Wild Kids

Off Grid Kids is an interactive and co-creative learning biotope, for wild and wonderful and slightly anarchic play.

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This year the Wild Kids interactive playground will be hand-crafted by Sylvan Adventures CIC

Remember that at Off Grid under 5’s go completely FREE, whilst 5-15s cost just £20 per head – with full meal passes for children 5-16 for the entire weekend only £22 – Off Grid offers an outstanding and affordable sustainable summer holiday for all the family.

See Below for 2018 program

NEW FOR 2017: The World’s Smallest Solar Cinema – Just for kids! ‘The Moving Picture House’ is purpose built from recycled items. Its a solar powered cinema showing educational and entertaining films. It seats six in recyled luxury featuring real cinema seats and traditional cinema decor.

Remember to check out ContaKids workshops and Circus Skills with the Salamander Collective!

And don’t miss our Wild Woods Zone, hosted by Sylvan Adventures, for both big and little kids! There you will find Archery, Forest School, Night Walks, Storytelling and more.

This year ‘Sylvan Adventures’ will be joined by ‘Discover Bushcraft’ in the Wild Woods to bring you the ultimate Camp Fire Cook Out Competition; we bring you our very own version of Masterchef! Families, friends and lone chefs all welcome!

Off-Grid Kid’s Village- three days of exploration, discovery adventure and celebration

Open Source Arts three day programme of activities for children between ages 3-14, not that we are prohibiting older children from taking part but we are aware that they will probably feel like they want to just hang out rather than get involved in the core kids programme.

Friday is discovery and exploration day, join us on Friday morning to map the site and discover all the secret places which we will use for our bases and village centres across the weekend. We will have a naming ceremony for the places we discover and mark our village map with the names of our newly discovered countries- it’s time for den building! Using what we have and what we can find we will make our bases and shelters! We will also explore how we will make decisions for the whole weekend, working together to harness all our expert knowledge through circle practice, culminating in the lighting of the Kids Village Central Fire- lit by us the villagers to keep us warm throughout an evening of storytelling and music.

Saturday is our day of feats and challenges- adventure with us as we explore scavenger hunts, obstacle courses, feats of strength and challenges for our mental powers- riddles mysteries and manufacturing we will develop an incredible machine for launching water balloons hundreds of feet and culminate in the Great War of the waters.

Saturday night we will breathe new life into the embers of the day before and gather in the fire circle for another evening of storytelling, magic, sharing our tales and celebrating.

Sunday is our day for celebration- joining together and showcasing all the skills we have learnt and created, the celebration parade, feast and final gathering. We will make a giant processionary puppet, learn the songs and village dances which characterise our journey and take it on parade round the whole of Off Grid to showcase our workout. Later that night we will feast, making food on the fire and sharing it with unto neighbours, finally culminating in the closing fire with stories to take us back into the world and carry our learning with us.

Please join us for these three inspiring days of learning and journeying add co-creating our village life! We will learn vital skills which we need for life supportive and fun setting all on the beautiful Goffin’s Land, making the best of the natural geography spaces as our village terrain.

Other highlights for this year at the Off Grid kids village include Circus Roots and Tribal Vibe activities, Skittles, the tiny solar cinema, stitching and sewing crafts, a safe area for play for under 3year olds, and loads of big outdoor games and activities including water volleyball, sock wrestling, clown cricket, tug-o-war, the Off-Grid Dance Off, Speed Cabaret and shadow puppet making followed by the kids Off-Grid shadow puppet show -written, created and performed by the kids on Saturday evening!

http://opensourcearts.co.uk/

Circus Skills Workshops

With the Salamander Collective

Drop in sessions daily

ContaKids Workshops

With Ruth Janssen

Two workshops daily

ContaKids is a group that gather for fun, movement and partnering games aimed especially for an adult and child duo. No special experience is required. Guiding you through your time is an experienced dancer with a passion for movement, children and families. Putting time aside to build trust, strength, team work, confidence and communication together

The session is 1 hour, in which we play lots of physical games. You are always in equal partnership with your little one while we move together as a group.

We dance, we swim and swoop, we go upside down, roll, jump, fall and run. Both Adult and child can expect to be challenged, make friends and have a lot of fun!

Ruth Janssen – Dancer / Teacher

For 15 years Ruth danced professionally with some of Britain’s leading dance makers, touring extensively nationally and internationally, and had work toured with dance and theatre companies in Britain and Italy, India and China, Malta and Finland. Ruth has worked for theatre companies Scottish Dance Theatre, Dundee Rep Ensemble, Mad Dogs Dance Theatre, Scarlattine Teatro and Gravity & Levity amoung others. As a dance and yoga teacher, Ruth has taught several professional dance companies regular company class including Scottish Dance Theatre and Phoenix Dance Theatre, and also guest lectured for vocational dance schools.

Ruth has practiced and taught Contact Improvisation and improvisation for over 10 years. When she heard about ContaKids it immediately made sense to go and train with Itay to bring it here to the South West. Ruth teaches pregnancy and postnatal yoga in Exeter, and is seeking to bring support and fun to familes with young children through movement, dance and yoga.

Marco Mazza – Dancer / Actor / Teacher

Marco Mazza trained in italy at the Viartisti theatre school. He studied dance, singing and acting. Over the years has worked with different theatre and dance companies including Jean Laurent Sasportes (Pina Bausch company), Duccio Bellugi Vannuccini (Theatre du soleil), Mauro Piombo (Commedia dell’arte), site specific performances with French company Ilotopie.

Marco’s interests in performance extend to outreach and community work, collaborating with various associations dealing with immigration and homlessness.

Marco founded and directed the two physical theatre companies Tecnologia Filosofica and Quarta Scimmia with whom he has developed his artistic style.

www.contakids.co.uk