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After you've learnt the ropes in the DJ-ing for Kids masterclass, sign up to our Dusted Vinyl for Kids session. This is an Also Festival exclusive session where you get to choose the tunes and introduce the audience to the music that you LOVE, and it means you can literally have fifteen minutes of fame at a festival.

Your 3 day nature fix: Den-building, tree-climbing, story-making, story-telling, singing, dancing, shouting, laughing, yoga, crafting and build-a-rafting! Freedom to roam, participate in dedicated workshops and activities, and join the nighttime parade in our spectacular site.

Ever wanted to send your children away to join the circus? Here’s your first step. They will learn the art of comic timing, improvisation and comedy stagecraft from two former students of renowned master clown Philippe Gaulier.

Always wanted to try out a classical gladiatorial approach to combat sports whilst ALSO wanting the fitness of a martial art. You – my friend, are in luck – for 2019 ALSO Festivals are working with LED Lightsabre combat company Silver Sabres to set up our own Combat Academy. You’re welcome.  Booking opens April 30th.

Join Ex-Marine Commando and ALSO’s Production Manager, David Hamblett in creating woodland hideaways in Dave’s Den Building session. 

Stories from and ‘out of the woods’ and creative forest crafts - drawing on our woodlands, our understanding of nature and the stories woven into our landscape. Crafting, Also-rock-painting, word-wilding, fire-starting. All Saplings activities take place in our wonderful woodland setting.

Tales from the yoga mat is a fun fitness and storytelling experience for children from 0-7 years. Led by their yoga teacher and chief storyteller, the children become voyagers of literature and are transported through time and space to great adventures using their bodies to act out each tale. 

Baby’s first festival? Ours too! Join first time parents (Pauline and Zoe) and their little ones (Ronnie & Finley) for a playful start to the day. Featuring plenty of squishy crinkley toys and rattles-a-go-go we’ll be building to a crescendo of old fashioned sing a long of classics incl ‘wheels on the bus’ and ‘row row your boat.’ Babies not included. (0 - 18 months)

Learn the tricks of the songwriting trade with creative tour de force Sophie Garner.  Sophie has released 3 studio albums, toured internationally and was the very first artist to perform on the main stage at London's O2 Arena! She uses songwriting as a powerful tool for building confidence and creative expression with children from 7 to 70+!  This session is for 11-18 year olds. Exploring the art form of song within a group is a musical adventure of games, improvisation and of course singing and song writing.

We’re going all out for Forest Bathing (Shinrin Yoku) for 2019 and our in-festival favourite Sarah McCartney (founder of Perfume House 4160 Tuesdays) will be offering a workshop in which you can build your own diffuser to take the joys of Forest Bathing (babes) home to enjoy the benefits long after your also glow has faded. Booking opens 30th April.

So pleased to be working with East London's super skincare outfit Soothe Me.  They'll be running workshops on how to make handcrafted luxury face masks, vegan face-masks, soothing spriz atomisers and coming with a festival sized amount of animal friendly beautifully biodegradable glitter – so we can glitter our socks off!

Bring your favourite cuddly and a blanket to feel snuggly. Lie back and let the sounds of the gongs bathe you in a sea of relaxation and dreams. 

If you go down to the woods today...make sure you play with clay! A fun family workshop for children and adults to create your own ‘out of the woods’ animal. Ceramcist Ros will fire your creations and send them on. Bookable from April 30th.

Let's meet at the Greenwood tree deep in the Forest of Also for you never know who else you might find there .. This As You Like It acting session (directed by actor and Director Fiona Ross) enables actors to step into Shakespeare’s  forest of  Arden and explore the characters that find themselves there - whether a banished heroine, a love sick shepherd or a Duke exiled from a brutal court - master a famous speech, utter  some extraordinary new words and create a  world full of  characters  all on  a  journey  to  find themselves  and  happiness. 1.5 hours -  age eight years to  12 years - bring an adult . ( no adults  without a  child ) 

Get festival-ready and adorn yourselves with fabulous floral-with-a-hint-of-Frida crowns under the guidance of Esther from Rebel and the Rose.

Join ephemeral nature and environmental artist Richard Shilling as you make individual works of Art from Nature and your imagination.

Nature and poetry go together like fish and chips, Torvill and Dean, ALSO Festival and fun.  So as part of our 'Out of the Woods' theme for ALSO '19 we are so delighted to have poet and BAFTA award winning writer Myles McLeod in festival to lead our Haiku Hike explore our 50 acres of Capability Brown parkland on foot to write nature inspired poetry.

Join award-winning animation director and illustrator Evgenia Golubeva to take a walk and a sketch around the festival's grounds.  Suitable for all ages, you bring your creativity - we'll provide the stunning back drop,  sketchbooks and art materials.

To celebrate our theme of 'Out of the Woods' we are pleased to present for our youngest ALSO-ers a chance to draw and explore the forest creatures inspired by folklore from all over the world together with an award-winning animation director and illustrator Evgenia Golubeva.

Run away to the circus with Playbox Theatre. Go upside down and round and round learning circus skills from highly experienced practitioners.

If you go down to the woods today look out for secret fairy and elf dwellings. Can you create your own fairy houses to take home? We’ll provide you with everything you need to build your very own fairy kingdom.

Put Archimedes' Displacement Theory to the test whilst learning how to escape being shipwrecked! Our instructors will give you some tips but it will be up to you to turn a pile of poles, rope and barrels into a raft - to keep you and your crew afloat.

Denis Coleman is a a dynamic young singer-songwriter from the USA, based in London. His music blends catchy pop with US R&B and hip hop influences. He released his debut single You last September and is fast becoming an independent pop sensation, catching the attention of the industry by winning the Future Music Songwriting competition. Fresh from The Power of Music schools tour, Denis has been spreading positive messages of anti-bullying through performances and interactive chats with students. Watch him blow up the main stage!

This interactive workshop by the Speakers' Trust is for 12 - 18 year olds. Learn to speak with confidence and charisma. Sarah Steed  will show you exactly how to capture and keep and audience's attention through speech making, fun and throwing yourself in at the deep end…  Uisng skills from performing arts, oration and psychology The brave and willing will have the chance to address their own audience on stage … ‘TED talks in a field’ for the up and coming or the just plain curious!