Posts in 2024
Pig Walk Parade
Pig Walk Parade

Pig Walk Parade is Urban Wilderness CIC’s flagship annual community event in Stoke-on-Trent — a playful, participatory procession celebrating place, creativity and collective imagination.

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2025, 2024, 2023, Artist Development, Collaboration, Community Engagement, Community-led, Education, Festival / Event, Industrial Heritage, Installation, Outdoor Arts, Performance, Placemaking, Public Art, Socially Engaged ArtJenny HarperFlagship Project, Annual Event, Community Arts, Procession, Participation, Public Art, Place-based Practice, Stoke-on-Trent
Winter Gathering
Winter Gathering

Winter Gathering is Urban Wilderness CIC’s annual seasonal celebration — bringing communities together through light, creativity and shared ritual during the winter months.

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2024, 2025, Artist Development, Collaboration, Community Engagement, Community-led, Festival / Event, Outdoor Arts, Performance, Placemaking, Public Art, Socially Engaged ArtJenny HarperAnnual Event, Seasonal Celebration, Community Arts, Winter Festival, Participation, Stoke-on-Trent, Ritual, Place-based Practice
In the Balance
In the Balance

In the Balance is an artist-led programme by Urban Wilderness CIC that explores the intersections of art, environment, and community. Through workshops, talks, walks, performances, and immersive experiences, it invites audiences to engage with complex ecological and social questions while revealing the thinking behind the artwork.

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2024, 2025, Artist Development, Collaboration, Community Engagement, Research & Development, Public Art, Socially Engaged Art, WorkshopJenny HarperUrban Wilderness CIC, In the Balance, environmental art, participatory art, community art, artist talks, creative workshops, immersive experiences, relational aesthetics, action research, contemporary art, cultural practice
Threads of Kindness
Threads of Kindness

A community-led making project inviting volunteers to create handmade gifts for café owners in Longton, building welcome, connection and belonging through shared creativity.

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2024, Artist Development, Collaboration, Community Engagement, Community-led, Placemaking, Socially Engaged ArtJenny HarperThreads of Kindness, community making, friendship bracelets, social practice art, creative volunteering, community connection, Longton town centre, place-based practice, care and wellbeing, artist-led workshops, We Are Makers, Odette Campbell, Ruth Turnbull
Cultural Work Experience
Cultural Work Experience

Year 10 GCSE Art students from Co-op Academy Stoke-on-Trent took part in a work experience programme with Urban Wilderness CIC, designing family-friendly carnival masks for the Pig Walk Parade.

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2024, Community-led, Workshop, Training, EducationJenny HarperWork Experience, Young People, GCSE Art, Co-op Academy Stoke-on-Trent, Carnival Design, Pig Walk Parade, Mask Making, Artist Development, Creative Careers, Urban Wilderness CIC, The Moony Club, Longton, Stoke-on-Trent, PICL
Where Are the Trees? Where Are the Birds? - Raphael Daden
Where Are the Trees? Where Are the Birds? - Raphael Daden

Urban Wilderness CIC commissioned sculptor Raphael Daden to create a Sky Works canopy installation in Longton, combining light and birdsong to explore the absence of nature in the town centre and reimagine the public realm after dark.

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2024, Artist Development, Audio, Collaboration, Community-led, Community Engagement, Exhibition, Installation, Outdoor Arts, Placemaking, Public Art, Sculpture, Socially Engaged ArtJenny HarperRaphael Daden, Sky Works, Where Are the Trees Where Are the Birds, Longton, Public Art, Light Installation, Sound Art, Urban Wilderness CIC, Moony Club, Placemaking, Town Centre Regeneration, Biodiversity, Wilder Connections, Keele University, Stoke Creates, CASCADE Funding, Evening Economy, Community Volunteers