Wild Words

Join storyteller Michael Loader, multi-instrumentalist Fiona Barrow and Afro-Brazilian music master Jon Hardeman for an afternoon of animal-inspired tales, sumptuous music-making and participative percussion-a-plenty!

A new star is born in darkness … gravity pulls dust and rocks are formed into a boiling ball of heat. Meteoric storms bring the elements of life and Earth is created. Over time plants flourish, animals emerge and finally the Two Legged Ones appear. Through a shared language the Animals taught their Two Legged little brothers and sisters how to survive – by digging, making, building and taking – and if they ever needed help they could ask the Forever Tree.

All was well until the Two Legged Ones felt ’not as good as’. “They can fly, jump, run and swim much better than us!” and so to make up for their limitations the Two Legged Ones simply did more of what they could do – dig, make, build and take. “We’re much cleverer than the Animals because of our big brains” they said and demanded to be called Big Brother and Big Sister and when their heads, not intelligence, swelled in size the monsters appeared to dig, make, build and take more and more and competition was born …

CAN YOU SEE where this story is going?
How would you want it to end?

Come and join us to find out in our show of chaos and creation, silence and sound, story and song brought to you by Jon Hardeman, Fiona Barrow and Michael Loader on a plethora of instruments from afro cuban drums and percussion, to flugelhorn, fiddle, accordion and guitar.

Create your own song lyrics in our pre show Playshop to sing in the show and step on stage for our finale.

Bring your favourite toy animal to star in the show!

Event most suitable for children aged 6 and above, though everyone welcome!

Pre-show Crafting!

There will be crafting in the Glass Studio from 2.30pm until the playshop at 3:15pm. Free to any ticket holders, we will be making animal masks that they can use in the show.