We won Best Family Arts Activity 2024!
We’ve won the ‘Best Family Arts Activity Award’ in the Fantastic For Families Awards 2024!
We’re over the moon to have been recognised for our outstanding contribution to family-friendly arts and culture in 2023-24 for our family arts festival, Hullabaloo in the Park (2023).
This award feels particularly special to us as we believe that creativity should be a part of everybody’s childhood. These national awards celebrate outstanding opportunities created for families and older audiences to access creative opportunities and enhance wellbeing through arts and cultural activities.
Hullabaloo in the Park 2023 was a 5-day family arts festival, filling South Park in Darlington with bug and beastie themed spaces of creative activity, accompanied by walkabout entertainment, food, and a range of BSL and neurodivergent friendly offers – all hosted by artists and staff trained in family-friendly practices. The festival featured over 263 interactive performances, music activities, storytelling, spoken word workshops, creative play environments, geocaching trails, forest schools, and more.
We’re so grateful for everyone in the Hullabaloo in the Park team and we’d like to say a huge thank you to our sponsors who made it possible for Hullabaloo in the Park to take place: Tees Valley Combined Authority, Darlington Borough Council, Arts Council England, Darlington 4 Culture and Creative Darlington.
Charlie Kemp, Tees Valley Combined Authority Head of Creative Place, said: “I am delighted that Theatre Hullabaloo has been honoured with this award, which is fantastic recognition of a brilliant organisation and the outstanding impact it is having on local families.
“Tees Valley Combined Authority is proud to support Theatre Hullabaloo as part of our objective of delivering vibrant, positive and inclusive events which bring joy to our region.”
We’re currently working on lots of exciting projects to bring even more creativity to children and their grown-ups, so watch this space!
Theatre Hullabaloo x