
EVENTS:
This is where we list all upcoming
local training, talks, workshop, networking and conference events
of interest to local creative professionals.
Please note: this page is not a standard "WHAT'S ON?" events service.
Most normal arts exhibitions, theatre shows, carnivals
and craft fairs are not listed - since these are already
covered by local newspaper & radio listings, and that
is where they are most effectively publicised. We do, however,
list some local art exhibitions where the launch event should
be a good networking opportunity for local creatives to meet others.
FORTHCOMING EVENTS:
15th - 18th May 2008

Stoke-on-Trent.

Stoke Your Fires animation festival at the Potteries Museum & Art Gallery in Stoke-on-Trent.
6th June 2008

Stoke-on-Trent.

Opening of the Art & Design Graduate Shows 2008, Staffordshire University.
July 2008

Buxton, Peak District.

Buxton International Puppet Festival. Including masterclasses, workshops and public talks.
8th September 2008

Peak District.

Abbots Bromley Horn Dance. Creative stoke doesn't normally cover general entertainment events here, but an exception can be made for an event that's probably over a thousand years old.
30th September 2008

Best Western Moat House, Festival Park, Stoke-on-Trent.

Let's Do Business. "Browse around the stands, network and
soak up the lively atmosphere of business deals in the making".
October 2008 (tbc)

Stoke-on-Trent.

Stoke-on-Trent Ceramics Festival.
November 2008 (tbc)

Stoke-on-Trent.

Conjunction 08: Stoke-on-Trent Visual Arts Festival. Dates and venues to be announced.
OLDER EVENTS:
Older events are archived here.
CRAFTS FAIRS:
We don't list general crafts fairs, but these are 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.
:: 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 and Artists Fair,
each Autumn.
:: 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 in early May each year, and has a variety of
arts-oriented events at the Burslem School of Art, Stoke.
:: Penkhull Festival of Music & Art, Stoke. This has been
one of the main annual cultural events in Stoke for nearly 40 years.
:: Sanity Fair - annual
free mental-health carnival festival held in Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent.
Expanding to be a two-day event & conference in Summer 2004.
:: Newcastle-under-Lyme Carnival.
:: Nantwich Folk & Roots Music Festival.
:: The Abbotsholme Arts Society
- programme of classical, medieval and other fine music
at Uttoxeter.
Live & Local is Staffordshire's Community Performance Scheme,
helping seventy village halls and remote venues
to book professional entertainers.
EVENTS LISTINGS SITES:
:: BBC Radio Stoke's regularly-updated festival and event listings.
:: The Potteries Museum and Art Gallery, Stoke-on-Trent,
has its listings online.
:: Staffordshire Museums & Arts Service, has event and listings online
for the county gallery.
:: Events in the Staffordshire Moorlands & area,
- an up-to-date listing, including many arts & "photographer's opportunity" events.
:: BBC Shropshire Folk Diary - awesome diary
which lists all folk music events in the Midlands, plus selected
gigs as far south as Oxfordshire and as far north as Manchester.
:: IEE North West Midlands
- often has local events of interest to technically-minded
media production professionals, such as talks
on Mobile Computing or Interactive TV.
:: Midlands
Amateur Theatre Preview - a comprehensive list of forthcoming shows and auditions
in the region.
:: Mercia Pagans
- White Dragon's comprehensive listing of earth spirituality events
in the West Midlands. Often lists workshops in woodland crafts, coracle making,
charcoal making, spiritual dance, storytelling, stone carving, etc.
The National Art Collections Fund - Staffordshire Region (01785 780517)
apparently.... "runs regular lectures, generally at county buildings, as well as organising visits."
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