Halloween Street Party returns to Hanley with new Potteries Poltergeists Trail
Stoke-on-Trent city centre is set to get spooktacular once again this Halloween as a day of family-friendly entertainment, live performances, street theatre and artisanal shopping returns on Saturday 31st October.
Organised and funded by Stoke-on-Trent City Centre Business Improvement District (BID), this year's Halloween celebrations will bring together a host of local creative partners, including the award-winning Potteries Artisan Market, Circus in a Box, B-Arts and Drop City Books, creating a vibrant and free celebration of designed to bring families together before October half-term ends.
Circus in a Box and B-Arts deliver a packed programme of performance and playful roaming entertainment, along with carnival style games, workshops and crafting opportunities around the Blue Clock and The Cultural Quarter. The Potteries Artisan Market will take its usual spot outside The Potteries Centre with a series of stalls specialising in bakes and artisanal makes.
Newly introduced for October half-term is the Potteries Poltergeists window trail; a way for young explorers to learn the city's heritage for the chance to win city centre prizes. Created around Stoke-on-Trent's unique industrial and cultural history, the trail will transform shop windows across the Cultural Quarter into a series of spooky scenes. The trail is to be illustrated by Chloe Breeze, local artist and recipient of 'Young Business Person of the Year' at the 2023 University of Staffordshire business awards. Participants of the trail can complete the trail for the chance to win one of five prizes up to the value of £100.
Paul Williams, Lead Director for Place Marketing at Stoke-on-Trent City Centre BID said:
"Halloween in Stoke-on-Trent City Centre continues to grow as a spectral event with spooky entertainment, frighteningly seasonal fun and mystical surprises.
"Working with the talented illustrator Chloe Breeze, this year there is an extra ghostly treat for young spooktacular tricksters to display their monstrous creativity along the Potteries Poltergeists trail. A quirky half-term art treat not to be missed."
The Big Halloween Street Party event will begin at 10am and conclude at 5pm around the Blue Clock and throughout the city centre's Cultural Quarter on Saturday 31 October. The Potteries Poltergeists trail takes place from Monday 26 - Saturday 31 October. Entry sheets can be obtained and completed at Drop City Books, 74-78 Piccadilly.
