This week, we’ll be exploring the urban wildlife in and around Newcastle Common. Which plants might you be walking past every day without noticing? How can we collaborate with the local wildlife? Can we?

Come and join Lisa Franklin at Newcastle Common on Thursday 18 and Friday 19 April from 11am to 3pm to take a closer look at the plants around us and to have a go at making art with them. We often have more in common than we think.

We’ll be trying some plant poetry, plant printing, listening to plant music and sounds and finding out all about the language of plants and the people that they live alongside in Newcastle-under-Lyme.

Access at Newcastle Common

There is a small step into Newcastle Common, we do also have a ramp for wheelchair users.

The performances and activities are accessible for everyone.

The nearest toilets to Newcastle Common can be found at Castle House, Barracks Road, ST5 1BL, including accessible toilets and Changing Places facilities and baby changing. This is about a 4-minute walk from Newcastle Common.

The nearest car park to Newcastle Common is Lymelight Boulevard, 27 Paradise Street, ST5 1RS. This is a multi-story pay and display car park with blue badge parking.

On-road blue badge parking can also be found at Merrial Street.