{"id":19790,"date":"2021-10-13T11:39:08","date_gmt":"2021-10-13T10:39:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/?p=19790"},"modified":"2021-10-13T11:39:08","modified_gmt":"2021-10-13T10:39:08","slug":"ards-puppet-festival-returns-this-half-term-with-the-gingerbread-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/2021\/10\/ards-puppet-festival-returns-this-half-term-with-the-gingerbread-man\/","title":{"rendered":"Ards Puppet Festival returns this Half Term with The Gingerbread Man"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><sub><strong>With a countdown to half t<\/strong><\/sub><strong><sub>erm holidays,\u00a0Ards\u00a0Puppet Festival\u00a0is excited to welcome back\u00a0the wonderful and talented\u00a0Banyan Theatre with several performances of\u00a0the fast-paced adventure,\u00a0The Gingerbread Man.<\/sub>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/press-3-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/press-3-1024x540.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-19791\" width=\"512\" height=\"270\"\/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><sub>Told&nbsp;using the magical craft&nbsp;of puppetry,&nbsp;enchanted&nbsp;storytelling and original music, this classic tale&nbsp;will capture the imagination of littles ones and be a tasty treat for all the family.<\/sub>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><sub>\u2018Run,&nbsp;Run&nbsp;as fast as you can; you can\u2019t catch me,&nbsp;I\u2019m the Gingerbread man!\u2019<\/sub>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><sub>Performances are being&nbsp;held&nbsp;at Ards Arts Centre on 26 &amp; 27 October, at 12noon and 2pm on each day and tickets are \u00a35.&nbsp;The show is suitable for age&nbsp;range 3+.<\/sub>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><sub>Emily Crawford, Arts and Heritage Manager for the Council&nbsp;is delighted to be back&nbsp;\u201cIt is so great to be able to offer live puppet shows again. Sadly, we are unable to&nbsp;offer&nbsp;a full Puppet Festival this year, but we are thrilled that&nbsp;families&nbsp;will be able to get together to&nbsp;enjoy this&nbsp;magical&nbsp;show,&nbsp;from&nbsp;our amazing partners at Banyan Puppet Theatre.\u201d<\/sub>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><sub>For information and booking,&nbsp;please&nbsp;visit&nbsp;ANDCulture.org.uk<\/sub>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With a countdown to half term holidays,\u00a0Ards\u00a0Puppet Festival\u00a0is excited to welcome back\u00a0the wonderful and talented\u00a0Banyan Theatre with several performances of\u00a0the fast-paced adventure,\u00a0The Gingerbread Man.\u00a0 Told&nbsp;using the magical craft&nbsp;of puppetry,&nbsp;enchanted&nbsp;storytelling and original music, this classic tale&nbsp;will capture the imagination of littles ones and be a tasty treat for all the family.&nbsp; \u2018Run,&nbsp;Run&nbsp;as fast as you can; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/2021\/10\/ards-puppet-festival-returns-this-half-term-with-the-gingerbread-man\/\">Continued<\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19790"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19790"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19790\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19792,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19790\/revisions\/19792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}