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Roll up, roll up! Come join the summer fun with Max And Lara's Amazing Travelling Space Circus at the BBC RaW Family Storytelling Festival
The BBC RaW Family Storytelling Festival takes to the road again
this summer visiting eight locations across the nation, offering
families and friends a feast of free, magical storytelling
activities.
Bringing to life the characters from BBC RaW's family activity
pack, Max And Lara's Amazing Travelling Space Circus, designed
for less confident adult readers to share with their young
children, RaW invites families of all ages to join Max, Lara and
their wacky friends for this summer-long storytelling festival.
Also joining them at various stages of the tour will be
children's tv favourites CBeebies presenter, Sidney Sloane, and
Smart's Mike Fischetti.
Surrounding the main stage where Max, Lara and a variety of
performers will entertain the audience, the event will also
feature:
 live storytelling activities and story-writing
workshops
clowns, jugglers, face painters and costume characters
animation, puppetry shows and workshops
rhythm and rhyme sessions
the chance to try out news and sport reporting
lots of free resources including storybooks, activity
packs and much more!
There's plenty to see, do and join in for all the family. And
it's free.
Kicking off on 14 June 2008, Max And Lara's Amazing Travelling Space
Circus will travel to:
Scunthorpe's Church Square: 14 and 15 June
Preston's Avenham Park: 21 and 22 June
Belfast's Clarendon Dock (at the Maritime Festival):
28 and 29 June
Leicester's Abbey Park: 5 and 6 July
Stockton's Ropner Park: 12 and 13 July
Wolverhampton's Bantock House: 19 and 20 July
Romford's Market Square: 26 and 27 July
Liverpool's Princes Park (at the Brouhaha Carnival):
2
and 3 August
For start and finish times and more local information visit
bbc.co.uk/raw.
RaW is the BBC's biggest-ever adult literacy campaign: a media
and entertainment led campaign to develop better reading and
writing skills.
BBC RaW's Family Storytelling Festival is in
direct response to the overwhelming positive feedback the
campaign's family activity pack, Max And Lara's Amazing
Travelling Space Circus, has received.
In 2007, more than 26,000
people attended the RaW Storytelling Festival.
The festival is supporting the National Year of Reading and
Bookstart.
Notes to Editors
Launched in October 2005, RaW provides fun, accessible
and relevant resources together with activities and events for UK
adults to help boost their confidence to re-engage with reading
and improve their writing skills.
Tapping into the universal
appeal of storytelling, RaW launched its family phase in 2006,
offering parents and family groups a variety of resources and
opportunities to develop their storytelling skills, and through
this, their own reading and writing skills. Find out more at bbc.co.uk/raw.
The BBC RaW family activity pack, Max And Lara's Amazing
Travelling Space Circus, will be available at each event, or can
be ordered by parents free of charge by calling 0800 0150 950.
Children visiting events must be accompanied by an adult
at all times. Entry is free but visitors may have to queue to
enter, depending on numbers.
Local organisations – who have proved invaluable to the
BBC RaW campaign – will be participating fully in each event.
Bookstart is the national programme that encourages all
parents and carers to enjoy books with children from as early an
age as possible, encouraging a lifelong love of books.
Bookstart
is run by Booktrust, an independent national charity that
encourages people of all ages and cultures to discover and enjoy
reading.
Bookstart is a public and private partnership,
benefitting from more than 20 children's publishers, Red House Books
and central funding from Sure Start.
Parents wishing to receive a
pack should speak to their health visitor or contact their local
library.
Visit Bookstart at www.bookstart.org.uk.
The 2008 National Year of Reading is a year-long
celebration of reading, in all its forms.
It aims to help build a
greater national passion for reading in England – for children,
families and adult learners alike.
To get involved visit
www.yearofreading.org.uk.
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