Welcome to Brilliant Bamboo
A people and planet-friendly project for Stoke and Staffordshire.
Hello! We’re an organisation creating projects for people and planet using bamboo and other materials to create and imagine greener futures in Stoke-on-Trent and North Staffordshire and the planet.
We are a Community Interest Company with a mission to marry the arts, communities and professionals from across the sectors in exploration and collaboration around growing, building, and creating from bamboo.
We’re here to develop environmentally positive projects that explore sustainable materials for people and the planet. We’re developing our organisation and projects all the time and we’ll be looking for you to be involved by coming along, taking part, volunteering, becoming a partner or collaborator, or as a funder.
You’re invited to have a look around to find out more about us and why bamboo, join our mailing list, follow us on socials, or contact us to be involved.
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Recent projects
From February to March 2025, Brilliant Bamboo is working with Middleport Matters and those in the Middleport area as part of the #DiscoverMiddleport project to co-create a new piece of bamboo sculpture and furniture with artist, Spencer Jenkins. Middleport residents were some of the first to work with Bamboo as part of Imagine Bamboo for […]
Booming Brilliant is Brilliant Bamboo’s emergent and DIY podcast. Created by our Director, Gemma, the podcast captures short conversations during conference-style events and longer chats with colleagues to learn more about what and how they have worked with bamboo and why. The podcast will continue to develop as a place for conversations, learning and championing […]
In late 2023, we were pleased to be able to work with LadyBird Su or artist Su Hurrell who supported us to investigate a site in a village, Fulford, at the edge of the city towards Stone. Although the project did not come to be, we have the lovely image by Su, and the commission […]
Recent posts / news
Booming Brilliant at Bouw met Bamboe
By Gemma Thomas In June 2024, I headed to Rotterdam with my friend, colleague, and collaborator Orit Azaz to attend the Bouw met Bamboe. What
Booming Brilliant: our first podcast from the European Bamboo Expo 2024
In May 2024, Gemma headed to Dortmund for a second time for the second European Bamboo Expo. Details of the programme and magazine featuring the
Brilliant Bamboo Workshops June 24
We had a fantastic time at Keele University for the Next Generation Travel Group: Study Experiences Earth Summit on Monday 24 June. It was a
Why Stoke (& Staffordshire)
Typed by Gemma Some of the thoughts and musings here about why here for me, and maybe for the co-directors are work in-progress, and always
Exploring the European Bamboo Expo
By Gemma: Last year Dortmund hosted the first European Bamboo Expo. Hans Friedrich opened the Expo for Bamboologic and used an image of our partners
Making of Brilliant Bamboo.
After the finale of the collaboration between Imagineer, Orit, and Appetite in March 2023. It was clear from the engagement through the work of the projects that there was a range of interest…
