabbit, Spot the Dog and Horrid Henry. LEGO® fans can take part in a special building event using millions of bricks from the famous James May LEGO House plus there’ll be lots of fantastic competitions to win exclusive prizes.

The Festival of Imagination, sponsored by LEGO Club Jr., is ensuring that the legacy of the James May LEGO House lives on through an annual building event which will take place outside the Park’s main entrance. To celebrate the opening of the new Pirates Landing area, families can have some hands-on fun and help build a huge LEGO brick chain to accompany an impressive Pirate ship anchor. All the proceeds of this activity, held in conjunction with LEGO UK, will benefit their nominated charity, The National Autistic Society.
Children can dress as their fantasy story book character and join in a Fancy Dress Parade which starts each day at noon in Miniland. Little ones will be enchanted by the colourful creatures of Tinga Tinga Tales when they visit the Creative Art area. Armed with paintbrushes, they can take inspiration from the stories by decorating individual wooden tiles in bright African-themed colours and even take home a Tinga give-away.

In the Miniland Activity Zone bookworms can enjoy a crazy walk through experience in the Mad Science section and even create bookmarks using the wonder of science. Down in the Enchanted Forrest, young explorers can have a Rainbow Magic adventure and help Ruby locate her missing fairy friends for a chance to win an exclusive Rainbow Magic book.

All the fun starts at 12:00 each day and finishes at 17:00. Activities taking place during the Festival of Imagination are included in the standard ticket price and are free to Full Annual Pass holders.

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Kids East Sussex — No Comments
26
Apr 10

Don’t Miss the Brighton Festival from 1st to 23rd May 2010

The Brighton Festival is one to watch out for because it has plenty of family friendly events.

The Festival opens with the Children’s Parade at 10.30am on Saturday 1st May and then a whole range of theatre, puppet shows, activities follow over the next few weeks. Events to look out for are:

* Jacqueline Wilson, the children’s author famous for Tracey Beaker, will be doing a book signing
* Mr Toad’s Children’s Book Quiz for over 7s with tea, sandwiches, cake and plenty of prizes for all
* The Big Splash down by the Marina with an array of weird and wacky street entertainers alongside hands-on activities like make-and-take workshops for kid
* Comedy 4 Kids at Komedia which will have lots of funny gags without any rude bits
* The Magnificent Flying Machine and Penguin puppet shows at Freerange
* Baby Loves Disco at Komedia for kids who like to boogie woogie
* Moscow State Circus at Preston Park

If the kids still have lots of energy, you can let them run around on the beach to burn it off.

For more information visit their website and be sure to book ahead!

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Kids London — No Comments
25
Jan 08

Family Days Out: London International Mime Festival for Kids

The London Mime Festival is running until 27th January, so this weekend is your last chance to catch a couple of the shows. Mime really has moved on a bit since my day as a kid!

There are two very impressive family-friendly shows at the Southbank Centre this weekend:

Pep Bou from Spain
Sun 27 Jan 6pm – one performance only – runs approx 75 mins with no interval
Seats £12, £15, £18 (limited concs)
This master of mime creates beautiful, hand-blown bubbles in all sorts of shapes and sizes. These shimmering creations then dance to a variety of music (as shown in the above video)

Collectif Petit Travers from France
Sat 7.45pm, Sun 4pm – Runs approx 65 mins with no interval
All seats £13 (limited concs)

These three circus artists from France will keep you entertained with a variety of dance and acrobatics.

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