Edinburgh International Children’s Festival
Grown Ups
★★★★★ Silly
The Edinburgh International Children’s Festival opened at the Traverse with a very silly show indeed: Grown Ups, which is a primarily non verbal piece about what grown ups do when children aren’t around.
Children’s Fest programme
The Joy of Imaginate is back!
The Edinburgh International Children’s Festival returns this weekend for a day of free family events at the Museum of Scotland on Saturday, followed by a full dozen shows for children, at venues across Edinburgh.
Children’s Fest List
Children’s Festival Listings
Here are the full listings for Imaginate’s Edinburgh International Children’s Festival 2024. The festival also features a day of free pop-up performances at the Museum of Scotland on Saturday 25 May.
Protest
★★★☆☆ Girl power
Hannah Lavery’s Protest at the Studio as part of the Edinburgh International Children’s Festival proves that, to bring change, all you need is a voice and a little imagination.
Imaginate Family Encounters
Full listings for all-day opener of pop-up events
This year’s Edinburgh International Children’s Festival opens this Saturday 27 May 2023 with a day of free pop-up performances and artist interventions for families in the National Museum of Scotland.
Imaginate 2023
Edinburgh International Children’s Festival
This year’s Edinburgh International Children’s Festival features a total of 14 productions that represent work from 11 different countries in a programme that spans circus, comedy, dance, music, performance art and spoken word as well as theatre.
Children’s Fest Listing
What’s on at the Edinburgh International Children’s Festival
As the end of May looms, thoughts turn to the Edinburgh International Children’s Festival, which this year runs from May 25 through to the first weekend of June.
Imaginate goes Hybrid
Children’s Festival announces outdoor and online programme
The Edinburgh International Children’s Festival has announced a hybrid programme of online and live outdoor theatre and dance for this year’s event, running from Tuesday 25 May to Sunday 6 June 2021.
Imaginate 2021 Call-Out
Children’s Festival modifies format for 2021:
Imaginate has put a call-out for ideas from Scottish companies of projects to run in a modified 2021 Edinburgh International Children’s Festival, which is slated for 26 May to 6 June.
Small Wonders
★★★★★ Magic:
World renowned immersive theatre company Punchdrunk makes its first ever foray to Scotland with a comprehensively startling piece of work, Small Wonders, as part of the Edinburgh International Children’s Festival.
