Festival for all ages
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The Kent Community Oasis Garden
Creative Nature Trail: Guided Walk with KentCOG
The Kent Community Oasis Garden Coordinator, Debi Adams, will also be leading guided walks of the creative nature trail at 11am and 2pm each day encouraging participants to engage with…
more >Jasmin Vardimon Company
JV2: Canvas
Choreographed by Gulbenkian Associate Artist Jasmin Vardimon MBE, Canvas invites the audience to come up close around a massive canvas. Using the dancers movement as brush strokes a picture slowly…
more >Family Film: Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse
After reuniting with Gwen Stacy, Brooklyn’s full-time, friendly neighbourhood Spider-Man is catapulted across the Multiverse, where he encounters a team of Spider-People charged with protecting its very existence. But when…
more >Family Film: Elemental
In a city where fire, water, land, and air residents live together, a fiery young woman and a go-with-the-flow guy are about to discover something elemental: How much they actually…
more >Relaxed Screening: Elemental
In a city where fire, water, land, and air residents live together, a fiery young woman and a go-with-the-flow guy are about to discover something elemental: How much they actually…
more >Family Film: The Little Mermaid
“The Little Mermaid” is the beloved story of Ariel, a beautiful and spirited young mermaid with a thirst for adventure. The youngest of King Triton’s daughters, and the most defiant,…
more >Socìetas Raffaello Sanzio
Buchettino
Images of chirping birds and howling wolves are roused through the enchanting blend of a dark dormitory and the sounds of the forest. Join us for this unusual bedtime story.
more >Architects of Air
Dodecalis – Luminarium
The ‘Dodecalis’ Luminarium is an immersive and interactive sculpture and designed to evoke wonder at the beauty of light and colour
more >Starcatchers
Falling Star
Falling Star is twinkling, cheerful story for wee ones all about stars, outer space and finding your place.
more >Oily Cart
The Lost Feather: A Sensory Storytelling Adventure
Oily Cart’s unique brand of multi-sensory mayhem is opening up the cart -bursting with colours, textures, music and puppets – to discover the story of The Lost Feather.
more >Reckless Sleepers
It’s Hot, It’s Not
This surreal, funny and carefully crafted physical performance explores the weather in all its forms from summer to autumn, winter to spring and takes delight in discovering the world anew
more >Barrowland Ballet
Playful Tiger
Playful Tiger tells the story of a tiger’s visit to a rigid family home where he turns their world upside down.
more >Simple Cypher
Roll Model
A circus and Hip Hop mash up about how we’re shaped by those we spend time with.
more >Avant Garde Dance
S.C.R.U.M.
Avant Garde’s trademark synaesthesia of hip-hop, contemporary dance and captivating soundtrack unfurl in this electrifying 35-minute show for all ages.
more >Confidance
Confidance Workshop – Dive into Dance!
Kids, parents, friends and family - come and get creative with Confidance!
more >Avant Garde Dance
S.C.R.U.M. Dance Workshop
Join the team at Avant Garde Dance to learn their trademark blend of hip-hop and contemporary dance!
more >The Yoga Man
Yoga with Simeon Wright
The classes are also a space where children can be self expressive, creative, improve their flexibility and strength , meet new people and grow in self confidence.
more >Animate Arts
Animate Arts – Paper Bugs Workshop
Join artists from Animate Arts for another brilliant, inspirational cardboard crafting session.
more >Division of Natural Sciences, University of Kent
Cool Science
Explore the world of cool science with our interactive liquid nitrogen show!
more >Code Kids
Lego Robotics Workshop
Use Lego to build smart robots and bring your robot to life using code and introduce concepts such as engineering to kids.
more >Code Kids
Virtual Reality Coding Workshop
Learn to code in a virtual world in the palm of your hand. Give your 3D creations behaviour, animation, and movement. Interact with a virtual world entirely created by you.…
more >Kent Sport Mini Sessions
Our friends at Kent Sport are offering some brilliant free activities at bOing! 2023
more >Music for Change
Global Sounds Stage
Music for Change have created a brilliant line up of music perfomances and workshops for all ages on our Global Sounds Stage at the bOing! Hilltop from 11am - 3pm.
more >Rimski's Yard
Rimski & Handkerchief
Rimski & Handkerchief are a curious spectacle indeed, as they meander among the crowds with their marvellous musical machines: the Bicycle Piano and Double Bassicle… Singing timeless songs of momentous,…
more >Mrs H and the Singalong Band
Join members of Mrs H and the Sing-along Band at bOing! Festival. Bring your voices, silly dances and a sprinkling of mischief!
more >Bollywood Brass Band
A huge hit at festivals and street parades, the Band bring their sounds to bOing! for the second time.
more >Future Human Gallery
You will have the chance to draw, build, paint, or model your own ‘future human’ and add it to the growing gallery created across the two days of the festival.
more >The FutureProof Zone
The FutureProof Zone at bOing! is all about our planet and what we can all do to look after it.
more >ART31
bOing! Young Performers
Look out for our very own Gulbenkian young performers around campus over bOing! weekend!
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