Dance, Trance and Techno: Claywork Stoke Returns to Gladstone

Plus make your own matcha bowl at LoveClay (07/06), Blue Bell Beer and Music Festival (29-31/05) and hop aboard the Bombay Express at the Churnet Valley (July & August)

WHAT’S ON/THINGS TO DO ✅

HIGHLIGHTED ⬇️ (FULL EVENTS LISTINGS BELOW)

• 🕺 A Very Stokie Rave. Gladstone Pottery Museum, 27/06, 4.30pm-10.30pm. Get on your dancing shoes for a very special evening of music in the shadow of Gladstone’s bottle kilns. After making history last summer, Claywork, aka local DJ Jordan Tilstone, is hosting a second exclusive event of trance, techno and schranz. Tickets from £36.25 per person.

This aint no ordinary rave: join Claywork for a night of techno and trance at Gladstone Pottery Museum on 27/06

• 🍻 Cheers! It’s the Blue Bell Beer & Music Festival. 29-31/05, The Blue Bell Pub. Get ready for real ales and ciders, live music, and pub grub at Kidsgrove pub The Blue Bell. You can bring your own camping chairs and a £3 commemorative glass is available; plastic glasses are free, or bring your own. Admission free.

The popular beer fest at Kidsgrove pub the Blue Bell is back – and it’s free!

• 🍵 Make Your Own Matcha Bowl & Whisk Holder. 07/06, LoveClay, 1pm-2.30pm. Love matcha? Why not craft a pinch pot matcha bowl, shaping and glazing it entirely in your own style, with Sarah Derbyshire of Cinnamon Ceramics? You’ll also decorate a pre-thrown whisk holder during the workshop. Admission fee includes an iced matcha on arrival. Tickets £39.

Create a matcha bowl and decorate a whisk holder at this LoveClay workshop on 07/06 from 1pm-2.30pm

• 🎭 Wilde About Oscar. 09/06, 6pm for 7pm, Middleport Pottery Join award-winning actor Jonathan Goodwin for a sprightly one-man show about Oscar Wilde in a show scripted and adapted by himself. Tickets £16.

• 🍛 All Aboard the Bombay Express. 04/07 1.30pm, 01/08 15/08 & 22/08, 1.30pm & 6.30pm, Churnet Valley Railway. Love trains? Love Indian food? Then get booked on to the Bombay Express, where you’ll travel in vintage coaches while sampling some delicious Indian food prepared onboard. Tickets £38.50.

  

  Tuck into Indian fare while watching the Staffordshire countryside blaze past on the Churnet Valley Railway’s Bombay Express this July & August

• 😵‍💫 Derren Brown: Only Human. 30/06-04/07; 7.30pm (04/07 2.30pm & 7.30pm) Regent Theatre. Prepare to be astonished as the multi award-winning master of mind control and psychological illusion, Derren Brown, returns with his brand new live show, Only Human. Tickets from £22.23.

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, Artisan Tap

• Honeybox Live, various dates and locations

• Cancer Awareness Bus Tour, various dates and locations from 09/03

• 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

• Community Day, 09/05, Trentham Estate

• Hamza Yazzin: My Life Behind the Lens, 15/05, Victoria Hall

• So You Think You’re Not Funny Eh? Creative Writing Workshop with Nick Degg, 15/05, Brampton Museum

• Pint of Science Festival, 18/05-20/05, various locations

• Wildlings Play Group, 19/05, 16/06, 14/07, Ladderedge Country Park

• Scott Bradlee’s Post-Modern Jukebox, 23/05, Victoria Hall

• Burslem Urban Rock Festival, 23/05, Lemmy Plaza

• Single White Female, 26/05-30/05, Regent Theatre

• Blue Bell Beer & Music Festival, 29-31/05, The Blue Bell Pub

• Much Ado About Nothing, 31/05, Bolton Gate Farm

• Back to the Bone Festival, 06/06, Fenton Town Hall

• Matcha Bowl & Whisk Holder Workshop, 07/06, LoveClay

• Wilde About Oscar, 09/06, Middleport Pottery

• Vicky Swan & Jonny Dyer, 12/06, Fenton Town Hall

• Middleport Canal Festival, 13 & 14/06, Middleport Pottery

• Nigel Kennedy, 11/06, Victoria Hall

• Keith And Marj: Us, Pots and A Welsh Chapel, 13/06, Regent Theatre

• Strange Stoke, 19/06, Artisan Tap

• Claywork Stoke, 27/06 Gladstone Pottery Museum

• Contemporary Collage Workshop, 27/06, Silk Mill House

• Derren Brown: Only Human, 30/06-04/07, Regent Theatre

• Bombay Express 04/07, 01/08 15/08 & 22/08, Churnet Valley Railway

• Stoke Craft Brew Festival, 11/07, King’s Hall

For more events, check out our comprehensive What’s On list.

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