We think arts and culture is the perfect tonic to see us through these unusual times and so we’re thrilled to bring you Appetite’s Home Cooked Menu! A handpicked feast of digital arts and culture that you and your family can keep dipping into and relish from your sofa.
This menu will be updated each week so do keep checking back. We’ll also be sharing these and more helpings on Facebook everyday – follow us here to not miss out. Plus, check out our Arts & Culture Home Cooked YouTube playlist for links to even more delicious performance.
Last updated: 16 April 2020
Got something to add? Email us at askus@appetitestoke.co.uk
National performance, theatre and dance:
- National Theatre: free full-length performance on YouTube every Thursday
- Royal Opera House: free opera and ballet on Facebook every Friday
- The Shows Must Go On!: full shows of hit Andrew Lloyd Webber musicals
- Shakespeare’s Globe: YouTube Premiers: free every two weeks
- Culture in Quarantine: The BBC and Arts Council England’s programme of arts and culture at home
- Sadler’s Wells’s Digital Stage: full length performance and workshops from the acclaimed dance company
As seen at Appetite…
Online performance from some of the fantastic companies we’ve presented or worked with in Stoke-on-Trent and Newcastle-under-Lyme over the last seven years.
- Gandini Juggling: SMASHED
- Company Chameleon: The Wonder of Dance – an online programme of workshops and performance throughout April and May:
- Motionhouse: Earth Triology
- Paines Plough (creators of ROUNDABOUT) – Come to Where I’m From
A wonderful app featuring 16 playwrights with short plays about the places that made them.
- ZARA by Mind the Gap with Walk the Plank and Emergency Exit Arts – streamed free Sunday 19 April
- FANTABULOSA: online drag story time everyday at 1pm
- Restoke: The Voyagers at Tunstall Baths
Local digital arts and culture:
- British Ceramics Biennial: #ClayAtHome – an online programme of clay tutorials to get stuck into
- Bottlecraft: WordCraft – the spoken word night moves online
- B-Arts: The View from Where I Stand – artistic commissions
- Art Brasil: online drumming and Brazilian dance classes
- New Vic Youth Theatre: The Changing Room
The Changing RoomBy Chris BushDirected by Katherine Hughes
Posted by New Vic Theatre on Tuesday, 25 February 2020
- The Honey Box – full episodes of the local live streamed music event
From the Appetite Larder!
- Appetite’s YouTube channel – re-live our previous events!
- Corey Baker Dance: ATURE – Brighter Futures commission (2015)
- Light Night Stoke-on-Trent – live-streamed films from that incredible event:
- Wedgwood and the War Audio Artworks:
Extra Helpings – other useful listings to check out:
- Get Creative UK: Home Activities
- The Stage’s round up of musicals, stage shows and opera online.
- The Guardian’s rolling list of theatre and dance online.
Bon appétit!
