Celebrate May Bank Holiday at Bolton Gate Farm
Festival time is here! Check out Stone Food & Drink Festival (08-10/05), Pint of Science Festival (18-20/05) plus Single White Female at the Regent Theatre (26/05-30/05)
WHAT’S ON/THINGS TO DO ✅
HIGHLIGHTED ⬇️ (FULL EVENTS LISTINGS BELOW)
🥳 Get Creative this Bank Holiday. 02/05, 10am-9pm, Bolton Gate Farm. With activities from 10am and music from 4pm, highlights of The Garden Gate event include make your own bug hotel, decorate your own bottle kiln, a guided wellbeing walk in Park Hall Country Park (departs at 10.30am and 1.30pm) and an open mic night, Gigz@theGardenGate. You can even help co-create the Bolton Gate Arts poem with Sarah Bootherstone from Caverswall Creative Hub. Just make sure you stay to watch the sun set. Admission free; register here.
🤭 LOL with Comedy Kiln. 23/04, 10am-4pm, Bottlecraft. Go check out six up-and-coming comedians and sup on some super ales while you’re at it within the cool confines of Hanley’s finest real ale joint. Can’t make it? There’s another event on 28/05 at the same time and location. Admission free; register here.
🍺 Grab a Pint of Science. Various dates and locations. Grab a side-order of science with your tipple at the Pint of Science Festival: there’s Pests, Cannabis and Hydrogen: Weeding out the Truth (Mellards, 18/05, 7pm-9pm); How we Create and Realise our Wonderful World (Mellards, 19/05, 7pm-9pm) and Weird and Worrisome Worlds of Today and Tomorrow (20/05, The Quarter). Tickets £5.
🐦⬛ Hear the Dawn Chorus. 03/05, 4.45am, Trentham Estate. Doors will open as day breaks to mark International Dawn Chorus Day, where you can listen to winsome chirruping from thrushes, chiffchaffs, blackcaps and more. Usual gardens admission applies (£12.75 adult); free to Trentham members.
😋 Stone Food & Drink Festival. 08/05, 12pm-8.30pm; 09/05, 10am-8.30pm; 10/05, 10am-6pm; Westbridge Park. The big attraction this year will be a pop-up restaurant five-course tasting menu from Cris Cohen with an optional wine flight pairing (book here). You can also look forward to cooking demos, foodie talks and tastings plus a kids’ disco, fun fair, panic circus and free kids cookery classes. There’s live music every day, too. Tickets from £10 Friday (free for kids); £14 Saturday or Sunday; (£6 kids); weekend VIP tickets £35; Friday VIP tickets £15 (free for kids); Saturday/Sunday VIP tickets: Adult £20, £9 kids.
👩🦰 Catch Single White Female. 26/05-30/05, Tue-Sat 19:30; Wed & Sat 14:30, Regent Theatre. Catch Kym Marsh and Lisa Faulkner in a stage adaptation of this classic 90s psychological thriller full of dark humour where trust is fragile, and friendships are put to the ultimate test. Tickets from £18.95.
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
Girls Who Walk Stoke, ongoing, various locations
Beth Johnson Ramblers for the Over 50s, various dates
Queerquest, ongoing, Staffordshire Moorlands
Open mic nights, various dates, Darcy’s + The Woodman, The Beehive Inn, The Windmill Werrington, Foxfield Arms, & The Victoria
Potteries Centre Events Series, ongoing, Potteries Centre
Throw a Pot and Pottery Painting, ongoing, Kiln at Number 12
Throw a Pot Sessions, ongoing, LoveClay
What’s In Store at the V&A Wedgwood Collection sessions, every Wednesday
Lunch at Stoke Minster, every Thursday
Fresh Food Friday, Biddulph Town Hall, every Friday
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
Honeybox Live, various dates and locations
Cancer Awareness Bus Tour, various dates and locations from 09/03
Gladstone Bunny Hunt, until 30/04, Gladstone Pottery Museum
Snoopy Trail, until 04/05, Trentham Estate
The Railway Children, 14/04-18/04, Stoke Repertory Theatre
Wildlings Play Group, 14/04, 19/05, 16/06, 14/07, Ladderedge Country Park
Dusk Beaver Safari, 14, 15 & 16/04, 22/04 & 29/04, Trentham Estate
Community River Monitoring Walk, 15/04, Ford Green Brook South
Acceler8 Brass Band Concert, 18/04, Fulford Village Hall
Josh Widdicombe, 18/04, Regent Theatre
World Circus Day, 18/04, Philip Astley Centre
Contemporary Collage Workshops, 18/04, 27/06, Silk Mill House
Staffordshire Archaeology Day, 18/04, Potteries Museum & Art Gallery
River Fly Monitoring, 22/04, Bucknall Park
The Palette Project: Green, 23/04-26/04, Great Bear Gallery
Comedy Kiln, 23/04, Bottlecraft
Friday Feast at Goods Yard, 24/04, Goods Yard Stoke
Longton Parade & Pig Walk, 24/04, Longton Town Centre
The Lady Boys of Bangkok, 24/04-03/05, Trentham Shopping Village
Spring Festival & Earth Day celebrations, 26/04, Middleport Pottery
Bat Walk, 27/04, Biddulph Grange Country Park
Operation Mincemeat: A New Musical, 27/04-02/05, Regent Theatre
Specialist Tree Identification Walk, 29/04, Bucknall Park
Foundry Festival, 02/05 & 03/05, Tontine Square and Piccadilly
The Garden Gate, 02/05, Bolton Gate Farm
Paul Oakenfold – Celebrating Danny Stubbs’ Legacy, 03/05, Keele University
Dawn Chorus, 03/05, Trentham Estate
Mow Cop Killer Mile, 07/05, Mow Cop
Stone Food & Drink Festival, 08/05-10/05, Westbridge Park
Dan Walsh, 08/05, Fenton Town Hall
Wartime in the Potteries, 09/05, Middleport Pottery
Hamza Yazzin: My Life Behind the Lens, 15/05, Victoria Hall
Pint of Science Festival, 18/05-20/05, various locations
Scott Bradlee’s Post-Modern Jukebox, 23/05, Victoria Hall
Single White Female, 26/05-30/05, Regent Theatre
Vicky Swan & Jonny Dyer, 12/06, Fenton Town Hall
Stoke Craft Brew Festival, 11/07, King’s Hall
For more events, check out our comprehensive What’s On list.