Children & Families

Two people stand pointing paintbrushes at the camera behind multi-coloured paint splatters.

Multibuy

Featured Event Device

Djanogly Theatre

Splat!

Sun 1 Jun 2025

A family-friendly comedy about art and creativity, taking you through the history of visual art. For ages 3-6.

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A man, woman and teenage girl sit and talk in a small bright red dome in the luminarium. They are surrounded by towers and walls that glow bright green.

Children & Families

Workshop

Festival Block Device

May Half-Term

Sat 24 May – Sun 1 Jun 2025

Fill your May half-term with interactive experiences, creative workshops, theatre and free exhibitions

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A family walk along a park path towards Lakeside Arts

A tram travels past Lakeside Arts

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Booking Tickets

Freshly baked scones

A person in a wheelchair enjoys an accessible swing.

A vast lake with stone lion ornament

A small boy in a blue hoodie sits at a cafe table

Family Facilities

A light bright shop space with square shelves and colourful displays.

Colourful rowing boats sat at the side of the lake, with the Trent building in the background.

Two secondary school students in uniform painting in yellows, reds and oranges as part of a school trip at Lakeside Arts.

Schools & educators

A student actor on stage with red hair being led off by another student

University Students

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Families & Children

Lakeside's Performing Arts Studio setup for a drinks reception.

Celebrations & Events

Lakeside's theatre with a full audience, a speaker at a lecturn and four empty chairs on stage.

Meetings & Conferences

Eleven actors on stage in orange costumes and in a jungle scene, with the moon overhead.

Artistic & rehearsal hire

A croissant filled with cheese and tomato

Catering For Your Event

Close up of microphone on stage. with audience seating in the background.

Lakeside front of house staff in blue fleeces stand smiling

Jobs & Volunteering

The backs of two people's heads wearing headphones and operating the tech for a theatre show

A black and white photograph of an outdoor swimming pool on the site where Lakeside Arts now sits

Sekou Keita, a musician, sits surrounded by an orchestra with headphones on

A woman walking through luminarium which is glowing with reds and purples.

Grass interspersed with daisies, a winding path and a small tree just coming into lead dominate the foreground. Children playing in Highfields Park, an ice cream van and Lakeside Arts' DH Lawrence Pavilion are in the background. A bright blue sky with white fluffy clouds is overhead.

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Children & Families

Rubbish Shakespeare Company & Silly History Boys present

The Story Forge

Make Your Own Myth

Sun 4 May 2025

Djanogly Theatre

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Past event

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Prepare for uproarious pandemonium in a uniquely hilarious family theatre adventure for all ages!

Two loopy Professor Doctors invent three brand-new myths live by unleashing cardboard chaos and your boundless imagination!

Will your adventure unfold in Ancient Egypt, Viking fjords, or Neptune’s deep? You choose! Shape the story, suggest the world and even become the hero (optional, shy souls welcome!).

From the award-winning champions of children’s theatre, Rubbish Shakespeare Company and Silly History Boys, comes an hour of high-octane family fun: expect clowning, improv, music, and epic cardboard props.

Forge your legend – you’d be mad to myth it!

Presented by Rubbish Shakespeare Company & Silly History Boys

Watch the trailer

More from The Story Forge...

A child, wearing a cardboard Viking hat, pulls an adult across the stage.

An actor dressed as a mad professor stands in front of a chalk board.

A boy holds a cardboard box and arrow, whilst wearing a cardboard Viking hat.

Two actors dressed as mad history professors wield a cardboard sword, in front of a blackboard.

A boy wearing a cardboard Viking hat, holds a cardboard sword.

Delightfully wacky"

Families Edinburgh Magazine

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