Be prepared to feast your eyes!
The Big Feast returns to the streets of Stoke-on-Trent City Centre (Hanley)! We’ve been busy working with artists, partners and our Supper Club to conjure up a recipe of creativity and excitement!
Our annual two-day festival-style event is packed with live performances, music, dance and activities that YOU can get involved in…
Big Feast ’22: Imagine Bamboo by Appetite & Imagineer Do you want to find out about bamboo as an amazing material? Its incredible properties and its role as ‘the future sustainable building material for the planet’?
Big Feast ’22: Special Delivery by A Bird in the Hand Theatre SPECIAL DELIVERY is a simple story about the delights of trying something unexpected.
Big Feast ’22: Bonded by Alleyne Dance Bonded explores human dependency, especially through siblings, and the impact of time and external conditions.
Big Feast ’22: Last Orders by 2Faced Dance Company Let’s start a revolution. Down the pub. Four strangers meet in the local. They could not be more different.
Big Feast ’22: Do What Yah Mama Told Yah! by Just More Productions A feast of food fusion across geography and generations, in this vibrant street theatre, comedy circus show!
Big Feast ’22: The Lost Opera by Ashley Peevor & Nikki Watson These huge bewildering beasts will twist themselves through the town, each one ready to perform together with a musical composition like you have never heard.
Big Feast ’22: Our People, Our Places by Appetite & GRAIN A group of photographers based locally come together for their first photobook publication launch and an accompanying exhibition of new work made in Stoke on Trent.
Big Feast ’22: Take Ten by Fluid Motion Theatre Company Take Ten is a performance installation designed to slow us down. It’s a space to be present, in the here and now, to reflect and to notice.
Big Feast ’22: The Kings of Bhangra by Cohesion Plus The Kings of Bhangra is a promenade and processional performance with dancing Maharajas and musicians, inspired by the culture of Northern India.
Big Feast ’22: Castaway by Highly Sprung Drowning under a crushing mass of plastic, the Keeper of the Waterways awakens and rises up. It’s time for change.
Big Feast ’22: SEED by Pif Paf – a surprising and inspiring hitch-hike on the journey from small acorns to great oaks with a Rockabilly Tree-Planting Anarcho-Nomad.
Big Feast ’22: Willy & Wally by Cocoloco Willy and Wally are up to their necks in mountains of plastic but carry on clowning regardless. As well as talking a load of rubbish, they perform a medley of vaudeville and slapstick.
Big Feast ’22: Explorers by FRONTLINEdance Join the FRONTLINEdance Explorers Team on their multi-sensory, interactive adventure, where you get to help bring to life, two stories with dance, music, and teamwork!
Big Feast ’22: Hearing Extinction & Audiological Relapse (HEAR) by Hassun El-Zafar HEAR – Hearing Extinction and Audiological Relapse is an award-winning audio projection experience that explores human sensory hearing loss.
Big Feast ’22: The Hidden Music of Trees by Jason Singh The Hidden Music of Trees is an augmented reality outdoor installation created by sound artist Jason Singh.
Big Feast ’22: Black Victorians by Jeanefer Jean-Charles & Associates This powerful dance performance by Artistic Director and Choreographer Jeanefer Jean-Charles MBE is inspired by nineteenth-century studio photographs of black Victorians.
Big Feast ’22: The Poetry Takeaway Our diverse group of talented Poet Chefs provide high-quality personalised poetry for guests and visitors, written performed and delivered free, all from our mobile Poetry Emporium, The Poetry Takeaway.
Big Feast ’22: Frock by Stopgap Dance Company Dancers collide in an uplifting dance riot set to a rock soundtrack.
Access at The Big Feast
We want to welcome as many people as possible to The Big Feast 2022. We’ll be launching our access page soon so you can plan your trip. It will have details of BSL and Audio described performances, Touch Tours plus lots more!
The Big Feast is delivered by Appetite and supported by Stoke-on-Trent BID (Business Improvement District), Stoke-on-Trent City Council and The Without Walls Touring Network Partnership.
