The Spark Festival:
Puppetry Aplenty - Brochure Launch Day
Puppetry
- Recommended age:
- All ages and families
Join us for the launch of this year's brochure
Here we go – puppets great and small are coming to Highcross Leicester to help celebrate the launch of the 2010 Spark Children’s Arts Festival programme. Come and meet them – and see how many different puppets you can spot!
Lower Mall, outside Debenhams
Puppet-making: drop in and help our expert puppet-makers to build Little O, a GIANT puppet who will come to life to lead us in the finale parade on Friday
Lower West Mall, next to Signet:
Two delightful puppetry performances from Treasure Trove Theatre and Thingumajig Theatre
12.30pm Puppet Treasury - a gorgeous parade of glove, rod and marionette puppets
13.20pm The Mystery of the Sock Snatcher – follow Lefty the Sock’s epic adventure to find his other half (pictured)
13.55pm Puppetry Treasury
14.45pm The Mystery of the Sock Snatcher
15.20pm Puppetry Treasury
16.10pm Workshop - Make your own sock puppet, with Thingumajig puppeteers
Lower East Mall:
Theatre for One – Rock Bottom, with Clydebuilt Theatre
Hold your breath and take a peak into the depths of a very special rock pool
12.30 – 2pm and 3 – 4.30pm
The Grand Theatre of Lemmings - Pushmi Pullyu
Meet the legendary creature with two heads facing in different directions and going nowhere fast!
12.45 - 3.00
5pm - Finale parade – Welcome Little O!
Little O, the giant puppet, springs to life and leads us off round the Lower Mall to who knows where?
Performances
| Fri 9th April | |||
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| 12:30 pm | Highcross | All ages | |
