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What a shot! 😍📸 Our lovely Curious Investig

What a shot! 😍📸

Our lovely Curious Investigators set, designed by the fab @samueljwilde, in situ at @thealbanyse8 over the weekend. Photo by Rob Auton.

Big half term ahead with trips to @brewhouseartscentre (today!), @nottmplayhouse (Tuesday), @mansfieldmuseum (Wednesday) and Hempstead Library (Friday), plus a school performance!

And more to follow too! Check out the tickets and details over on our website #LinkInBio

#CuriousInvestigators #CuriousInvestigatorsTour #FamilyShow #FamilyTheatre #STEMTheatre #Theatre

Happy #RecycleWeek from the Curious Investigators!

Happy #RecycleWeek from the Curious Investigators! ♻️

They’ve now sorted the recycling for audiences and delighted children a MASSIVE 123 times now!

Recycling’s at the heart of our interactive show and it’s always insightful and fun to see our audiences respond to it 😊

📸 2022 Photo: Grant Archer
📸 2023 Photo: @angelawilkinsonphotography, @sthlibrariesandarts Arts in Libraries Services & @wonderarts.nw
📸 2024 Photo: OTH!

Huge thanks to @thedukeslancaster for letting our

Huge thanks to @thedukeslancaster for letting our Curious Investigators in for rehearsals last week. Their gallery housed our special recycling set, designed by the brilliant @samueljwilde - and we love that the artwork on the walls matched our colour palette! 🎨

We’ve had a great week so far with a couple of school performances and can’t wait for the first public performance this weekend at @attenboroughac 🤩 Just a couple of spaces left for the afternoon performance so you might want to head there for the 11am if you’re booking on the day 👍

Find out more about #CuriousInvestigators on our website #LinkInBio 🐣🎭

Introducing our cracking Curious Investigators cas

Introducing our cracking Curious Investigators cast for Tour 2024 🤩🎭

The egg-stremely talented Marica Cassandra and Harriet Gandy are leading the curious investigations as Scribble and Clipboard, the recycling duo who find our mysterious egg and need the audience’s help to look after it!

It’s great to have Marica with us again as the very inquisitive Scribble, after playing the role in both 2022 and 2023, while we’re really excited to welcome Harriet into the OTH fold as Clipboard! 🙌

And here they are, in costume and in rehearsals last week - it’s already shaping up to be a very fun tour with these two 🤩

Find out more about the show and its tour dates here 👇
onetenthhuman.com/project/curious-investigators-1/ #LinkInBio

#CuriousInvestigators #CuriousInvestigators2024 #FamilyShow #InteractiveTheatre #STEAM #STEMArts #Engineering

🐣🎭 CURIOUS INVESTIGATORS is back out on tour

🐣🎭 CURIOUS INVESTIGATORS is back out on tour! 🙌

That’s right - our egg-citing and engaging, imaginative and interactive family show is out on the road again, meaning more engineering fun, more delightful surprises and more opportunities for you to become Curious Investigators! 🔍

♻️Scribble and Clipboard have a job to do: sort the recycling. But Scribble keeps finding new things to investigate. When she discovers a mysterious egg hidden in the rubbish, the pair need the audience’s help to rescue an unborn chick. Can we save it from a smashing? And what will we discover along the way? 🥚

A cracking adventure for 3-7-year-olds and their grown-ups 🤩

Our first school shows are underway and our first public performances are a blink away! Check out the dates below 👇
@attenboroughac – Oct 6
@derbytheatre (studio) – Oct 12
@arena_theatre – Oct 13
@lincsartscentre – Oct 19
@thealbanyse8 – Oct 20
@brewhouseartscentre – Oct 21
@nottmplayhouse – Oct 22
@mansfieldmuseum – Oct 23
Hempstead Library (@applausetouring ) - Oct 26
@kentontheatre – Oct 28
@curvevenue – Oct 30
@leightonbuzzardtheatre – Oct 31
@thepointeastleigh (Studio) – Nov 1
@thespringhavant – Nov 2
@ropetackleart – Nov 3

This tour comes with support from theatre networks @ingoodcompanymidlands and House SouthEast Theatre Network.

🎥 Grant Archer

Created in collaboration with engineering experts from @lancaster_uni_engineering , Curious Investigators has been hatched by One Tenth Human, commissioned by @bigimaginationsnw and is supported by Arts Council England through their National Lottery Project Grants.

It’s been just over a month since we were at the

It’s been just over a month since we were at the brilliant @thefestivalofmaking , having a blast getting stuck into Pipes and Poo with the people of Blackburn, Darwen and nearby🤩

From making a mess and trying out our waste water systems to joining in with game shows and raps and rhymes, it was a weekend full of enthusiastic interactive learning, silliness and creativity and lots of disgustingly good fun!

Huge thanks to everyone for joining in with the experiments and excitement and for Festival of Making for hosting us.

Find out more about Pipes and Poo here 👇 and keep your eyes peeled for future appearances!
onetenthhuman.com/project/pipes-and-poo/

📸 Grant Archer

Pipes & Poo is supported by the National Festival of Making, @z.artsmcr, Backstage Trust, @roysocchem and the Granada Foundation

LOVE these photos from our sharing of Pipes & Poo

LOVE these photos from our sharing of Pipes & Poo at @z.artsmcr on Thursday. Fantastic to have families joining in with the games and getting involved with our ‘sewage treatment centre’ 😄🚽🪠

Huge thanks to @darrenrobinsonphoto for capturing the show and inquisitive young minds in action 📸

We’re at @thefestivalofmaking in Blackburn this weekend, out on King William Street. We had a fantastic first day yesterday, back out again - come on down and join in the delightfully disgusting watery fun! Find out more at festivalofmaking.co.uk

Pipes and Poo has been funded by the @roysocchem, developed with Professor Siddarth Patwardham, @theuniversityofsheffield. It is supported by the Festival of Making, Z-arts, the Backstage Trust and the Granada Foundation.

#OneTenthHuman #OTH #PipesAndPoo #FamilyTheatre #STEMTheatre #InteractiveTheatre #ZArts #HulmeIsWhereTheArtIsFestival #FestivalOfMaking

A little late in posting these (LOTS of exciting t

A little late in posting these (LOTS of exciting things happening) but what a fun, fun time we had with Pipes and Poo at the Hulme is Where the Art Is festival from @z.artsmcr in late June 🙌

Over 250 people joined us throughout the day to investigate the chemistry and engineering of toilets and make their own ‘poo’ 😄🚽🪠

This week we’re in @z.artsmcr’s wonderful building with more Pipes and Poo ahead of an exciting trip to @thefestivalofmaking in Blackburn this Saturday and Sunday. Find out more about how you can join in with this interactive show at festivalofmaking.co.uk 🤩

Pipes and Poo has been funded by the @roysocchem, developed with Professor Siddarth Patwardham, @theuniversityofsheffield. It is supported by the @thefestivalofmaking, @z.artsmcr, the Backstage Trust and the Granada Foundation.

#OneTenthHuman #OTH #PipesAndPoo #FamilyTheatre #STEMTheatre #InteractiveTheatre #ZArts #HulmeIsWhereTheArtIsFestival #FestivalOfMaking

🤩 EGG-CELLENT & EGG-CITING TOUR NEWS! 🤩 We

🤩 EGG-CELLENT & EGG-CITING TOUR NEWS! 🤩

We are delighted to announce that Curious Investigators will be back out on tour this autumn! 🙌

📅 October 6th - November 3rd 2024 - see below for more info

“Fantastic, stimulating, funny and inventive” (audience feedback), Curious Investigators is a fun, interactive adventure for 3-7 years olds and their grown-ups 🎭

♻️🪣Scribble and Clipboard have a job to do: sort the recycling. But Scribble keeps finding new things to investigate. When she discovers a mysterious egg hidden in the rubbish, the pair need the audience’s help to rescue an unborn chick. Can we save a mysterious egg from a smashing? And what will we discover along the way? 🔍🥚

Created in collaboration with experts from @lancaster_uni_engineering, this delightfully surprising and engaging family show has been hatched by One Tenth Human, commissioned by @bigimaginationsnw and is supported by @aceagrams through their National Lottery Project Grants.

The 2024 tour has also been supported by theatre networks House and In Good Company (@ingoodcompanymidlands) – we can’t wait to visit some of the fantastic venues & schools in their network & meet their fabulous young explorers! 🤩

We’re also delighted that thanks to support from the Westminster Foundation, Fort Vale Foundation, and Reece Foundation, we’ll be able to reach hundreds of children at schools in Lancashire and Teesside who otherwise wouldn’t be able to access our shows. Children at these schools will experience the show plus a free hands-on engineering workshop, and get to meet real diverse engineers via a live Zoom Q&A. We’re so grateful to all our supporters and partners who make this vital outreach work possible 😊

📅 2024 tour dates
🎟️ = on sale now
@attenboroughac - Oct 6
@derbytheatre (Studio) - Oct 12
@arena_theatre - Oct 13
@lincsartscentre - Oct 19 🎟️
@thealbanyse8 - Oct 20
@brewhouseartscentre - Oct 21
@nottmplayhouse - Oct 22
@mansfieldpalace - Oct 23 🎟️
@kentontheatre - Oct 28 🎟️
@curvevenue - Oct 30 🎟️
@leightonbuzzardtheatre - Oct 31 🎟️
@thepointeastleigh (Studio) - Nov 1
@thespringhavant - Nov 2
@ropetackleart - Nov 3 🎟️

Rest on sale soon!

One Tenth Human are delighted to have received a £15,000 grant from the Garfield Weston Foundation to help support our work this year 🙌

This generous funding will help towards some of our core operating costs and allow us to deliver all of our projects this year, including nationwide tours of Curious Investigators, expanding Terri and the Time Machine to 13 Manchester schools, and the development of TWO new projects with and for amazing children in Northern England.

We’re hugely grateful to the @westonfdn for their support in creating more STEM-inspired cultural experiences for young audiences across the country 🎭

Find out more about Garfield Weston Foundation below 👇

garfieldweston.org
#OneTenthHuman #OTH #GarfieldWestonFoundation #FamilyTheatre #TheatreCompany #Funding #STEMArts

@ingoodcompanymidlands @z.artsmcr

A lot of laughter with OTH collaborators Toni-Dee

A lot of laughter with OTH collaborators Toni-Dee Paul and Stu Bowden over in @z.artsmcr last week, as we develop our new project Pipes & Poo.

Who says hard work can’t be fun? 😂

Looking forward to more Pipes and Poo at @oldham_libraries this half term - and more@to share with you soon 🙌

#OneTenthHuman #OTH #PipesAndPoo #ResearchAndDevelopment #FamilyShow #STEM #STEMArts #InteractiveAdventure

“Why does light bounce?” 💡 Brilliant quest

“Why does light bounce?” 💡

Brilliant questions from our trainee Year 3 engineers in our Terri & the Time Machine school sessions last week!

They were working with our Investigator Gideon (aka our Associate Artist Daniel Bye) and excellent real-life Engineers Zainab and Emmanuel from the Association for BME Engineers, who delivered expert advice!

Big thank you to the @paulhamlynfoundation for making all of this possible and to our partners at @z.artsmcr 🤩

#TerriAndTheTimeMachine #STEMArts #ArtsLearning #OneTenthHuman #ZArts #PaulHamlynFoundation

🌎Happy🌍Earth🌏Day! Here at OTH, it’s hu

🌎Happy🌍Earth🌏Day!

Here at OTH, it’s hugely important to us to help young audiences learn about the value of our planet in exciting, inventive and engaging ways - from transforming recycling at home into sets and props to stories about how we can help make the world a better place.

A huge thank you to everyone who plays a part in our adventures and explorations!

📸 Curious Investigators, commissioned by @bigimaginationsnw, 2023 Tour: @angelawilkinsonphotography, courtesy of @sthlibrariesandarts in Libraries Services & @wonderarts.nw

It might feel like a Friday but we’re having a l

It might feel like a Friday but we’re having a little #ThrowbackThursday to the first Curious Investigators tour in 2022 - can’t think why! 🐣🤔🐣😄🐣

There might be some egg-citing news on the horizon soon, so stay tuned 👀

Have a cracking Bank Holiday weekend! 🙌

📸 Grant Archer

Happy #WorldTheatreDay 🎉 Our mission here at O

Happy #WorldTheatreDay 🎉

Our mission here at OTH is to empower young audiences - to see children enjoy inventive shows and imaginative stories that reflect who they are and who they can be, in ways they might never have seen before 🤩

And, thanks to collaborating with brilliant artists, partners, funders and organisations, we’ve been able to share fun, exciting and engaging adventures with new audiences in new places – from theatre venues and village halls, to schools, community centres and libraries.

So, we just wanted to take a moment today to reflect on what a constant privilege it is to see what theatre can do and where it can go, how audiences and artists can build and create together, and the ways in which stories can spark joy and wonder in children and adults alike ✨

Looking forward to more adventures together! 🙌

📸 Photographs
🐣Curious Investigators, commissioned by @bigimaginationsnw: @angelawilkinsonphotography, courtesy of @sthlibrariesandarts in Libraries Services and @wonderarts.nw
🍄Cinderella: the Awesome Truth, co-produced with @polkatheatre: @tashabestphoto
💡The Lightbulb Princess, co-produced with @tuttifruttiprod: Brian Slater
🤖We’re Stuck!, commissioned by @shoreditchth & @z.artsmcr, produced by @china_plate_theatre: Arnim Friess

#WorldTheatreDay #WorldTheatreDay2024 #OneTenthHuman #OTH #FamilyTheatre #STEMArts #STEAM

Happy #WorldWaterDay! H20 is water but what is H

“I’ve said it 100 times: the kids love it. It’s one of the best ways of teaching science that I’ve come across so far.”
- Hannah Phelan, Teacher

Happy #BritishScienceWeek folks! 🤩🙌

Here at One Tenth Human, we love to get creative with science and explore just how much children can learn when STEM and the arts come together! 🎭🔬

This is right at the centre of Terri & the Time Machine, a creative experiment with the brilliant @z.artsmcr: bringing the science curriculum to life through vivid storytelling, practical challenges, and creative classroom learning.

You see, with the help of Year 3 children, Investigator Terri creates a time machine – but finds herself trapped when the malfunctioning machine starts rocketing around in time and space. In an ongoing narrative of peril and adventure, can Year 3 work together to get her back?

Take a look at this video exploring our first year of delivering the project in three inner city Manchester schools.

Find out more about the project 👇
#LinkInBio

With enormous thanks to our expert advisor, Dr. Lynne Bianchi, Director of the Science and Engineering Education Research & Innovation Hub at @officialuom, and our funders, @paulhamlynfoundation

#TerriAndTheTimeMachine #STEMArts #ArtsLearning #OneTenthHuman #ZArts #PaulHamlynFoundation #TheUniversityOfManchester #SEERIH #CreativeCurriculum

From the OTH team to all of our partners, collabor

From the OTH team to all of our partners, collaborators, audiences and followers, we’re wishing you a wonderful festive season 🎄

And we’d like to take the opportunity - with #TheLightbulbPrincess Christmas tree 🤩 - to say a huge thank you to our fab co-producers @tuttifruttiprod and the smashing creatives, performers, crew, audiences and tour venues and their staff and volunteers for their tremendous work on #TheLightbulbPrincess tour. We had our last show a week ago today, taking in schools, libraries and theatres across 11 weeks. Incredibly grateful for all the love and support 💡👑❤️

📸 Brian Slater Photography

It’s the final few days of #TheLightbulbPrincess

It’s the final few days of #TheLightbulbPrincess 💡👑

Two schools performances in Oxford today before we head off for our last public performances at @darwenlibrarytheatre on Saturday & @otleycourthouse on Sunday ✨

Join us for bright, sparkly adventures 👇
https://tutti-frutti.org.uk/shows/the-lightbulb-princess/

“That was my favourite show I’ve ever been to.

“That was my favourite show I’ve ever been to.” 🥹

Thank you Suki (aged 4) for your beautiful comments about The Lightbulb Princess 💡👑

Lovely feedback from Day 1 of public performances at @pegasusoxford - two more shows tomorrow before we entertain schools! ✨

#TheLightbulbPrincess #OneTenthHuman #TuttiFruttiPtoductions #FamilyTheatre #STEAM #ChristmasShow

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