Whare Flat Folk Festival, Dunedin, New Zealand, Children's Programme

Folk for Kids 2009/10

The Whare Flat Folk Festival is a family festival in the true sense. Over many years, many families have met up here annually and formed lasting friendships - especially children. Children are never excluded from mainstream festival activities but are additionally catered for in a series of events and workshops of their own, from pre-school music and dance to instrument-making and playing for older kids. All kids' activities are folk-related: there are no bouncy castles or video games.

In addition to the scheduled activities below, there’s also a tots ‘n’ toddlers corner set up in the troop den (parents to supervise and organise their own roster). There’s a swimming hole for the hardy and hot-blooded, random face-painting, and sports equipment available over the weekend. To make your families time safe & happy, PLEASE remember:

Sunblock, water-bottles and hats,

If your child has a bike, bike helmets and keep off the “main” roads,

DO supervise your own little angels - and intervene if you see inappropriate use of equipment or extreme behaviour by anyone else.

Have a great weekend!

Programme:

Thursday 31st Dec
9.30am Dress-up fun with Filipa Fairy
10am Mama Marimba- marimba workshop for kids Anna Bowen
11am Theatre games workshop age 8+ with Wyeth& Spencer
1pm Jazz dancing for beginners with Siobhan Moroney
2pm Circus skills with Jay on the lawn
2pm Making music as a family, a workshop with Delaney
3pm The Lovely lads-family show with Wyeth and Spencer

Friday 1st Jan
10am Mama Marimba- marimba workshop for kids Anna Bowen
11am Jay’s magic show for the whole family
2pm Supervised games on the lawn

Saturday 2nd Jan
9:30am Mad Hatters tea party with Filipa fairy (hats and yums provided)
10am Mama Marimba- marimba workshop for kids Anna Bowen
11am theatre games workshop age 8+ with Wyeth& Spencer
12 noon Delaney family concert
2pm Supervised games on the lawn
3pm Balloon-taming-making balloon animals with Jay & Filipa

Children's programme coordinator Kaitrin McMullan, as well as being a trained Early Childhood teacher, is a professional storyteller with over 25 years experience. She has been telling stories to a range of audiences in a variety of settings including schools, festivals, conferences, museums, art galleries, libraries and pubs. She has been a featured teller at the 2004 Glistening Waters Storytelling festival, guest performer at National Australia Storytellers’ Festival 2005 , touring schools for D.O.C. and REAP in Central Otago and the West coast plus many other self-generated projects and tours. In collaboration with Christchurch storyteller Liz Weir, she has a CD of mostly original stories called Worms in the Pot.

Now you can listen to selected recorded tracks of last year's festival guests right here on the festival website. Just click on the one you want to hear or settle back and listen to them all. More tracks being added as they come to hand.