Children

A community arts project is under way to revamp the boarded-up windows at Holbeach cemetery chapels. Efforts are being made to repair and regenerate the monument chapels to create a community focused space. While a steering committee applies for funding, arts programme Transported is helping with some artistic care. The project will create four bespoke photographic murals, which will take ...

Spalding’s Polka Dot Academy is promising its most spectacular musical yet when Joseph and The Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat opens at the South Holland Centre on Thursday (March 26). Limelight Youth Theatre students’ singing, acting and dancing will be complemented by pupils from St John The Baptist Primary School and Spalding Primary School who will perform as the show’s choir on ...

Everybody’s favourite marmalade-eating bear comes to the big screen at the South Holland Centre cinema during February half term. Paddington Bear has been at the heart of fundraising for Action Medical Research since his creator, Michael Bond, met the charity’s founder, Duncan Guthrie, in 1976. Spalding’s Action Medical Research committee will be at the centre for some of the screenings ...

Pinocchio Blackfrairs Arts Centre, Boston Saturday, April 4, 11am and 2.30pm Tickets £12 (adults), £10 (concessions), £40 (family) Box office 01205 363108 Geppetto longs for a son of his own and so builds a puppet boy named Pinocchio who is magically brought to life by a beautiful Fairy. To become a real boy, Pinocchio must first prove he is brave, ...

Dinosaur Zoo Key Theatre, Peterborough Wednesday, February 25 and Thursday, February 26, 1.30pm and 4.30pm Tickets £12.50, danger seats £16. Box office 01733 207239 Dare to get up close and personal! Direct from the West End, Dinosaur Zoo brings these awesome prehistoric creatures to the stage as you’ve never seen them before! From cute baby dinos to teeth-gnashing giants, observe ...

Milkshake! Live Monday, February 16, 1pm and 3.30pm King’s Lynn Corn Exchange Tickets £13/£11 Box office 01553 764864 The show’s stellar line up includes Little Princess, Bananas in Pyjamas, Noddy and Tessie Bear, Pip from Pip Ahoy! Bello from Jelly Jamm, Chloe from Chloe’s Closet, Tommy and Tallulah from Tickety Toc, Toby and Dolores from Toby’s Travelling Circus and Milkshake’s ...

Little Howard’s Big Show For Kids Key Theatre, Peterborough Saturday, March 14, 4pm Tickets £8/£7 Box office: 01773 207239 Little Howard is the world’s only live interactive animation. Life is tough in showbiz; Little Howard’s big new act keeps going wrong, Roger The Pigeon has spent all their money on cookie cutters, his comedy counterpart Big Howard has been diagnosed ...

Three Wise Monkeys South Holland Centre, Spalding Wednesday, February 18, 2pm Tickets £6 per person or £22 for a family Box office 01775 764777 Three Wise Monkeys is A Hiccup Theatre production for ages three to seven and their families. Follow our three cheeky monkeys, Seeno, Hearno and Sayno, on their journey to wisdom! When should you tell a fib? ...

Basil Brush Key Theatre, Peterborough Sunday, February 22, 11am and 2.30pm Tickets £13/£11 Box office 01733 207239 Basil Brush is a star with an outstanding ability to entertain and make people of all ages laugh and smile. He’s cheeky, irreverent, charming, naughty, quick-witted, scheming and foxy, but at the same time he’s kind, caring and affectionate. Basil has celebrated over ...

Jack and the Beanstalk presented by The Hurst Children’s Theatre Group South Holland Centre, Spalding Friday, January 16, 7pm, and Saturday, January 17, 2pm and 7pm. Tickets £8.50/£6.50 Box office 01775 764777 The youngest children playing the Little Beanies will be dazzled by the lights, forget their words and be very chuffed with their costumes! Meanwhile the rest the company, ...

Dolphin Tale 2 (U) Stamford Arts Centre Saturday, January 17, 11am and Sunday, January 18, 2pm (relaxed screening) Tickets £5 Box office 01780 763203   Dolphin Tale 2 tells the story of the team of people who saved Winter the dolphin’s life coming together in the wake of her surrogate mother’s passing in order to find her a companion. A ...

Aladdin Stamford Arts Centre Today (Thursday), 6.30pm, tomorrow (Friday), 6.30pm, Saturday, 10.30am, 1.30pm, 4.30pm, 7.30pm and Sunday, 10.30am, 1.30pm and 4.30pm. Tickets £12/£10, £40 for family of four, groups £9 each. Box office 01780 763203   Following the amazing success of the 2013 pantomime, Jack and the Beanstalk, this year’s panto extravaganza is Aladdin! Families can expect spectacular scenery, dazzling ...

The Chuckles of Oz King’s Lynn Corn Exchange Friday, February 20, 2pm Tickets £15, family (three) £42, (four) £56 Box office: 01553 764864   Dorothy, The Tin Man, the Cowardly Lion and the Scarecrow are among the familiar characters who join the Wizards (Paul and Barry) for this sensational new version of the familiar Wizard of Oz story. Audiences will ...

If you are at your wits end with the kids this Christmas holiday, get down to RSPB Frampton Marsh for some festive fun. Running during the school holidays, starting on December 19, you can explore the Twelve Birds of Christmas treasure trail. Collect an entry sheet from the heated visitor centre before venturing out onto the reserve’s surfaced paths to ...

Sooty King’s Lynn Corn Exchange Wednesday, April 1 11am and 2.30pm Tickets £13, under 16s £11, family (3) £30 (4) £40 Box office: 01533 764864 Izzy wizzy Let’s get busy – it’s The Sooty Show! Direct from Citv, Sooty heads into King’s Lynn in a fabulous new show to delight the whole family. Joining the nation’s favourite bear will be ...

  High School Musical The Cresset, Peterborough Today (Thursday), tomorrow (7.30pm) and Saturday (2.30pm & 7.30pm) Tickets £14.50/£13 Box office: 01733 265705 RARE Productions present High School Musical. Set in East High School, Troy Bolton, captain of the basketball team, and Gabriella Montez, a newly- arrived and very academic student, decide to audition for the school winter musical. Sharpay and ...

Santa’s coming! And you can have tea and supper with him too! Santa will be arriving at Springfields this year today (Thursday) and staying every Tuesday until December 23 and there will even be a chance to have supper or tea with him! Kids will be able to tell him if they’ve been naughty or nice this year by writing ...

Sing-a-Long-a-Frozen Kings Lynn Corn Exchange Saturday, January 17 Tickets £16, concessions £11, Family (3) £37.50 (4) £50 Box office 01553 764864 www.kingslynncornexchange.co.uk As the festive season gets underway in earnest it may be a strange time to start planning for the new year. But in fact, now is the perfect time to plan a treat to beat the “back to ...

A Christmas Carol South Holland Centre, Spalding Saturday, November 29 1.30pm & 6.30pm Tickets £11/£10 Box office: 01775 764777 Bah Humbug! Scrooge is an old miser who never celebrates Christmas – or anything for that matter! But this Christmas Eve, the Spirits of Christmas Past, Present and Future transport him on a journey through time to make him see the ...

Kinesonic South Holland Centre, Spalding Friday, November 7, 1.30pm and 7pm Tickets £7.50, £25 family ticket Box Office: 01775 764777 southhollandcentre.co.uk A few years ago, lifelong friends Alex Flanagan and Augusts Dakteris left their hometown of Spalding to pursue their dreams of joining the circus. After many years of studying and perfecting their skills they are returning with their own ...