INK Festival Sunday Funday

We are so excited as a company that we have been commissioned by the INK Festival to run the kids zone. This will involve 4 interactive sessions for different age groups, throughout the day. Working alongside some other amazing stalls, children’s entertainment and family fun!

What is the Ink Festival?

INK is an incredible organisations that works with playwriters across the UK to get their work from pen to performance. To date they have produced over 350 short plays and each year the INK Festival is a celebration of all the playwriters and plays. “Our aim is to provide inspiration, encouragement and opportunities for writers and theatre practitioners throughout the UK to showcase their work.” (INK 2023) The INK Festival will happen this year from the 13th -16th April 2023 throughout the town of Halesworth. On the Sunday this year they will be doing an event for families and the whole community to say thank you and to inspire, encourage and share the amazing work of INK with more people.

Why is Growing Together Developing Early Years Involved in the INK Festival?

“Before we can put pen to paper and write a play, we need to be able to play and tell a story.”

There are several reasons why we are excited as a company about this partnership and being commissioned to some children’s work. Firstly, this is part of my local community and I am very passionate about how community and this applies to the work that we do. Also, you may have heard me say a time or two if you have done some of my early years online training, such as ‘Developing the Storyteller Within’ or ‘Sensory Storytellers’ that we all have a story within us. Whether it’s that story about how you’ll never guess what happened yesterday, to a story of love, betrayal or trauma. Those stories are within us and we start developing them from a young age. And this is one of the things that excites me about running the kids zone at the INK Festivals Sunday Funday. Before these children become playwriters of the future, they need to be able to tell stories, they need to act out stories, develop them with peers and this is what we will be doing through fun interactive story telling sessions with lots of opportunities for play!

Four Sessions in One Day!

Throughout the day we will be running four sessions completely FREE for different age groups! The sessions will be tailored to the groups of children full of fun and easy to dive in and out of if you cannot stay for the whole 45 minutes. And also the first 150 children to attend the event will receive a free slice of pizza!

What Next After the INK Festival?

Coming on Tour This Summer…George Saves the World by Lunchtime

This is going to include:

• Interactive storytelling of the book with props and puppets.

• Acting/role-playing.

• Songs.

• Parachute games.

• Superhero mask making.

Even better from May 2023 to July 2023 we will be bringing this wonderful interactive session on tour to early years setting across the East of England. These will be 45 minute to an hour sessions, where we will bring props and resources to your settings to bring the story alive!