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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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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Urban Wilderness CIC delivered an artist development commission supporting local artist Daby Obiechefu, adapting costumes from the Pig Walk Parade to create the Blooming Longton section of the Stoke-on-Trent People’s Parade, with schools and volunteers participating.
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We Are Stardust was a participatory winter event by Urban Wilderness CIC for Longton’s Christmas Lights Switch-On, combining folk song, ritual, community-made star installations and a wish-gathering workshop.
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Creative placard-making workshops across the Moorlands invited young people to answer one question — “What do you want?” Their responses helped shape OUTSIDE’s organisational planning and Youth Advisory Group.
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A creative drop-in event in Longton exploring how people understand sunlight, skin, wellbeing and memory — combining community conversations, art, and research led by Keele University historian Dr Ben Anderson.
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A documentary film produced under Decommissioning the Twentieth Century, reflecting on the closure of Fawley Power Station and its impact on landscape, community and memory.
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The Happenings festival in Stoke-on-Trent explored small-scale, site-specific public art, activating overlooked urban spaces through creativity, care, and connection.
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Winter Wastelands brought together creative responses from across Stoke-on-Trent during the winter lockdown of 2020/21. Urban Wilderness CIC commissioned artists and communities to explore connection, wellbeing, ritual and resilience through public art, clay, poetry, digital portraiture and creative rituals.
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A co-created wooden vessel rising from the earth — a public art sculpture made with young people and artist David Bethell for the Forest Worlds Festival 2019.
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A joyful family arts festival co-created with young people and artists in Stoke-on-Trent, celebrating creativity, freedom and play through performances and workshops.
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