September Saturdays with Natasha McHugh and Dan Southward
Sat 5 / 12 / 19 / 26 September 2026 12pm – 4pm Location: Brilliant Bamboo Brownfield Parklet Free, drop-in! Come along to create, build, forage, experiment and play on the Brilliant Bamboo Brownfield Parklet. With different creative activities each week, we’ll explore options for installations and pop-ups on the site and create artworks for you […]
Monday 31 August: Cloudscapes
Cloudscapes by Goobledegook Theatre is joining us at the Brilliant Bamboo Brownfield Parklet for four sessions of cloud-gazing. Date: Monday 31 August Time: 12pm – 5pm Important note: times are in bookable slots at 12pm, 1pm, 2pm, 3pm and 4pm. BOOK HERE We will hold a small amount of tickets for walk-ins on the day. […]
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 […]
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: […]
Saturday 14 March: Mudlarked Make Celebration & Lantern Making
Saturday 14 March 2026 // 12pm – 4pm. Unveiling at 1pm. Location: Brilliant Bamboo Brownfield Parklet, Boothen Road, ST4 4AH. On Saturday 28 February and Saturday 7 March, 20 intrepid mudlarkers joined Brilliant Bamboo and Olivia Azzopardi to create a brand new mosaic artwork for our site. On Saturday 14 March, we held a mosaic […]
Capula #SocialValue Day
On Wednesday 26 November, Capula, in partnership with VAST, brought along 32 young apprentices from across the company to help at the site to clear bramble, litter pick, progress our pallet build projects, build benches and find out more about the site and bamboo. Thanks to the team we were able to finish our workshop […]
Meeting our neighbours, and sharing ideas at BB Brownfield Parklet
Our plans for the Brilliant Bamboo Brownfield Parklet have always included you, our neighbours, residents and communities on our doorstep and who might want to be involved and visit the site. To do this meaningfully, and for the time we’re stewards of the site. Our original set-up and start of the project for us was […]
Wonderful Wormery: Wormery and Artwork
On Saturday 6 September, we built our wormery with Emma and Sam from WormWise, and the people came along to help. Here is a gallery of the process by Gemma, Emma and Sam. Thank you to everyone who came along. To celebrate the arrival of the worms and wormery, we commissioned artist Olivia Azzopardi to […]
Volunteer with Brilliant Bamboo
We’re developing a range of projects, and if you’d like to help in someway and volunteer your time, skills and experience we’d like to hear from you! If you’d like to support in other ways, visit our Support Us page. You can volunteer at our Brilliant Bamboo Brownfield Parklet in Stoke Town, or be a […]
Bamboo bench honouring Stoke-on-Trent’s canal heritage goes on display in Hampshire
By Hannah Hiles for Brilliant Bamboo A bamboo bench which was inspired by a Stoke-on-Trent family’s history has gone on display at a prestigious, award-winning gardens and arboretum in Hampshire. The bench, which was created by artist Spencer Jenkins as part of a Brilliant Bamboo project with Middleport Matters, was made from bamboo harvested at […]