Edinburgh International Children's Festival 2024
Imaginate PresentsAbout
The Edinburgh International Children’s Festival is back for 2024, featuring 14 productions from 9 countries for children to discover.
This year’s Festival opens with Family Encounters on Saturday 25 May, a day of free pop-up performances and interactive activities at the National Museum of Scotland. The Festival then runs until Sunday 2 June, with a jam-packed programme of circus, dance, storytelling and theatre for young people and their families.
Featuring a Spotlight on Catalonia and two brand new works by Scottish companies, this year’s Festival once again pushes boundaries, exploring the highs and lows of the human condition, while always considering the perspective and viewpoint of the child.
From intimate sensory works for babies, to circus shows and promenade performances, from exploration of our consumerist behaviour to racial discrimination, there truly is something for everyone.
The Traverse Theatre is funded by Creative Scotland and The City of Edinburgh Council.
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TRASHedy
How many plastic cups do you use in a lifetime? Two performers explore the story of our strange evolution and dig into the complexity of the topic ‘ecological intelligence’. Along the way, they keep raising new questions and encounter an ever-growing mountain of rubbish.
Shō and the Demons of the Deep
A visual adventure story about overcoming fear, climate crisis and how the actions of one generation can affect the next. Inspired by the picture book of the same name by Annouchka Gravel Galouchko.
By Trial and Error
The stage is set: a simple black curtain stands centre stage. Then two hidden circus artists appear, and the show begins... But as the two disoriented acrobats move to perform their first lift, a terrible doubt arises in their seemingly well-oiled routine. Is this the right move? Is this what we rehearsed?
An Ant Called Amy
A charming and moving story that sensitively explores sibling loss, An Ant Called Amy tells the tale of an ant who learns to slow down.
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