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A person enjoys a swing while wearing a "VOLO" virtual reality headset, surrounded by a colorful metal frame with green and red panels. Behind them stands a tall building with a clock tower and palm trees, adding to the vibrant outdoor setting.

VOLO – Virtual Reality Swings

by Studio Go Go

Come fly with us!

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 extra-terrestrial landscapes.

Studio Go Go have designed four amazing, other-worldly landscapes for you to fly through. All you need is Virtual Reality (VR) headset and a swing and you can flap, soar and glide your way through worlds like you’ve never imagined.

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!

Drop-in times

Smithfield (14)  See map

Friday & Saturday

11:00 – 17:00

Access

Wheelchair users: 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.

Follow the link to see the VOLO Easy Read. You can find Easy Reads and Audio Described introductions to other shows on the Big Feast 2025 Access Page.

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VR Swings with Studio Go Go

“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.

A man is seen from the waist up swinging on a swing with metal chains. He’s surrounded by a structure that we can partly see that consists of metal poles and pastel-coloured Perspex panels with writing on them. The man has a moustache and is wearing a black t-shirt with sunglasses tucked into the neck. He’s also wearing a large pair of grey goggles that have a blue panel over the eye area with words on it reading ‘VOLO dreams of flight’. The man has his mouth wide open in a way that looks like he’s enjoying what he can see in the goggles.
An older man with white hair and beard is in the open air on a patch of grass. He’s sitting in a wheelchair that is on a metal platform attached to swing chains and surrounded by a structure of metal scaffolding that we can’t see in full. The man is wearing a large pair of grey goggles that have a blue panel over the eye area with words on it reading ‘VOLO dreams of flight’.

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.

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