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contributing one chapter to the final book. The children’s submissions from 33 schools across London and the South East were handed over to Jackson in November 2019 and are now being printed including every child author’s name, and in doing so make them all published authors. The resulting book will be for sale at the festival. A wealth of shows and entertainment return to Southbank Centre for the duration of the festival. Critically-acclaimed cabaret star Le Gateau Chocolat presents his first ever work for children Duckie. A family-fr iendly performance of Hans Christian Andersen’s The Ugly Duckling – a classic tale of identity and belonging reimagined for our times with a message of tolerance and self- acceptance at its core. The celebrated Erth’s Dinosaur Zoo comes all the way from Australia to London’s Queen Elizabeth Hall with an interactive show featuring an amazing array of puppets, from cute baby dinos to some of the largest carnivores and herbivores that have ever walked our prehistoric planet. The award-winning children’s show The Curious Scrapbook of Josephine Bean created by Shona Reppe returns to Southbank Centre’s Blue Room. Page-by-page, a scrapbook slowly becomes a window into the secret world of character Josephine Bean in a performance that has mesmerised audiences since its creation. The longest-serving female Blue Peter presenter Konnie Huq brings comedy fun to Imagine this year by introducing audiences to her book character Cookie, the funny, science- obsessed adventurer.
Music is featured heavily in this year’s
programme with events including award-winning musician and CBee bies’ star YolanDa Brown’s ith YolanDA’s Band Jam – her ch sees musical guests jam
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along with her band performing crowd-pleasing songs especially created for a noisy audience of children. Chineke! Juniors, made up of majority BME (black and minority ethnic) young players presents a fun-filled journey exploring music- making and storytelling.
Several events this year aim to inspire children to become the next generation of changemakers. In the Fantastically GreatWomenWho Saved the World talk in the Purcell Room, suffragette descendant Kate Pankhurst looks at the invaluable work of notable female leaders and pioneers who have dedicated their lives to studying, conserving and protecting Planet Earth and all its living things. Remarkable young people have been making the headlines in recent years and You’re Never Too Young To Change the World takes inspiration from young pioneers, both real and fictional, such as Greta Thunberg, Louis Brown andMalala Yousafzai to Pippi Longstocking and Neville Longbottom. In this daily event to round off the free programme in the Clore Ballroom, children and adults will be given an opportunity to tell stories of their own heroes and how they’re changing the world. Throughout this edition of Imagine there is programming addressing how humani responsible for caring for our planet. T
Poetry Library has put together a series of events – Poetry For The Planet, Poems Go Green, Green PoetryWorkshop and Poems From A Green And Blue Planet – highlighting key themes at the forefront of public interest.Waterstone’s Children’s Book Prize-winning author Sita Brahmachari will be creating environmental pledges as she explains the inspiratio n behind her latest bookWhere The River Runs Gold which encourages everyone to be as creative,
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community-minded and environmentally aware as possible in today’s world.
A packed free events schedule guarantees that families are kept busy onsite without needing to spend money. Free activities around Southbank Centre’s site include illustration workshops, a free family sing-along Big Songs for Little People, the popular family jazz show Groove Baby; and a child-friendly exhibition within Hayward Gallery’s HENI Project Space by Nevin Alada . At this year’s festival is a free space for adults too; Imagine’s Wellbeing Zone invites parents to take time to relax with hand massages and self-care tips on offer.
According to Tamsin Ace, Festival Programmer, Southbank Centre, “This year Southbank Centre’s Imagine Festival highlights the positive impact of young people and how one is never too small to make a big difference or to change the world. pecial focus on kindness, not
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brilliant line-up of speakers, performers—and dinosaurs!—to inspire our discerning young audience and I can’t wait to see the results of our second Imagine A Story projoject, where over a thousand children will join Shana Jackson in becoming published authors. Once again I’m particularly proud of the BSL interpreted, relaxed and accessible performances including a packed programme of free events for families, ensuring there truly is something for everyone.”
The majority of the events will go on sale to Southbank CentreMembers on 5 December and to the general public on 6 December .
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