This is a list of upcoming local training events, public talks, workshops, networking meetings, and conferences, likely to be of interest to creative professionals in North Staffordshire.

Please note: this page is not a standard "WHAT'S ON?" events list.   Normal arts exhibitions, theatre shows, carnivals, craft fairs, and children's activity workshops are not listed - since these are already covered well by local newspaper / radio / listings websites, and that is where they are most effectively publicised to the public. Creative Stoke does, however, list some contemporary art exhibitions where the launch event should be a good networking opportunity for local creatives to meet others.

 
     _{2010 EVENTS:}

 July 2010

Rudyard Lake in North Staffordshire. Free.

Women in Rural Enterprise are to hold a three-day Start Your Business event. The event is free to women in the West Midlands who are either i) just starting a business or ii) have been in business for less than 12 months. See the website for full details.

     _{CRAFTS FAIRS:}

Creative Stoke doesn't list general crafts fairs, but these are links to some of the local organisers:

::  North Staffordshire Guild of Craftsmen. Established for 25 years, the Guild holds regular high-quality fairs offering British crafts.

::  Cheshire Fayre - organisers of regular craft fairs in Staffordshire and Cheshire.

::  Staffordshire County Showground - puts on occasional crafts fairs, usually organised (2008) by the Creative Craft Association.

::  Staffordshire Moorlands Council's 'Make It Contemporary' scheme organises a crafts walking-trail around Leek.

::  Antiques & Crafts Fairs at Trentham Gardens.

::  The nearby Buxton Pavilion organises a Contemporary Designers & Artists Fair.

::  Studio Potters Events listing is a good UK listing of shows and events for craft ceramics makers.

     _{ORGANISERS OF ANNUAL SHOWS & EVENTS:}

::  Keele University Art Gallery. Early each year Keele holds the Three Counties Open Photography show; an 'all-for-sale' prints exhibition, featuring the results of a competitive Open for local photographers in the counties of Staffordshire, Cheshire and Shropshire. (The Open is generously sponsored by architects Hulme Upright Manning, of Festival Park, Stoke.)

::  Burslem Carnival & Arts Festival is usually in early May each year, and has a variety of community arts-oriented events at the Burslem School of Art, Stoke.

::  Stoke-on-Trent Festival.

::  Newcastle-under-Lyme Carnival.

::  Nantwich Folk & Roots Music Festival.

::  The Abbotsholme Arts Society - programme of classical, medieval and other fine music at Uttoxeter.

::  Stafford Festival.

     _{EVENTS LISTINGS SITES:}

::  BBC Radio Stoke's regularly-updated festival and event listings.

::  The Potteries Museum & Art Gallery, Stoke-on-Trent, has listings online along with listings for other Council museum and cultural venues.

::  Staffordshire Museums & Arts Service, has event and listings online for the official county gallery at Stafford.

::  Events in the Staffordshire Moorlands & area.

::  North Staffordshire Folk Diary.

The National Art Collections Fund - Staffordshire Region (01785 780517) apparently.... "runs regular lectures, generally at county buildings, as well as organising visits."