The Big Feast is back this August bank holiday weekend with two days of free entertainment on the streets of Stoke-on-Trent City Centre (Hanley).

Taking place on Friday 25 and Saturday 26 August from 11am to 5pm, audiences can enjoy a mix of street theatre, circus, dance, music and more.

All daytime performances are family friendly and wheelchair accessible, with performances taking place across the city centre including outside the Potteries Museum and Art Gallery, Fountain Square, Bethesda Gardens, Crown Bank, Parliament Square, outside Halifax and Piccadilly.

Highlights include Joli Vyann's Timeless - a mixture of dance, circus and theatre on a 7m high rotating hourglass, to tell the poignant story of civilisation’s fragile relationship with climate change, Sonia Sabri's Mughal Minatures - a celebration of traditional art of Indian and Persian miniature painting through dance, music and puppetry, and Thingumajig Theatre's Hippochondriac - a puppet show with an under the weather Hieronymus the hippo and his companion doctor/mechanic.

To find out more about The Big Feast and the daily schedule, visit appetite.org.uk.

Featured Image: Timeless by Joli Vyann Credit: Malachy Luckie