Festival for all ages
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Jasmin Vardimon Company
Alice (VR)
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This experience is now fully booked. To be added to a waitlist in case tickets are returned to us for sale, please email boxoffice@kent.ac.uk. ‘Every adventure requires a first step’…
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STEM @ Kent
Cool Science
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Cool Science has moved to the THEATRE at Gulbenkian Arts Centre at the festival where additional tickets are now available for sale. If you have already purchased a ticket, we…
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Frozen Light
Night Out In Nature
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This experience is now fully booked. To be added to a waitlist in case tickets are returned to us for sale, please email boxoffice@kent.ac.uk. Four scientists have lived inside a…
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Oily Cart
Space to be
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Once upon a time, there was you and me… Let your hands lead the way as they discover different textures and open up tiny universes. Oily Cart’s Space to Be is a sensory show…
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Dulce Compania
Rainbow Ballet
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Sensational rainbow parade bringing a blast of colour to bOing! Inspired by the Bauhaus movement and the Triadic Ballets of the 1920s, which imagined movement as geometry, this walkabout performance…
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Half A String
The Puppet Van: The Lost Colour
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Outdoor chaos 2m in the air! A vibrant joyful explosion of colour in an energy fuelled physical show full of clowning, puppets, and paint told from on top of a…
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Global Sounds Stage
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Music for Change have created a brilliant line up for our Global Sounds stage from 10am – 3pm. GTown Talents will be taking to the Global Sounds Stage from 3-5pm…
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Kent Sport, University of Kent
Kent Sport Mini Sessions
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Our friends at Kent Sport are offering some brilliant free activities at bOing! 2021. Suitable for all ages there is no pre-booking, just turn up. Saturday schedule: 10.20am…
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Gulbenkian Arts Centre
Pigment Prodigies
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See if you can spot the teams of artists working hard around the bOing site to try and impress Half A String’s Malcolm Brushell and become his new prodigies. Pick…
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KCC and University of Kent iCCi (UK)
Playground Tent
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Drop into the Playground Tent for songs and rhymes, drama, music, dance, and art especially for children under 5 (and for their grown-ups too!). The sessions will be drop in…
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Playing A/Part
WOW – Welcome to Our World
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An exhibition showcasing some of the artworks that awesome autistic girls from Kent and Surrey have created while participating in the Playing A/Part project. The exhibition space will give you…
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Sprankenstein Studio & Spring Lane Neighbourhood Centre Creatives (UK)
This is Art
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From June-August 2021, Sprankenstein Studio, alongside a roster of talented creatives, have been working with members of Spring Lane Neighbourhood Centre in Canterbury to run art and design workshops challenging…
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Kent Coffee Festival 2021 at bOing!
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We are thrilled to host Kent Coffee Festival at bOing! this year. Kent Coffee Festival will be a celebration of all things coffee from speciality roasters to artisan food producers…
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Paw Patrol: The Movie (Utbc)
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The PAW Patrol is on a roll! When their biggest rival, Humdinger, becomes Mayor of nearby Adventure City and starts wreaking havoc, Ryder and everyone’s favourite heroic pups kick into…
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Accessible Film Club: Cruella (12A)
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Academy Award winner Emma Stone (‘La La Land’) stars in Disney’s Cruella, an all-new live-action feature film about the rebellious early days of one of cinema’s most notorious – and…
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Space Jam: A New Legacy (Utbc)
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NBA champion and global icon LeBron James goes on an epic adventure alongside Bugs Bunny, Lola Bunny and the whole gang of extremely undisciplined Looney Tunes. Family film screenings have…
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Jungle Cruise (12A)
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Inspired by the famous Disneyland theme park ride, this is an adventure-filled, rollicking thrill-ride down the Amazon with wisecracking skipper Frank Wolff (Dwayne Johnson) and intrepid researcher Dr Lily Houghton…
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Dybwikdans
Postponed: MOONmoon
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Marvel at the moon together in this interactive storytelling inspired by myths and legends associated with the moon for ages 0-18months from Norwegian Company Dybwikdans. Inviting us into a universe…
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Chaliwaté Company and Focus Company
Postponed: Backup
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Due to uncertainty around international travel we have taken the decision to postpone Backup. We are hoping to confirm dates in the future. If you have purchased a ticket a…
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