Imaginate
The Unlikely Friendship of Feather Boy & Tentacle Girl
★★★★☆ Mesmerising
The Unlikely Friendship of Feather Boy & Tentacle Girl from Catherine Wheels, is an atmospheric aerial dance piece, co-created by performers Vee Smith and Sadiq Ali, about two opposites who transform and learn to move together in harmony.
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.
Birdboy
★★★★☆ Iridescent dance
Birdboy, at the Traverse as part of Imaginate for just three days, sets out as hilarious a piece of physical dance theatre as you might want. But by its end, it has caught its audience with an altogether more thoughtful edge.
Imaginate Is Go!
Imaginate Listings
The Edinburgh International Children’s Festival is on this week with a fully live festival, featuring twelve different productions, including two specially commissioned shows from Scottish companies.
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.
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