Happy New Year From The Knot!

Book top LEGO event at Fenton, fused glass workshop at Middleport and Oasis tribute tickets. Plus register for the Adult Open Evening at Stoke-on-Trent College

WHAT’S ON/THINGS TO DO ✅

HIGHLIGHTED ⬇️ (FULL EVENTS LISTINGS BELOW)

🧱 Calling all LEGO Lovers! 26/01, Fenton Manor Sports Complex, 10am-4pm. Love LEGO? See the magic of these iconic bricks come to life with amazing displays, and discover rare and retired Lego sets and mini figures at this National Brick Event. There’s also a LEGO play area where the kids can sit and play. Learn more about what you can expect from the show via the video here. Tickets from £8.01.

Find rare sets and admire cool builds at this Fenton-based LEGO event

🖼️ Master Fused Glass. 18/01 &19/01, 11am-1pm, Middleport Pottery. If you’ve always fancied creating some fab fused glass pieces, book this workshop with Paula Andrews, where you can have a bash at making wall art, hanging decorations, fused glass dishes and freestanding glass art. All abilities welcome. Project items priced between £9 to £32 – select and pay on the day.

🪩 Ssshhh! It’s a Silent Disco. 31/01, 6pm-9pm. Potteries Museum & Art Gallery. Dance the night away at a Silent Disco with two channels of music against the backdrop of the legendary Spitfire. Dance Classics on Channel 1, Guilty Pleasures and Singalong Party on Channel 2. Tickets £12, ages 16 up, bar 6pm, disco begins 7pm.

🎸 Oasis Tribute Band in Town. 14/01, 7.30pm, Regent Theatre. Oasis Covers band Live Forever will play songs from the Gallagher brothers back catalogue, which includes first single Supersonic, released in 1994, and Wonderwall, which they played to more than 250,000 fans at their Knebworth concerts. Tickets from £26.75.

😂 Laugh Along with Daliso Chaponda. 30/01, 7pm. New Vic. The comic is in town to tour his Feed this Black Man Again show and has stellar credentials, having played the Royal Variety Performance, written and performed four series of Citizen of Nowhere on BBC Radio 4 and been a Britain’s Got Talent finalist. Tickets £18.

🎭 A Dangerous Corner. 11/02-15/02, 7.30pm, Stoke Repertory Theatre. JB Priestley’s classic play about a world of secrets, betrayal and confessions is retold by the Stoke Rep Players. Tickets from £15, £11 concessions.

Make 2025 the year you become a master handbuilder. Pic: Wedgwood

🏫 Boost Your Knowledge. 15/01, 4pm-6.30pm, Stoke-on-Trent College. Find courses that will help you learn new skills, boost your wellbeing, discover a new hobby and increase your earning power at this upcoming Adult Open Evening. Full-time, part time, distance learning and apprenticeships all available. Some courses are free if you earn under £25,000. Pre-register here.

🏺Get Creative at Wedgwood. Five-week course; Mondays 06/01, 10am-12.30pm, World of Wedgwood. Join renowned ceramic artist Lise Moorcroft for a five-week Hand-Building Pottery Course. Over the weeks, you’ll master techniques including shaping clay using moulds, coiling and free making, then decorate your creations to take home. Course costs £160 and includes all materials.

EVENTS LISTINGS

• Heritage Walks with the Red Haired Stokie, various dates

• Potteries Centre Events Series, ongoing, Potteries Centre

• Throw a Pot Sessions, ongoing, LoveClay

• 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

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

• Winter Light Trail, until 31/12, Trentham Estate

• Luminate, until 31/12, Shugborough Estate

• Find Frosty’s Friends, until 03/01, Middleport Pottery

• Dick Whittington, until 05/01, Regent Theatre

• Jack and the Beanstalk, until 05/01, Stafford Gatehouse

• Magical Days Out, until 05/01, Alton Towers

• Jack and the Beanstalk, until 12/01, Garrick Theatre Lichfield

• The Three Musketeers, until 25/01, New Vic

• Maurice Wade – A Painter from No. 57, until 26/01,
  Potteries Museum & Art Gallery

• New Year’s Eve Party at Vale Park, 31/12, Port Vale Football Club

• Dinner & Disco, 31/12, Moorville Hall Hotel

• New Year’s Eve Masquerade Hall, 31/12, The Quarter @ Potbank

• New Year’s Eve Family Party, 31/12, Doubletree by Hilton

• Walk the Moorlands, 01/01, Leek

• SOT Classics – Halle: New Year in Vienna, 03/01, Victoria Hall

• Panto Workshop, 03/01, Mitchell Arts Centre

• Handbuilding Pottery Course, 06/01, World of Wedgwood

• L1nkn P4rk, 09/01, The Underground

• Live Forever (Oasis tribute band), 14/01, Regent Theatre

• Adult Open Evening, 15/01, Stoke-on-Trent College

• Prosecco and Psychic Night, 20/01, The Quarter @ Potbank

• Black Ball, Clash of the Titans, 22/01, Victoria Hall

• The Rise of the Fab Four, 25/01, King’s Hall

• National Brick Events, 26/01, Fenton Manor Sports Complex

• Shen Yun, 28 & 29/01, Regent Theatre

• Daliso Chaponda, 30/01, New Vic

• Stoke-on-Trent Jobs Fair, 31/01, Bet365 Stadium

• Silent Disco, 31/01, Potteries Museum & Art Gallery

• War Horse, 04-08/03, Regent Theatre

• Relaxed Classical Performance, 14/03, University of Staffordshire

• Soul-on-Trent, 06/04, King’s Hall

• Ocean Colour Scene, 30/05, Trentham Estate

• Bat out of Hell, 30/06-05/07, Regent Theatre

• The City Music Service Stoke-on-Trent 100 Big Sing, 04/06

• The City Music Service Stoke-on-Trent 100 Big Play, 11/06

• North Staffs Symphony Orchestra Centenary Concert, King’s Hall, 25/06

• Russell Watson, 24/10, Victoria Hall

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