​Looping the Loop returns to Thanet for its 10th festival.

Looping-the-Loop is set, once more, to fill Thanet on May 3^rd– 7^th with exciting pop-up performances and opportunities to get involved.

Locally grown talent and internationally acclaimed visiting artists come together for the 10th Looping-the-Loop Festival to entertain, inspire and engage through physical theatre, live music, comedy, immersive theatre, magical outdoor events and free activities across Ramsgate, Margate and Broadstairs.

What is Looping-the-Loop?

A group of Thanet-based arts organisations are working in partnership with internationally acclaimed theatre producers Battersea Arts Centre and seven other towns around the UK. Looping the Loop, a festival of live performance, takes place across Thanet, looping together the three main towns (Margate, Broadstairs, Ramsgate) and the practitioners who live here. The main aim of the festival is to encourage new audiences for live performance.

The project has been extended until 2019, with a year-round programme of activities, as well as two Festivals a year in Thanet. In spaces new and old, familiar or hidden away, Looping The Loop will mesmerise and surprise. Alongside 3 or 4 productions brought to Thanet from Battersea Arts Centre, they produce new work here and support other East Kent theatre-makers to bring work to the festival – home-grown is a vital element and one we are developing with each festival season.

There are shows for all ages, workshops for all levels including professional practitioners, new work from Thanet being shown (developed with your help!) and they continue to support practitioners to get their work in front of an audience.

What’s on, when:

Thursday 3rd
• Theatre Network Thanet – Set up by performers, writers, directors and producers to bring everyone who works in or has an association with live performance in Thanet together for a drink and a confab

Friday 4th
• Sponge – Roll, squeeze and pop yourself through the squishiest, squashiest show for babies, young children and their grown-ups!

Saturday 5th
• Dad Dancing – Meet three brave dads who agreed to dance with their daughters in a new show
• Mountains: The Dreams of Lily Kwok – Visiting her mother’s birthplace of Hong Kong for the first time, Helen is determined to find out who she really is and where she belongs.

Sunday 6th
• Dad Dancing – Meet three brave dads who agreed to dance with their daughters in a new show

Monday 7th
• Magical Mayhem featuring My Dad the Magician – this nostalgically inventive show tells the story of the man behind the magician

For more information please see the website: http://www.loopingtheloopfestival.org.uk/