“Remember swinging in the playground as a child? Enjoying sensations of speed & weightlessness as you swooped high & low, laughing with friends, hoping they didn’t spot that you were a little scared?
We’re harnessing those magical motion-memories to take audiences on incredible, action-packed adventures.”
Brendan Walker, Studio Go Go Founder & Director
Volo: Dreams of Flight by Studio Go Go
Fancy taking flight in one of four award-winning virtual da Vinci flying machines?
Flap and soar over cliffs as an Ornithopter bird-person. Join a psychedelic aviator’s ballet in Aerial Screw. Shoot into satellite orbit from a renaissance cannon. Bank and weave in a glider across extraterrestrial landscapes …
Studio Go Go have designed four amazing, other-worldly landscapes for you to fly through. All you need is a Virtual Reality (VR) headset and a swing and you can flap, soar and glide your way through those fantasy worlds like you’ve never imagined.
So come fly with Appetite, and Newcastle-under-Lyme BID. There’s no need to book, just drop by, take your place on a swing – including a platform swing suitable for wheelchair users – and start your virtual adventure!
When:
Friday 21 March: 10.30am-4.30pm
Saturday 22 March, 10am-4pm
Where: Outside Guildhall in Newcastle-under-Lyme town centre
Cost: The event is totally free and there is no need to book
Access: There will be four swings, one of which is a platform swing suitable for wheelchair users. The combined weight limit for the visitor and chair is 200kg. However, there is a porter’s chair that you may transfer into if you are comfortable and able to do so.
Parking:
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.
There are some options for street-level blue-badge parking within a short walk from the Guildhall:
- Closest are two spaces outside Chatwin’s at the end of the High Street, a one-minute walk away
- Very slightly further away, Corporation Street has some paid parking spaces, which are free to blue badge holders
- There are also a few spaces opposite Queen’s Gardens at the bottom of Ironmarket
- Another four free-to-use blue badge spaces are situated behind Patty’s on Barracks Road
Facilities:
The public toilets are s very short walk away on Hassell Street, and MacDonalds rest rooms are generally open to the public.
There is a Changing Places toilet in Castle House, a two-minute walk from the Guildhall in Queen’s Gardens.
Appetite works in Newcastle-under-Lyme town centre in partnership with Newcastle-under-Lyme Business Improvement District and Newcastle-under-Lyme Borough Council.
