Monday 24 August: Walk of the Dandelion
Date: Monday 24 August Time: 11am – 4pm Location: Brilliant Bamboo Brownfield Parklet. Get ready for a day of outdoor adventures, giant puppets, nature discoveries and hands-on creativity! Here’s what’s blooming: Come along, get your hands dirty, spark your imagination and celebrate the magic of the natural world. Perfect for everyone, curious kids and creative […]
Sunday Monthly: 9 August // Special 3rd Anniversary
Sunday 9 August 12pm – 3pm Location: Brilliant Bamboo Brownfield Parklet. You’re Invited to Brillant Bamboo’s 3rd Anniversary! Join us on Sunday 9 August as we celebrate 3 wonderful years of Brillant Bamboo. Come along for an afternoon of fun, friendship, and community. Expect cake, music from City of Stoke-on-Trent Orchestra and of course bamboo activities as we […]
Thursday 30 July – BAMBOO & Circus at the Brownfield
Date: Thursday 30 July Times: 2pm – 6pm (BAMBOO show times: 2.30pm and 5pm) Location: Brilliant Bamboo Brownfield Parklet. Free Join us for an afternoon of circus fun at the Brownfield Bamboo Parklet Come along on Thursday 30 July for a fantastic family-friendly event featuring NoFit State Circus’ spectacular BAMBOO showalongside hands-oncircus skills workshopswhere you can have […]
Artworks at the Brilliant Bamboo Brownfield Parklet
At the Brilliant Bamboo Brownfield Parklet, we’re developing a collection of artworks made from bamboo, other natural materials or those that re-use/cycle or are site responsive. Artworks currently at the site: Inverted by Spencer Jenkins This work was created as an Imagine Bamboo project in Nuneaton and Bedworth. Following a trip to Sir Harold Hillier […]
Lumo: a short story by Calum Hall
In a quiet village at the edge of a misty valley, there grew a small bamboo shoot named Lumo. While the other plants stretched wide and leafy, Lumo was thin, simple, and—at least in his eyes—unremarkable. Every morning, he watched the tall trees sway proudly in the breeze. “I wish I could be like them,” […]
Saturday 13 June: Practicalities of bamboo with Helen Chen
Join Helen Chen, Bamboo Expert and President of the Bamboo Society of Great Britain, for A Practicalities of bamboo talk, Date: Saturday 13 June 2026 Time: 2pm – 3pm Location: Brilliant Bamboo Brownfield Parklet. Free for everyone, please BOOK HERE – donations appreciated. Brilliant Bamboo is excited to be hosting Helen for a talk and […]
Thursday 14 May: Bamboo Freak-e-bana with Alice McCabe
Thursday 14 May 2026 5pm – 6.30pm All Saints Church, Madeley, CW3 9PQ Free: Booking here, donations welcome. Join Brilliant Bamboo and floral artist Alice McCabe, RHS Chelsea Flower Show supplier, in exploration of Japanese style of flower arranging – Ikebana – with bamboo and cut materials. Blend the democratic approach of the SogetsuIkebana School (where all natural materials offer […]
Sunday 3 May: BAM Holiday Sunday
Sunday 3 May 2026, 11.30am – 4pm Location: Brilliant Bamboo Brownfield Parklet, Boothen Road, ST4 4AH. Thank you to everyone who turned up to celebrate spring and create a new folk event for the Brilliant Bamboo Brownfield Parklet. You really got stuck in, photos to prove it…by Nat Willatt. Thanks for coming! What you missed: […]
PRESS RELEASE: Community organisation seeks land in Newcastle to create sustainable bamboo park
A North Staffordshire community organisation exploring the benefits of bamboo for people and the planet is seeking land in Newcastle-under-Lyme to create a new sustainable park and community space. Brilliant Bamboo, founded in 2023 by Gemma Thomas, is looking for a brownfield or field site of up to one acre where it can establish its […]
Thursday 19 March: Booming Brilliant talks with Alice McCabe from Metafleur
Date: Thursday 19 March 2026 // 6.30pm – 7.30pm Location: Keele in Town, Newcastle-under-Lyme Town Centre. On Thursday 19 March 2026, we were joined by Alice McCabe who gave a public talk at Keele in Town. Alice talked about her exploration of bamboo within her work, the talk will cover an introduction to Japanese Bamboo Fence […]