 EVENTS:
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
very well covered by local newspaper / radio / listings websites, and that
is where they are most effectively publicised. 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.
2012 EVENTS:
9th January 2012.
Stoke Stone & Stafford Social Media Surgery has a meeting on 9th January 2012 (7pm - 9pm), at
The Sun Inn pub in the town of Stafford.
10th January 2012.
The Creative Communities Unit at Staffordshire University is set to host a one-day conference on participatory video in Stoke-on-Trent.
19th January 2012 (5pm to 7.30pm).
The President of the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) Angela Brady will be hosting a "Meet the President" evening on
at The Potters' Club at Federation House, Stoke-on-Trent (opposite Stoke's main train station). Full details at the The Potters' Club website.
Early 2012.
The Women in Rural Enterprise (WIRE) organisation is holding two meetings in early 2012, at the Tollgate Hotel in Stoke-on-Trent.
21st January 2012.
"Connect Forward" is a series of professional development events designed and supported by Partners in Creative Learning (aka PiCL, formerly Creative Partnerships).
The aim is to... "bring together teachers with leaders from the local cultural and creative sector". Saturday 21st January 2012 at Newcastle-under-Lyme will see a lecture by Professor Rob Pope of Oxford Brookes University,
titled: "If culture and learning are about the same thing — making meaning of the world we live in — what does that mean for lead-learners and cultural providers?"
More details from: info@picl.uk.com
24th January 2012.
The annual Voluntary and Community Sector Conference for Stoke-on-Trent.
Early 2012.
Stoke-on-Trent's Stoke Your Fires 2012 film festival, with workshops, screenings, and talks.
Older events listings for 2002 to 2011 are archived here.
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.
:: 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 the architectural practice
Hulme Upright Manning, of Festival Park, Stoke-on-Trent).
:: The 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-on-Trent.
:: Stoke-on-Trent Festival.
:: Stone Music Festival.
:: Sanity Fair - the annual
free mental-health carnival festival held in Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent.
:: Buxton Puppet Festival.
:: Leek Arts Festival.
:: Nantwich Folk & Roots Music Festival.
:: Nantwich Arts Festival.
:: The Abbotsholme Arts Society
- programme of classical, medieval and other fine music at Uttoxeter.
:: Stafford Festival.
:: The British Federation of Festivals is based in nearby Macclesfield.
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 & 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."
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