Parents – Are you home schooling due to Coronavirus? Find our earth science pack for Key Stage 2 here and an arty woodland pack here.

Please send your comments on our contacts page. If you need help email me on sarah@emeraldant.com

Horace will be visiting Shepton Mallet this Saturday 7th March, at ‘All the World’s Our Playground’.

Fed up with the rain?! Get your swimming gear on and come out to see Horace at Adventure Wonderland this half term…

CHRISTMAS LANTERN WORKSHOP – NOV 30TH 10 AM – 2PM,

CATTISTOCK VILLAGE HALL

Part of the Bluebell Project

Parents must work with children under 12. Bring a snack and dress for mess!

£8 per lantern.

PLEASE BOOK: SARAH@EMERALDANT.COM

Our theatre show ‘The Iguanodon Restaurant’ will be performing in Brewery Square, Dorchester, on Tuesday the 27th August. Free, fun, fossil-fuelled performances at 11.30 and 2.30.

After then, as part of the IF Festival we will be at the Westgate Shopping Centre in Oxford on 19th October. Performance times to be confirmed. https://if-oxford.com/ 

Horace will be visiting Princesshay Shopping Centre in Exeter on Wednesday 21st to 23rd August. Performance times are 11.30 – 1 pm and 2 – 3.30. Come and join the fun!

Horace the Pliosaur gets a dental examination at Geronimo Festival last weekend.

A Bluebell Project workshop takes place on May 18th. For more details go to the at the Bluebell page

Spring Art Workshops

March 9th and 10th (2019). Thank you to all that came. More workshops will happen soon!

We’re performing Iggy in Crystal Palace Park again this weekend, Sept 15th & 16th. We’ll be right by the original Crystal Palace Dinosaurs. Iggy will be reunited with his Dad! Saturday and Sunday at 12.30 and 3 pm. Freeeeeeeeeeee!!

Iggy will be performing on Saturday at the Etches Collection, Kimmeridge. Shows at 12.30 and 2pm

Iguanodon Restaurant – Our performance details for August!

Etches Collection, Kimmeridge, Dorset – August 11th, 12.30 and 2pm

Folkestone Museum, August 21^st, 12.30 and 2.30 pm

Hastings Museum,  22^nd August, 11.30 and 2 pm

All performances are free to attend, supported by museums and the Arts Council. Check out museums websites for details of additional activities on these days.

Horace will be performing at Bridgwater Quayside Festival on Saturday, 21st July. 

Announcing our Summer Tour!!!

Iggy will be performing this summer at…

St Katherine’s Primary School, Bournemouth  – 16th April

Atlantic College, Portland – 22nd May

Turlin Moor Community School, Poole – 5th June

Whitehorse Primary School, London – 11th and 12th June

Ecclesbourne Primary School – 13th June

Cypress Primary School – 15th June

Crystal Palace Festival – 16th June

St Simon Stock School, Maidstone – 29th June

Brenchley Gardens, Maidstone – 30th June

Etches Collection, Kimmeridge – 11th August

Folkestone Museum – 21st August

Hastings Museum – 22nd August

Heritage Open Days, Crystal Palace Park – 15th and 16th September

Thanks to the Arts Council of England, Heritage Lottery Fund and our partner museums, schools and supporters. 

Geology-history arts workshops will be run at all schools.

    

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Horace deal for Jurassic Coast schools!

Horace the Pliosaur will come and visit your school for a special Dippy Discount rate this Summer Term. He will be hosted by his groom Joe. Children will get to brush his teeth, learn about Deep Time, the Pliosaur’s age and habitat. Then they will handle local fossils and take a quick tour inside his belly. All children (up to around 350) can get the ‘Horace Experience’ in the one day.

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Iggy makes lots of new friends at Camp Bestival… “I loved the fascinated children’s faces watching in awe” (Festival organiser)

July 17th and 23rd – Mary Anning, Professors Buckland and Cuvier celebrate the brand new Anning Wing at Lyme Regis Museum..

Great News – Emerald Ant has secured £1900 from the Ernest Cook Trust for our Learning Programme in schools!

Over the next two years Emerald Ant will be performing The Iguanodon Restaurant in school playgrounds and running arts/geology workshops in 10 schools from Devon to London.

Also supporting the Learning Programme is the Fine Family Foundation, West Dorset District Council and the Palaeontological Association.

Upcoming Performances
Horace the Pliosaur
17–18 June: Vivacity, Peterborough Heritage Festival

The Iguanodon Restaurant
28–30 July: Camp Bestival

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