The Shipley Street Arts Festival Master Class Series: The Line-up is Complete!

The Master Class Series line up is complete!

We're pleased to announce that we have put together a fabulous series of workshops as part of Shipley Street Arts Festival: six brilliant opportunities to hone your skills or learn some new ones!

The complete list and all the details can be found here, with links to buying tickets on each event. Don't forget to join the groups on Facebook to let your friends and family know you're going!

Tickets are just £20 per class, with each one run by a leading professional in their particular field. It's a fantastic chance to learn from the master!

17th Oct - Hula Hoop
24th Oct - Improvisation
7th Nov - Clowning
14th Nov - Circus Skills
21st - Stage Fighting
28th - Cabaret & Comedy

Places are limited so don't miss out on a spot - order your tickets now!

For further information, please contact info@q20theatre.co.uk

Shipley Street Arts Festival fringe event: Cabaret Heaven

Cabaret Heaven returns!

As part of the Shipley Street Arts Festival fringe events, we'll be hosting another night of comedy, music and variety!

Taking place on the evening of Friday, 16th October at Dockfield Road Creative Arts Hub - the line-up promises to keep you entertained: stand-up comedy, a bizarre cabaret act involving fruits and vegetables, plate-spinning madness and a return of Cabaret Heaven's resident diva, Mysti Valentine.

Tickets cost £5 advance (available here) or £7.50 on the door.

We'll see you there!

KAPOW! 2Faced Dance's Show - Commissioned by Shipley Street Arts Festival & Saltaire Festival

KAPOW!

We promised that this year Shipley Street Arts Festival would be bigger and better - and we weren't kidding! We love these super images of 2Faced Dance's spectacular show KAPOW! - a hilarious, action-packed mixture of dance and superpowers, not to be missed!

The show is set to go on an international tour, but first they're showcasing their performances in Shipley and Saltaire. These opening shows have been specially commissioned by Shipley Street Arts Festival and Saltaire Festival - we're very excited to have them on board!

Frosty & Percy going to Durham this weekend!

If you're in the Durham area this Sunday, you should definitely pop over to Prince Bishops Shopping Centre to meet our loveable, huggable cuddly characters, Frosty the Snowman & Percy Penguin!

They'll be there to help get you in the Christmas mood, maybe even help you with your Christmas shopping! So don't miss them - see you there!

Halloween Fun!

We're busy, busy, busy in the office starting to get ready for Christmas, but we haven't forgotten Halloween's next week!

As usual, Q20 will be involved in special spooky fun up and down the country, be there to be scared!

If you're in Lancashire for Halloween, make sure you get your tickets for the Halloween Ghost Trains - some of our favourite frighteners will be all aboard!

Shoppers at Dockside Outlet Centre in Chatham can join in with some great cut-n-colour activities, perfect for your little monsters. They'll take home a frightening pumpkin mask, a flapping bat, a silky spider or even a witch's hat, just in time for trick or treating!

At Intu Potteries, you'll see our Circus of Ghouls show - where kids get involved, dressed up (with fabulous face painting too) and join a ghoulish parade with Wacky Witch and Dippy Wizard.

Happy Halloween from the team at Q20!

Don't miss out on a spooky Halloween!

Beastie can't believe that some people haven't booked something spooky for Halloween yet!

Head over to the Q20 website now and see some of the amazing acts and performances we have available ... vampires and witches and of course, big cuddly beasts!  

Our beautiful Bride of Dracula!

Our cut-n-colour activities are always popular with kids

Are you thinking of having a spooky event this Halloween?

We have plenty to petrify you this Halloween, so if you're looking to book a witch, a wizard, a ghost or a ghoul for your Halloween event, be sure to get in touch as soon as possible!

The Q20 Events blog has reached 1000 views!

We'd like to say thank you to everybody who's been visiting our blog since it began in May this year - over 1000 views is amazing!

We hope you'll continue to keep checking back and seeing what we have to offer. After all, Christmas is just around the corner ... be sure to watch our Twitter account too for all the latest updates on our events.

Did you meet Percy Veer in Bradford yesterday?

Bradford has been using its big screens in Forster Square to show some exciting kids movies this summer, including Turbo and Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs.

Q20 were asked to provide some fun kids entertainment, so we sent along a mad scientist or two! Our nutty professor Percy Veer was there - lots of fun was had in his little peddle car!

Celebrating 75 years of The Wizard of Oz!

Did you know that the classic musical 'The Wizard of Oz' is 75 years old this year?

A diamond anniversary, if not a ruby one!

Two of the fabulous stilt-walking characters created by Chix on Stix

We'll be involved in lots of events this year with all your favourite characters, so make sure you pop along to Oz this year to be part of the fun!

Giggles Flies Down to Gloucester!

If you happen to be visiting Gloucester Quays this weekend, make sure you keep an eye out for our high flying pilot, Giggles!

As part of Gloucester Quays' aviation-themed events, to tie in with the release of with the Pixar movie 'Planes', our Red Sparrow will be flying around the centre, and this weekend he'll also be providing balloon modelling fun - the sky's the limit!

If you're in Shipley this Saturday ... (and you're in the mood for love ...)

... you may meet our serenading Latin lovers, Los Romanticos!

This singing comedy duo were a huge hit at our Shipley Street Arts Festival event, so they've been asked to return this Saturday, to coincide with the 'Garden in a Wheelbarrow Competition' that is taking place in Shipley town centre from 11am.

Hope to see you there!

Tour de France celebrations in Bradford were a huge success!

All of Yorkshire joined in to celebrate the Tour de France coming to Yorkshire, and Bradford was no exception, enlisting Q20 to bring some amazing, fun acts and performances!

We had a great time, and would like to thank all of our fabulous performers and volunteers, and the people who came along to see them!

A massive thank you to everyone who made Shipley Street Arts Festival such a success!

Thanks to everyone who came along to the festival and had an amazing time with us. 

Thanks as well to all the brilliant performers and volunteers, you made it a fabulous three days!

Photos taken by Darren Burnhill.