Rugby College, Warwickshire |
Fri 3rd to Sun 5th November 2023
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What is 'The Equip Festival'?
The core of Equip Festival (and what makes it really special) is the fantastic selection of hands-on workshops covering a wide range of topics, incredible showcases to wow and inspire, a huge range of resources on display and of course... the buzz, excitement and fun of the Festival!
This Festival is for everyone... adults and children, those who have never considered using puppetry and creative ministries before to teams and individuals who have been using this brilliant way of communicating the Gospel for years. It's not just puppetry that we have covered, it also features... Gospel illusions, drama, amazing science object lessons, storytelling, ventriloquism, toddler groups, schools work, outreach, all-age services, props, staging and more!
Don't just take our word for it... what do previous delegates say about the Festival?
Venue - Rugby College, Technology Drive, Rugby, CV21 1AR
COMING SOON... The team are busy bringing this together but this year there will be 7 workshop slots in the programme!
Just off the M1, Rugby Train Station around the corner and free parking. Rugby College certainly ticks all the boxes. So here is how to get there...
We have an incredible Festival planned with a huge range of workshops, showcases and competitions, plus a few surprises along the way, so how do we fit it all in? Here's how...
COMING SOON... Can you help tell others about the Festival? We are creating a range of resources which will be available to order (completely free) or download instantly, ready to share!
Joining us for all three days? There is a great range of accommodation available for the Friday/Saturday night from only £5 per person, find some of our top picks here....
Fancy a challenge, getting constructive feedback on your performance and the chance to win a trophy? We have three types of competition available to enter...
With in-house catering at Rugby College, there is a choice of delicious hot and cold food available from the refectory. Alternatively, you can bring your own too!
What does the programme look like?
FRIDAY:
10:30 Registration and Resources area opens, Refreshments available
11:00 – 12:00 ‘Get Connected’ - Meeting other teams in your region
12:00 – 13:00 Lunch
13:00 – 13:30 Worship, Welcome
13:35 – 14:25 Workshop Session 1
14:30 – 15:10 Break
15:10 – 15:40 Competitions - Creative Arts & Ventriloquism/Solo
15:40 – 16:40 Ministry in Action (Q&A Panel)
16:45 – 17:35 Workshop Session 2
17:35 – 19:15 Dinner
19:15 – 21:00 Drinks, Donuts and a Donkey - After hours social (hosted by Eddie the Donkey)
SATURDAY:
8:30 Registration, Breakfast, Refreshments, Resources Area Open
9:30 – 10:00 Worship, Devotional
10:05 – 10:55 Workshop Session 3
10:55 – 11:30 Break
11:30 – 12:15 Puppetry Competition
12:15 – 13:30 Lunch
13:30 – 14:15 Ed Talks
14:20 – 15:10 Workshop Session 4
15:10 – 15:50 Break
15:50 – 16:30 Ministry in Action (Q&A Panel)
16:35 – 17:25 Workshop Session 5
17:25 – 19:00 Dinner
19:00 – 21:00 Saturday Night Showcase Puppet Academy 2023 Team
Sunday:
8:30 Registration, Breakfast, RefrWorship, Devotional
9:30 – 10:15 Worship, Devotional
10:20 – 11:10 Workshop Session 6
11:10 – 11:50 Break
11:50 – 12:40 Ed Talks
12:40 – 13:55 Lunch
13:55 – 14:55 Sunday Showcase - with Special Guests and the Puppet Academy 2023 Team
15:00 – 15:50 Workshop Session 7
15:55 – 16:30 Awards Presentation
16:30 Close and Resources
What workshops will be available?
The team are busy working away on bringing together this year's Workshop Schedule, with the extra day on Sunday we have added an additional two workshop session slots to the programme bringing the total to seven! The workshops this year will cover not only new puppetry techniques but also, as requested on feedback from previous events, a wide range of children, youth and family ministry training, technical workshops and new illusion classes as well. So if you are one of the many regular delegates at the Festival there are plenty of brand new workshops for you to develop your skills further. If it is your first time joining the Festival, don't worry we have a great range of basic and introductory workshops to help you get started. Want to get a feel for the types and range of workshops that are normally available? View the last year's Equip Festival 2022 workshop schedule here!
What else will be happening over the three days?
After carefully working through the programme and reviewing your feedback from previous years we have brought together a fresh programme for this year's Festival. With an additional day we are so excited to introduce new features for the Festival! It will still feature all the favourites of now SEVEN workshop sessions, showcases (on the Saturday night and Sunday), competitions, the popular after hours social hosted by Eddie the Donkey (including hot chocolate and donuts) and the 'Ministry in Action' Q&A panel where we bring together passionate team leaders and experts to answer your questions live on stage, with the opportunity to dig deeper into their ministries, discovering what makes them so effective and how this can impact our work too. BUT NEW FOR 2023 we will be introducing 'Ed Talks', hosted by the one and only Eddie the Donkey (yes him again) these will be short and inspiring keynotes (more information coming soon). See our Programme Page here for more information.
The main showcase on Saturday evening will see the 2023 Puppet Academy Team performing a number of brand new songs using a wide variety of puppets, techniques and creative arts, pushing the boundaries once again! For the first time ever, they will also be performing as part of the Sunday Showcase as well! We hope that this will inspire you to try out new performance ideas in your own teams. Alongside the Puppet Academy team on the Saturday night and Sunday will be our outstanding special guests!
The Festival will also feature four competitions including: Puppetry, Ventriloquism/Solo Puppetry, the Lip Sync Challenge and a Creative Arts Competition. You can find out more information by heading to our 'Festival Competition' page, but be quick as they fill up fast...
Not forgetting worship at the start of each day as well as the opportunity to network with others, share ideas, find other teams that are local to you and encourage one another.
At the Equip Festival, there will also be our largest range of resources available for you to see, try and take back home with you, with many items on special offer. This will include all of our brand new product launches as well!
Festival Tickets
The group discount will still save 10% when 10 tickets or more are purchased (this can be any combination of adult or child, full festival, two day or single day tickets). Automatically applied when booking online. If you add more tickets to your booking at a later date and this brings you over 10 places booked in total, we will apply the discount to all your tickets booked!
Can you sponsor someone to attend the Festival?
Thank you to everyone who generously donated to the 2022 'Make It Possible' fund, all places that were gifted went to successful applicants enabling people to attend the Festival who would have otherwise been unable to attend!
At One Way UK we are incredibly passionate about our ministry and providing resources and training to as many people as possible. We keep our resources and training as best value as we can to ensure it is accessible and we work hard to keep our Festival tickets affordable. We would love to see a full venue with hundreds of people being inspired, resourced and encouraged!
However, we also appreciate that puppet team members may have to fund their own places in order to attend the Festival. Each year we hear of those who are unable to come for financial reasons, but have a passion and enthusiasm to develop their skills and ministry further. So what can we do?
As much as we want to, One Way UK sadly can't afford to give out free places but we hope that others may be able to help. This is why we have established the "Make It Possible" fund. This is our way of matching up people's kindness and generosity with the need that is out there. We have set up a new ticket that can be purchased by itself or alongside a normal Festival booking. This acts as a gift into the 'Make It Possible' fund. One gifted ticket = one day pass made available. Want to contribute but can't manage the full £22? It's also possible to donate smaller contributions to the fund too. Simply >>click here<< to be taken to the separate donation page where you can gift from £5 to the three days of tickets into the fund.
It is clearly important that we are good stewards of this fund, so there will be a separate application process (click the 'Apply button to complete the online form) for those who are applying for the gifted passes. If you decide to gift a ticket, whilst we cannot pass on any information of the person who has been granted the support we can act as a 'middle-man' to pass on any encouragement or thanks either way.
Will you prayerfully consider if this fund and the individuals who apply is something that you can invest into? In the unlikely situation that the fund exceeds the demand, the fund will simply roll onto the following year. Our promise is that all tickets gifted will always be awarded to a successful applicant.
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