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Artists, Art and Early Childhood

Associate Artist and theatermaker Kim Donohoe (recent work for Starcatchers includes Sprog Rock) recently returned from a residency visit to France as part of the Artists, Art and early childhood project. This is an artist development opportunity taking place over two years and supported by arts organisations including Starcatchers in Scotland, Compangie ACTA in France and Festival 2Turvenhoog in the Netherlands.

15 June 2018

The Art of Human Connection

MamaBabaMe – Starcatchers’ and Curious Seed’s unique dance, physical theatre and live music experience for babies and young children 0-3 – has been announced (24th May) as part of the Made in Scotland showcase 2018. Following its critically acclaimed tour in 2017, we are delighted that tickets are now on sale for MamaBabaMe at The Pleasance […]

29 May 2018

TiSS extends reach to include nursery children for the first time

A ground-breaking project to introduce more children to high quality theatre by taking productions into school gym halls and other community settings across Scotland is reaching pre-school children as young as 2 for the first time.

3 May 2018

Nurturing creative practitioners with a guiding hand from Froebel

Christine Devaney reflects on how Froebel’s ideas about creativity are a fundamental part of Starcatchers’ Creative Skills professional development.

20 April 2018

Children’s book created by local mums delights children in Fife nursery

A group of young mothers who have written and published a children’s story about their experience of being new parents delighted youngsters Sunflower Family Nurture Centre, Lochgelly with a reading of their work. The group are part of Expecting Something, a project run by Starcatchers to connect artists with mothers under the age of 25 and their babies.

22 March 2018

Panning for Gold

As Hup, our classical music and theatre experience for babies premieres in New York, co-creator Hazel Darwin-Clements reflects on the process involved in creating music and theatre that babies and their adults can connect with.

20 March 2018

Hup Tours to the Lincoln Center in NYC

Our five star show Hup will cross the Atlantic this month to give Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in New York, USA, its first live classical music and theatre experience for babies.

6 March 2018

The ‘quiet’ creativity that produced powerful stories | Expecting Something

Jimmy Gordon’s creative writing sessions with a group of young mums and their babies and toddlers generated a heart-warming story about pregnancy and friendship.

14 February 2018

Our Creative Journey featuring Starcatchers projects officially launched

Our Creative Journey, a resource exploring how expressive arts benefit children, was officially launched by Minister for Childcare and Early Years, Maree Todd, on Wednesday, 7 February. Published by the Care Inspectorate, in collaboration with Starcatchers and a number of other partner organisations, Our Creative Journey aims to promote good practice in all types of […]

8 February 2018

RFO Funding ‘recognises value of arts for babies and young children’

We are delighted to receive confirmation that Starcatchers will become one of Creative Scotland’s Regularly Funded Organisations for the first time in 2018.

25 January 2018

Ellie’s Egg Part Two | Expecting Something

Associate Artist Hazel tells the next part of the story of the Lochgelly Expecting Something’s group’s book project, Ellie’s Egg.

10 January 2018

Proudly presenting the Sprog Rock 2017 Tour film!

We are delighted to present a new film documenting the creative journey of the children, musicians and visual artists involved in our Autumn Sprog Rock tour.

9 January 2018

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