Spark curiosity, imagination, and creativity in your classroom with the WeeFestival Spark Arts programme, recommended for Kindergarten to Grade 2 students.

After the success of our A Play a Day series last year, we’re pleased to return with another digital series for the classroom.

We’ve curated a programme of four exceptional and utterly unique performances created especially for young audiences and captured on film to share in your classroom.

Each film is accompanied by an easy-to-implement resource guide with indoor/small space and outdoor/big space arts focused activities inspired by the art-forms and themes of each piece.

Doodle Pop!
Brush Theatre (South Korea)

A mischievous duo starts to doodle… and ends up creating a whole imaginative world! They invite us along on their sea adventure with a tiny little turtle. What will happen as we follow their vivid drawings into this beautiful watery world, and will they return the turtle to the sea safely? This touching and playful non-verbal show uses live musicians who perform the accompanying score and sound effects, stunning interactive animation projections and live whiteboard drawings, and an abundance of theatrical imagination.

Früh Stück
Helios Theatre (Germany)

What do we hear when we listen? How does the room sound around us? And when does the music start? A musical journey that unfolds around a railway track: a player explores the sound of things, bodies, others and themselves, a rhythm is built, a melody, a song, a landscape audio grows in our ears and before our eyes. A playful performance of invented sound and music.

KACA CAKA: The Mirror
Papermoon Puppet Theatre (Indonesia)

Caka is 5 years old and has a huge imagination-every time he stares in his mirror at home he imagines he can be anything he wants! A bird, a robot, a ghost, a karate kid, even a walrus! One day Caka wanders by a house with a huge glass window and he discovers another world in the reflection! What unfolds after that is a compelling and mysterious story!

Yassama and the Beaded Calabash/Yassama et la calebasse aux cauris
Lua Shayenne (Ontario)

A story of a young girl who, with the help of the old Baobab tree, saves her village from drought and delivers a powerful lesson about the importance of respecting and honouring Mother Earth. Acclaimed dance artist Lua Shayenne weaves vibrant West African dance and music with engaging storytelling in an interactive performance created especially for young children. 

Spark Arts Screening Details

• Package includes two films per week with two weeks of access to accommodate your schedule
• Easy to access and screen via the WeeFestival website
• Each film is between 30-40 minutes in length
• Perfect for screening in the classroom
• Screen each piece all the way through or in parts using our chapter breakdown
• Each class can choose to engage with one or all four Spark Arts projects!

“As an early childhood educator, I found the visual imagery to be stunning and remarkably engaging for young children.”

– Kindergarten Teacher, 2021