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Your donation has twice the value in the Big Give Christmas Challenge – on now until December 8th!

As the festive season nears, many people consider making a special donation to a charity or favourite project to reflect the spirit of the season.

Until midday GMT on December 8th, The Big Give Christmas Challenge 2020 project doubles every donation you make.

For just seven days , it offers supporters of participating charities the opportunity to have their donation doubled by visiting their site at theBigGive.org.uk

There are many different types of charity participating, but those reading this blog may like to know that a good number of deserving arts organisations are asking for your help through this scheme.

How does it work? Well, firstly the Big Give organisation brings together a range of philanthropists and larger scale donors to produce a large pot of money (in the millions).

Then, when individuals like you or me donate to the Big Give’s Christmas Challenge, the money we donate is matched by an equal amount taken from the already created pot of money, making your donations worth twice as much to the participating charities. The matching continues either until the matching fund is empty, or until the midday deadline on 8th December.

Remember- all your donations to participating charities will be doubled., as long as matching funds remain in the pot.

The Christmas Challenge, founded by entrepreneur and philanthropist Sir Alec Reed CBE, is the UK’s biggest online match funding campaign. Since the Big Give launched the Christmas Challenge campaign in 2008, it has raised over £110 million for thousands of charity projects.

For more information, or to browse the participating charities (including a good number from the arts sector), or simply to make a donation, click here

I have spent some time looking through the arts organisations participating and here are a few suggestions of some of the really worthwhile projects that deserve your support. Please give whatever you can. It all makes a difference.

ARDENT THEATRE COMPANY

CLEAN BREAK THEATRE COMPANY

MOUSETRAP THEATRE PROJECTS

LONDON MUSIC MASTERS

ARTS 4 DEMENTIA

THE LITTLE ANGEL THEATRE

STRATFORD CIRCUS THEATRE

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Watch Now for Families: Little Angel Theatre’s MR GOBBLE’S GARDEN

Here’s another brilliant show for younger audiences from the pioneering Little Angel Theatre.

In their second outing, Scoop the Junk lady and Bertie the Bottle welcome you back into their special space, where they make things out of the stuff other people throw away, and use them to tell stories. This time, they’ll tell you the story of MR GOBBLE’S GARDEN.

He looks like a slipper with a mop for some hair.
For when he’s not gardening, he rests in his chair.
But, more than anything in the world, and of this I am certain
Mr Gobble is extremely proud of his garden.

Mr Gobble is the grumpiest man you’ll ever meet in your life, but his pride and joy is his garden. He tends to his herbs, fruit and sunflowers, and is growing an enormous Orchid to enter into a competition. But one day, a mischievous mole comes digging, and Mr Gobble has to learn an important lesson about kindness, sharing and friendship.

The show lasts approximately 15 minutes and is available now

Although this show is free to watch, please consider making a donation to the Little Angel Theatre which does vital work in helping younger children to access the joy of theatre.

This production was filmed in a socially distanced way at Little Angel Studios.

CREDITS: Performed by Lori Hopkins

Written by Jon Barton

Directed by Samantha Lane

Designed by Emma Tompkins

Lighting Consultant Sherry Coenen

Sound composed by Ailie deBonnaire

Filmed and edited by Suhail Merchant

Assistant puppet makers Geoff Hense and Imogen Evans

Supported by NESTA and Arts Council England.

Watch MR GOBBLE’S GARDEN here

You can find the first instalment of SCOOP’S SPACE here

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Watch Now for Families: Little Angel Theatre’s CLEVER CAKES

Here’s another brilliant show for younger audiences from the pioneering Little Angel Theatre.

Little Angel Theatre are excited to be partnering with Michael Rosen to produce an online, puppetry adaptation of CLEVER CAKES.

First published in 1991, Clever Cakes and Other Stories is a collection of comical adventures about super-smart kids who triumph in a fun flip on traditional fairy tales. Little Angel Theatre has adapted the title story, Clever Cakes, about a little girl called Masha and how she outwits a massive, greedy bear to escape home to her granny.

Rosen is a patron of Little Angel Theatre and a bestselling author who held the post of Children’s Laureate from 2007-2009. His YouTube channel, ‘Kids Poems and Stories with Michael Rosen’, has over 500,000 subscribers and 90 million views.

It will be broadcast for free on Sunday 1 November 2020 and available from then onwards

Credits:

Based on the story written by Michael Rosen
Performed by Nix Wood
Directed by Samantha Lane
Designed by Ellie Mills
Produced by Joe Rosen
Composed by Andy Hopkins
Filmed by Matthew Dove

The show lasts approximately 12 minutes and is available now

Although this show is free to watch, please consider making a donation to the Little Angel Theatre which does vital work in helping younger children to access the joy of theatre.

Watch CLEVER CAKES here

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Little Angel’s THERE’S A BEAR ON MY CHAIR

Here’s another brilliant show for younger audiences from the pioneering Little Angel Theatre.

Families with little ones can enjoy this puppet retelling of Ross Collins’s much loved, award-winning picture book, THERE’S A BEAR ON MY CHAIR, created by Toby Olié, in association with Little Angel Theatre.

Watch as Mouse employs a series of hilarious antics to remove an unwitting polar bear from his favourite chair. 

Toby Olié is a director, designer and puppeteer. He is also co-artistic director of Gyre & Gimble, a theatre company specialising in puppetry. Work as director includes: The Wolves in the Walls (Little Angel Theatre) Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons: A Reimagining (Shakespeare’s Globe), The Hartlepool Monkey (Gyre & Gimble, UK tour), The Elephantom (National Theatre/West End) and associate puppetry director of War Horse (West End).

The show lasts approximately 10 minutes and is available until November 1st

Although this show is free to watch, please consider making a donation to the Little Angel Theatre which does vital work in helping younger children to access the joy of theatre.

Credits:
Created by Toby Olié
Performed by Laura Cubitt and Toby Olié
Music by Adam Pleeth
Special thanks to Hugh Purves

Written and Illustrated by Ross Collins, shared with permission of Nosy Crow Ltd.

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Little Angel’s FLYBOY AND THE ROBOT

Here’s another brilliant show for younger audiences from the pioneering Little Angel Theatre.

FLYBOY AND THE ROBOT is an original story from multi-disciplinary artist and musician Matthew Robins.

Matthew has been writing and performing an on-going series of stories about Flyboy for the last 10 years.  Using black paper, a scalpel, and a piano they are his own home-made way of recreating all the things he loves – 1950s science-fiction films, Sesame Street cartoons, the Beano, old Tom Waits records.  This story (Flyboy and the Robot) is one of Matthew’s favourites to perform as it combines many of his favourite things, i.e. crocodiles, robots, and sausages, and lots of diminished-seventh chords.

When there isn’t a pandemic Matthew also performs with the other musicians in his band, but in this special performance filmed at the Little Angel Theatre in London, he has to do it alone – with some help from Tim Spooner operating the puppets.  

The show lasts approximately 12 minutes.

Although this show is free to watch, please consider making a donation to the Little Angel Theatre which does vital work in helping younger children to access the joy of theatre.

Credits:
Music, lyrics and puppets by Matthew Robins
Performed by Matthew Robins and Tim Spooner

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