The Kimmel Center’s PIFA (Philadelphia International Festival of the Arts) 2016 begins in just a few short weeks! This year, there are a lot of exciting programming throughout the festival including multiple Philadelphia premieres. One of their most exciting performances is Paper Planet, a spectacular forest of tall cardboard trees inviting kids and adults to fill the world with fantastic paper creations. Paper Planet is taking place over the entire festival with multiple performances every Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday.
This event is recommended for ages 3 – 8.
Austrialian-based theater company Polyglot Theatre brings its renowned Paper Planet to PIFA. Paper Planet is a spectacular forest of tall cardboard trees inviting kids and adults to fill the world with fantastic paper creations. Each of the individual pieces that form the complete work are interactive engagements that draw upon the imagination and action of children and families to play, explore, invent and encounter through touch, action and drama. Each experience has at its core the belief that children must be given open-ended opportunities that allow them freedom, agency, and a space to engage imaginatively without mediation.
If you go
Planet Paper is being held at Hamilton Garden
Inside the Kimmel Center
Elevator to Top Floor
300 S Broad St.
Philadelphia, PA 19102
To learn about ticket packages click this here.
About PIFA:
“…the belief that children must be given open-ended opportunities that allow them freedom, agency, and a space to engage imaginatively without mediation.” This is a belief being pursued in children’s departments in the Free Library of Philadelphia with the Wooden Block Party Program. An old idea – “go outside and play” was a mantra my parents repeated often to get us out from under foot, and so we went, with no adult supervision or guidance – that has found new currency in venues from the Kimmel Center to the Free Library of Philadelphia. PIFA at the Kimmel looks to be a great event!
Sounds like fun! Thanks for sharing!