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Children’s Interactive Poetry Show

Join award-winning performance poet, Dominic Berry, for an afternoon of poetry, fun and laughter in this family-friendly interactive poetry show: Spark, The Goblin Wizard.

Join in the wild rhyming and playful poetry to bring the story alive.

Suitable for families with children aged 5+

Usual admission plus £1 for under 16s.  Booking recommended. The show runs from 1-3pm, so please join us at 1pm to join in the fun.

Dominic Berry is an internationally award-winning performance poet. He was 2017 Glastonbury Festival Poet in Residence, winner of 2017 Saboteur ‘Best Spoken Word Artist’ award, and has toured his verse across the USA, Canada, India, New Zealand, Australia, South America and Europe. His other awards include winning New York’s Nuyorican Poetry Cafe Slam, UK Superheroes of Slam and, as of 2017, seven Arts Council England Grants for the Arts awards. He is currently touring three shows, his adult verse ‘No Tigers’, ‘The Boy Who Cried Wolf’, in collaboration with Big Imaginations, Action Transport Theatre and Arts Council England, and ‘Aaaaaaaaaaaaagh! Dinosaurs!’, voted by Fest as one of the Top 7 shows for families at Edinburgh Fringe. For more information on Dominic see his website

29th Aug 2018

1pm - 3pm

Family Friendly

We've got a house...it certainly is a beauty...I must try and make the house give as much pleasure to others as I can.’

Elizabeth Gaskell, in a letter to her friend Eliza Fox in 1850.