Appetite

15/09/2026

Performing Peppers is BACK! 🐊🎤

We had this fantastic company at The Big Feast 2024 and are so excited to see they are back with a brand new show. Catch it at B-Arts on Saturday 19th September ✨ Details in the post.

Performing Peppers Show

A new show by Carl Wilson, Martin Gooding, Kath Stanway & Ben Evans, featuring live action & puppets.

The Adventures of Romeo Jones & Lazy Nick Smith The Crocodile

Saturday 19th September, 4pm.

Pay as you feel, all proceeds will go towards ArtsHill volunteer performers, and our Bread in Common Bar will be open too!

B.ARTS, 72 Hartshill Road, Stoke, ST4 7RB

15/09/2026

What an honour it was to win the University of Staffordshire High Street Impact Award 🤩

11/09/2026

Look at our GORGEOUS volunteer crew! 💙

Fancy being part of this brilliant team of local people? We’d LOVE to have you!

Our volunteers are right at the heart of Appetite events, helping bring things like The Big Feast to life and making sure audiences have a brilliant time.

Want to join them? Find out all about volunteering at Appetite here:
👉 https://www.appetite.org.uk/volunteer

Ready to get involved? You’ll find the registration form at the very bottom of the page!

Or, if you’d rather chat to us, you can reach us at:
📧 [email protected]
📞 07951 357389

We can’t wait to hear from you!

📷 Billington Photography



Image description: A large group of staff and volunteers wearing matching blue tops and caps pose together outdoors on a paved high street lined with shopfronts.

09/09/2026

What a LOVELY bunch you are! 💛

We’ve had so many fantastic comments about The Big Feast over the last week - and we’ve loved hearing what you enjoyed. BUT we don’t get it right all the time. So whether you had an absolute blast or something brought you back down to Earth with a bump, we want to know!

Because YOUR Big Feast should be brilliant for YOU. 💫

💬 Take our survey and help us make future Big Feasts even better: https://s.surveyplanet.com/alao2l5q

And there’s a little something in it for you too... 👀 Fill in the survey for your chance to win a £100 high street voucher in our prize draw!

Your feedback helps us show that Stoke-on-Trent really does have an Appetite for culture. 🍴

📷 Andrew Billington Photography

Stoke-on-Trent City Centre BID Stoke-on-Trent City Council

09/09/2026

This fantastic free workshop is happening THIS Saturday! 🩵

Head to Spode Museum and join Winning The Clay for this Shard Mosaic Workshop, where you'll create Spode shard mosaics while discussing the hidden histories.

08/09/2026

🏆 WE WON! 🥳

We’re absolutely delighted to have won the High Street Impact Award at the University of Staffordshire Business Awards 2026! 💫

For more than 13 years, Appetite has been bringing people together through culture in Stoke-on-Trent and Newcastle-under-Lyme - filling our streets and town centres with art, creativity, laughter and plenty of unexpected moments.

From The Big Feast and Light Up Winter to Newcastle Common and so much more, we’ve seen the brilliant things that can happen when culture takes over our high streets. ❤️

But while this award celebrates Appetite's impact on our high streets, we also want to celebrate the impact that communities have had on us. Appetite has always been shaped by the people and communities of Stoke-on-Trent and Newcastle-under-Lyme - challenging us, inspiring us and making decisions alongside us.

To our brilliant team, Community Decision Makers, volunteers, artists, freelancers, consortium, funders, partners and supporters - and everyone who has turned up, joined in, shared an idea or simply enjoyed a bit of art in the street over the years...

Thank you - this award belongs to you too. ❤️

Arts Council England New Vic Theatre 6 Towns Radio University of Staffordshire Arts Keele Partners in Creative Learning (PiCL) Stoke-on-Trent City Centre BID PH Production Services Ltd

04/09/2026

📣 Local creative things to get involved in!

Looking for something creative to do this September? We’ve spotted three brilliant opportunities happening locally...

World Funfair Month at The Philip Astley Centre 🎠

Celebrate World Funfair Month with a Showpeople Photographic Exhibition, plus fairground-themed games and a fun fair craft session where you can design and make your very own Carousel Galloper Horse!

📅 Friday 4 & Saturday 5 September | 11am-4pm
📍 Philip Astley Centre, Merrial Street, Newcastle-under-Lyme, ST5 2AE

Creative-e-tea: Reed Making + River Crayons 🎨

Join B-Arts and local natural pigment artist Sasha DeWitt for a creative session making textile reeds and experimenting with paints, crayons and oil paints made from the banks of the River Trent.

No experience needed and everyone aged 18+ is welcome. Materials, refreshments and travel expenses provided.

📅 Tuesday 8 September | 10.30am-12.30pm
📍 B.Arts, 72 Hartshill Road, Stoke-on-Trent
📧 [email protected] | 📞 07544 814720

Design the Future of Newcastles of the World 🌍

Know a young creative aged 25 or under in Newcastle-under-Lyme? They could design the new official logo for Newcastles of the World - with the winning design potentially representing the international alliance around the world!

Hand-drawn or digital designs are welcome and no design qualifications are needed.

⏰ Entries close Monday 14 September at 9am UK time
🔗 Enter at: https://newcastlesoftheworld.com

Three very different ways to get creative, make something and have your ideas heard locally and beyond! 💙

02/09/2026

Stoke-on-Trent, thank you for dancing in the streets and laughing through the rain with us 💫

Here’s a little sneak peek at our brilliant day.

We’d love to hear what you thought! Give us your feedback: https://s.surveyplanet.com/alao2l5q 💬

🎥 Film by Junction15 Productions

30/08/2026

Stoke-on-Trent, you really brought The Big Feast to life! 🤩

What a day we had together on Friday - our city centre filled with brilliant performances, colour, laughter, creativity and thousands of moments of people stopping, watching, joining in and experiencing something unexpected.

While the weather ultimately changed our plans for Saturday, we’ve been so grateful for the kindness and understanding you showed us. Thank you. 💛

An event like The Big Feast is created by a lot of people, so here goes...

A huge thank you to our Big Feast partners Stoke-on-Trent City Centre BID, Stoke-on-Trent City Council; Appetite programme funders, Arts Council England; our Lead Organisation New Vic Theatre; and Consortium Board Partners in Creative Learning (PiCL), 6 Towns Radio, University of Staffordshire, Arts Keele.

To the brilliant PH Production Services Ltd, as well as LongRest Boardgame Bar and Cafe, No22 Cafe & Regent Theatre and Victoria Hall - thank you for everything you did behind the scenes to help make it happen.

To all of the incredible artists, performers and communities who brought their creativity to the city – thank you for sharing your work with us.

To our wonderful venues – The Potteries Museum & Art Gallery, Drop City Books, The Town Hall, Smithfield, Stoke & The Potteries Centre – thank you for being such brilliant hosts.

To our staff, freelancers, crew and amazing volunteers – thank you for your energy, care, flexibility and good humour, whatever the weather threw at us!

And to our Community Decision Makers – thank you for helping us shape a festival created with and for the people of Stoke-on-Trent.

Finally, the biggest thank you goes to YOU – our audiences. For turning up, joining in, trying something new and bringing the city centre to life with us.

We’re incredibly proud of what we created together 💫

Now we want to hear from you...

👉 What was your Big Feast highlight? Share your favourite moments in the comments – we’d love to hear them!

📷 Photos by Andrew Billington Photography