2014

Bring your outside in,turn your inside out

Festival of fun for young people

2014

Wednesday 15 –Sunday 19 October

Festival of fun for young people

(and everyone who has ever been young)

EASTGATE PEEBLES EH45 8ADBOX OFFICE 01721 725 777

Filming, circus, beastie making,plays, stories, comedy, danceand a big gig...

FIVE-MINUTE FILMS 10am – 3pm

Create your own five-minute film from storyboarding through filming –inside and out – adding the soundtrack and making a director’s cut.After three days your film should be ready for its world premiere onthe big screen at the Eastgate Theatre on Sunday afternoon.Expert instruction from Tom Swift, film maker with Voice of My Own. Age: 11+ £10 per day, £25 for 3 days (Wed – Fri)

OUTSIDE IN: ARTY ANIMALS 10.30am – 12noon

Enter the secret garden growing in the Eastgate Studio.With its mossy bothy, trees and grass, the gardenjust needs some wildlife. Crafty children are invitedto add their own animals and birds, bugs andbutterflies made with the expert help of artistsJo Powell and Poppy Browne.Age: 5+ £4 (accompanying parents free)

BOTHY TALES 12.10 – 12.30pm

Gather round the campfire to enjoy some tall tales as alocal guest reads a story or two with a special connectionto their own life. FREE

Poppy Browne presents

RAIN OR SHINE 12.30 – 1.30pm

Pop upstairs for a pop-up theatre show, with famous story tellerPoppy Browne and her absolutely ginormous book full of charactersand tantalising tales - all with a weather eye on the great outdoors.Age: 3+ £4 child, £6 adult, family ticket £16

BOTHY BALLADS 1.30 – 1.50pm

Join the assortment of musicians, performers, storytellers and other funnypeople who’ve taken up residence in the Eastgate this week and enjoysome surprising, informal entertainment. FREE

WEDNESDAY 15 OCTOBER

UPSIDE DOWN: JOYFUL JUGGLING 2 – 3.30pm

Ever dreamt of running away to join the circus? Moira Morrison is asinging juggler, a piano-playing clown, and an upside-down acrobatwho’d like to teach you some spectacular circus skills. Today learn tojuggle. After three days of dangling, throwing, singing clowning andmore you will take to the stage to perform for families and friends onSaturday afternoon.

Age 8+ beginners welcome £4 per day, £10 for 3 days (Wed – Fri)

RIGHTSIDE UP: DANCE 4 – 5.30pm

From ballet to Bollywood, Alex Emerson will teachyou a range of different dance styles then buildthem into a whole routine that just might end upas a sequence for one of the Five-minute Films.Come along to strut your stuff, improve, andenjoy a little bit of Fame in the process.

Age 8+ beginners welcome£8 for 2 days (Wed & Thu)

THE BIG GIG 7 – 9.30pm

Great music on the main stage, fromsome exceptionally talented youngbands, singers and musicians.The line-up includes Jack Hinks,Darcy DaSilva, The Jellyman’s Daughter,and special guests.£5 under 18s, £8 adult

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WEDNESDAY 15 OCTOBER

OUTSIDE IN: BRILLIANT BUGS 10.30am – 12noonAdd a bit more creepy-crawly interest to the secret garden. Today craftychildren are invited to create brilliant bugs with the expert help of artistsJo Powell and Poppy Browne.

Age: 5+ £4 (accompanying adults free)

Tall Stories presents

EMILY BROWN AND THE THING12.30 – 1.30pmSomething MONSTROUS is keepingEmily Brown awake… Emily Brown andher old grey rabbit Stanley hear a Thingcrying outside their window. He just can’t get tosleep. Emily and Stanley set off on incredible adventures to theDark and Scary Wood, the Whirling Wastes and beyond – to find theThing’s cuddly ... his bedtime milk ... his medicine ... but nothing seemsto help him settle. What’s really troubling the Thing; and will anyoneevery get any sleep? Magical mayhem from the writer of How to TrainYour Dragon.

Age 3+ £4 child, £6 adult, family ticket £16

UPSIDE DOWN: AIRY ACROBATICS 2 – 3.30pmToday upside-down acrobat Moira Morrison will teach you thespectacular circus skill of…aerial tricks. After three days of dangling,throwing, singing clowning and more you will take to the stage toperform for families and friends on Saturday afternoon.

Age 8+ beginners welcome£4 per day, £10 for 3 days (Wed – Fri)

also on today... 10am – 3pmFIVE-MINUTE FILMSWith Tom SwiftSee WEDNESDAYpage for detailsAge: 11+ £10 each day

12.10 – 12.30pmBOTHY TALESSee WEDNESDAYpage for detailsFREE

1.30 – 1.50pmBOTHY BALLADSSee WEDNESDAYpage for detailsFREE

FRIDAY 17 OCTOBER

HAPPY LAFFY HOUR 7 – 8.30pmGlasgow comic Stephen Halkett is joinedby some funny friends for an evening ofharmless hilarity, a little magic and a lotof laughs!

Age: 6+£5 child, £8 adult, family ticket £22

RIGHT SIDE UP: COMEDY 4 – 5.30pmThink you’re funny? Know all the best jokes andhow to deliver the punchlines? Join StephenHalkett, master of stand-up and expert at comictiming, as he shares his skills with anyone whowants to call themselves a comedian; and givesanother masterclass in tonight’s comedy gig.

Age 8+ £4

OUTSIDE IN: FABULOUS FLOWERS10.30am – 12noon

Add a bit more colour to the secret garden. Todaycrafty children are invited to create bright, beautiful,colourful flowers with the expert help of artists Jo Powelland Poppy Browne.Age: 5+ £4 (accompanying adults free)

Toto Tales presents

STARBIRD 12.30 – 1.30pm

The Starbird is a most beautifulbird with wings that sparkle likejewels as she takes great care ofher little starchicks in theirvibrant, magical forest. Everyevening she flies up into the night skyto light up the stars that shine down on her world.One evening a hunter enters the forest and, for the first time,the Starbird encounters true injustice.

With a hand stitched set incorporating tiny, delightful details and afusion of music, this multi layered production is rooted in traditionalstorytelling.

“Possibly the most Beautiful Children’s Show in the World”***** Edinburgh GuideAge 3+ £4 child, £6 adult, family ticket £16

UPSIDE DOWN: CLOWNING ABOUT 2 – 3.30pm

Today upside-down acrobat Moira Morrison will teach you thespectacular circus skill of…clowning. After three days of dangling,throwing, singing clowning and more you will take to the stage toperform for families and friends on Saturday afternoon.

Age 8+ £4 per day, £10 for 3 days (Wed – Fri)

THURSDAY 16 OCTOBER

also on today... 10am – 3pmFIVE-MINUTE FILMSWith Tom SwiftSee WEDNESDAYpage for detailsAge: 11+ £10 each day

12.10 – 12.30pmBOTHY TALESSee WEDNESDAYpage for detailsFREE

1.30 – 1.50pmBOTHY BALLADSSee WEDNESDAYpage for detailsFREE

4 – 5.30pmRIGHT SIDE UP: DANCESee WEDNESDAYpage for detailsAge 8+ beginnerswelcome £8 for 2 days

Ramshacklicious presents

DON’T! approx 10am – 1pm

Jack should be out shopping with his mum, butinstead he’s made a break for freedom – taking histrolley for a wild walk. Will you meet him inPeebles High Street? How many shopping bagsdoes he have today? And what on earth is thatnoise coming from the depth of the shoppingtrolley? A theatrical musical walkabout, withperiodic performances for pedestrians.For everyone who loves a bit of shopping...and everyone who doesn’t!

Out and about in PeeblesFREE

OUTSIDE IN: BONKERS BIRDS10.30am – 12noon

Enter the secret outside in world of thegarden that is growing in the Eastgate Studio.With its wooden bothy, trees, moss and grass,the garden just needs a bit more life. Craftychildren are invited to create bonkers birds withthe expert help of artists Jo Powell and Poppy Browne.

Age 5+ £4 (accompanying adults free)

PROFESSOR HEISENHOFF’S BIG BIRTHDAY BASH12.30 – 1.30pm

Fresh from Glasgow Comedy Festival, and in honour of the Eastgate’s10th birthday, Stephen Halkett throws a boisterous birthday party withspecial guest Professor Heisenhoff. Party games, silly jokes, science magic,lots of audience interaction – and fun for everyone. Age: 3+ £4 child, £6 adult, family ticket £16

SATURDAY 18 OCTOBERTHE ULTIMATE UPSIDE DOWN CIRCUS SHOW 2 –2.30pm

The scratch circus troupe has been perfecting its skills in three daysof workshops. Expect dangling, throwing, juggling, singing,clowning and much more… Entry by donation

RIGHTSIDE UP: DRAMA 4 – 5.30pm

Theatre sans Frontieres has an international reputation forproducing imaginative and visually-driven storytelling theatre.Before they present tonight’s performance, members of thecompany invite aspiring actors, writers or directors to take partin a workshop to learn some of their skills, ideas and inventiveness. Age 8+ £4

Theatre sans Frontieres presents

HEAVEN EYES 7 – 8.30pm

“Some people will tell you none of thesethings happened. They’ll say they werejust a dream the three of us sharedBut they did happen.”

Erin and January have run away from theircare home before, but this time they’renot going back. With their friend Mousein tow, they head downriver on amakeshift raft. Washed up on themudflats, they meet a strange anddream-like girl, Heaven Eyes, and Grampa whowields an axe and digs for bodies in the black mud. As Erinbefriends Heaven Eyes, January’s suspicions about the old mangrow. What is the secret he’s hiding?

David Almond, internationally famous for Skellig, has adapted thisstage production from his own novel. With a youthful cast, originalmusic and video, this is a spellbinding piece of storytelling.

Age 9+ £5 child, £8 adult, family ticket £22

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12.10 – 12.30pmBOTHY TALESSee WEDNESDAYpage for detailsFREE

1.30 – 1.50pmBOTHY BALLADSSee WEDNESDAYpage for detailsFREE

SATURDAY 18 OCTOBER

OUTSIDE IN 12 noon – 4pm

Pay a final visit to the bothy in the trees, and explore the great outdoors inthe middle of the theatre. Enjoy a pop-up exhibition of animals and birds,flowers and leaves, bugs and butterflies created by crafty youngstersduring the week.

Age 5+ £4 (accompanying adults free)

Tell Tale Hearts present

INSIDE OUT 12.30 – 1.30pm and 2.30 – 3.30pm

It’s bedtime already. But instead of getting ready for bed,this brother and sister use their imaginations to turn theirroom into a wonderland of mess! The older brother loseshis special hat and sets off on an adventure to find it; ashirt becomes a fantastical creature while a sock dancerocks the wardrobe; and there’s a mountain top rescuealong the way. After some exciting encounters, they bothdiscover the joy of turning things inside out.

At the end of the show young audiences can dress upand invent their own clothing adventures using propsfrom the show in a free play session.

“a company who are clearly passionate aboutengaging children and making them feel likethe stars of the show.” Laura Stimpson The Public Reviews

Age: 2+ plus families £4 child, £6 adult, family ticket £16

FIVE-MINUTE FILMS PREMIERE 4 – 4.30pm

Stroll along the red carpet to the world premiere of the short films devisedand created this week by Tom Swift and his teenage crew. Wonder at thetalent, admire the costumes and star performances, appreciate thedirector’s cut – these are film makers with style and ambition.

Entry by donation (film makers FREE)

SUNDAY 19 OCTOBER