Land of Kids
Land of Kids
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Location: Dalston, London E8
Land of Kids is a new one-day children’s festival in East London, it brings with it a cargo of curiosities for all the family.
Like a world beyond the wardrobe, Land of Kids settles into a hidden corner, away from Kingsland’s heaving main strip, with a day-long programme of entertainment. Part-indoor, part-outdoor, Land of Kids will connect some of the area’s most-loved arts venues and undiscovered spaces, to present everything from surreal crafts to cockney-Royals, puppeteers to poets, home-made grub to home-grown pirates, film to face-painting, family disco, speed birthday-parties, immersive theatre, live music and bedtime stories.
Once inside, everything* is free of charge – balloons, face painting, goody bags, workshops, nail-art, music and games (*except food & drink)
Land of Kids 2013 Parent Review
Emerging from Dalston Junction station on 6th May into blazing sunshine I had high hopes for our first festival of the summer, Land of Kids, the new children’s festival by the same artistic people that brought us the well-established Land of Kings (an annual music, theatre and arts event). It was an unusually bright and hot sunny bank holiday, perfect festival weather.
Festival Kidz Team: Our Picks 2013
Every year we face the same dilemmas – Do we go to our favourites, the ones we know and love, where the kids feel at home?
Or do we try out some new ones, potentially discover something amazing, and widen our knowledge of great festivals to recommend to all you lovely families out there?
We’re very lucky in that we get invited to far more than we can manage to attend… but the reality is that with kids (or even without kids) it’s just too tiring (and expensive!) so we’ve had to learn to pick and choose.
Here are the festivals we’ve picked this year and why Read more…
Immersive Theatre for Children
This month I was arrested, hired a lawyer, attended my trial, was found guilty and prepared for my execution. However unlike Josef K there was a happy ending for me as I enjoyed a glass of wine with other survivors of Retz’ The Trial, an immersive theatrical experience based on the Kafka novel where you take your own part in the play as one of the accused.
My love of immersive theatre has grown since discovering it at Glastonbury Festival, the most wonderful innovative event that most people think is just music but is not. It is also theatre, art, ideas and free-thinking. There I found a love of many things I had never seen in the main stream arts: contemporary perfomance poetry, puppetry and mime.
It was there I discovered immersive theatre where you are drawn by the actors into the play yourself, forcing you to use your creativity and imagination to make up your part in the play. It’s exciting, it’s thought provoking and most of all it’s fun.
Land of Kids
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Location: Dalston, London E8
Land of Kids is a new one-day children’s festival in East London, it brings with it a cargo of curiosities for all the family.
Like a world beyond the wardrobe, Land of Kids settles into a hidden corner, away from Kingsland’s heaving main strip, with a day-long programme of entertainment. Part-indoor, part-outdoor, Land of Kids will connect some of the area’s most-loved arts venues and undiscovered spaces, to present everything from surreal crafts to cockney-Royals, puppeteers to poets, home-made grub to home-grown pirates, film to face-painting, family disco, speed birthday-parties, immersive theatre, live music and bedtime stories.
Once inside, everything* is free of charge – balloons, face painting, goody bags, workshops, nail-art, music and games (*except food & drink)
Festival Kidz Team: Our Picks 2013
Every year we face the same dilemmas – Do we go to our favourites, the ones we know and love, where the kids feel at home?
Or do we try out some new ones, potentially discover something amazing, and widen our knowledge of great festivals to recommend to all you lovely families out there?
We’re very lucky in that we get invited to far more than we can manage to attend… but the reality is that with kids (or even without kids) it’s just too tiring (and expensive!) so we’ve had to learn to pick and choose.
Here are the festivals we’ve picked this year and why Read more…
Land of Kids 2013 Parent Review
Emerging from Dalston Junction station on 6th May into blazing sunshine I had high hopes for our first festival of the summer, Land of Kids, the new children’s festival by the same artistic people that brought us the well-established Land of Kings (an annual music, theatre and arts event). It was an unusually bright and hot sunny bank holiday, perfect festival weather.
Immersive Theatre for Children
This month I was arrested, hired a lawyer, attended my trial, was found guilty and prepared for my execution. However unlike Josef K there was a happy ending for me as I enjoyed a glass of wine with other survivors of Retz’ The Trial, an immersive theatrical experience based on the Kafka novel where you take your own part in the play as one of the accused.
My love of immersive theatre has grown since discovering it at Glastonbury Festival, the most wonderful innovative event that most people think is just music but is not. It is also theatre, art, ideas and free-thinking. There I found a love of many things I had never seen in the main stream arts: contemporary perfomance poetry, puppetry and mime.
It was there I discovered immersive theatre where you are drawn by the actors into the play yourself, forcing you to use your creativity and imagination to make up your part in the play. It’s exciting, it’s thought provoking and most of all it’s fun.