Float
Float – an immersive durational performance for babies and their adults.
Events & Productions
Explore creative events happening for you and your little ones, and discover our magical range of beautiful productions.
Browse upcoming events for the whole family, tour dates and venues, and explore our beautiful range of magical productions for an early years audience.
What’s on for the whole family
From pop-up creative play experiences, and larger family events to unforgettable theatrical performances, Starcatchers’ events and productions capture the imagination and creative curiosity of the very youngest children and their grown-ups.
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Our Productions
Browse our magical range of past and current productions, and works-in-development, created by and with early years artists who are passionate about pushing the boundaries of what it means to create work for an early years audience.
Current Productions
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Float
Float – an immersive durational performance for babies and their adults.
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Laaaunch!
Starcatchers and Dirliebane Theatre Company present Laaaunch!, an adventure of galactic proportions, perfect for babies up to 12 months who truly understand the challenge, peril and pleasure of lying, rolling, stretching, sitting up and making it to standing.
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Mixed Up: The Digital Classroom Experience
Mixed Up is a vibrant, interactive experience for 3 – 8-year-olds exploring a mix of emotions and feelings through painting, music, and dance. We are offering all Local Authorities the unforgettable Mixed Up experience for their schools during the 2023/2024 school year.
Available to Tour
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Float
Float – an immersive durational performance for babies and their adults.
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Laaaunch!
Starcatchers and Dirliebane Theatre Company present Laaaunch!, an adventure of galactic proportions, perfect for babies up to 12 months who truly understand the challenge, peril and pleasure of lying, rolling, stretching, sitting up and making it to standing.
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Mixed Up
Mixed Up is a vibrant, interactive playground experience for 3 – 8-year-olds exploring a mix of emotions and feelings through painting, music, and dance.
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Little Top
A magical first circus experience for babies from birth to 18 months and their adults.
Past Productions
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SPIKE! – a dinosaur caper
Spike is the wonderful story of a little girl, her grandmother and her favourite dinosaur – powerfully told through theatrical storytelling and dance.
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Falling Star
A twinkling, cheerful story for wee ones all about stars, outer space and finding your place. Created by Kirsty Pennycook and company and inspired by the families of Creative Kin.
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Teeny Weeny
Presented by Starcatchers and Shaper/Caper, Teeny Weeny is a joyful and heartfelt show for under 5s all about bugs, mini-beasts and nature that celebrates the world around us.
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Big Inspirations
Five different and inspiring projects developed by early years artists in Scotland.
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MamaBabaMe
A beautiful dance, physical theatre and live music experience for ages birth-3.
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The Shape of Things
Starcatchers and Branar tell this interactive story through puppetry, object theatre, music and sound.
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Up and Down
Bring little ones together with their extended family inside the colourful world of Troggle and Mira – an interactive online theatrical experience for children under 5 and their grown-ups near and far..
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Blue Block Studio
Blue Block Studio is an exciting, innovative, creative play space for babies under 24 months and their grown-ups.
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The Attic
Set to a live, original piano score, two characters discover a magical place filled with hidden treasures.
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A Small Story | Eine Kleine Geschichte
A beautiful and intricate show bringing everyday objects to life for those aged 2 and over by Andy Manley & amp; Ania Michealis. A beautiful and intricate show bringing everyday objects to life for those aged 2 and over by Andy Manley & Ania Michealis.
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Yellow Valley
Yellow Valley tells the story of Kamwende, a little girl who lives in a valley and sets out on a journey to find her brother Ndoro.
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Nickum
2013/14 - a Starcatchers, RSNO and Aberdeen City Council project in residence in two nurseries in Aberdeen.
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Yarla and the Winter Woods
Yarla can hear the wind in the trees, the birds in the sky, and the cracks and crunches of the woodland floor. But Yarla is only listening to the sounds of the sticks… and they are calling to him.
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The Sonic Playground
Welcome to a place where your footsteps make sounds and your movements animate the space.
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Too Many Cooks
Welcome to the world’s noisiest kitchen, where everything is not as it seems. An inventive, playful and sensory experience for 2-5 year olds, where pots and pans cook up melodies and food becomes fun.
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The News & Weather
An entertaining programme of news and current affairs stories devised by the three- to five-year-olds in Falkirk and Glasgow, giving a child’s eye view of their world.
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Story Pages
2012/13 - Story Pages explored how to use books as a starting point for guided interactive play with under 5s.
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Multi-coloured Blocks from Space
A visual art and sound installation for babies and toddlers aged birth-2 and their families.
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Forgotten Forests
2011/12 - A programme of mini performances and workshops at the Royal Botanic Gardens in Edinburgh.
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The Incredible Swimming Choir
The Incredible Swimming Choir is a musical performance created especially for early-years audiences that takes place in a swimming pool.
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First Light
Between night and day, When everybody is asleep, They are having fun, Meet the Man in the Moon….
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Luvhart
Luvhart is magical tale about two very special wind up figurines living inside a magical cuckoo clock. Presented as a visually quirky and whimsical journey through the changing seasons, Luvhart is a humorous piece of physical theatre accompanied by live cello exploring what it feels like to be lonely and the importance of friendship.
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Ice Pole
Our footprints crunch in snow and a keyboard tinkles in the wind. In this place you see everything for the first time, no matter what age you are, birth to 4 years old or ten times as big as grown up adventurers.
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Oops a Daisy
Oops a Daisy is a live, fresh theatre experience full of movement and music! Join us for a fun, spontaneous and exciting experience for both children and parents.
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Archaeology
Archaeology explored the relationship between theatre and visual art and was developed from a series of workshops run by Andy Manley and Rosie Gibson at North Edinburgh Arts Centre in June 2007.
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Little Light
Come and explore the world of Little Light in this highly interactive and visual performance which has been specially created for children aged birth-3 and their parents or carers.
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My House
Come and visit a very special house where all is not as it seems. Watch the rooms and chimneys grow, and see how many shapes and textures you can spot!
Past Events
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Starcatchers Baby Studio Open Day
Come in and explore the Starcatchers Baby Studio, a new and exciting space full of artistic wonder, for babies and their grown-ups to play together.
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Event: Where is the Voice of Scotland’s Babies?
Where is the Voice of Scotland's Babies? explored the findings of the first stage of Starcatchers and the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland's research into a new arts-based methodology for early-years participation.
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Sprog Rock
An interactive live music experience for early years children and their parents and carers.
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UNCON
In this artist-led conversation, Starcatchers asks: how can we get answers to our questions about the impact of COVID-19 on our youngest citizens when the questions are out of reach? How do we give the children the opportunity to express themselves? How can we make sure that young children continue to have a platform through […]
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The Great Things
Explore the world of Harey, Foxey, and Bearsy in The Great Things by the Art Fraction Foundation, a new children's book, plus online workshops exploring imagination, creation and movement.
What's On
Mixed Up: The Digital Classroom Experience
Mixed Up is a vibrant, interactive experience for 3 – 8-year-olds exploring a mix of emotions and feelings through painting, music, and dance. We are offering all Local Authorities the unforgettable Mixed Up experience for their schools during the 2023/2024 school year.
