Facilities
- The whole of Dancing through the Decades will be taking place outdoors. You are free to come and go as you like and you don’t need to be quiet.
- Accessible toilets, Changing Places toilets and baby changing facilities are available at Hanley Indoor Market, Hanley Bus Station and Smithfield 1.
- As some of our shows contain loud noises, noise cancelling headphones will be available from our Appetite HQ in the 1990s area
- All performances are wheelchair accessible
- Council Car Park Charges from £1.70/hr – £9.80 for all day parking. Card Payments accepted at Car Parks listed below:
Birch Terrace
174 spaces (9 Disabled Parking Spaces – Free Parking for Blue Badge Holders)
Location: ST1 3JN
Broad Street
106 spaces (2 Disabled Spaces)
Location: ST1 4JQ
John Street Multi-Storey
492 spaces (13 Disabled Spaces & dedicated area for motorcycles)
Location: St1 3BP
THE POTTERIES CENTRE CAR PARKING
Over 900 Spaces (including 67 Disabled Parking, 42 Parent & Child and 4 Electric Charging facilities)
Accessible via Quadrant Road (Sat Nav: ST1 1RZ) or off Brewery/Bryan Street (ST1 5BN)
Parking from £1.40/hr – £9.10 for 7 hours – Tap & Go Payments available.
Access Information
- Quiet workshop sessions: We recommend coming first thing when the event is less busy. For those who require it, we can allocate them their own table in a corner furthest away from the sound, please just ask a member of the team.
- There are Easy Read Visual Story documents available for We Meet Again, Topiary Trauma, Knot and Actual Reality Arcade.
- Noise cancelling headphones will be available from our Appetite HQ outside the Potteries Museum & Art Gallery
Audio Description
To use audio description, simply head to our Appetite HQ gazebo outside the Potteries Museum & Art Gallery and ask for a kit. A steward or team member will then accompany you to your chosen performance and introduce you to the Audio Describer who will provide instructions on how to participate. You’ll need to make sure to hand the kit back to the steward when you have finished.
The performances that include live Audio Description are:
Fri 3 June
Grow – 12.15pm to 12.40pm
Raw Meats – 1pm to 1.30pm
Topiary Trauma – 2.30pm to 3pm
Knot – 3.30pm to 3.42pm
Sat 4 June
Bird Rave – 2pm to 2.25pm
Dandyism – 3pm to 3.30pm
We Meet Again – 4pm to 4.05pm
BSL interpreted performances
BSL interpretation will be taking place during the following performances:
Fri 3 June
Making your own Flower Crown – 11am to 11.30am
Make your own Queen Bee Seeds – 11.30am to 12pm
Learn Dance Through the Decades 1950s: Swing, Jive and The Rock and Roll Stroll – 12pm to 12.20pm
Learn Dance Through the Decades 1960s: Twist, Locomotion, Mabo & The Madison – 12.40pm to 1pm
Learn Dance Through the Decades 1970s: Disco, Hustle, YMCA and Saturday Night Fever – 1.20pm to 1.50pm
Learn Dance Through the Decades 1980s: Jazz Latin, Lounge, Lambada and Agadoo – 2.10pm to 2.30pm
Learn Dance Through the Decades 1990s: Vogue, Macarena, Hip Hop and Running Man – 2.50pm to 3.10pm
Feeling Fabulous Workshop and Demo – 4.20pm to 4.40pm
Sat 4 June
Make your Own Flower Crown – 11am to 11.30am
Make your own Queen Bee Seeds – 11.30am to 12pm
Hollie and the Heels – 12pm to 12.30pm
Get twirling & whirling with rock n’ roll hula hoop workshops – 12.30pm to 1pm
Dandyism – 3pm to 3.30pm
We’ll Meet Again – 4pm to 4.05pm
