Experience it with the kids
This year, wrap up the summer holidays at Boulevard. Not only are there performances especially for children, but also other activities that make for a great day out at IK MAAK MEE on the Parade.
There’s a little wooden library full of books and stories. Just next door you’ll find our sandpit with a covered area. You can also print your own IK MAAK MEE design on a T-shirt. Plus, there’s an open stage where every child can become a real performer! Sing a song, tell a story, or do a funny dance. And the parents? Of course, they’ll be proudly applauding. You’ll find all this at IK MAAK MEE in the festival heart on the Parade. Next to this area are the toilets — nice and practical ;) — as well as a terrace from which you can watch the IK MAAK MEE square.
There’s also a free Sprokkelroute. Children can set off on their own with a blank card in hand. This card leads them via small challenges to various spots where they can collect stamps to give their card shape and colour.
Want to grab a bite with the kids? At restaurant LOF there’s a special kids’ menu with:
- Cup of tomato soup with basil cream
- Mini beef carpaccio with parmesan and pesto
- Naan pizza margherita
- Mini burger with fries
- Salmon casserole with spinach and baby potatoes
Good to know
- A ticket is € 8,50 for children and € 13,50 for adults
- Practical information to prepare your visit
2,5 +
BonteHond - Wauw! (2,5+)
Sat 16 Aug | 11:00 and 14:00 | 45 min | Parade/Red Tent
Toddlers find everything ‘WAUW’. Where adults see an overturned flowerpot as an obstacle and a dirty chore, young children are fascinated by the earthworms that appear. In the toddler performance WAUW! BonteHond shows how colourful the world looks through children’s eyes.
4 +
Studio Figur - Gammel (4+)
Thu 7 – Sun 10 Aug | 15:00 | 60 min | Antoniegaarde
Info & tickets: Gammel
The old man is done. Or so the world around him thinks. He must make way for all the children waiting to be born. And so he waits. Until one day a strange sound comes from his front door. When he opens it, a baby lies there. Out of nowhere. And when he turns around, the child has suddenly become a toddler.
In GAMMEL (4+), an unusual friendship develops between an old man and a mysterious child. A musical puppet theatre performance about the feeling of being needed.
Lloydscompany – Klein, klein vogeltje (4+)
Mon 11, Tue 12 Aug 13:30 and 15:00 | Wed 13 Aug 13:00 and 15:00 | 30 min | Parade/Purple Tent | Dutch language
Info & tickets: Klein, klein vogeltje
Two brothers are camping with mom and dad in the garden. But then… the garden transforms into a huge forest where the brothers go on a journey of discovery and experience all sorts of adventures. In the evening they hear strange sounds. When they go to find out where the sounds are coming from, they meet a rather odd new friend…
Klein, klein vogeltje is a playful dance performance full of acrobatics, hip-hop, and breakdance.
6+
Jam.Shenanigans – Splash (6+)
Wed 13 Aug 13:30 and 16:00 | Thu 14 Aug 13:00 and 16:00 | 40 min | Garden Sintjanscentrum
Info & tickets: Splash
The contemporary circus performance Splash encourages healthy silliness. Enter a world full of childlike joy in the garden of Sintjanscentrum, where a pool filled with 25,000 balls takes centre stage and where water sports become the starting point for a grand juggling party.
MAN||CO and House of Nouws – Kracht PATS (6+)
Sat 9 Aug | 14:30 | 60 min | Theater aan de Parade/Main Hall
Info & tickets: performance
With inflated egos, unstoppable imagination and bizarre superpowers, three heroes sneak, dive and bounce through their self-invented world full of danger in the dance performance Kracht PATS.
A heroic show full of humour and grandeur for everyone aged 6 and up who has ever dreamed of something great.
Plankton – Elke rots wordt ooi een kiezelsteen (6+)
Wed 13 – Sat 16 Aug 15:00, 18:30, 21:00 | Sun 17 Aug 14:00, 17:00, 20:00 | 45 min | Parade/Red Tent
Info & tickets: performance
With Elke rots wordt ooit een kiezelsteen, Plankton creates an intimate performance where a model is brought to life before the audience’s eyes. In a miniature version of a theatre, Plankton shows things that would be impossible on a larger scale.
An intimate and imagination-stimulating show. An invitation to think on a larger timescale and fantasize about other possible futures. A wordless performance where images speak.
8+
Circumstances / Piet van Dycke – BEYOND
Fri 8 – Mon 12 Aug | 19:00 | 55 min | BHIC/De Citadel
Info & Tickets: BEYOND
With ladders of various sizes and heights, the performers create impressive structures: rotating cranes, arch sculptures, towers. They balance on wobbly constructions and turn the stage into an unstable playground. They explore unknown heights, climb, float, and venture into a daring choreography. Every movement is a risk. Every second counts.
Schippers&VanGucht – ERGENS
Thu 7 – Fri 15 Aug | continuously between 13:00–21:30 | 30 min | Theater aan de Parade/Forum
Info & tickets: ERGENS
In this experience, everyone aged 8 and up receives a VR headset. You sit down and close yourself off from the physical world around you. The boundary between the real and virtual worlds slowly fades. You embark on a visual journey, supported by beautiful music.
Theater Artemis / Benjamin Verdonck – All before death is life
Fri 15 Aug 19:00, Sat 16 Aug 17:00, Sun 17 Aug 14:30 | 75 min | Theater aan de Parade/Main Hall | Dutch language
Info & tickets: All before death is life
Everything goes wrong. The trick fails, the newspaper is yesterday’s, the string is stuck. But what if the magic lies exactly in that? All before death is life is a marvellous performance where theatre-maker Benjamin Verdonck plays with transience, confusion, and longing. A playful, philosophical ode to the attempt.
IK MAAK MEE
Thu 7 – Sun 17 Aug | 12:00 to 17:00
Besides the children’s performances, there’s also the IK MAAK MEE programme!
There’s a little wooden library full of books and stories. A house further on you’ll find our sandpit with a covered area. You can print your own IK MAAK MEE T-shirt. There’s also an open stage where every child can be a real artist! Sing a song, tell a story, or do a crazy dance. And the parents? Proudly clapping, of course.
Sprokkelroute
Thu 7 – Sun 17 Aug | 12:00 to 17:00 | ±30 min
A route where children can go on an adventure on their own with an empty card in hand. The card leads them through small challenges to different spots where they can collect stamps to give their card shape and colour.
Maker of the Day
Want to learn from a real theatre maker? You can! During Maker of the Day, you work together creating sets, stories, working with puppets — anything is possible. Discover all the workshops on our website.
Hip-Hop Dance Workshop (6+)
Mon 11 – Fri 15 Aug | afternoon | 30 min | Tower Stage on the Parade
Led by Cypher HQ, kids can join a breakdance workshop in the afternoon on the Tower Stage at the Parade. Children aged six and up can participate.
Boulevard x Huis73
Boulevard x Huis73 – Creative Afternoon (8–14 years)
Wed 13 Aug | 13:30–17:00 | open entry | Parade/Ik Maak Mee
During this creative afternoon, you can just walk in, play and discover — on the border between science, art, and technology. Parents are welcome to join in the fun!
Boulevard x Huis73 – Makers’ House (8+)
Fri 15 Aug | 14:30 | Parade/Ik Maak Mee
A workshop where language comes to life. We’ll start at Library Den Bosch, where we get to know words related to the festival. These words are taken to the festival heart, where you’ll create together. Using all sorts of materials, you’ll work towards a unique stop-motion film.
Boulevard x Huis73 – Music Start (2+)
Sun 10 Aug | 14:30 (3–4 years) and 16:00 (1.5–3 years) | 45 min | Parade/Ik Maak Mee
How fun is it to make music together?! Along with mum, dad, grandpa, grandma or another adult, you dive into a suitcase full of little instruments and go singing, playing and listening.
Space for 15 children with an adult (full = full)
Register in advance or at the children’s desk
Time for coloring!
This year we made a special Boulevard coloring page with drawings by artist Rogier Roeters.
