Children and Young People's Festival by Live Borders

Borders LIVE Touring

www. liveborders.org.uk

Registration No SC243577 | Registered Charity No SC034227

Children and Young People’s Festival CONTENTS

Borders LIVE Touring Welcome to the 2019 Borders LIVE Touring Children and Young People’s Festival in partnership with the Young Promoters Scheme, Borders Young Creatives and the highly-esteemed Puppet Animation Scotland. We are very excited to be bringing the highly-acclaimed Scottish and international workshop leaders and performers to the children and young people in our rural areas whilst offering our young promoters the opportunity to develop their skills in programming high quality, professional events. A development of previous children’s events led by the Creative Communities team, this festival was launched last year as part of the Scottish Government’s Year of Young People. Now through the Creative Scotland and LEADER funded project, Borders Young Creatives, we are working with the rural touring scheme, Borders LIVE Touring connecting rural communities across the Scottish Borders with a wide range of high quality, professional touring performances. This year, we are hosting a wonderful collection of workshops and performances in puppetry and animation aimed at children aged 0-18, including children with profound and multiple learning difficulties. Children aged 2.5-11 years also have the opportunity to sign up for our super funky, 3 day long Easter Dance Camp. The grand spectacular finale of the festival sees a celebration of bright young talent from across the Borders. Young performers aged 8-25 are being given the opportunity to showcase their skills at our Youth Arts Showcase in the Volunteer Hall in Galashiels. For any further detail about the events, ticket booking and signing up for workshops or to perform at the Youth Arts Showcase, please visit our website- www.liveborders.org.uk

Call for acts

Easter Dance Camp

The Lighthouse Keeper’s Tale by Clydebuilt Puppet Theatre (performance)

Paper Memories by Jabuti Theatre - in association with Platform (performance)

Lost Bear by Clydebuilt Puppet Theatre (performance)

Little Red by Sokobauno Puppet Theatre (performance/ workshop)

Today, I Am Someone Else by Two Detectives (workshop)

The Red Turtle by Michael Dudok De Wit 2016 (ﬁlm)

Foxes & Crows - 'Chaussette' (sock) Puppet Workshop by Le Petit Monde (workshop)

Eaten by Mamoru Iriguchi (performance)

Let's Go by Two Detectives (performance)

Youth Arts Showcase

CALL OUT FOR ACTS

EASTER DANCE CAMP

A fantastic opportunity to showcase the talents of your students and young people. We are inviting young people to come and take the stage on Saturday 27 April in the Volunteer Hall in Galashiels! Do you have a performance group or act that you would like to give a platform in front of an audience, alongside the most talented young performers of the Scottish Borders? We are looking for dancers, actors, musicians, writers, ﬁlmmakers, clowns or any other performers that would like to share their skills, promote their act or simply shine in the spotlight! The showcase is open to individuals and groups aged between 8 and 25 years. Applications to register your act are now being taken with a deadline of Friday 29 March.

For more information or to sign yourselves up, please contact: Becki Hodgson or Eve Robertson: 01750 726400 / artservice@liveborders1.org.uk

Something for every dance enthusiast this Easter from 2.5-11 years! Come and join us for some creative fun over 3 days of the holidays, no matter what your experience! We will be using movement, props and the wider performing arts to encourage participants to enjoy dance, build conﬁdence, expand creative imagination and expression, but mostly to have fun! Mini Movers will be led by Live Borders’ Becki Hodgson who comes from a dance and performing arts background and has specialised in dance and movement with Early Years groups. These sessions are guaranteed to be a sensory explosion of dance, music and playful props for little ones and their grown-ups. Midi's and Junior's classes are designed to be fun bite-size pockets of holiday dance fun. These will be led by local hip-hop dance tutor, Mark Cameron, who brings with him a vast experience of choreographing and performing all over the world!

Registration fee: Single - £5 Group - £20

Please do not hesitate to get in touch for further details.

Monday 1 April, Tuesday 2 and Wednesday 3 April Victoria Halls, Selkirk PLACES ARE LIMITED! Mini Movers- Nursery (2.5 - 5yrs) 10:00-10.45 Midi Movers- Primary 1-3 10.00-10:45 Junior Movers- Primary 4-7 11:00-11:45 Progressive Sessions, Monday to Wednesday £12.50 for all 3 sessions To book visit: www.bit.ly/easterdancecamp2019

The Lighthouse Keeper’s Tale by Clydebuilt Puppet Theatre

Paper Memories by Jabuti Theatre in association with Platform

In a tiny quaint village by the sea, Tom the Lighthouse Keeper ﬁshes by the jaggedy rocks and watches out carefully for the ships sailing by night. In the one and only village café, his friend Belle the Mermaid makes such delicious ice cream for her happy customers.

Salma, a refugee girl from Kurdistan, has recently arrived in Scotland with her family. Salma’s memories of home are powerful and so captivating that they draw everyone and everything around her into them. But no one will let Salma talk about her memories. Slowly, her memories begin to disappear, until one day the most precious memory of all is destroyed, and Salma stops speaking about her memories, or anything else. An evocative visual narrative, which uses aerial-dance, puppetry and music, taking the audience on an emotional journey, which explores the importance of memories and how they make us who we are.

A beautifully created and delightfully told story of friendship, with table-top puppets and original music. Come on in, the water’s lovely, but watch out for the crabs!

Sunday 31 March – 14:30 Performance

To book visit: www.bit.ly/papermemoriesstboswells

St Boswells Village Hall SUITABLE FOR AGES 7+ Saturday 30 March- 15:00 Performance _ Bowhill Theatre SUITABLE FOR AGES 3-7 ADULTS £6; UNDER 16s £4

To book please call: 01750 22204

Little Red by Sokobauno Puppet Theatre

Lost Bear by Clydebuilt Puppet Theatre

“I could watch your work all day!”

Brought to you from inside the beautiful Little Faun Caravan, this event sees Little Red take to the path through the meadow of butterflies and flowers into the ever-changing forest with its creaking trees and wild birds. Her task is to deliver provisions to her poorly granny. But will she find her way without too much bother...?

A lost bear finds himself in a world that is full of lost things: lost toys, lost hats, lost socks and lost umbrellas. When Lost Bear travels to try and find his way home, his journey takes him through lost worlds, the seaside, the jungle and a trip to the moon. Along the way he meets other lost toys; Scary Shark, Mischievous Monkey and the Revolving Robot, until he finds himself facing the most unusual foe of all- Steggyasaurus…! A gentle tale for little ones- short adventures without too long a story to follow. Brought to you by one of Scotland’s leading puppetry companies, (the same team that presented Gingerbread Man), this is a show created with an infectious sense of fun and adventure for all those, large and small, who still love their toys (especially the grown-ups!).

Sokobauno uses miniature toy theatre techniques, beautifully designed shadow cuts and original music to vividly re-imagine this classic fairy tale. For this new show the interior of the Little Faun Caravan is transformed into a magical forest environment, creating an atmospheric immersive experience for audiences from the moment they enter the space.

Saturday 6 April – 14:00 Performance Caddonfoot Village Hall SUITABLE FOR AGES 3-6 ADULTS £6; UNDER 16s £4

After the performance, why not create your very own colourful shadow cuts under the caravan’s awning, and then make a short performance with them inside the caravan’s auditorium? The workshop theme is “Deep in The Forest”.

Tickets available from: Caddonfoot Shop infocaddonfoot@btinternet.com 07527 800301

Richard Medrington of Puppet State Theatre, Solas Festival 2016

Sunday 7 April – 11:30 & 14:00 Performance/workshop Harestanes Visitor Centre SUITABLE FOR AGE 4+ LIMITED CAPACITY. CHILDREN £6 Tickets available from: www.bit.ly/harestanesred

The Red Turtle by Michael Dudok De Wit 2016

Today, I Am Someone Else by Two Detectives

Set in a vibrant – but at times forbidding – tropical paradise, this is a touching, wordless, story about one man’s uneasy relationship with the powerful forces of nature all around him. Shipwrecked on a deserted island rich with natural resources the man tries to escape, building a raft to sail away. But a giant sea beast - a red turtle repeatedly foils his plans, beginning a relationship which will be central to both for the rest of their lives.

An opportunity to play and experiment with make-believe and identity, a fun workshop which celebrates our innate delight in dressing up and trying out diﬀerent ways of being. We’ll begin with simple, enjoyable games and intriguing people and then we’ll use costume, fabric, props and music to invent new characters and see how they behave. We’ll also use giant sheets of paper and mark-making to sketch roughly around our footprints, body frames and hand prints, and we’ll play with using this to redeﬁne ourselves magically, as whoever or whatever we’d like to be today.

Saturday 5 April –14:00 Film ADULT £6; UNDER 16s £4 Heart for Duns THIS FILM IS PG

Today, I am Someone Else, is all about enjoyment- it’s for extroverts and introverts, and everyone in between. Whether quietly or with great gusto, children and young people can engage in their own way in a supportive and joyful atmosphere.

To book visit: www.bit.ly/redturtleduns Tickets also available from: Also available from Nairns Newsagents, Market Square, Duns.

Friday 12 April – 14:00-16:00 Workshop Chirnside Community Centre SUITABLE FOR AGES 8-12 Tickets available from: 01890 819123; 07900 830366 10 6

Foxes & Crows 'Chaussette' (sock) Puppet Workshop by Le Petit Monde

Eaten by Mamoru Iriguchi

Le Petit Monde brings you a new puppet-making workshop based on the famous Aesop fable, The Fox and the Crow!

What if your food started talking back? Meet Lionel the lion. He’s just eaten a human called Mamoru for lunch. Being very hungry, Lionel didn’t chew his food, so Mamoru is still alive and very well in his stomach, and now wants to say hello…

Turned into a poem by the super famous French poet Jean de La Fontaine in the 17th century, the fable is equally popular in Scotland as it is in France. After a short introduction to the story, participants will make their own puppets out of old socks and then get to manipulate them.

In a cuddly lion costume, Mamoru simultaneously plays the roles of the eater- Lionel the Lion who dreams of being a vegetarian, and the eaten- Mamoru the human, who loves meat. Occasionally interrupted by haunting puppets representing the animals they have both consumed in the past, the predator and the prey develop a ﬁrm friendship… until Mamoru gets totally digested. Lionel’s sorrow over the loss of his best friend does not last long though, his lunch emerges with a triumphant fart!

“What a very talented puppeteer! Super speaking voice – correct speed and easy to follow all the French”

With a surrealist, humorous storyline and imaginative puppetry, Eaten invites audiences to think about food, how it‘s produced, what they eat and why!

Primary Teacher, Arts Across Learning Festival Aberdeen

Critics’ Awards for Theatre in Scotland 2017 (CATS): Nominated for best children’s show (5+)

We will also have fun practising a few key French phrases from Tania’s own bilingual version of the fable and re-enact the story together. Printed copies of the text will be handed out to take home. This workshop is accessible to non-French speakers. **All you need to do is BRING A SOCK (stripy ones are great!) and your imagination.**

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Sunday 14 April 10:30 and 14:00 Harestanes Visitor Centre CHILD £8 Workshop SUITABLE FOR AGES 7-9 LIMITED CAPACITY

Friday 19 April – 15:00 Performance Heart of Hawick SUITABLE FOR AGE 5+ ADULTS £8; UNDER 16s £6

Tickets available from: www.bit.ly/foxesandcrows

Tickets available from: www.heartofhawick.co.uk 01450 360688 6

Let's Go by Two Detectives

Youth Arts Showcase

An adventure story with song, speech, movement, touch, smell, and big, beautiful visuals, we are taken on a voyage over the sea, to a strange land and a stranger castle, where an extremely sneaky queen plays a trick on us!

A celebration of all things Youth Arts in the Scottish Borders! Live Borders Creative Communities brings you a wonderful evening of entertainment from some of the most talented young performance artists from across the region!

Let’s Go is made specially for people with Profound & Multiple Learning Diﬃculties (PMLD). It unfolds slowly, using repetition, to allow for the time it may take some audience members to

A vibrant evening, showcasing a wide range of ﬁlm, dance, theatre and musical performance pieces to be enjoyed by all the family.

process information. Let’s Go is fun and full of giggles and mischief. The production was ﬁrst developed by Naomi Kelly, one of Two Detectives’ artistic directors, as part of an artist residency with

Saturday 20 April – 14:00 Performance Tweedbank Community Centre

Guaranteed to blow your socks oﬀ!

Cove Park and Parklands School, Helensburgh (a school for students with PMLD). Over two weeks, Naomi worked with four young people in the school, and well as their teachers and support staﬀ, responding to what these young people found relaxing, pleasant, exciting and fascinating to make this piece.

SUITABLE FOR AGE 6+ PEOPLE WITH PROFOUND AND MULTIPLE LEARNING DIFFICULTIES (PMLD)

Saturday 27 April - 19:30 Volunteer Hall in Galashiels ADULT £6; UNDER 16S £4; GROUPS OF 10 £40

LIMITED CAPACITY. CHILD £6; CARER FREE

*Let’s Go was recently performed for audiences at Orchard Brae School as part of Aberdeen Performing Arts’ Light The Blue Festival 2018*

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Tickets available from: www.bit.ly/youthartsgala

Tickets available from: www.bit.ly/letsgotweedbank 6

www. liveborders.org.uk

Registration No SC243577 | Registered Charity No SC034227