Children

IMAGINE CHILDREN'S FESTIVAL

Two weeks of children’s theatre, live music, dance, talks from top children’s authors, family workshops and free activities. From stroking baby dino puppets to hearing live music from internationally-renowned performers, from meeting authors at our family workshops to drawing on our giant sculptures, there’s something for everyone.

One of the most important things about Imagine is that we try to put children in charge as much as possible: so, a group of children help us with design of the print, with the programming and on some days, children perform all of the key front of house functions such as cloakroom, tickets, announcements. We work hard to extend participation beyond the normal relatively prosperous families who will bring their children to cultural events anyway, and have partnerships with local schools and community groups to make sure that all children benefit.

Imagine is made for children, by children, with children and about children and runs from Mon 11 – Sun 24th Feb each day between 10.30am – 4pm. The festival places words and stories at the heart of the programme and invites families and schools to come and spend the day enjoying ticketed theatre performances, author events, classical concerts plus a huge programme of free events.

At the heart of the programme are a group of 31 children aged 7-11 called the Festival Ideas Cloud who have worked with us on the design of the festival programme, curated their own debates and designed and built their own space.

Kids Takeover
Monday 18th – Friday 22nd February

Are the hosts getting younger these days or is it a kids’ invasion?! Throughout your time at Southbank Centre for Imagine festival, children will take your tickets, show you to your seats and generally help you with your visit. You’ll hear their voices announcing events as we give over the running of the festival to a fantastic group of young hosts.

Across Southbank Centre site,
10.30am – 3pm

The Kids’ Space
Throughout Imagine Festival

Throughout Imagine Festival, you will discover that Southbank Centre’s kids advisory group, the Festival Ideas Cloud, has designed and built a new space to explore. The Kids’ Space will be the nerve centre of the festival with Imagine FM radio station running from there, authors and artist interviews being conducted inside the space, and phones ringing off the hook as children manage the beating heart of Imagine.

Royal festival Hall Foyers,
10.30am – 3pm

www.southbankcentre.co.uk/imagine

Informations : http://retm1.jimdo.com/

„Soundcheck“-

Musikvermittlung am Gewandhaus
Karneval der Tiere

Ein kreatives Projekt im Rahmen des Klavierabends
mit Katia und Marielle Labèque–Artist in Residenceder
Gewandhaus-Saison 2009/2010

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Katia & Marielle Labèque performing Le Carnaval des Animaux for children at Théâtre des Champs-Elysées :

text by Céline Morrisson

Katia & Marielle Labèque and The educational programs of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra Zukunft@BPhil, created by Sir Simon Rattle

Treptow Arena in Berlin
This Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra education program with Igor Stravinsky "Les Noces" conducted by Sir Simon Rattle was choreographed and danced by more than 250 children.

Berlin Philharmonie Hall

Katia et Marielle Labèque are world-famous as piano-duo, not only in the field of classical music literature, but also for their innovative music projects for pupils accompanied by video-artists.

Herein lies the starting point of this project.

Two schools have been chosen to create artistic elements such as drawings, and sketches. These will be based on Saint Saens music and the imagined of the animals by the children. Camille Saint Saen’s Carneval of the Animals has become one of the most popular pieces for a children’s audience.

The art-workshops are led by the artist Florian Förster with the assistance of Corinna Gill. The artistic results of the children will be photographed and filmed for documentary purposes by Nina Erfle. Likewise they serve as the basis material for a short video film realized by Jérome Bosc. This film will be projected during the performance of the Carnival of Animals on the 7th of december 2006 by Katia and Marielle Labèque and the musicians of the Berliner Philharmoniker for the children who participated in the project. Parallel to the creation of the film, texts on the different animals written by Céline Morisson will be included in the film and also recited live by the children at the performance.










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Céline Morisson"