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DreamBIG Children’s Festival 2023 – Our World
DreamBig Children’s Festival is returning bigger and brighter than ever in 2023, inspiring kids to explore ‘Our World’ through music, dance, storytelling, puppetry, interactive play, the famous silent disco, and quirky luminescent creatures. A special art exhibition to celebrate Adelaide Festival Centre’s milestone 50th Anniversary will ask students to imagine what the world will be like on their own 50th birthday… stay tuned for a look into the future!
DreamBIG Children’s Festival is South Australia’s largest biennial arts festival dedicated to schools and families and places its audience at the centre of fresh, inventive, imaginative, and inspiring arts experiences. Up to 220 schools attend the iconic festival and more than 300 schools engage with the program via the Teaching and Learning Resource created by the Department for Education, due to arrive in schools this week.
More than 2.5 million children have participated in the festival since its inception in 1974 (as Come Out Festival), and it remains an intrinsic part of growing up in South Australia.
DreamBIG Children’s Festival is divided into two program streams – the school’s program where children participate in events and performances through their school, and the general public program for families.
Thousands of students from across South Australia will unite at Adelaide Festival Centre, surrounding city locations and schools and be entertained by 240 artists across 57 events and workshops from May 17 until May 27. The families and general public program will be revealed in January.
The DreamBIG Opening Event at Adelaide Festival Centre’s Festival Theatre on May 17 will feature up to 2000 students singing “My Island Home” and in a DreamBIG first, the choir will be led in a mass dance event by youth dance ensemble, Dusty Feet Mob.
Photo credit: Patchworked by Sam Roberts
Other festival highlights include:
- Erths Prehistoric World – see the prehistoric creatures of your imagination come to life on stage with this enchanting show by world renowned puppeteers.
Photo credit: Atmosphere Photography
- Fluffy – An interactive wonderland of 200kg of swirling, fluttering recycled paper that is part narrative, part make-your-own adventure!
- Possum Magic – A magical stage adaption of this much-loved Australian tale, produced by Monkey Baa Theatre Company.
Photo credit: Heidrun Lohr
- Found Objects – Five exceptional dance and physical theatre artists present an epic outdoor dance theatre work using everyday objects.
- Wild Dog – Six Dog Night – An immersive and interactive workshop led by senior Kaurna Elders sharing stories about one of Australia’s most misunderstood cultural symbols – the dingo.
- Write Now Festival – A new one day event for aspiring writers in secondary school, giving young people the chance to discover career pathways as a working writer.
- Sea of Light – children paint their way across the high-seas wonderland with a magical UV torch and see their art light up with every brushstroke in this immersive installation by South Australia’s Patch Theatre.
Sea of Light – Clare Crawley
Sea of Light – Clare Crawley
- We Come From Far Far Away – award winning storytelling from Norway that takes place in a Yurt sharing a gripping story of refugee boys escaping from their country to another.
For more information and all enquiries please visit the DreamBIG Festival website
What: DreamBIG 2023 –‘Our World’
When: 17 – 26 May 2023
Where: Adelaide Festival Centre
Who: All South Australian children
At Play & Go Adelaide we make every effort to provide accurate information to the best of our knowledge at the time of publication. We recommend confirming times, dates and details directly before making any plans as details may be subject to change.
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