The Just So Festival 2013

The Just So Festival is a small, weekend-long festival of creativity aimed at children, young people and their families at a new site at Rode Hall Parkland, near Scholar Green (just 10 miles from the old site at Barnswood) in Cheshire, held over the weekend of Friday 16th until Sunday 18th August 2013. This year it welcomes families to a 'spaghetti western' with oodles of spaghetti.

Line-up

Festival regulars Cut A Shine, are joined by Skinny Lister, The Lovely Eggs, The Perhaps Contraption, Eric Ness, David Gibb and Elly Lucas, and Nick Cope, with many more still to be discovered at the festival.

Tickets

An adult weekend ticket (16+) is priced at £95, a weekend child ticket (aged 3-15 years) is priced at £40, with children aged under 3 free to attend.

Day tickets are available for the Saturday and Sunday. An adult day ticket (16+) is priced at £30, a child day Ticket (3-15) is priced at £15. Under 3s day tickets are free. All under 18s must be accompanied to the festival by a responsible adult.

To buy tickets, click here .

Babies

The family festival experience includes family camping, nice loos, baby changing tents with changing mats and wipes, a breast-feeding boudoir, an area with electicity points for bottle warmers and sterilisers, and more.

New for 2013

This year sees a live action version of 'Guess Who?', Barefoot Ceramics having fun with clay, a flowery wonderland maze, the acrobatic Whispering Wood Folk, a Fairy Queen, a performance of Midsummer Night's Dream by Taking Flight Theatre, a Lost In Translation Circus production of La Balade de Bergerac, 'Telling Tales' woodland dinner party stories, and TongueTied Theatre and York Theatre Royal present The Revenge of Mr Trout!.

In 2013 the festival team will be delving further into the woods on the Rode Hall Estate to bring the audience some exciting new areas including Telling Tales, a world full of books and The High Chaparral where everyone can release their inner cowboy. Buckets & Spades the beach installation from 2011 will be making a return and what better setting than the banks of the lake at Rode? Peekaboo, their area for 0-3 year olds will again be providing high quality performances and experiences designed around their smallest visitors.

Other attractions

The festival will provides an experience where art, music and literature are embedded and entwined in the landscape. Expect also a lantern parade, midnight feast, festival opera, festival choir, kids dressing up, children's authors and illustrators, workshops, pottery, puppets, and more.

There will be more information here when available.

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