The Jump In! Festival

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Jump In! Festival brings family fun every day of the Easter holidays

The Jump In! Family Arts Festival is the annual Easter holiday celebration at Norden Farm Centre for the Arts. It offers daily family activities throughout the two week break.

The Festival begins with performances from the Maidenhead venue’s Youth Dance and Youth Theatre groups. It is a celebration of local young talent.

Norden Farm’s Youth Theatre groups are for students in School Years 2 to 11. They have been working towards selected play titles and will be showcasing their work between Wednesday 22 March and Thursday 30 March. It is the chance for the budding actors to perform on the main stage, under the guidance of Troublemaker Theatre Company and with lighting and sound from the venue’s team of theatre technicians.

The Academy Youth Theatre group is for students in Year 12 and upwards. They will be performing Ragnarok by Charles Way. An adaptation of the Norse myth.

The Bollywood Dance and Youth Dance groups will be sharing selected choreographed pieces on Tuesday 28 March.

Tickets to any of the Youth Showcase Performances are £4 per person. The Jump In! Festival continues across the following two weeks of the Easter holiday with family films, shows and daily activities.

Highlights of the first week include awesome songs and perfect punchlines in The
Noise Next Door’s Really, Really Good Afternoon Show and our first Family Ceilidh!

The acclaimed children’s book Wow! Said the Owl is brought to life on stage for two days of performances. Explore the wow-wow-world of colours with this curious little owl who is determined to stay awake to see what day light brings. The show is suitable for age 2+ years and features a blend of beautiful story-telling, puppetry and music.

There is the chance to live the life of a dancer over two days with Next Steps: Dance Intensive. Charlie Dixon will give participants the chance to experience life as an A-Troupe dancer. Children aged 9-12 years will rehearse in a real dance studio, learning routines, developing techniques and creating choreography. Participants will get to film and watch back their work, as well as performing a show for friends and family at the end of the week.

In the second week follows intrepid explorer, Amelia Buttersnap, on an intergalactic mission to find out if aliens really do exist and what they want with her cat? In A Real Alien Adventure. Following on from the success of A Real Fairy Story and A Real Mermaid’sTale, this show boldly takes you into the far reaches of the galaxy with amazing magic tricks and beautiful shadow puppetry accompanied by a specially commissioned musical score.

Children can get hands on in Art Daze – a three-day long art workshop. The art club encourages participants aged 8+ years to take inspiration from letters, words and numbers to create individual and collaborative pieces in both 2D and 3D.

Garlic Theatre return to Norden Farm with Jack and the Beans Talk, a fresh and funny retelling of the traditional story and an ideal gentle introduction to theatre for children aged 3 – 7 years.

On Friday 14 April, Give it a Go! will be taking over the whole of Norden Farm. It is a day full of one hour workshops – 41 workshops in total.
The day offers the chance to jump in! and get involved. Activities on offer include circus skills, stop motion animation, magic, drama, chocolate making, choreography and more.