The Just So Festival 2014

Friday 15th to Sunday 17th August 2014
Rode Hall Parkland, Scholar Green, Cheshire, ST7 3QP, England MAP
£100 weekend adults, child ticket (3-15) £45, under 3s free

Daily capacity: 6,000

Last updated: Thu 31st Jul 2014

Just So Festival is a small, weekend-long festival of creativity aimed at children, young people and their families returning to Rode Hall Parkland, near Scholar Green (just 10 miles from the old site at Barnswood) in Cheshire, held over the weekend of Friday 15th until Sunday 17th August 2014.

Line-up

Highlights include Long Nose Puppets Arthur's Dream Boat, Gabby Young and Other Animals, Keston Cobblers, Mr Wilson's Second Liners, Shanty Theatre's Story Giant and Cheshire Dance presenting The Dancing Games.

Just So showcases an eclectic mix of the best in outdoor family arts. Taking families out of their day-to-day lives and inviting them to sing, dance, play, explore and discover art together in the festival's landscape. Les Enfants Terrible, will bring their Magical Menagerie, Pif Paf stage their aerial performance 'Something To Hold', and Walk The Plank showcase Shadowplay, an interactive kinetic sculpture with more than a pinch of the zany and vaudevillian.

The performances and activities on offer span a wide range of high quality arts and this year will include premiers of new commissions as well as works reimagined for the outdoors.

Tickets

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Early bird tickets have sold out. An adult weekend ticket (16+) is priced at £100, a weekend child ticket (aged 3-15 years) is priced at £45, with children aged under 3 free to attend. All under 18s must be accompanied to the festival by a responsible adult. A campervan pass is priced at £20.

Babies

The family festival experience includes family camping, nice loos, baby changing tents with changing mats and wipes, a breast-feeding boudoir, an area with electicity points for bottle warmers and sterilisers, and more.

Other attractions

The fifth year of the festival will provide an experience where art, music and literature are embedded and entwined in the landscape. Expect also a lantern parade, midnight feast, festival opera, festival choir, kids dressing up, children's authors and illustrators, workshops, pottery, puppets, and more.

Highlights include a life size drift wood shipwreck emerging from the depths of the lake, complete with pirates and a giant kraken at the High Seas. Marvel at the amazing tight rope artists and high wiring elephants up above the big top at the circus themed glade Head over Heels and weave your way through the mirror maze in the Spellbound Forest.

New areas including The Imaginarium a bonkers world designed to transport you to 1920’s Hollywood or the Antarctic through costume. Alongside The New Curosity Shop, a place to learn the art of being Sherlock Holmes, the tricks behind ventriloquism, or butterfly identification.

This will all be accompanied by the usual magical madness of midnight feats, pillow fights, den building and the Wild Rumpus Parade.

There will be more information here when available.