World Day of Theatre for Children

From everyone at Theatre Hullabaloo, we'd like to wish you all a happy World Day of Theatre for Children and Young People!

Theatre Hullabaloo believe that going to the theatre for the first time is an important thing to do and should be part of everyone's childhood. To support this belief, in 2013 we launched our Theatre Firsts Campaign to help celebrate both children's first theatre experiences and adults first memories of going to the theatre.

#theatrefirstie booth

Today, on World Day of Theatre for Children, we are launching our TakeOff #theatrefirstie North East 2014 Campaign. Our #theatrefirstie booth will be spending a month at each of our seven consortium venues where audience members will be asked to:

1. Write their first memory of going to the theatre with us on a blackboard
2. Take a photo of themselves holding it in our booth on their smart phone
3. Share it with us on our TakeOff Facebook or Twitter pages with the hashtag #theatrefirstie 

Everyone who posts a photo will be entered into a competition to win a #theatrefirstie goodie bag and there will be a prize available for an audience member at each of the venues the pod visits. The #theatrefirstie pod will then spend a final week at our TakeOff Festival, Durham in October 2014.

We hope the campaign will raise awareness of how important going to the theatre is, especially amongst children and families in the North East. There is a lot of great theatre for children and young audiences happening in venues right across the region, from Berwick in the North to Richmond in the South and of course everything in between. 

You will find the #theatrefirstie pod at the following venues over the next seven months: ARC Stockton, Arts Centre Washington, Darlington Civic Theatre, Gala Durham, Middlesbrough Town Hall, Town Hall Theatre Hartlepool and The Witham Barnard Castle.

To get the ball rolling, Miranda and I have both done our #theatrefirstie:

If you want to find out about all the great shows happening in venues near you, please visit Theatre Hullabaloo's TakeOff Website, which promotes all the work happening for 0 - 16 year olds in the North East.

We hope to see your face or your child's face on our facebook or twitter page soon!

Dorcas
Communications Manager, Theatre Hullabaloo