The Big Feast is Back for August 2025!

The countdown is ON to The Big Feast 2025!

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Your favourite summer bank holiday weekend full of amazing arts, curious culture, and outdoor spectacle returns to the streets of Stoke-on-Trent Centre (Hanley) on Friday 22 and Saturday 23 August.

Big Feast Essentials

What is The Big Feast?

Clue: it's a two-day outdoor arts festival made BY and FOR the people of Stoke-on-Trent.

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Access at The Big Feast 2025

Find all you need to know including BSL, audio introductions and Easy Reads at our proudly accessible event.

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Big Feast 2025 Brochure

Don't miss a thing! Plan your full itinerary, see the map, and find out more about access.

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Big Feast Whats App

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Programme A-Z

A la Puppet Carte

Pop-up puppet shows with heart-warming stories full of surprise, fun and friendship.

FRIDAY & SATURDAY

A Restorative

Create a dream pillow then test it out as you take a moment to revive and renew your spirits with soothing sounds.

FRIDAY & SATURDAY

Ancient Giants

An epic battle of Gods and Demons from ancient South Asian tales, imagned in giant puppetry, dance and martial arts.

FRIDAY & SATURDAY

ARCADE

Join spontaneous people-powered interactive dance games set to a bouncy electronic soundtrack.

FRIDAY & SATURDAY

Barrière

Four guardians of an abandoned border post are on a mission to prove that life can be great while you wait. Any queue will do!

FRIDAY & SATURDAY

Big Fatt Dance Party

Our festival finale is a riot of dancefloor faves and club classics led by some of the UK’s leading drag artists, voguers, DJs and dancers.

SATURDAY

Big Mob

A trio of giant slinkies combine bursts of comic energy with gentle fun audience participation.

FRIDAY & SATURDAY

BoomBikes

Good vibes everywhere! Find - or follow - the party with the Pied Pipers of pop.

SATURDAY

Caged

Explosive, evocative dance experience following four characters on a journey to connection.

SATURDAY

Fish Boy

A visual feast of incredible dance, circus and theatre capturing a story of our times that will have you cheering.

FRIDAY

Fold Your City

Join us to create an origami model city inspired by your community!

FRIDAY & SATURDAY

FRONTLINEdance Presents: Uproot

Sensitive work featuring 18 community and professional performers that will make us redefine home.

SATURDAY

Fussy Foodies: Battle of the Pans

A celebration of food, music, roots, and culture wrapped up in the craziest kitchen party you ever went to.

FRIDAY & SATURDAY

Now I Am Become d/Deaf (Destroyer of Words)

A clown explores their hearing loss through moments of chaos and play.

FRIDAY

Mr Wilson's Second Liners

New Orleans X '90s club classics. Anarchic jazz homage to the diehard days of the Hacienda, '90s club culture and the iconic Mr Tony Wilson.

FRIDAY

Patois

What happens when two unspoken languages -Patois and dance - come together?

FRIDAY & SATURDAY

Piccadilly Stage: Friday

Piccadilly Stage kicks off with performances of serious music, Potteries poetry and downright silliness, hosted 6 Town Radio's Dan Townley. Page coming soon ...

FRIDAY

Piccadilly Stage: Saturday

Another megamix of performances including circus, puppetry and even ukuleles, hosted by Mavis Davis. Page coming soon...

SATURDAY

See Saw

Interactive sensory circus and storytelling experience for young people with complex needs and disabilities.

FRIDAY & SATURDAY

The Poetry Takeaway

Serving high quality, personalised poetry to our diners, written, performed and wrapped up to take away.

FRIDAY & SATURDAY

VOLO

Come fly with us on one of four award-winning virtual da Vinci flying machines.

FRIDAY & SATURDAY

If you have any queries relating to The Big Feast, please contact us at askus@appetite.org.uk

The Big Feast 2025 is delivered by Appetite in partnership with Stoke-on-Trent City Centre Business Improvement District (BID), Smithfield, and Stoke-on-Trent City Council. The event is funded annually by our partnerships with City Centre BID and the National Lottery through Arts Council England’s Creative People and Places programme.