Loogabarooga Festival - 18-23 October 2018
This year, the Festival is celebrating 80 years of the iconic comic The Beano and is honoured to host an Exhibition of Comic Art by John Patrick Reynolds at the Charnwood Museum.
We are pleased to showcase local and nationally renowned authors, storytellers and illustrators, whose work gives Loogabarooga its unique and charming character and we’re thrilled to have the support of local businesses, who have thrown themselves into the Festival with enthusiasm and imagination.
Pick up your copy of this year's fun Town Trail or download it here. Visit each of the locations on the map and find the answers to each of the questions at different venues around the town centre. You could win high street vouchers worth up to £150, kindly donated by Loughborough Building Society.
Our Festival Den is back! We have lots of events taking place in our marquee that is located beside the Charnwood Museum cafe, in Queen's Park.
Take a look at the wide range of events taking place at this year's Festival and buy your tickets online here. To purchase tickets for events taking place at Loughborough Town Hall see their own website.
Venue: Festival Den
Date: Sunday 21 October
Join Clare Elsom, the illustrator of the bestselling Flying Fergus series for a story time and live drawing session. Clare will introduce her hilarious brand-new series Horace and Harriet, as they go on lots of brilliant adventures.
Venue: Festival Den
Date: Sunday 21 October
Join Laura in our Festival den to learn the basics of cartooning, making drawings from simple shapes and finding out how famous characters are put together.
Venue: Festival Den
Dates: Friday 19; Saturday 20 October
As the nights draw in, come along to a fun-filled evening of top notch children's film on the biggish screen in the Festival Den then stay on to create your very own magical shadow puppets.
Venues: Centro Lounge & A Plan Insurance
Dates: Thursday 18; Saturday 20 October
Bring a snuggly blanket and settle down with your favourite teddy while Nicky sprinkles her own unique bearish magic on a selection of teddy-bear stories. Nicky might even tell a story about YOUR bear!
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Venue: Loughborough Town Hall
Date: Thursday 18 October
This colourful event brings together Author John Hegley and Illustrator Neal Layton who present the tale of Stanley’s Stick. With a stick in hand, Stanley's options are endless - his imagination takes over and the magic begins...
Venue: Charnwood Museum
Date: Thursday 18 October
John Patrick Reynolds, the only screen printer with permission from DC Thomson, the publisher of The Beano, to use its fabulous archive of images in his work will give a talk about the process he uses from comic to paper.
Free event
Venue: Chocolate Alchemy
Dates: Thursday 18; Friday 19 & Sunday 21 October
Join us to explore the world of Willy Wonka in our very own chocolate factory. You will be taken on a journey into the world of Willy Wonka with readings from the book by the man himself!
Venue: Creations Pottery
Date: Thursday 18; Friday 19; Saturday 20; Sunday 21 October
Craft your very own creation in clay and take home a fantastic souvenir of Loogabarooa! We will help you make and paint a unique masterpiece. All materials included.
Venue: Loughborough Library
Date: Thursday 18 October
Miss Merriweather, the head librarian, is very particular about rules. No running allowed. And you must be quiet. But when a lion comes to the library one day, no one is suire what to do. There aren't any rules about lions in the library!
Venue: Loughborough Library
Date: Friday 19th October
Wriggling their way in and out of trouble, The Bookworms pop-up to bring their stories to life! Join our funny guides as they worm their way into twisty and fantastic adventures through imaginative worlds. Rhubarb Theatre’s new touring festival show is ‘bound’ to be crazy!
Dates: Friday 19; Saturday 20 October
As the nights draw in, come along to a fun-filled evening of top notch children's film on the biggish screen in the Festival Den then stay on to create your very own magical shadow puppets.
Venue: Loughborough Library
Date: Friday 19 October
Come and listen to Penguinpig illustrator Amy Bradley, whose quirky, colourful drawings really brought the important story of Penguinpig to life and draw your own Penguinpig!
Venue: Festival Den
Date: Saturday 20 October
Stories from Adventures with Sir Maxwell & the exciting sequel By Jove !!! illustrated by Luong Tran, come to life when local author Kevin J Adcock reads and answers questions about both books.
Venue: Festival Den
Date: Saturday 20 October
Roll up, roll up! The Imagination Station has landed! Have a go at our art and craft activities inspired by children's illustrated literature.
John Kirk: Dennis and the Chamber of Mischief
Venue: Festival Den
Date: Sunday 21st October
Join storyteller, John Kirk on a fantastical adventure with some of your favourite Beano characters as he retells the epic and tuly hilarious story by Nigel Auchterlounie.
Venue: Loughborough Library
Date: Saturday 20 October
Come with Tiny Frenzy for lots of fun, role-play and music as we read Julia Donaldson’s Room On The Broom in our 35-minute Drama and Storytelling Class.
Venue: Loughborough Library
Date: Saturday 20 October
Come and join Mini Frenzy as we Search for the Gruffalo through Drama and Imaginative Play. In this 45-minute session, we will transport your little ones to another world using drama games and focused imaginative play.
Venue: Loughborough Library
Date: Saturday 20 October
Does your youngster love to play, pretend and perform? Then come along with Little Frenzy as we explore the story of Where The Wild Things Are, in a 60-minute workshop involving drama, role-play and plenty of fun games.
Venue: Festival Den
Date: Sunday 21 October
Join author and illustrator Harriet Muncaster for a drawing workshop, sparkly craft activities and fun party games! Wear your very best Isadora Moon fancy dress for your chance to win a special prize!
Venue: Market Place
Date: Sunday 21 October
Suitable for families of all ages. Graffwerk is offering two fully supervised 'comic themed' Posca paint pen graffiti illustration workshops for kids of all ages. They can get involved with and create some personalised artwork to take away with them.
Venue: Charnwood Museum
Dates: Thursday 18 - Tuesday 23 October
Its back! Come along to Charnwood Museum and create a book to go on our BIG Bookcase! Help us build our living library of reading memories by contributing a book cover of your own design to our bookcase!
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Magical
Illustrations
Venue: Charnwood Museum
Dates: Thursday 18 - Tuesday 6 November
Come and have a go at our fun gallery game inspired by our current exhibition.
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Changing
Room
Venue: Charnwood Museum
Dates: Thursday 18 - Tuesday 6 November
Sensory activities, dressing up, games, quizzes and more - under fives are invited to come and try out our new activity space.
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