The Flying Canoe – DreamBig Children’s Festival
DreamBig Children’s Festival has a family-friendly offering that can be enjoyed in your very own home, entering a world of imagination and learning about Kiribati culture along the way.
Review by Claire Davill
The Flying Canoe invites you to build your own canoe out of household items, then embark on an […]
[ May 20, 2023 to May 21, 2023. ]
Maker Space at Adelaide’s DreamBIG Children’s Festival
Let your imagination run wild. Join South Australia’s own nature play company Climbing Tree in the Massive Maker Space.
Get creative with its huge pile of junk loose parts, Massive Maker Space is a small world of possibilities where you can create something never seen before.
Open from 10am until 3pm […]
[ May 20, 2023 to May 21, 2023. ]
Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge
There was once a small boy called Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge and his house was next door to an old people’s home.
He knew all the people who lived there, but his favourite person of all was Miss Nancy Alison Delacourt Cooper. When Wilfrid finds out that Nancy has lost her memory, he […]
[ May 20, 2023; ]
Claire Della and the Moon
A tender and beautiful production with puppetry, music, striking visuals and poetic storytelling. Join Claire and space dog Laika in the perfect show for these trying times. Using puppetry, music and poetic storytelling, Claire Della and the Moon offers young audiences a metaphoric vocabulary to positively manage their own mental health.
Claire Della […]
[ May 20, 2023 to May 21, 2023. ]
Erth’s Prehistoric World – DreamBIG Children’s Festival 2023
See the prehistoric creatures of your imagination come to life on stage with this enchanting show from world-renowned Erth Visual and Physical.
Take an enchanting journey to the bottom of the ocean to discover ancient bio-luminescent creatures and marine reptiles, then back to dry land to witness the breathtaking […]
[ May 27, 2023; ]
Possum Magic
A magical stage adaptation of the much-loved Australian classic tale at DreamBIG Children’s Festival.
This beloved Australian story has enchanted children for forty years. Now the paper and ink is being brought to life on stage. Using a magical mix of live action, stage magic, puppetry and projected animation, Monkey Baa’s awarding-winning creative team has […]
[ May 17, 2023 to May 27, 2023. ]
DreamBIG Children’s Festival 2023 – Our World.
DreamBig Children’s Festival is returning bigger and brighter than ever in 2023, inspiring kids to explore ‘Our World’ through music, dance, storytelling, puppetry, interactive play, the famous silent disco, and quirky luminescent creatures. DreamBIG 2023 will also feature the BIGGEST BIG Family Weekend yet to celebrate Adelaide Festival Centre’s […]
[ May 20, 2023 to May 21, 2023. ]
BIG Family Weekend in Adelaide
Held over a whole weekend in May, this fantastic family event is filled with activities, performances and fun for the whole family. Don’t miss stacks of free events for kids of all ages, performances, events, exhibitions, workshops and much more.
To celebrate Adelaide Festival Centre’s 50th year the 2023 DreamBIG festival will […]
Pack your bags for a road trip to the “Magic Beach”
Review by Sharon Harrington | May 29, 2021
Have you ever felt nostalgic for an era of your life before it has even passed? That is the idea behind this evocative stage show, inspired by Alison Lester’s much-loved children’s book, Magic Beach.
A family of five sets […]
Tröll by Trick of the Light Theatre, NZ, at the DreamBig Children’s Festival | Review
Review by Brooke Hendry
Scary scratching behind the walls, cables moving like snakes & a sarcastic Icelandic grandma that knows all there is to know about terrifying Trolls…
As we enter Space Theatre, we see only a table and a projector screen as […]
The Narrator – DreamBig Children’s Festival Review
The Narrator is a clever production that takes audience members on a bus journey while watching a narrated performance play out at various locations around the city. The Narrator makes the audience question where reality begins and ends while interweaving storytelling, humour and intrigue.
The novel bus journey began […]
Still Point of a Turning World at DreamBIG Children’s Festival – Review
This interactive performance invites you to explore a patchwork of experiences, which will inspire you to question who you are and how you affect the world around you.
by Carla Caruso
I’m always up for new experiences. And going to a show, where attendees are at […]
[ May 22, 2021 to May 23, 2021. ]
A Fork in the Park at Elder Park
In partnership with the Adelaide Festival Centre’s DreamBig Children’s Festival, Fork on the Road will be hosting a weekend long Fork In The Park event. There will be plenty on offer including delicious dumplings, sweet stroop-wafels, a mega-mixed grill, the perfect paella and everything in between.
Held over the […]
Photo: Pippa Samaya
WIN Tickets to Dr AudiYO’S Giant Adventure
Join the quest of Dr AudiYO, a beatboxing clown-come-superhero.
She sets off on a surreal adventure to slay The Beast, who is on a rampage to silence the city. On a bare stage – using only her voice, a microphone and magic looping bum bag – theatre-maker and […]
[ May 22, 2021 to May 23, 2021. ] [caption id="attachment_149396" align="alignnone" width="630"] Image Credit: John Fish[/caption]
Hidden Creature Gallery – DreamBig Children’s Festival
Part laboratory, part performance and all imagination, Hidden Creature Gallery is an exciting interactive work for school-aged children.
Existing between the digital and the real world, this work empowers young people to bring to life the places and objects around them and give […]
[ May 22, 2021 to May 23, 2021. ] [caption id="attachment_149390" align="alignnone" width="630"] Photo credit: Peter Matthew[/caption]
Infinite Monster – DreamBig Children’s Festival
Three tents. Three participants. Two minutes to draw, scribble or scrawl your contribution to an ever-changing monster projected in real time on a gigantic tower of LCD screens.
In this extra-special version of the classic game, everyone is invited to draw the head, legs […]
[ May 22, 2021 to May 23, 2021. ] [caption id="attachment_149383" align="alignnone" width="630"] Photo credit: Dave Pickens[/caption]
Silent Disco with DJ Monski Mouse – DreamBig Children’s Festival
Get your dancing shoes ready as crowd favourite Silent Disco is back at DreamBIG Children’s Festival.
International kids disco queen DJ Monski Mouse, Silent Disco hostess with the mostest, joins the DreamBIG Festival lineup. Monski Mouse will curate three epic […]
[ May 22, 2021 to May 23, 2021. ] [caption id="attachment_149117" align="alignnone" width="630"] Photo credit: ArtPlay[/caption]
Ping Pong WoW – DreamBIG Children’s Festival
See what happens when you enter a space with 2,000+ ping pong balls.
The Ball Room artists believe play to be an essential ingredient in all creative acts. In Ping Pong WoW, their signature participatory work, the audience’s experience becomes the fabric of the […]
[ May 22, 2021 to May 23, 2021. ] [caption id="attachment_149402" align="alignnone" width="630"] Photo credit: Gatis Melnacis – Priednieks[/caption]
The Narrator – DreamBIG Children’s Festival
The windows of the bus act as screens through which the audience watches a classic story of childhood rejection and betrayal unfold in real time.
Live actors appear and disappear, and real buildings and pedestrians become part of the story as told […]
[ May 29, 2021; ]
Magic Beach – DreamBIG Children’s Festival
Adelaide Premiere by CDP Theatre Producers
A play by Finegan Kruckemeyer
Based on the book by Alison Lester
Each year, an everyday family go on a beach holiday. This isn’t just any beach – it’s Magic Beach, where everything you can imagine becomes real. But this year is different. As the eldest […]
[ May 22, 2021 to May 23, 2021. ]
Wolfgang’s Magical Musical Circus – DreamBIG Children’s Festival
Adelaide Premiere by Circa Contemporary Circus
Straight from the score and onto the stage, the man known as Mozart appears tumbling and twirling. To those who know him he is Wolfgang, the dart-playing, pun-loving ratbag. To those who are watching and listening he is the wigged genius Mozart.
Wolfgang’s Magical […]
