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g on n i h t e Som is y a d r u sat er h t o n a r o back f ear! y d e l l i fun-f There is a great variety of shows for children aged 2 –10 so get out of the cold this winter and join us for some great performances, and our FREE kids craft workshops

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Foundation Kids Corner Workshops at Something on Saturday are funded by the Adelaide Festival Centre Foundation.

The Foundation raises funds for projects that nurture young people at Adelaide Festival Centre, thereby inspiring young people through the arts. For this reason workshops are free.

We thank them for their continuing support.

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Saturday

26 APRIL

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LIVE SHOW

The Magic Chicken

Chooks of the World!

by Theatre Beating

Make your own chicken with Jim and Liz. It may not cluck or lay eggs, but it will be as funny and as cool as you make it.

Devour a slapstick treat of culinary chaos!

Two underlectual chefs in a Seussian kitchen cook up a hilarious concoction of punk-panto physical comedy, live music and puppetry.

As our half-baked heroes juggle pots, knives and snarling customers, their lives are interrupted by a mysterious feathered friend. The orders are coming thick and fast, but can our dumb waiters stop the caper from turning to custard?

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Join us for a hilarious mix of magic, mime and music with slapstick humour and puppetry.

A riot for both kids and adults alike.

10am and 1pm Dunstan Playhouse Reserved Seating Age: 5+ Duration: 50 mins

Child $20 Adults $25 (or $20 if you subscribe to 4 or more shows)

10am-1pm Playhouse foyer

FREE Please note that children must be supervised at all times.

Saturday

3 May

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LIVE SHOW

More than Rhythm

Mak’n Music

Nick Parnell

Irene, Evan and family will provide you with colourful materials and ideas to make your own music… will you or your instrument make the noise? Will you create something modern or classical?

Nick Parnell has an incredible ability to transform anything ‘beatable’ into the stuff of rhythmic and musical genius. From tuned and non-tuned percussion instruments such as drum kit, vibraphone, bongos and djembe drums, he is Australia’s best concert and solo percussionist.

Nick will showcase a colourful range of musical styles, including rock, classical, African and Brazilian. Volunteers will be called on stage throughout the show, giving kids a fun and interactive introduction to the world of percussion.

11am-1pm Space Theatre foyer 11am and 1pm Space Theatre Duration: 45 mins General admission

Age: 6+ Tickets $14.50 or $11.50 if you subscribe to 4 or more shows

FREE Please note that children must be supervised at all times.

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Saturday

10 may

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LIVE SHOW

Snaps Kakadu Club

Ventriloquist Puppets

presented by Lindi Jane

Make your own paper plate ventriloquist puppet.

Can you put a few words in its mouth without moving your lips?!

Lindi Jane is an awarding winning Australian ventriloquist, travelling the world with her delightful show Snap’s Kakadu Club. Snap’s Kakadu Club is now on TV in Melbourne and New Zealand, and will be coming soon to Adelaide on 44Adelaide.

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This performance features clever ventriloquism, songs, games, dance and comedy, plus Snap Crocodilous the cheeky crocodile from Kakadu.

Snap will introduce you to his Kakadu mates Dazey Wallabee, Fluffi-Feline, Sniffer Dog and special guest Billy Kidney.

11am-1pm Festival Theatre foyer 11am and 1pm Piano Bar Duration: 50 mins Age: 3 – 105!!

General Admission

Tickets $14.50 or $11.50 if you subscribe to 4 or more shows

FREE Please note that children must be supervised at all times.

Saturday

17 May

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LIVE SHOW

The Incredibubble Show Dr Froth Stunningly beautiful, mind-blowing and hilarious for all ages; Dr Froth’s Incredibubble Show is a bubble bonanza of comedic, absurd, simple and sometimes quite sophisticated bubble tricks. The adorea-bubble Dr Froth is a very talented comic, a genius of soap bubbles and has devised one of the most delightful and original shows imagine-a-bubble.

Science Goggles

Come and make a pair of fun and protective crazy Science Goggles with Heidi and friends.

Make sure that you arrive early to make a pair so that you can wear them into the show.

11am and 1pm Piano Bar General Admission Age: 4+ Duration: 50mins

Tickets $14.50 or $11.50 if you subscribe to 4 or more shows

11am-1pm Festival Theatre foyer

FREE

Please note that children must be supervised at all times.

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Saturday

24 may

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LIVE SHOW

Frame It!

Luke and Alex’s

Make Your Parents Disappear

Join Jim and Liz to make picture frames with a twist!

Ever wanted to stay up past your bedtime? Luke and Alex have discovered the perfect way to make it happen. Come and help create the most incredible magic you’ve ever seen – you might even learn how to make your parents disappear!

After a sold out season at last year’s Fringe Festival, Luke and Alex are back to amaze and delight once again.

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«««« “Imagine the Wiggles let loose in a conjurer’s storeroom” Adelaide Advertiser

11am – 1pm Festival Theatre foyer

FREE 11am and 1pm Banquet Room General Admission Age: 5-10 year olds Duration: 50mins

Tickets $14.50 or $11.50 if you subscribe to 4 or more shows

Please note that children must be supervised at all times.

Saturday

31 May

LIVE SHOW

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Peter Pan by the Australian

Bring the Magic of a Story Alive

Classical Youth Ballet

Magic is all around; do you have your wand to help Tinkerbell? Are you going to make the Captain’s hook or Peter’s sword? Join Irene, Evan and family for some magical making fun!

Join the Darling children when they receive a visit from Peter Pan, who takes them to Never Never Land where an ongoing war with the evil Captain Hook is taking place.

The Australian Classical Youth Ballet have performed regularly to large audiences in Something on Saturday, including Alice In Wonderland, The Wizard of Oz, Snow White and Mary Poppins. Visually stunning and with an original music score compilation, this will be a magical experience for young and old.

1pm and 3pm Festival Theatre Suitable all ages Duration: 60mins Reserved Seating

Tickets $14.50 or $11.50 if you subscribe to 4 or more shows

1pm – 3pm Festival Theatre foyer

FREE

Please note that children must be supervised at all times.

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Saturday

7 june

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LIVE SHOW

JAZZAMATAZZ

Sing like a Star

Ali McGregor Cabaret for Kids

Make your own microphone so you can get your Jazz on at home!

Lead by the talented cabaret star Ali McGregor, this hour of jazzy beats and trashy pop classics will get children singing, prancing, twisting and dancing. McGregor and her jazz trio are joined by two dancers who teach rock’n’roll, swing and jive moves. Parents, grandparents and friends can join in or watch the little ones on the dance floor!

With songs like Who Let the Dogs Out? and Single Ladies, everyone will be shuffling to the be-bop beats and hep-cat treats.

“Filled with giggling, running and dancing”

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Broadway Baby (UK)

12pm-1pm Festival Theatre foyer 11am and 4pm Banquet Room General Admission Age: 2+ Duration: 50mins

Tickets $14.50 or $11.50 if you subscribe to 4 or more shows

FREE Please note that children must be supervised at all times.

Saturday

14 june

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LIVE SHOW

Still Awake Still!

Dream Journals

By Jumps Leads & Jessica Wilson Cabaret for Kids One grand piano, three mischievous musicians and a most peculiar dream. Miss Ivory Tinklefinger, dream-whisperer extraordinaire, is hired to sing the audience to sleep, but tonight her piano has a mind of its own. Her lullabies come alive – and the consequences are wild!

Based on much-loved songs from the bedtime book I’m Still Awake Still! by Elizabeth Honey and Sue Johnson, this show is strikingly original, strangely beautiful, ridiculously funny and filled with mayhem worthy of the Marx Brothers.

Make your own dream journal with Jim and Liz

11am-2pm Playhouse foyer

FREE Dunstan Playhouse 11am and 2pm Reserved Seating Age: 4+ Duration: 50mins

Child $20 Adult $25 (or $20 if you subscribe to 4 or more shows)

Please note that children must be supervised at all times.

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Saturday

21 june

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LIVE SHOW

WALA The Spirit of Ghana A dynamic fusion of drumming, dance, percussion and soaring vocal harmonies. Three passionate, exuberant and talented performers present audiences with an exciting display of Ghanaian culture. With 15 hand-made African drums, flutes and stunning costumes, WALA engage their audiences in a call and response song; invite them to try out different instruments and to join in the dance. Their enthusiasm is utterly contagious as they rejoice in the live sounds and rich heritage of their people.

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African Beading

Join Heidi and her team in making some cool African jewellery. Let your creativity run wild as you decorate and create your masterpiece as you please.

Get your fingers ready to thread!

11am and 1pm Piano Bar General Admission Age: 3+ Duration: 60 mins

Tickets $14.50 or $11.50 if you subscribe to 4 or more shows

11am-1pm Festival Theatre foyer

FREE Please note that children must be supervised at all times.

Saturday

28 june

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LIVE SHOW

Easy Freezey

Funny Techno Headbands

by That Science Gang Those naughty boys of science are back with a show that’s cooler than cool… in fact, this one is in the sub-zero range! Dress in your warmest winter woollies and prepare to be chilled as That Science Gang unleash a whole freezer full of frosty liquid nitrogen fuelled antics. Frozen bananas, instant ice-cream and a massive indoor cloud are just some of the spectacular icy treats in store.

WARNING: This show contains a few loud (but brilliantly fun!) explosions.

Today we’re making crazy headbands! What will yours do?

Will it be your extra eye to see?

A helicopter blade to fly you away? Or something googly and funny to make you laugh? Let your imagination run wild with Irene, Evan and family.

1pm and 3pm Space Theatre General Admission Age: 5+ Duration: 50 mins

Tickets $14.50 or $11.50 if you subscribe to 4 or more shows

1pm – 3pm Space Theatre foyer

FREE

Please note that children must be supervised at all times.

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Make Your Parents Disappear

Make Your Parents Disappear

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Snaps Kakadu Club

More Than Rhythm

More Than Rhythm

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Saturday

5 july

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LIVE SHOW

13-Storey Treehouse

Branch Out!

Who wouldn’t want to live in a treehouse?

Especially a 13-storey treehouse that has a bowling alley, a secret underground laboratory, self-making beds, a vegetable vaporiser and a marshmallow machine. Andy and Terry live there; together, they make stories and have a series of completely nutty adventures.

Award winning playwright and author Richard Tulloch (The Book of Everything; Bananas in Pyjamas) brings to the stage the latest bestselling book from Andy Griffiths, the man who has won over 50 children’s choice awards, and has been on the New York Times bestseller list.

Make freeform treehouse sculptures with Jim and Liz.

11am-3pm Playhouse foyer 10, 12.30, 3pm Dunstan Playhouse Reserved Seating Age: 6+ Duration: 60 mins

Tickets $14.50 or $11.50 if you subscribe to 4 or more shows

FREE Please note that children must be supervised at all times.

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Saturday

12 july

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LIVE SHOW

SPACE ENCOUNTERS

Star puppets

by Emma Knights Space Encounters is an interactive family opera created by Sean O’Boyle and Ian McFadyen. Join astronauts Harris and Jefferson, who have set off to an unknown planet in search of the source of a strange signal. There they meet something or someone they did not expect. Who knows where the story will go! When Roland the Robot malfunctions will they ever be able to get back home?

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“Please, please – do yourself a favour and take your children to see this performance” GLAM Adelaide Review

Come and make some star puppets with Heidi and friends. Create either a pop stick puppet or some star finger puppets, and make sure that you bring a sense of adventure and creativity.

11am and 1pm Banquet Room General Admission Age: 5+ Duration: 50mins

Tickets $14.50 or $11.50 if you subscribe to 4 or more shows

11am-1pm Festival Theatre foyer

FREE Please note that children must be supervised at all times.

Saturday

19 july

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LIVE SHOW

ALL GONE!

by Pocketfool

Pocket Pets

The people and things we love have a habit of disappearing. Do we ever get used to loss?

Finishing a bowl of mashed banana, saying goodbye to Grandma, cleaning up spills and misplacing socks can be summed up by a child in two words – “All gone!”

Make your very own pocket pet to take everywhere. These colourful furry critters are cheap to feed, don’t bite and love pats. You’ll never be lonely again.

As one of Pocketfool’s best loved shows, this intimate, visual and very funny performance perfectly captures the baffling and playful world of very young children.

11am-1pm Festival Theatre foyer

11am and 1pm Banquet Room General Admission Age: 2-4 years Duration: 40 mins

Tickets $14.50 or $11.50 if you subscribe to 4 or more shows

FREE Please note that children must be supervised at all times.

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Saturday

26 july

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LIVE SHOW

The Mr Spin Show

Roll up roll up, the Magic Circus is in Town!

by Bamboozled Productions

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With a ferocious energy and endearing, charismatic wit, Mr Spin is a home-grown Adelaidean comic genius and one of Australia’s finest circus jugglers. This multi-award winning juggler, circus, vaudevillian and street performer has been entertaining large and enthusiastic audiences worldwide, all around Australia, for many years. It is said that his performance is so enthralling that you may mistake his two metal baseball bats for propellers. Come and enjoy some high octane silliness!

Create your own make believe circus props! In this magical world the animals can talk and they run the circus. Will you be the lion and the tamer, the rabbit or the hat? We’ll have some fun today with Irene, Evan and family.

11am and 1pm Space Theatre Age: 4+ Duration: 50mins

Tickets $14.50 or $11.50 if you subscribe to 4 or more shows

11am-1pm Festival Theatre foyer

FREE

Please note that children must be supervised at all times.

Saturday

2 august

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LIVE SHOW

Boomstars meet “Caveman”by Boomstars Take a prehistoric and interactive journey jammed packed with songs by Boomstars, the newest, most exciting pop group for kids. In the year 2014, the last thing Boomstars ever expect is to bump into ‘Caveman’. It only takes a trip to the museum, a Boomstars chant and Caveman comes back to life. Well, he does have rhythm, but will Caveman behave long enough for Boomstars to teach him to talk, let alone street dance to Boomstars zany and funky songs?

Animal Tunes

Join Jim and Liz to make instruments based on animals of the night.

11am-1pm Festival Theatre foyer

FREE 11am and 1pm Banquet Room Age: 4+ Duration: 50mins

Tickets $14.50 or $11.50 if you subscribe to 4 or more shows

Please note that children must be supervised at all times.

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Saturday

9 august

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LIVE SHOW

SHOWKO

Origami Originals

Japanese Traditional Sit-Down Comedy A unique, humorous traditional Japanese performance designed to engage children’s imaginations through storytelling and play.

Rakugo and Bamboo Art (NankinTamasudare) are 400-year-old forms of Japanese traditional entertainment. In Rakugo, kneeling Showko tells a humorous story, acting out the characters and describing the scene with the help of only two basic props. Bamboo Art is a surprising and fun activity that can magically transform a humble bamboo blind into many different things.

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Try your hand at some simple origami and make a cool paper crane or a pin wheel.

11am-1pm Festival Theatre foyer 11am and 1pm Lyrics General Admission Age: 4+ Duration: 50 mins

Tickets $14.50 or $11.50 if you subscribe to 4 or more shows

FREE Please note that children must be supervised at all times.

Saturday

16 august

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LIVE SHOW

Erik the Robot Dog

Robot Inventions

and his inventor, Joel Salom!

Irene, Evan and family will inspire you to create your own invention.

Colourful and recycled materials will be provided for you to invent your own robot.

A one-man-band of beats, balls and boom, together with remote-controlled tin terrier Erik the Dog, will bring the stage alive. Rubber-faced Joel Salom is a comedic master of all things electro-circus with ambidextrous expertise, astounding balance and 20 years’ world touring experience under his colourful Vegas-style belt. “the kids squeal, the parents groan and the critics quietly shut their notebooks.” Time Out New York “Joel Salom is an outstanding all-round comic, whether as a skill-fully inept acrobat or artfully off-colour juggler” San Francisco Chronicle.

1pm and 3pm Space Theatre Duration: 50 mins Age: 5+ General Admission

Tickets $14.50 or $11.50 if you subscribe to 4 or more shows

1pm – 3pm Space foyer

FREE Please note that children must be supervised at all times.

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Saturday

23 august

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LIVE SHOW

WHAT’S THE JOKE

Jokers Hats

by Andy Jones

Come and make a bright and funny joker’s hat to transform you into a colourful and comical entertainer.

Best-selling children’s author and entertainer will use his electric guitar, drums and other props to help kids understand humour with silly songs, chants and rhyme. For the show’s finale, a group of volunteer kids will perform a stand-up comedy style delivery of their very own joke!

Andy is the author of the bestselling books Enormous Book of Hot Jokes for Kool Kids,

The Fartionary and The Ripper Razzle Dazzle Big Book of Fun and Stuff and his new Chapterbook The adventures of Scooterboy & Skatergirl.

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11am-1pm Festival Theatre foyer 11am and 1pm Banquet Room General Admission Age: 5+ Duration: 50 mins

Tickets $14.50 or $11.50 if you subscribe to 4 or more shows

FREE Please note that children must be supervised at all times.

Saturday

30 august

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LIVE SHOW

Toddlerthèque

Pom Poms

by Zephyr Quartet

Get your disco booties on and join Zephyr String Quartet with DJ/MC Astrid Pill for a wild party adventure designed especially for kids.

Get on down to a sumptuous selection of pop tunes, classical favourites and a sprinkling of musical surprises, specially selected to get you dancing. It’s boogie time for toddlers! We haven’t forgotten the adults: parents will pull some moves and grandparents will get down and groove. It’s daytime dance party fun for the whole family.

Join Heidi and friends to make a wiggly pom pom.

Dance with your new pom pom in Toddlertheque for a really fun dance party.

11am-1pm Festival Theatre foyer 11am and 1pm Banquet Room General Admission Age: 2–4 Duration:

Tickets $14.50 or $11.50 if you subscribe to 4 or more shows

FREE Please note that children must be supervised at all times.

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