Gabby Young and Other Animals for Just So Festival

The Just So Festival 2014

Friday 15th to Sunday 17th August 2014
Rode Hall Parkland, Scholar Green, Cheshire, ST7 3QP, England MAP
£100 weekend adults, child ticket (3-15) £45, under 3s free

Daily capacity: 6,000

Gabby Young and Other Animals tops the initial programme of entertainment announced for Just So Festival, 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 15th until Sunday 17th August 2014.

Highlights also include Long Nose Puppets Arthur's Dream Boat, Mr Wilson's Second Liners, Shanty Theatre's Story Giant and Cheshire Dance presenting The Dancing Games.

The performances and activities on offer span a wide range of arts and this year will include premiers of new commissions as well as works reimagined for the outdoors.

Director Sarah Bird said, "We're phenomenally excited about our 5th Just So Festival, the programming is by far the best we've had yet. It is a hugely eclectic line up that celebrates and rewards the curious and imaginative, it's as much a mix of high quality arts and performances as surprising interventions and intriguing happenings."

Organisers add, "Just So Festival asks you to throw away your inhibitions and immerse yourselves in a world of pillow fights, midnight feasts, campfires, jiving and acrobats. Families who camp for 3 nights on the Cheshire Estate are immersed from dawn til dusk in a magical awe inspiring environment. "

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Early bird tickets have sold out. An adult weekend ticket (16+) is priced at £100, a weekend child ticket (aged 3-15 years) is priced at £45, with children aged under 3 free to attend. All under 18s must be accompanied to the festival by a responsible adult. A campervan pass is priced at £20.

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.

The festival will provide 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.

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