Children's Festival in Sydney - Haven for Creative Little Kids

Sydney Children's Festival is an incredible blend of wonderful workshops, exhilarating performances and riveting activities for the kids of all ages. The mesmerising festival is a key reason for the popularity of the cheap air tickets to Sydney. Date : Wednesday, September 28, 2011

Children's Festival in Sydney, held usually in September-October, is a perfect occasion for indulging in flurry of exciting activities. Little creative minds up to the age of 12 participate in myriad of intriguing activities, enlightening workshops and scores of performances. The best bit about the festival is that even the families can take part in events like dance, circus, theatre, storytelling, visual arts, music, and creative sustainability.

As the festival offers suitcase full of activities and variety of entertainment, travellers booking cheap tickets to Sydney are sure to experience different adventure every day. The festival ensures a new learning experience for small as well as big kids. Multiplicity of the festival programs is sure to leave young ones in awe. Delightful array of performances and workshops in different areas like music, art, dance, crafts and literature are among the highlights of the festivals. Assortment of heaps of enriching activities makes for a great reason to buy those airlines tickets to Sydney during the children's festival.

Venue of the Festival

The remarkable children's festival is an ideal initiative for inspiring the creative impulse in young generations. Sydney Children's Festival was launched in 2008 by a multi-venue centre, CarriageWorks and since then the festival has gone from strength to strength. This year's festival (2011) is scheduled from 26th September to 8th October. For the first time, the activities are taking place at five different venues including CarriageWorks at 245 Wilson Street, Eveleigh; Riverside Theatres in Parramatta; New Castle Museum in Newcastle; Joan Sutherland Performing Arts Centre at 597 High Street, Sydney University, Penrith; Seymour Centre in The University of Sydney. Every venue is well-equipped to bedazzle the travellers with the fine spectacle. Bulk of exhilarating performances, outstanding events, amazing workshops and thrilling activities are part of 2011 Sydney Children's Festival and are making air tickets to Sydney worth revering.

Performances

This year a plethora of elating performances will uplift the spirits of the children and the parents. "Big Drums for Small People" is one of the many high-octane performances scheduled at the festival. Kids from all ages can participate and cheerfully enjoy the bouncy taiko drumming with their families. While, a great theatrical performance based on Dutch children's novel "The Book of Everything" will surely create the extraordinary verve among kids. In addition to this, visitors can immerse in other enchanting performances like "Polyglot Theatre's City of Riddles" and "I, Bunyip" at CarriageWorks, "The Chaos Fairy" at Riverside Theatres and "The Man The Sea Saw" at Seymour Centre in this year's edition of the festival.

Workshops

Apart from entertaining performances, the festival 2011 offers countless workshops which are designed creatively for inspiring and teaching kids of different ages. "Acrobatic Circus Workshops" for ages 5-8 and ages 8-12 will introduce the child to various skills of Acrobatic focusing on safety, balance, fitness, fun and group work. Other creative workshops such as Breakin' Workshop (ages 5-12), Book Making Workshop (ages 8-12), Big Legs Workshop (ages 8-12), Claymazing (ages 7-12), Create Your Own Zine (ages 8-12), How to Make a Monster Workshop (ages 6-12) and Illustration Workshop (ages 8-12) will serve an enlightening purpose.

Activities

Children will be delighted to engage in fun activities like quiz show, crafting, circus, and rhyme recitals. Some of the major activities of Sydney Children's Festival 2011 are "Books & Brains Quiz Show", "Circus Drop Zone", "Free Play With Circus Solarus", "Heidi Hoops" and "Kids' Films". Outstanding Literary Festival comprising excellent events such as "An Hour with Maggie Hamilton" and "Good Morning Emma Magenta, with Emma Magenta, author and illustrator of Gorgeous Sense of Hope: A Love Fable and The Gradual Demise Of Phillipa Finch complete the ecstatic festival.

Tips & Tricks for the Festival

Like any other festival, Sydney Children's Festival is also a dynamic and busy site. Especially, with the festival gaining humongous popularity and the 2011 edition of the festival set to be the biggest one so far, it pays to be careful during the festival.

• Try to stay calm and have fun! It is a big festival and there is bound to be some confusion and some chaos. Stay calm while standing in waiting queues. Seek help from the support staff whenever in doubt.
• Flexibility is again a prerequisite for such large-scale events. Missing out on some events is not a big deal. There are tens of performances and events to be enjoyed. Focus on those activities, events and workshops that interest your kid.
• Try to keep the fest as environmental-friendly as possible. It is also a great opportunity to enrich kids on the evils of wastage and the benefits of respecting natural resources. Materials used in festival's workshops are recycled, so one must try to bring only eco-friendly items to the event.
• All the venues are easily accessible by train, bus or bike. So, try to avoid travelling to the sites by cars.