The Edinburgh International Children’s Festival is an annual festival celebration which engages with young children in Scotland through the best theatre and dance that the world has to offer. This year the Edinburgh International Children’s Festival will run from 25 May – 6 June.

Specially curated for children by artists unique in their own performance making to Edinburgh, it’s a huge celebration of young people and always great fun!
 
With Covid restrictions likely to still be in place in the summer the festival will focus primarily on Scottish and UK artists, with a combination of outdoor and digital performances. Restrictions allowing, families will be able to enjoy a series of pop-up performances throughout the city over the first and final weekend of the Festival and there will be digital events on offer for those who would rather stay at home.
 

 

As part of the Festival program, Imaginate are commissioning new work which will involve over 100 freelancers based in Scotland and making a commitment to pay them whether their performance is allowed to happen or not. However, digital versions of many of the events are being developed to limit the risk of cancelling them.

Festival Director Noel Jordan said:
“Our primary goal is to make sure our young audiences have access to high quality performances in May. It would have been tempting to wait to confirm the programme until we had more certainty about restrictions but we feel it is important to make a commitment to the artists and companies who rely on us to platform their work. Imaginate’s mission is to help develop and promote new theatre and dance for young people and we are delighted to be able to support artists based in Scotland to create new work for the Festival and to showcase them in May. Ultimately, if restrictions prevent us presenting everything we have planned, we feel it will have been a worthwhile investment and we are confident that this work can still be presented in the future, at our Festival or elsewhere.”

www.imaginate.org.uk

The full programme will be announced in March. Sign-up here to receive updates.

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