Spark Festival is back and taking place in various venues from 30th May – 12th June. This amazing Children’s Arts festival is returning to Leicester for 2 weeks and here are our top tips! It really is a feast of performing and visual arts. With events activities taking place all over the city for all ages, you will be spoilt for choice. For all the cool i-phone owners out there, you can down load an i-phone app for the festival. For more information visit HERE.
Top picks from the festival:
Baby O
Embrace Arts Centre
An opera just for babies aged 6-18 months! Created especially so that your baby can enjoy a magical musical experience. Recorded music is combined with live singing, using sounds and words that your baby will find stimulating. Supporting early language development, your baby will enter a magical secret garden full of bees, ducks and splashing fish. How lovely does that sound?
£3 babies under 18 months and £5 for accompanying adult.
Additional adults and children over 18 months £5. Includes a FREE CD to enjoy with your baby at home. To book tickets just call 0116 252 2455.
Mr Stink
Curve Theatre
31st May – 4th June
Various times
Tickets £10, £12, £14
Based on the book written by David Walliams (Little Britain), this hilarious story is all about an uncool kid called Chloe who meets a very smelly local tramp – Mr Stink. Suitable for children aged 7 years and over, this will be one pongy production.
To book tickets please click HERE.
Also, go to our homepage for information on how to meet Mr David Walliams himself!
The Tiger Who Came to Tea
De Montfort Hall
Wednesday 8th June – Friday 10th June
Various times
Tickets £10
This wonderful story of a tea-guzzling tiger has been adapted and directed for the stage by David Wood OBE. The show is full of magic, songs and tea time chaos! Reviewed by The Independent as ‘A Modern Classic’ a must see for children aged 3 and above.
To book tickets please click HERE.
Post by Jess Swann.