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 hosted a Giant Lantern Puppet Masterclass with Andrew Kim, where artists and volunteers designed and built large-scale puppets for the Winter 2025 production, developing skills in puppet making and performance.
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A Cultural Leaders programme delivered by Urban Wilderness CIC at Sutherland Primary School, supporting children in care to lead a whole-school creative project and transform their shared environment through colour, pattern and collaboration.
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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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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 community biodiversity project in Longton combining nature walks, creative workshops and citizen science, supported by Keele University and featuring Dawn Chorus by Leanne Cunningham.
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Delivered in partnership with PiCL, this Urban Wilderness CIC project supported Reception pupils at Sutherland Primary School to reconnect with outdoor play after lockdown through weekly exploration, storytelling and creative making.
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A co-creative public art commission by Urban Wilderness CIC inviting communities to imagine what should be preserved, shared or re-imagined at the former Chatterley Whitfield Colliery — not just historic artefacts, but everyday stories, hope, and future possibilities.
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Seeds of Hope was a community-growing initiative by Urban Wilderness CIC, working with young people and local residents across Knutton, Newcastle-under-Lyme, and Abbey Hulton. Through gardening, craft, sustainability workshops and outdoor activities, the project promoted wellbeing, food growing, community connection and environmental awareness.
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ALIGNMENT is a material-rich installation by Natalia Kasprzycka built from Etruria marl clay, waste bricks and found objects at Burslem Port. Commissioned for The Happenings 2021, it explores slow decay, site history and the transformation of industrial landscape.
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“Reconnect & Grow” is a living installation by Tracey Meek at Longton Exchange (Oct-Nov 2021), pairing fungi, moss and organic materials to question our relationship with nature and propose new symbiotic ecosystems in public art.
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TRACOBAND is a choreographed outdoor dance performance by artist Lola Adodo, blending live percussion, community volunteers and historic-inspired movement. Presented at Keele University and All Saints Community Garden during The Happenings 2021.
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Arkadia is a large-scale installation by artists Stephanie Rushton and Mally Mallinson, installed at Longton Exchange in Sept-Oct 2021. Drawing on dystopian and post-human narratives, it transforms found materials, plants and imagery to challenge our relationship with nature, consumerism and climate change.
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A solo performance devised by Sophia Hatfield in collaboration with women’s running groups and the Canal & River Trust, staged along the Etruria Canal on 26 September 2021 as part of The Happenings Festival of Public Art in Stoke-on-Trent.
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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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Towards an Urban Commons brought together academics, artists, activists and community organisations to explore how brownfield land could be reimagined as community-managed urban commons. The Urban Commons Network was established on 20 April 2020 to develop principles, frameworks and shared visions for future governance.
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Tomorrowland supported young people in Stoke-on-Trent to imagine and build better futures through hands-on construction workshops and a 2021 pop-up shop offering £200 bursaries for youth-led environmental and community projects.
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Urban Wilderness CIC delivered photo walks with CAFAG youth club as part of English Heritage’s national Reverberate programme, supporting young people to explore how heritage shapes their lives in the shadow of an abandoned coal mine.
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Mining Migrations was a collaboration between Urban Wilderness CIC, Keele University and Chatterley Whitfield Friends exploring hidden migration histories connected to Chatterley Whitfield Colliery. The exhibition was first presented at Chatterley Whitfield Nature Reserve during the Being Human Festival 2020.
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