The photographs in this outdoor exhibition tell the stories of people’s experiences, past lives and aspirations as well as giving an insight into their relationship to people and place.
The photographs were taken during 2020 and 2021 by people who either took part in Appetite and GRAIN’s online photography workshops, or Appetite at Home packs. This exhibition has been curated with participants of the workshops.
When?
Here, There & Everywhere opens on Fri 27 August at 10.30am and can be seen until Monday 4 October.
Where?
See the exhibition down Old Hall St, near Albion Square
Access and Useful Info
You can listen to an Audio Introduction about the exhibition:
We love to hear what you think – share your photos and thoughts with us on social media using #AppetiteAtHome
Appetite at Home was funded through different phases during 2020-2021 by:
Appetite at Home was supported by our partners:
Here There & Everywhere is created in partnership with:
Appetite is funded by:
Appetite is supported by Stoke-on-Trent City Council, Newcastle-under-Lyme Borough Council, Staffordshire County Council and Aspire.
See ‘Open Up’, an exhibition of drawings and paintings by Newcastle Common artist-in-residence Ian Mood, with a focus on the people of Newcastle Town Centre.
Drop-by for our meet the artist sessions with Ian Mood. Ask questions about the project, Ian’s work and career. Sessions taking place on Sat 21, Tues 24 and Thurs 26 August from 10am to 2pm.
When?
The public launch of ‘Open Up’ will be on Sunday 15 August 10am to 3pm.
Opening times following the launch day are:
Tues 17 to Sat 21 August – 10am-2pm
Tue 24to Sat 28 August – 10am-2pm
Where?
Visit the exhibition at 23 Highstreet, Newcastle-under-Lyme
About Newcastle Common
Newcastle Common is a new programme brought to you by Appetite, focused on the changing Newcastle-under-Lyme town centre and transforming empty shops into places of art and creativity! Find out more about Newcastle Common here.
Newcastle Common will sit alongside our other projects in development for the same period in Newcastle-under-Lyme: The Newcastle Map by Chloe Breeze Illustration and Familiar Faces by Adina Lawrence in partnership with GRAIN.
Come and sit at our golden tables and get ready to play DISCO TEA PARTY – the interactive Gameshow sensation that’s sweeping the nation. Join your host plus-sized icon Fatt Butcher for a whirlwind show of competition, prize, and cake (ooh, fancy), and get up on your feet and join the dancing queens for an unforgettable disco.
Featuring performances from some of the UK’s leading drag & cabaret artists, with an all-disco soundtrack – this is an interactive boogie wonderland for all the family.
Performance features loud music throughout, and some audience participation.
Performance dates and times:
Wed 25 Aug:
3.30pm – The Backyard at Slamwich Club, Albion St (map pin: 7)
6.00pm – The Backyard at Slamwich Club, Albion St (map pin: 7)
Thurs 26 Aug:
2.00pm – The Backyard at Slamwich Club, Albion St (map pin: 7)
3.30pm – The Backyard at Slamwich Club, Albion St (map pin: 7)
6.00pm – The Backyard at Slamwich Club, Albion St (map pin: 7)
Fri 27 Aug:
2.00pm – The Backyard at Slamwich Club, Albion St (map pin: 7)
3.30pm – The Backyard at Slamwich Club, Albion St (map pin: 7)
6.00pm – The Backyard at Slamwich Club, Albion St (map pin: 7) – Audio Description and BSL Interpretation available on this performance
Ticket Prices:
£6 Standard / £5 concession (Child/student/OAP) / £20 Family (2 Adults and up to 3 children)
*Tickets may be available at the door but we advise booking in advance
Access and Useful Info
This event takes place in The Backyard at The Slamwich Club. This is a new outdoor space in Hanley – you can access it via Albion St (opposite Bethesda Chapel)
Audio Description and BSL Interpretation will be available on the performance on Fri 27 Aug at 6pm.
This performance and event area is wheelchair accessible
The event is outdoors but some coverage will be available in light rain
This is a seated performance
Stewards will be available for assistance
There will be toilets and a bar onsite
Nearest car parks are John St Car Park (ST1 5SS) and Birches Terrace Car Park (ST1 3JY) both 2-3 mins walk/travel away
About The Big Feast
We are so proud to bring you the next serving of The Big Feast! Join us on Friday 27 and Saturday 28 August as we showcase the very best local and national talent in Stoke-on-Trent City Centre (Hanley)!
Appetite is an Arts Council England-funded Creative People and Places programme, led by New Vic Theatre in partnership with Partners in Creative Learning, 6Towns Radio, Staffordshire University, Newcastle BID (Business Improvement District), Keele University and Go Kidsgrove.
Discover more about Newcastle’s very own Philip Astley, the father of modern circus, in the Philip Astley exhibition, taking place from Saturday 7 August until early September in the window of Appetite’s Newcastle Common shop in Astley Walk, located on the corner of Lad Lane and Astley Walk.
The exhibition has been produced by showman, performer and Philip Astley expert Andrew Van Buren and features exciting gems from Van Buren’s own collection including the original life-sized statue of Philip Astley sculpted by renown artist Andy Edwards.
See the life-size statue of Philip Astley from Saturday 7 August in our Newcastle Common shop window
Save the date for AstleyFest 2021 which will be happening on Saturday 7 August 2021 in Newcastle-under-Lyme Town Centre and online, brought to you in partnership with Appetite!
With the uncertainty of this year the Philip Astley Project team decided to move the event from Lyme Valley Park into the town centre and also building on last years online extravaganza’s success, so this year both will be combined allowing you to experience the live events in town and then watch related films at home.
Roll up for a day of online events to be found on the Philip Astley Project social media sites and family friendly live entertainment in the town centre between 11am and 3pm.
With Astounding Acrobatics, Mystical Magic, Dynamic Dance, Pondering Poetry, Competitions, and more!
Online and in-person schedules for the day can be found below:
Philip Astley Exhibition at Newcastle Common
See the story of the father of modern circus, Philip Astley, brought to life in an exhibition produced by performer Andrew Van Buren. The month long exhibition features gems from Van Buren’s own collection, bringing together items about Astley and circus more generally as well as the original life-sized statue of Philip Astley sculpted by renowned artist Andy Edwards.
Learn about the circus and Philip Astley’s story in the exhibition starting on Saturday 7 August and taking place in the windows of Appetite’s Newcastle Common shop in Astley Walk, which sits on the corner of Lad Lane & Astley Walk.
Better World Festival is coming Stoke-on-Trent City Centre (Hanley) for the first time! On Friday 6, Saturday 7 and Sunday 8 August enjoy hearing from speakers, activists, pioneers, charities, community groups and everyone with an interest in creating positive change in this weekend event which will see an extensive line-up spanning world music, workshops, group exercise classes, panel discussions, meditation sessions, family activities and so much more, designed to inspire new ways of thinking.
With three music stages, a kidzone, two areas hosting an exciting programme of activities focusing on the environment, unity, and wellbeing, two chill-out retreats, a bar area and an artisan market, you’re bound to take something away from this special festival and be inspired!
View the Better World Festival 2021 programme and plan your weekend here.
Stop-by and take part in our Bridge Building Workshops taking place in Albion Square. Work in a team together with our Bridge facilitators, assistants and people you wouldn’t normally meet to create an astonishing and beautiful structure!
Inspired by Leoonardo da Vinci’s design for a self-supporting bridge, the bridge can be built by anyone of any age and experience in less than 30 minutes.
Take part in Bridge Building on Saturday 7 and Sunday 8 August from 12pm until 2pm at Better World Festival.
Say hello to us!
Our Appetite Audience Development Officer, Becky, will be at our Appetite stand on Albion Square where you can find out about upcoming events, projects and how you can get involved in upcoming Appetite activities.
Appetite and ArtsKeeleare really excited to be bringing The Three Counties Cubes to Kidsgrove town centre, in partnership with Go Kidsgroveand Newcastle-under-Lyme Borough Council. The exhibition will be running from Saturday 19 June to Sunday 18 July. The cubes will be located on King Street, near to the Kidsgrove Oatcakes shop.
Run by ArtsKeele the Three Counties Open Art Exhibition has been taking place since the early 2000s and since 2017 has taken place in the historic Burslem School of Art. It is ‘open’ to anyone from Staffordshire, Cheshire and Shropshire to submit a piece of artwork. In spite of the pandemic, The Three Counties team and partners were committed to making it happen in 2020 and the project this year took place virtually with 145 works appearing in the online exhibition in August.
Appetite got involved in the exhibition this year and offered a brand new prize – the Appetite Audience Choice Award. This saw Appetite’s Supper Club come up with a shortlist of 20 works which were then put to the public to vote for their favourite. The winner, runners up and shortlisted pieces can all be viewed as part of the exhibition.
The Cubes will also highlight winners from different categories of the exhibition and some COVID inspired works.
Access and Useful Info
Please support us by adhering to our COVID-Safe measures whilst enjoying The Three Counties Cubes: Hands / Face / Space
Please adhere to the lockdown guidelines when visiting the cubes
If you can’t visit the cubes in person, then you can view the virtual exhibition here
This exhibition is printed and installed by Standard 8
About the Three Counties Cubes
The Three Counties Cubes is presented by Appetite and Arts Keele. It is made possible thanks to our Stoke-on-Trent and Newcastle-under-Lyme Partners: Stoke on Trent BID, Stoke-on-Trent City Council, Newcastle under Lyme BID and Newcastle Borough Council.
Appetite is an Arts Council England-funded Creative People and Places programme, led by New Vic Theatre in partnership with Partners in Creative Learning, 6Towns Radio, Staffordshire University, Newcastle BID (Business Improvement District), Keele University and Go Kidsgrove.
Roll up roll up for Saturday 26 June, The Homecoming returns for a thrilling day of outdoor circus taking place right here in the home of modern circus itself, Newcastle-under-Lyme.
Back for 2021, The Homecoming celebrates the legacy of local legend Philip Astley ‘founder of the modern circus’ in a day of free, family friendly pop-up contemporary performance outdoors in the town centre.
Be amazed, entertained and wowed as gravity is tested, a giant egg-venture unfolds, there’s some hilarious clowning around and projectile-blasting contraptions get rolled into place, all on your high street.
This year to ensure our performances are COVID safe please help us by observing social distancing where you can, sanitising hands regularly, wearing a mask when appropriate and not attending if you have any COVID symptoms. Please check in to the nearest Track and Trace. View our full COVID-Safe Visitor Guidance here.
The Homecoming has been developed and delivered by Newcastle BID (Business Improvement District) in partnership with Appetite and is supported by Newcastle Borough Council. To find out more, follow The Homecoming on Facebook or visit Newcastle BID’s website.
Are you ready for take off? Or are you in the firing zone? Hold on to the seat of your pants as PanGottic bring their latest projectile-blasting, air-powered extravaganza out of the workshop and onto the streets. Locked? Loaded.
Honeymoon Balloon
by Gary and Pel
Gary and Pel have two tickets to paradise and are about to embark on their first ever luxury hot air balloon vacation. What could possibly go wrong for the King and Queen of the skies? Binoculars at the ready as this cartoon couple take fiasco to a whole new height.
A live action cartoon escapade for all ages to enjoy, featuring slapstick comedy and dynamic dance.
Hold on
by Stefano Di Renzo
Hold on is a show where gravity, counterweight and centrifugal force are tested to new limits. Witness a wordless performance of delightful virtuosity where buckets whirl around, cups and balls fly through the air and planks become catapults. All culminating with the charming character holding himself afloat in the air just by the strength of his grip whilst he is precariously balancing on top of the rope he is holding on to. He holds himself up, if he lets go he will fall…
Happy Heart Bike
by PanGottic
The #HappyHeartBike is a cross between a giant marble run and a kinetic sculpture, hand crafted and built onto the back of a bike to create a mobile piece of street theatre and the world’s first and only pedal powered, moving rolling ball sculpture!
Once Upon a Wall
An egg. A wall. A very big fall.
Join Hum-T on her fast-paced dancing adventure through the streets of Lost Sandwiches. Build a giant wall, throw down some signature moves, and watch one very large egg scramble to the top. Kids and adults alike join in the fun on the egg-venture of a lifetime, becoming hoofed horses, hip-hopping with the Royal Rebels and helping an egg to see the sunny side of life.
Commissioned by Stockton International Riverside Festival and Middlesbrough Council and supported using public funding by the National Lottery through Arts Council England.
Clown About Town
by Hocus Pocus Theatre
A clown on the run, is wanted for a crime she didn’t commit! In attempting to prove her innocence, she discovers the liberating act of daring to be yourself in a world trying to make you like everyone else.
Andrew Van Buren’s Victorian Wonders Carnival, on location in Brighton, East Sussex.
Van Buren’s Victorian Wonders Carnival
by Andrew Van Buren
Roll Up and witness a snapshot into the magical world of Van Buren’s Victorian Wonders Carnival, where the air is filled with music from the miniature ‘Gavioli style Fairground Organ’ and see yourself distorted beyond recognition by the ‘Crazy Portals’ but also you will not only meet, but also hear the amazing tale of immortality from the famed Arabian Nights Royal Storyteller Scheherazade.
Shows regularly throughout the day.
Image by Andrew Billington
Circus Planting with Ladybird Su
Visit Su at her Newcastle Common stall for seed planting seeds and making flower pots, plus share your stories, memories and gardening tips and tricks.
Image by Clara Lou
Access at The Homecoming
We have put measures in place to make sure The Homecoming is accessible possible. Check out The Homecomingaccess Guidancehere.
The Homecoming Arts Award
We’re so excited to again include the fantastic opportunity for children aged 6-10 to earn an Arts Award Discover at The Homecoming.
Appetite andArtsKeeleare really excited to be bringing The Three Counties Cubes to Keele University, running from Thursday 8 April to Monday 14 June. The cubes will be located on Union Square, next to the Students’ Union are accessible by the public.
Run by ArtsKeele the Three Counties Open Art Exhibition has been taking place since the early 2000s and since 2017 has taken place in the historic Burslem School of Art. It is ‘open’ to anyone from Staffordshire, Cheshire and Shropshire to submit a piece of artwork. In spite of the pandemic, The Three Counties team and partners were committed to making it happen in 2020 and the project this year took place virtually with 145 works appearing in the online exhibition in August.
Appetite got involved in the exhibition this year and offered a brand new prize – the Appetite Audience Choice Award. This saw Appetite’s Supper Club come up with a shortlist of 20 works which were then put to the public to vote for their favourite. The winner, runners up and shortlisted pieces can all be viewed as part of the exhibition.
The Cubes will also highlight winners from different categories of the exhibition and some COVID inspired works.
Access and Useful Info
Please support us by adhering to our COVID-Safe measures whilst enjoying The Three Counties Cubes: Hands / Face / Space
Please adhere to the lockdown guidelines when visiting the cubes
If you can’t visit the cubes in person, then you can view the virtual exhibition here
This exhibition is printed and installed by Standard 8
Featured image by Andrew Billington
About the Three Counties Cubes
The Three Counties Cubes is presented by Appetite and Arts Keele. It is made possible thanks to our Stoke-on-Trent and Newcastle-under-Lyme Partners: Stoke on Trent BID, Stoke-on-Trent City Council, Newcastle under Lyme BID and Newcastle Borough Council.
Appetite is an Arts Council England-funded Creative People and Places programme, led by New Vic Theatre in partnership with Partners in Creative Learning, 6Towns Radio, Staffordshire University, Newcastle BID (Business Improvement District), Keele University and Go Kidsgrove.
Appetite and Newcastle BID Presents: DUST Rising’s Every Other Seat
Appetite and Newcastle BID Presents… DUST Rising’s Every Other Seat
Every Other Seat is an exhibition created and curated by DUST Rising and brought to Newcastle-under-Lyme by Appetite and Newcastle BID. Every Other Seat features chairs transformed by artists into works of art! All 15 of the seats are unique and individual, created in response to the pandemic’s impact on the arts.
And now we are thrilled to be bringing them to Newcastle-under-Lyme Town Centre as a reminder of the importance of artists and performers to our communities. Along with the original 15 seats, we are excited to share 4 new additions to the exhibition, created by students at Regent College.
In March, we welcomed 7 new artist Seat commissions to new windows in the city centre, along with 2 poetry commissions. This includes seats from art students at Newcastle College which can be seen in the window behind the ex-Dorothy Perkins store.
The seats can be seen in the window of ex-Dorothy Perkins store at the Roebuck Centre and in the window of the old Lancaster Building, Newcastle from Tues 16 February to Sat 24 April.
Learn more about the artists behind Every Other Seat the at the Roebuck Centre here.
Learn more about the students at Regent College here.
Learn more about the artists behind Every Other Seat at the old Lancaster Building here.
Learn more about the students at Newcastle College here.
Read Gabriella Gay’s poem and see their seat here.
Access and Useful Info
Please support us by adhering to our COVID-Safe measures whilst enjoying Every Other Seat: Hands / Face / Space
Please adhere to the national guidelines when visiting Every Other Seat
Every Other Seat was first commissioned for Stoke-on-Trent City Centre by Stoke-on-Trent City Centre BID and supported by Stoke-on-Trent City Council and presented on 18-19 September 2020. Appetite and Newcastle-under-Lyme BID are pleased to commission and present a development of the first project and to support Dust Rising and the commissioned artists through this project.
About DUST Rising
DUST Rising originated as an exhibition in support of Stoke-on-Trent’s UK City of Culture bid and has exhibited in many, non-traditional venues since 2016. The Every Other Seat project was first developed for Piccadilly in Hanley in September 2020.
Images taken by Ben Farr
Appetite is an Arts Council England-funded Creative People and Places programme, led by New Vic Theatre in partnership with Partners in Creative Learning, 6Towns Radio, Staffordshire University, Newcastle BID (Business Improvement District), Keele University and Go Kidsgrove.
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