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Photo Credit – Ryan Harston Friday 16 March saw the first Big Imaginations Symposium taking place at Z-arts. With artists interventions, passionate discussions, and a summary of the past 5 years, this was a day of celebrating bringing brilliant children’s theatre to ...

5 years. 15 venues. 170 shows. Over 130,000 people getting involved. It’s time to celebrate Big Imaginations – on Friday 16 March we’re hosting our very first Big Imaginations Symposium. We want to share what we’ve learned over the last five years, share best practice, ...

We are looking for an artist or company to create a high-quality theatre piece to tour into theatres, libraries and community settings within the Big Imaginations network between September – November 2018. We would like to commission the making and touring of either an early

Z-arts delivered their first Young Reviewers scheme, Project Speak Your Mind as part of Big Imaginations Festival. Ten young people aged 10 – 13 from the local area took part in reviewer training workshops in August 2017 before reviewing each of the shows in the festival. ...

In the run up to Big Imaginations Festival we caught up with Nina Hajiyianni the Artistic Director for Happily Ever After, touring the North West this Autumn. From decriminalisation of homosexuality in the UK in 1967, through queer-bashing in the 1970s, the enactment of ...

2 sleeps left until… #BIGIMAGINATIONSFEST In the final 2 days before the big kick off, it’s Handa’s Surprise time, we spoke to Designer Sophia Lovell-Smith about what it was like to design the set, how do get into designing and the best designs she’s ever seen! What ...

  3 days… #BIGIMAGINATIONSFEST With 3 days to go! It’s Fairytales Gone Bad, the fantastic Poetry Joe, who is bringing not one, but TWO shows to the festival, tells us about the first poem he every wrote, what he does before every show, and what inspired him to create ...