Big Feast ’22: Take Ten

by Fluid Motion Theatre Company

Take Ten is a performance installation designed to slow us down. It’s a space to be present, in the here and now, to reflect and to notice. Audiences can take a moment on a bespoke and colourful swing chair, guided by a soundtrack that encourages you to sit comfortably, swing gently
and breathe deeply.

Take Ten is an artistic response by Fluid Motion Theatre Company, created in collaboration with Lorna Rees of Gobbledegook Theatre that is centered around the idea of mental wellbeing.

Fri 26 Aug:

12pm to 1.15pm – Bethesda Gardens (map pin: 11)

1.30pm to 3pm – Bethesda Gardens (map pin: 11)

3.15pm to 5pm – Bethesda Gardens (map pin: 11)

Sat 27 Aug:

11am to 12.15pm – Bethesda Gardens (map pin: 11)

12.30pm to 2m – Bethesda Gardens (map pin: 11)

2pm to 3.30pm – Bethesda Gardens (map pin: 11)

Access and Useful info

• View full Big Feast access guidance here
• View the Big Feast map and brochure here
• View the Take Ten Easy Read Visual Story here
• Read the script for Take Ten here here

About the Big Feast

We are so proud to bring you the next serving of The Big Feast! Join us on Friday 26 and Saturday 27 August as we showcase the very best local and national talent in Stoke-on-Trent City Centre (Hanley)!

The Big Feast is delivered by Appetite and supported by Stoke-on-Trent BID (Business Improvement District), Stoke-on-Trent City Council and The Without Walls Touring Network Partnership.

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Big Feast ’22: The Kings of Bhangra

by Cohesion Plus

The Kings of Bhangra is a promenade and processional performance with dancing Maharajas and musicians, inspired by the culture of Northern India. 

The show fuses together two distinct genres of bhangra dancing and street theatre to create an exciting, artistically rich and engaging outdoor performance, which can be presented in a variety of outdoor setting.  

The show celebrates cultural diversity, bringing something different to all sectors of the community, and encouraging public engagement in arts and culture.

Fri 26 Aug:

12.15pm to 12.35pm – Crown Bank, by HSBC (map pin: 4)

2.30pm to 2.50pm – Crown Bank, by HSBC (map pin: 4)

4pm to 4.20pm – Crown Bank, by HSBC (map pin: 4)

Access and Useful info

• View full Big Feast access guidance here
• View the Big Feast map and brochure here

About the Big Feast

We are so proud to bring you the next serving of The Big Feast! Join us on Friday 26 and Saturday 27 August as we showcase the very best local and national talent in Stoke-on-Trent City Centre (Hanley)!

The Big Feast is delivered by Appetite and supported by Stoke-on-Trent BID (Business Improvement District), Stoke-on-Trent City Council and The Without Walls Touring Network Partnership.

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Big Feast ’22: Castaway

by Highly Sprung

Drowning under a crushing mass of plastic, the Keeper of the Waterways awakens and rises up. It’s time for change.

Highly Sprung’s CastAway is a stunning outdoor performance that explores the impact of today’s throwaway society on our waterways. Featuring a unique gyroscopic flying machine, it presents a brand new approach to aerial theatre. The all-female cast immerses audiences in an underwater world where performers dive, twist and float over 26 feet in the air to delight, inspire and captivate audiences of all ages.

Fri 26 Aug:

11.45am to 12.15pm – Smithfield (map pin: 13)

3.30pm to 4pm – Smithfield (map pin: 13)

Access and Useful info

• BSL available for the 3.30pm performance
• Audio Description available for the 3.30pm performance
• View the Easy Read document for Castaway here
• Listen to the Audio Introduction to Castaway here
• View full Big Feast access guidance here
• View the Big Feast map and brochure here

About the Big Feast

We are so proud to bring you the next serving of The Big Feast! Join us on Friday 26 and Saturday 27 August as we showcase the very best local and national talent in Stoke-on-Trent City Centre (Hanley)!

The Big Feast is delivered by Appetite and supported by Stoke-on-Trent BID (Business Improvement District), Stoke-on-Trent City Council and The Without Walls Touring Network Partnership.

Featured image by Andrew Moore

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Big Feast ’22: SEED

by Pif Paf

Pif-Paf – SEED – a surprising and inspiring hitch-hike on the journey from small acorns to great oaks with a Rockabilly Tree-Planting Anarcho-Nomad. Join Wilford planting trees where he shouldn’t – living in his shed and on the run from his past and his arch-enemies, SLUGS, out to get him for his contraband seeds.

Intimate and explosive, this one man static street theatre show is full of captivating images, puppetry and giant inflatables.  With live and specially composed music, and  Pif-Paf’s trademark Heath Robinson meets Mad Max inventions, SEED journeys into the life of the young and ancient living beings that we walk under every day.

Fri 26 Aug:

11.45am to 12.20pm – Fountain Sq, opposite Specsavers (map pin: 3)

3.30pm to 3.35pm – Fountain Sq, opposite Specsavers (map pin: 3)

Access and Useful info

• BSL available for the 3pm performance
• Audio Description available for the 3pm performance
• Read Pif Paf’s Easy Read document here
• View full Big Feast access guidance here
• View the Big Feast map and brochure here

About the Big Feast

We are so proud to bring you the next serving of The Big Feast! Join us on Friday 26 and Saturday 27 August as we showcase the very best local and national talent in Stoke-on-Trent City Centre (Hanley)!

The Big Feast is delivered by Appetite and supported by Stoke-on-Trent BID (Business Improvement District), Stoke-on-Trent City Council and The Without Walls Touring Network Partnership.

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Big Feast ’22: Willy & Wally

by Cocoloco

Willy and Wally are up to their necks in mountains of plastic but carry on clowning regardless. As well as talking a load of rubbish, they perform a medley of vaudeville, slapstick, dramatic monologue and poignant climate change dialogue. A comic exercise in Nonsense and Sustainability.

Fri 26 Aug:

11am to 11.30am – Blue Clock (map pin: 2)

1.45pm to 2.15pm – Blue Clock (map pin: 2)

4.30pm to 5pm – Blue Clock (map pin: 2)

Sat 27 Aug:

11am to 5p11.30am – Blue Clock (map pin: 2)

2pm to 2.30pm – – Blue Clock (map pin: 2)

4pm to 4.3pm – – Blue Clock (map pin: 2)

Access and Useful info

• View the Easy Read document for Willy & Wally here here
• View full Big Feast access guidance here
• View the Big Feast map and brochure here

About the Big Feast

We are so proud to bring you the next serving of The Big Feast! Join us on Friday 26 and Saturday 27 August as we showcase the very best local and national talent in Stoke-on-Trent City Centre (Hanley)!

The Big Feast is delivered by Appetite and supported by Stoke-on-Trent BID (Business Improvement District), Stoke-on-Trent City Council and The Without Walls Touring Network Partnership.

Appetite is a partner in Without Walls, working with festivals and artists and bringing fantastic outdoor arts to people in towns and cities across the UK. Find out more on www.withoutwalls.uk.com

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Big Feast ’22: Explorers

by FRONTLINEdance

Join the FRONTLINEdance Explorers Team on their multi-sensory, interactive adventure, where you get to help bring to life, two stories with dance, music, and teamwork! This fully inclusive performance and participatory show is relaxed, accessible and fun!   

Audience Feedback:

“We though it was really good! Loved everything, and my son really enjoyed being an Explorer”.
“Everything was fantastic. Well Done Explorers! Please do more events like this” 

“The Explorers was SPOT ON!” 

Sat 27 Aug:

11am to 11.30am – Smithfield (map pin: 13)

2pm to 2.30pm – Smithfield (map pin: 13)

Access and Useful info

• BSL interpretation will be available for the 2pm performance of Explorers
• Audio Description will be available for the 2pm performance of Explorers
• Read the Easy Read Visual Story for Explorers here
• View full Big Feast access guidance here
• View the Big Feast map and brochure here

About the Big Feast

We are so proud to bring you the next serving of The Big Feast! Join us on Friday 26 and Saturday 27 August as we showcase the very best local and national talent in Stoke-on-Trent City Centre (Hanley)!

The Big Feast is delivered by Appetite and supported by Stoke-on-Trent BID (Business Improvement District), Stoke-on-Trent City Council and The Without Walls Touring Network Partnership.

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Big Feast ’22: Hearing Extinction & Audiological Relapse (HEAR)

by Hassun El-Zafar

HEAR – Hearing Extinction and Audiological Relapse is an award-winning audio projection experience that explores the parallels between human sensory hearing loss, and the extinction of wildlife and biodiversity due to climate change.

Through a combination of storytelling, audio recordings, archive material and sound design, El-Zafar invites us to discover three diverse ecosystems from around the globe: the mangroves of The United Arab Emirates, the tropical rainforests of Borneo and woodlands in Yorkshire, UK. Each location is linked with a narrative that exposes the rapidly increasing losses of unique sounds, melodies and rhythms in nature due to the climate emergency and destructive human activity.

Fri 26 Aug:

11am to 5pm – Potteries Centre (map pin: 1)

Sat 27 Aug:

11am to 5pm – Potteries Centre (map pin: 1)

Access and Useful info

• View full Big Feast access guidance here
• View the Big Feast map and brochure here

About the Big Feast

We are so proud to bring you the next serving of The Big Feast! Join us on Friday 26 and Saturday 27 August as we showcase the very best local and national talent in Stoke-on-Trent City Centre (Hanley)!

The Big Feast is delivered by Appetite and supported by Stoke-on-Trent BID (Business Improvement District), Stoke-on-Trent City Council and The Without Walls Touring Network Partnership.

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Big Feast ’22: Black Victorians

by Jeanefer Jean-Charles & Associates

This powerful dance performance by Artistic Director and Choreographer Jeanefer Jean-Charles MBE is inspired by nineteenth century studio photographs of black men, women and children.

 Exploring a complex, but often forgotten black presence in pre-Windrush Britain, this performance calls attention to previously hidden figures and challenges historical and contemporary perceptions.

Black Victorians is produced and co-commissioned by FESTIVAL.ORG, Brighton Festival, Hat Fair and Without Walls and is currently touring across the UK.

Fri 26 Aug:

11am to 11.30am – Hanley Town Hall (map pin: 8)

1.45pm to 2.15pm – Hanley Town Hall (map pin: 8)

Access and Useful info

• Listen to the Audio Introduction to Black Victorians here
• View full Big Feast access guidance here
• View the Big Feast map and brochure here
• Audio description is available for these performance
• BSL interpretation is available for these performance

About the Big Feast

We are so proud to bring you the next serving of The Big Feast! Join us on Friday 26 and Saturday 27 August as we showcase the very best local and national talent in Stoke-on-Trent City Centre (Hanley)!

The Big Feast is delivered by Appetite and supported by Stoke-on-Trent BID (Business Improvement District), Stoke-on-Trent City Council and The Without Walls Touring Network Partnership.

Appetite is a partner in Without Walls, working with festivals and artists and bringing fantastic outdoor arts to people in towns and cities across the UK. Find out more on www.withoutwalls.uk.com

Featured image by Ash Mills

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Big Feast ’22: The Poetry Takeaway

Our diverse group of talented Poet Chefs provide high quality personalised poetry for guests and visitors, written performed and delivered free, all from our mobile Poetry Emporium, The Poetry Takeaway. We aim to make Poetry accessible, with our front of house quickly breaking

down barriers, before a discussion takes place with one of our Poets. The process starts with an initial discussion, taking the order, gathering ingredients, we aim to complete the poem quickly, it is carefully crafted, written and performed, wrapped up and sent on it’s journey.

We guarantee everything from tears, laughter and everything in between.

Fri 26 Aug:

11am to 3.30pm – Piccadilly (map pin: 9)

Sat 27 Aug:

11am to 3.30pm – Piccadilly (map pin: 9)

Access and Useful info

• View full Big Feast access guidance here
• View the Big Feast map and brochure here

About the Big Feast

We are so proud to bring you the next serving of The Big Feast! Join us on Friday 26 and Saturday 27 August as we showcase the very best local and national talent in Stoke-on-Trent City Centre (Hanley)!

The Big Feast is delivered by Appetite and supported by Stoke-on-Trent BID (Business Improvement District), Stoke-on-Trent City Council and The Without Walls Touring Network Partnership.

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