Sleeping Out at Bet 365 for Charity

Plus Dancing With the Stars at Alton Towers, cartoon workshops, The Importance of Being Earnest, ceramic planter workshops and Staffordshire Archaeology Day…

WHAT’S ON/THINGS TO DO ✅

HIGHLIGHTED ⬇️ (FULL EVENTS LISTINGS BELOW)

🥁 Bed Down at Bet365. 21/02, Bet365 Stadium. 6pm-7am. Following a challenge from Lou Macari, ex drummer for heavy metal band Marshall Law Micky Donovan (and former resident at the Macari Centre) is dusting off his drumsticks for the first time in 35 years for the Big Sleep Out Gig. He’ll be entertaining those sleeping inside and outside the Franklyn Stand concourse for the Macari Foundation to support Stoke’s homeless. Want to perform? Email them! Sign up here, email for info, or donate.

Sleep out for the night and raise cash for homeless charities

😇 👿 Meet Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. 26/03, 1pm & 7pm, Regent Theatre. Touring alongside Macbeth as part of DTC’s ‘Revision on Tour’, GCSE students and literature lovers alike should book this production of a Victorian classic. Tickets from £19.50.

🌷 Craft a Ceramic Planter Pocket. 29/03, 1.30pm-4pm, Middleport Pottery. Spring has nearly sprung, and you’ll need somewhere to store all those fresh flowers from the garden. Attendees will explore surface decoration techniques, including using coloured slips, sgraffito, and textured patterns, with ceramic artist Alex Allday at this porcelain workshop. At the end, you’ll get to take home your very own hanging planter pocket. Tickets £50 including workshop and cream tea.

🎭 Theatre Teens will Love. 20/03-23/03, 7pm-8pm, Fenton Town Hall. Get the kids away from their screens and into the theatre with Restoke, which is putting on Bernadette and Other Teenage Folk Tales, a surreal exploration of adolescence and folklore created by teenagers, for teenagers. Tickets £15, £5 concessions.

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🕺💃 Dancing with the Stars is Coming! 07/03-09/03, Alton Towers. Join Strictly Stars Aljaz Skorjanec and Janette Manrara, Kai Widdrington and Michelle Tsiakkas and Jowita Przystal for showcases, workshops and a black tie event. Also visiting is five times DWTS Italian Champion Pasquale La Rocca, British Dance Champion finalists David Cockram and Rosie Ward, Argentine Tango Stars Letitia & Andres, plus the Tony Greenwood 15-piece Big Band. Limited tickets available, email for details.

🎬 The Importance of Being Earnest. 23/02, 7pm, Mitchell Arts Centre. Three-time Olivier Award-winner Sharon D Clarke is joined by Ncuti Gatwa (Doctor Who; Sex Education) in this hilarious story of identity, impersonation and romance filmed live from the National Theatre in London. Watch the trailer of Wilde’s most iconic comedy first. Tickets £17.50, under 16s/students £12, concessions £14.75.

Learn how to draw better animals at this free workshop…

✍️ Cartoon Fun. 22/02, 11am-3pm, Framescape. As part of Creative Days on Stoke’s High Street, community arts project Framescape is hosting a workshop where you can draw live animals in collaboration with a local wildlife centre. Join in with the free pottery sessions at BCB in the old Spode factory around the corner (10am-4pm) either before or after your doodling. Free admission, no booking required.

🏺 Diggin’ Staffs Archaeology Day. 29/03, 10am-5pm, Potteries Museum & Art Gallery. Six top speakers will give illustrated talks on recent archaeological discoveries in Staffordshire and the surrounding counties. We dig the sound of ‘Heritage Crime in Staffordshire: The Current State of Play’ by the University of Staffordshire’s Dr Kirsty Squires and ‘Industrial Slipware’ by David Barker. For all the deets, read Jenna’s fab piece here, which also features a timetable of events. Free admission, book here.

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

• Potteries Centre Events Series, ongoing, Potteries Centre

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

• 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

• Daytime & Evening Beginner Pottery Courses, 10/02 for 5 weeks, LoveClay

• Funderworld Stoke, until 23/02, Hanley

• Gandey’s Circus, until 03/03, Trentham Estate

• Ministry of Science LIVE - Science Saved The World, 19/02, Regent Theatre

• Make And Bake, 20/02, Mitchell Arts Centre

• Creative Days, 22/02, Stoke High Street

• Dan Budd as Robbie Williams, 22/02, Biddulph Town Hall

• Meet & Draw the Animals, 22/02, Framescape

• John Shuttleworth, 24/02, New Vic

• Winter Tree Walks, 26/02, 05/03, 12/03, Trentham Estate

• Adult Beginners Tap Workshop, 28/02, Regent Theatre

• Johnny Cash Roadshow, 01/03, Mitchell Arts Centre

• Strange 80s, 01/03, Artisan Tap

• The Toys Strike Back, 01/03-01/06, Potteries Museum & Art Gallery

• Tactile Textiles: Woolly Embroidery, 04/03, Mitchell Arts Centre

• War Horse, 04/03-08/03, Regent Theatre

• The Miner Birds, 06/03, New Vic

• Donaheys Dancing with the Stars Weekend, 07/03-09/03, Alton Towers Resort Hotel

• Women of Wedgwood Tour, 08/03, World of Wedgwood

• 10CC’s Graham Gouldman & Heart Full of Songs, 08/03, New Vic

• Artisan Spring Market, 08/03 & 09/03, Middleport Pottery

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

• Jason Manford, 15/03, Regent Theatre

• Castle Classics Classic & Retro Show, 15/03, Ironmarket

• Connoisseur Guided Tour at Gladstone, 15/03, Gladstone Pottery Museum

• Bernadette and Other Teenage Folk Tales, 20/03-23/03, Fenton Town Hall

• Community Lanterns Procession, 21/03, Stoke Event Square

• Revision on Tour: Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde, 26/03, Regent Theatre

• Burton & South Derbyshire Beer & Cider Festival, 27/03-29/03, Burton Town Hall

• Staffordshire Archaeology Day, 29/03, Potteries Museum & Art Gallery

• Ceramic Planter Pocket Workshop, 29/03, Middleport Pottery

• Mother’s Day Afternoon Tea & Mother’s Day Mimosa Brunch, 30/03, World of Wedgwood

• Mother’s Day Ceramic Flower Making, 30/03, LoveClay

• Soul-on-Trent, 06/04, King’s Hall

• Arthur Berry - Theatremaker, 27/05-28/06, New Vic

• The Wombats, 29/05, Trentham Estate

• Ocean Colour Scene, 30/05, Trentham Estate

• Whatever Happened to Phoebe Salt, 31/05, New Vic

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

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

• Stoke-on-Trent Day, various locations, 05/06

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

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

• Stoke-on-Trent Centenary Celebration Concert, 28/06

• Three Counties Open Art, 26/07-23/08, Burslem School of Art

• Russell Watson, 24/10, Victoria Hall

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