A public construction extravaganza. Using nothing but thousands of big cardboard boxes and the energy and ingenuity of kids and families, we build a magnificent city in one day. With sound, movement and architecture, this is your chance to put the architectural experts to shame.
Imagine a public arena filled with hundreds of cardboard boxes. Then invite kids and families to come in and build their own city. You can try to build anything you can think of, as tall or as wide as you like. Wandering around the new city are construction experts to help or provide some advice for your creation if needed. Bop along to the sound of the city with DJs or live bands playing your favourite groovy tunes.
Throughout the day, buildings will go up, be pulled down, be redesigned, extended, walked through and jumped on, and reconstructed. At the end of the day, everybody can have fun knocking down and squashing the whole city into a recyclable heap of cardboard rubble.
We Built This City takes over any public space and is as much fun to watch as it is to do.
We built this city - technical specs
Style: Large scale interactive cardboard box construction
Length of Show: 2 x 2.5 hour sessions
Set up time: 8 hours (1 full day)
Pack up time: 4 hours (with extra crew)
Suitable for: Families working together
Technical needs: Sound System (incl dual CD and mini disc for DJ)
1 x hand-held radio mic.
No lights required (except at night!).
Thousands of cardboard boxes... usually provided in-kind by recycling company, otherwise must be bought.
Stage Requirements: Large and flat public space (min 12 x 12 metres). Surface to be good for children's knees, i.e. wood.
Two 3 x 3 metre marquees, or with one wall partition.
1 metre high fence or safety barrier to go around the perimeter of the space / enclosure.
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Feedback
Really, really fun and
Really, really fun and funny. (Kloe, age 11)
Amazing fun I want to go tehre all the time (Erin, age 10)
What a brilliant idea - so much fun (Tania and Matilda, age 3)