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Playground Presents Baby Playground
Creative, sensory and non-verbal experiences for babies 0-18 months and their parents and carers to enjoy. Delivered by multidisciplinary artists, Baby Playground creates an experience for you to explore sound, textures and movement in your baby's world. These exciting sessions are a perfect opportunity for families to engage with new experiences, sensations and connect with each other through art.
Playground is a Kent County Council Early Years Creative programme and a partnership between KCC’s Culture and Creative Economy Service and Kent Libraries. ‘It became a National Portfolio Organisation with Arts Council England in 2023, with an ambition to empower the creativity of young children and their families through engagement with artists in libraries, Family Hubs and other venues in disadvantaged areas in Kent.
Playground Artists
As one of four Playground Lead Artists, Nicola Flower curates the aesthetic, mentors artists, and drives new work, fostering high-quality, child-led artistic experiences. Her achievements include illustrating Playground publications, co-creating Digital Playground, and leading an international collaboration with Finland as well as supporting Playground collaborations with Scotland, Norway, and other early years organisations in the UK. Alongside her leadership in Playground, Nicola is a celebrated visual artist specialising in drawing and textiles, creating installations, performances, and sculptures that explore connections between objects, senses, and place.
Abigail Huan is a dancer, choreographer, and theatre maker who crafts movement-rich artistic encounters for children, babies and their carers. Her work honours the youngest audiences’ innate curiosity, using movement, sensory elements, and the abstract to invite authentic, open-ended engagement with art. As a Little Big Dance Cycle 2 artist and Playground Artist, Abigail’s creations— including SOAP, Heartstrings, and What Do You Do With an Idea? (Five Stones Theatre)— forego traditional instruction, favouring rich, immersive worlds where families can discover their own rhythms and meanings. Current productions under development are Wobble (for babies aged 0-18 months) and Look Up (for children aged 2-6), where she continues to shape experiences that celebrate each child’s capacity to connect, respond, and create.
https://www.playgroundkent.co.uk/
LIMITED SLOTS AVAILABLE, STRICTLY UP TO 10 BABIES PER SESSION
Dates & Times:
27 June 2025, Friday
3.45pm - 4.30pm (with access to explore "Lost Islands" from 3.15pm - 3.45pm)
28 June 2025, Saturday
9.30am - 10.15am (with access to explore "Lost Islands" from 9am - 9.30am)
11.15am - 12pm (with access to explore "Lost Islands" from 10.45am - 11.15am)
For ages: Strictly birth - 18 months old
Tickets price: $15 per adult, $35 per child (You may purchase tickets for up to 2 accompanying adults for this programme)
Duration: 45 minutes
Venue: Goodman Arts Centre
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Terms and Conditions (Please read carefully before you purchase your tickets)
- This ticket gives you access to the 45-min scheduled PROGRAMME as well as access to EXPLORE: Lost Islands 30 mins before your scheduled programme time.
- Programme + Explore tickets are chargeable with each person (adult or child) counted as one pax. A baby in arm is also counted as 1 pax. Please note that tickets are sold PER PAX.
- Programme + Explore tickets are strictly non-refundable. If you are unable to make the Programme for any reason (including covid-related matters), you may transfer your ticket/s to another family (child/children have to be within the age stipulation). No credit notes can be issued and change of dates/ times are strictly not permitted. Please choose your date and time carefully.
- Child/ren must be accompanied by at least one adult into the programme.
- If you’re not attending EXPLORE, please arrive 10 mins before the programme starts as latecomers may be denied entry into the programme.
- This programme is age-specific and The Artground reserves the right to refuse entry to children who are not within the stipulated age group, even if you have purchased a ticket. No refunds will be issued.
- Audiences have to exit The Artground once the performance is over to enable staff to clean and sanitise the space.
- Non-slip grip socks are mandatory for everyone (except pre-walking babies). Socks will be available for sale $3/pair for those who do not have them.
- Photography and Videography may be taken by event organisers for marketing and archival purposes
