JOIN US! Saturday 1st March – FREE Activities at #FAF2025
📍 Sculpture Court at The Potteries Museum & Arts Gallery.
Bethesda St, Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent. Staffordshire. ST1 3DW.
(The sculpture court is next to the café)
Cost: FREE – Donations Welcome
11am: ‘The Explorers in Training’, an interactive dance performance for children
11:45am: DJ set from Callaloo Carnival Arts
12:30pm: Sighted Guidance Tour of Work | Audio Described Film of
What? Me? Worry?
2pm: ‘The Explorers in Training’, an interactive dance performance for children
2:45pm: DJ set from Callaloo Carnival Arts
The Explorers in Training!
⏰ Performances at: 11am & 2pm
📍 Sculpture Court
(next to the cafe in the Potteries Museum & Art Gallery.)
Book your FREE tickets here:
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1251172272949?aff=oddtdtcreator
We’re excited that our “The Explorers in Training” will be making their debut at FAF 2025! ‘The Explorers in Training Cast’ are selected dancers, from our Advanced Training Programme. They have learnt our inclusive children’s show The Explorers! with our new Explorer Connor.
You will be taken on a wondrous adventure to find two books which will be read and explored, using sensory props and dance to bring the stories to life! Within an inclusive, relaxed, and open space, this interactive show encourages the audience to move and explore in the performance space, use their imagination, interact with the performers, work as a team and be creative 
The show was co-created with disabled children, hospice/hospital patients and their families. Makaton is signed throughout, AD and BSL is available for anyone who needs it – making it an accessible show to enjoy.
The show is suitable for children aged 3+ (though all ages have enjoyed the show from babies to adults!)
Sighted Guided Tour of the Sculpture Court FAF Exhibition
⏰ 12 Midday
📍 Sculpture Court
(next to the cafe in the Potteries Museum & Art Gallery.)
Book your FREE tickets here:
(selecting if you require a sighted guide to accompany you)
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1251403715199?aff=oddtdtcreator
The tour will last approximately 1.5 hours, you’ll be guided around each section of the Sculpture Court where you’ll hear from the artists themselves visually describe their work on audio recordings.
You’ll get to interact with Cat McGill’s sound installation and be hosted by audio describer Louise, and FRONTLINEdance’s Artistic director, Rachael Lines.
Music from Callaloo Carnival Arts will be played just before and just after the tour. Anyone with children or grandchildren, that would like to see our Explorers in training performances, these will be audio described at 11am and 2pm. Please book your tickets separately.
Details of the Venue
Entry to the Potteries Museum & Art Gallery can be made via the main doors on Bethesda Street or via a buzzer system next to the spitfire gallery which has glass windows near to the blue badge spaces. FRONTLINE Arts Volunteers will be at the door, to support and guide anyone who needs it.
Parking: *There are FREE blue badge spaces at the PMAG. You need to access them from Warners Street. As you enter the one way system on Warner Street, drive past the PMAG on your left, and then take your first left into the car park…drive straight then turn left until you reach the marked bays. Blue Badge parking can also be located on Warner Street, and Broad Street.
There are a number of car parks, close by. The ones on broad street are the closest and are reasonably priced.
The museum is a short walk from Hanley Bus Station, or a 20-minute walk / 12 minute bus journey from Stoke Train Station. You can plan your train journey at Trainline.
Accessibility
👉 The Potteries Museum & Art Gallery is fully wheelchair accessible, on the ground floor, and has disabled parking close by*
👉 BSL interpretation
👉 Audio description (please select as a ticket add-on when booking so we can ensure we have enough headsets)
👉 Chill out room
👉 Bean bags to sit or lie down
👉 Sighted Guiders
👉 Touch tours & visual tours
👉 Easy Read Information and Visual Stories
*Parking ……. We’ll give you a number to call a little nearer to the time if you experience any issues parking on the day.
If you require any further access information or support, please email hello@frontlinedance.co.uk so we can put it in place for you ahead of the festival.
FRONTLINEdance is appreciative to be working in partnership with
Appetite, Stoke Creates and Potteries Museum & Arts Gallery to make FRONTLINE Arts Festival – “What’s all the FAF about?” happen again this year.
As an Arts Council England National Portfolio Organisation, funding thanks to taxpayers plays a huge part in supporting our work.
