No72 Climate Cafe & Open Day
Following in our Grandmother’s Footsteps
When: Saturday 1st July 10-3pm
Live Music in the Café 3-4pm
Tea Time Cabaret and Bar 4-6pm
At: B arts, 72 Hartshill Road, Stoke, ST4 7RB
On Saturday 1st July from 10am-6pm, B arts will open our doors for our monthly Climate Café on the same day we will also open even more doors - especially some which aren’t usually open to the public!
In addition to all the fabulous free to join in family friendly Climate Café activities using skills our grandmothers would have known (knitting, bath bomb making, sewing, repair café, growing club, ukulele lessons, making crisp packet blankets with guests Middleport Matters and a Clothes, Books and Toy swap), Open Day visitors will be treated to a day at No72 packed with;
• Artist demonstrations and workshops (spray painting, Ugly crafting and cardboard construction)
• Craft stalls featuring fabulous hand made work by B arts associates
• Live music from Good Habits
• Walk about performers- the Artshill Performers Group,
• Live well-being themed podcasting with the Social Agency
• Tours of normally off-limits parts of the B arts building (Costumes at 11.00, 1.00 and 3.00, Archives and library at 12.00, 2.00 and 4.00)
We need you!
A big part of the day is looking at our newly started archive collection- containing books, posters, publicity, photographs, film and all sorts of artefacts. Bringing to life and into use all that our grandmothers have left us.
This is where we need you!
We invite visitors to come and see if you’re in any of our pictures from life and our work in Stoke, Newcastle and the Moorlands in the 1980s and 1990s and beyond. Did you build a bonfire in Wood Lane? Did you meet any stilt walkers at the Stoke Garden Festival? Did you take part in Newcastle Carnival in the 1990s? Were you at a playscheme in the 1980’s? Were you one of the original Bucknall Jelly Babies? Did you go to a Youth Club in Moorland Road? Or Bentilee? Or Meir? Or Sandon High School in the 1990s? Did you travel Europe with us on youth exchanges?
Bring your pics in and let’s get them scanned! Have a look through ours and see if you can find friends and family. Let’s build the story together.
If after all that, you need a bit of refreshment, Bread in Common Café will be open all day for hot and cold drinks and cakes.
A ‘pay as you feel’ lunch made from donated food via the Fareshare scheme (repurposing surplus waste food from supermarkets) will be served between 12-2pm. The café will remain open to relax in and listen to some live music between 3-4pm, and then the bar (serving alcoholic and non alcoholic beverages) will open at 4pm ready for our Tea Time Cabaret to round off the day hosted by Stoke’s Most Marvellous Queen of Cabaret Eve Elle.
