Amplifying Live Music With Honey Box Live

Plus the BBC's paranormal podcast, Uncanny, spooks the Regent, sign up for a free multisports session at Middleport Park, and lamplight concerts and Stoke Minster

WHAT’S ON/THINGS TO DO ✅

HIGHLIGHTED ⬇️ (FULL EVENTS LISTINGS BELOW)

🎸 Passing the Mic to up-and-coming Musicians. 31/08 Foxlowe Arts Centre; 21/09; Keele University, 21/12 & 19/04, King Street Studios, Newcastle. Now in its ninth series, Honey Box Live is touring the Midlands and showcasing hot new talent in front of live audiences with shows live-streamed across the UK. A platform for unsigned acts and creative production talent alike, it captures the energy of original music performances in pop-up studio settings. The event in Newcastle on 21/12 is also part of Amplifying Grassroots Talent, a parallel project offering opportunities for emerging creatives and technicians. More info and ticket links here.

Will you spot the next Oasis or Arctic Monkeys at Honeybox Live?

👻 Paranormal Mysteries on Stage. 17/10, 7.30pm, Regent Theatre. Get in the Hallowe’en mood as the host of the award-winning BBC paranormal podcast and TV series, Danny Robins, hosts a new live show, Uncanny: Fear of the Dark, a spine-tingling collection stories that features ghostly apparitions, UFO sightings, and bizarre poltergeist activity among other spooky goings-on. Danny will be joined by experts Dr Ciarán O’Keeffe, an open-minded sceptic, and the UK’s leading parapsychologist, Evelyn Hollow. Tickets from £33.50.

Check out this live show discussing paranormal activity at the Regent on 19/10/

• ⚽️ Free Multisports with Middleport Matters. 21/08, 10am-4pm. Middleport Park, Kids aged 8-17 years are welcome to join this Multisports Fun Day that’s being held at the charity’s new youth club, The Block. Admission free.

• 🎶 Lamplight Concerts at Stoke Minster. 26/09, 6.30pm & 7.30pm, Stoke Minster. Featuring a string quartet playing against a lamplit backdrop, there are two shows to enjoy at Stoke Minster this September: Hits from the Movies (6.30pm) and Back to the 70s and 80s (8.30pm). Tickets £10 per performance.

Enjoy some retro tunes by lamplight at Stoke Minster on 26/09…

• 🎋 The Power of Bamboo. 28/08, 11.30am-3pm, Brownfield. Hot on the heels of last week’s bamboo pop-up in Newcastle comes another on the disused land off Boothen Road, Bamboo In the Brownfield Parklet, where NoFit State Circus will bring you BAMBOO, a high impact, high-skill outdoor circus production using only bamboo and the human body. Admission free.

Kids underneath bamboo structures with Brilliant Bamboo

• 🧘‍♂️ Meditations on Autumn. 22/09, 7pm, Mow Cop Community Hall. Want to get spiritual this Autumn? Then join the Autumn Equinox Circle with the Reiki Room, which has laid on meditation journaling, a fire ceremony, plus a pie and pea supper to usher in the new season and invite balance. Tickets £25.

• 🧠 Embracing Neurodivergence. 11/09 & 12/09, Catalyst Building, University of Staffordshire. From ADHD to dyspraxia, more than 15% of the UK population are neurodivergent. The Neurodiversity Network Conference 2025 explores how we can better support neurodivergent people over two event days: Neurodiversity in Education (11/09) and Neurodiversity in the Workplace (12/09). Tickets from £55 per day. Knotters get £10 off using the discount code KNOT10.

EVENTS LISTINGS

• Parkrun, every Saturday at 9am at Hanley Park; Trentham Gardens; Cannock Chase; Lower Milehouse Lane, Newcastle; Birchall Playing Fields; Isabel Trail, Stafford

• Heritage Walks with the Red Haired Stokie, various dates

• Make & Bake, ongoing, Mitchell Arts Centre

• Open mic nights, every Thursday, Darcy’s

• Potteries Centre Events Series, ongoing, Potteries Centre

• Throw a Pot and Pottery Painting, ongoing, Kiln at Number 12

• Throw a Pot Sessions, ongoing, LoveClay

• Lunch at Stoke Minster, every Thursday

• Guided Walks in the Peak District, Various, Multiple (Peak District)

• Titanic Brewery Tour, multiple dates, Titanic Brewery

• Spitfire Comedy Open Mic, multiple dates, Old Post Office, Burslem

• World of Wedgwood Artisan markets, every second Sunday of the month

• Electric Tentacle Electronic Music Open Mic, multiple dates, Captain’s Bar

• Daydreaming, until 31/08, Potteries Museum & Art Gallery

• DJ Summer School, until 31/08, Sydney Works

• Arthur Berry Sense of Place Exhibition, until 21/09, Barewall Art Studio

• Honeybox Live, various dates and locations

• Jasperware at Wedgwood, 29/08; 25/09; 31/10; World of Wedgwood

• Self-Care Sundays, 27/07-31/08, Trentham Estate

• Tales in the Park, 29/07-15/08, various locations

• Three Counties Open Art, 09/08-30/08, Fenton Town Hall

• Arthur Berry Weekend Walking Tour, 10/08, Ford Green Hall

• A La Puppet Show, 14/08, Potteries Museum & Art Gallery

• The Wizard of Oz, 16/08, Bolton Gate Farm

• Arthur Berry Weekend Walking Tour, 17/08, Burslem

• August Bank Holiday - Wakes and All, 19/08, Mitchell Arts Centre

• Summer Evening Social Walk, 20/08, Hem Heath Woods

• Make & Bake, 21/08, Mitchell Arts Centre

• Multisports Fun Day, 21/08, The Block, Middleport Park

• A Night at The Darts, 22/08, Kings Hall

• The Big Feast, 22 & 23/08, Hanley city centre

• Arthur Berry Weekend Walking Tour, 23/08, Middleport

• Macbeth, 24/08 & 25/08, Trentham Estate

• Bill Bailey, 28/08, Regent Theatre

• Dracula, 03/09-06/09, The House of Lawrence

• Ibiza Orchestra Experience, 05/09, Hanley Park

• Sausage & Cider Festival, 06/09, Hanley Park

• The Christians, 06/09, New Vic

• Summer in Nashville, 07/09, Hanley Park

• Stoke Youth Festival, 07/09, Northwood Stadium

• Jimmy Carr, 10/09, Regent Theatre

• Neurodiversity in Education, 11/09, University of Staffordshire

• Neurodiversity in the Workplace, 12/09, University of Staffordshire

• Walk to Remember, 13/09, Shugborough Estate

• Dara Ó Briain, 17/09, Regent Theatre

• Stone Book Festival, 18-20/09, TBC

• Fenton Folk Day, 20/09, Fenton Town Hall

• Autumn Equinox Circle, 22/09, Mow Cop Community Hall

• Blood Brothers, 23/09-27/09, Regent Theatre

• Strange But True Crime, 26/09, Victoria Hall

• Lamplight Concerts, 26/09, Stoke Minster

• Potters ‘Arf, 28/09

• Keele World Affairs, 02/10 onwards, Keele University

For more events, all the way up until October, check out our comprehensive What’s On list.

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