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Chalk creates cultural, immersive experiences for the whole family. Create. Imagine. Together.
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Chalk creates cultural, immersive experiences for the whole family. Create. Imagine. Together.
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Perk up your Sunday night with this dance inducing tune from Hen Ogledd. Hen Ogledd will play MAPS Festival next Saturday! See >> MAPS Festival: Hen Ogledd + Mogic Workshop
Get ready for a lip-syncing masterclass with the glorious Bonnie and The Bonnettes! A relaxed fun fuelled family session, 16th February Gosforth Civic Theatre as part of MAPS Festival.
We've been putting on gig for families since 2016! We've been lucky enough to have The Futureheads, Warm Digits, Rozi Plain, HENGE, Willy Mason, The Cornshed Sisters, Paul Smith, Withered Hand and Frankie and The Heartstrings play special day time gigs for little ears. Which has been your favourite?
Thanks to the lovely folks at NARC. Magazine for the preview of MAPS Festival, which is just around the corner...
Get yourself ready for MAPS Festival: Hen Ogledd + Mogic Workshop by letting your lugs loose on these gems! Then nab a ticket for the special day time gig which takes place on 15th Feb at Star and Shadow Cinema. Hen Ogledd (Richard Dawson, Rhodri Davies, Dawn Bothwell and Sally Pilkington) will fill your afternoon with artificial intelligence, witches, nanotechnology, robots, romance, computer games and waterfalls!
Get your chops around this new addition to the MAPS Festival line up! Edicure is an edible manicure. Biodegradable, unisex, non-toxic, vegan, cruelty-free, non-permanent, hand-crafted, super sweet edible nails Kick back as our expert Edicurists decorate your fingers with super sweet and snazzy edible nails. Choose your own Edicure design using a choice of all-natural colours, admire, snap pics to share and then… eat 'em right off.
Join ceramic artist Alex Sickling for a clay masterclass! She'll be taking you through the process of creating clay cats and dogs for your to take home and proudly display! 21st February at Cobalt Studios CIC MAPS Festival: Cats v Dogs! A battle in clay
It's Queer. It's Glitter fuelled. It's Family Friendly. IT'S A BONBONS CABARET! Step through the doors and join drag trio Bonnie and The Bonnettes, singer/songwriter MXYM, burlesque babe Mama Rhi and appetising queen Vol-Au-Vent Love for a glitter-fuelled, foot stomping cabaret riot! Sunday 16th February, Gosforth Civic Theatre.
The collaboration of dreams! ❤️ Take us there!
Come and join the Dead Sketch Society! This special 90 minute workshop with artist Amy Dover is all about drawing the wondrous world of natural history. Amy will be bringing her collection of found specimens; stuffed shrews, wasp nests, 500 million year old fossils and sparkling geodes, and guiding you through special drawing techniques. Taxidermy ahoy!
Psssst... limited availability for sessions of MAPS Festival: Space Octave on Saturday 22nd and Sunday 23rd February. Come and play on the musical playground!
Perk up your day and get in the mood for the MAPS Festival: Stealing Sheep gig by wrapping your ears around these gems...
*STRIKE A POSE* Get ready to dip, spin and WERK in this high energy family voguing class which will have you runway ready in under an hour! Yaaaaaas queen! Heels optional, attitude essential.
Get ready for an absolute treat of a gig with Stealing Sheep as they play MAPS Festival! Grab some sequins and let's do this! See >> MAPS Festival: Stealing Sheep
Beat it! Join Ladies of Midnight Blue: Hannabiell & Yilis for a body percussion and rhythm jam as part of MAPS Festival. They'll give you a masterclass on all things beats and you'll be ready to form that family band in no time! 22nd February, The Cumberland Arms See >> MAPS Festival: Beat it! Body Percussion and Rhythm Jam.
Get ready to play! MAPS Festival: Space Octave is a polyphonic playground, an interactive play experience in which children of all ages can work together to create a musical landscape. Coloured floor pads produce sounds and rhythms that can then be shaped using a series of interactive objects scattered around the space. The playground is part of MAPS Festival and will be housed BALTIC Centre For Contemporary Art from 22nd - 24th February.
"If adults played more, they wouldn't be so stressed all the time". Play is indeed a fundamental human right.
Get ready for an ear worm... We're so excited for Hen Ogledd to play MAPS Festival on Saturday 15th February at Star and Shadow Cinema. Set to be an afternoon of artificial intelligence, witches, nanotechnology, robots, romance, computer games and waterfalls! MAPS Festival: Hen Ogledd + Mogic Workshop