Celebrate and play with Young V&A at their annual Summer Festival, featuring a programme of free, family-friendly creative activities.

When: July 5 to 6. 11am to 3pm

Where: Young V&A

Ticket price: Free

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More information from organisers:

Watch  stunning performances, explore Leap then Look’s participatory installation and take part in hands on activities across the galleries. Sunday 6 July also offers a reduced and relaxed programme that welcomes SEND audiences and their families.    

Saturday 5 July Programme 

Pop Up Performances (Town Square) 
Join for a joyful acrobatics performance from Mimbre, watch record breaking hula hooping troupe The Majorettes and also enjoy a performance from local youth dance collective Do Things Different.

Mimbre acrobats and The Majourettes will be leading family workshops later on in the day. 

Play, Interact, Explore, Leap Then Look (Community Room)  
An interactive installation by Leap Then Look 
Large, tactile sculptural objects, touchable artworks and colourful assemblages create a lively, exciting and curiosity-filled space, to support and encourage visitors to take part in playful exploration and critical thought through making

11:00 – 12:00 Young V&A’s Play Champions would like to invite SEND audiences into the installation as part of SEND Saturday programme. The installation will operate with reduced capacity for those who would value a calmer, more relaxed space.   

12.00 – 15.00 the installation is open to all. 

Sunday 6 July Programme  

Play, Interact, Explore, (Community Room)   
An interactive installation by Leap Then Look 

Offering reduced capacity for those who would value a calm, gentle experience in the installation. Young V&A’s friendly Play Champions will be there to support facilitation and engagement.  
 
Sensory Stories 11.30 & 12.30 (Play Studio) and 13.30 (The Stage) 
Catch storyteller Roberta Livingston sharing sensory poems inspired by Young V&A’s Imagine Gallery.     

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