You asked for a weekend creative play session and we delivered! Fun, artist-led creative play sessions in Wester Hailes for wee ones aged birth to five years, together with their grown-ups.
Every Saturday at:
Whale Arts, 30 Westburn Grove, Wester Hailes
Babies from birth to 18 months: 11am – 12 noon
Children from birth to 5 years: 12 noon – 1pm
If you are a family living in, or near, Wester Hailes, pop along to Starcatchers Saturdays every weekend for a free creative play session for families with little ones aged birth to five years-old.
Starcatchers Saturdays explores different art forms and themes every week, inspired by what the wee ones who join us enjoy the most! From a desert camp-out adventure, to underwater exploring, to singing with shapes and shadows, each session is full of exciting new activities for wee ones and their adults to discover together.
To find out more about Starcatchers Saturdays, email lead artist Kerry Cleland, or just pop along!
A huge thankyou to our Starcatchers Saturdays Crowdfunder supporters:
Timothea Armour, Alison Cleland, Eric Donohoe, Brian Hartley and Natalya McDonald
And to our funders:
Cattanach, Children’s Lottery Trust, Community Grant Fund administered by Space @ The Broomhouse Hub, The National Lottery Improving Lives, Perinatal Infant Mental Health Fund, The Robertson Trust, Pentlands Community Grants Fund.
Lead Artist, Starcatchers Saturdays
Amie is a theatre maker, director and creative specialising in immersive and community theatre .
Lead Artist, Wester Hailes
Kerry loves performing in, making theatre and creating play spaces for early years audiences and children with complex additional support needs.
Lead Artist, Wester Hailes
Katy works on Expecting Something and is creator of Mixed Up.
A report on Starcatchers' programmes in Wester Hailes in 2023-24, working with parents and their young children aged birth - 5 years
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