Increasing arts engagement in Stoke-on-Trent – in pictures

NoFit State circus company perform Bianco at Hanley Park in Stoke-on-Trent. Photograph: Andrew Billington/Appetite

The immersive promenade experience was delivered for the Appetite Stoke programme, part of a national push to increase engagement with the arts. Photograph: Andrew Billington/Appetite

Bianco features acrobats, jugglers, fire-eaters and trapeze artists. Photograph: Andrew Billington/Appetite

As The World Tipped, an aerial outdoor show, performed by Wired Aerial Theatre in Central Forest Park, Stoke-on-Trent. Photograph: Andrew Billington/Appetite

The performance is directed by large-scale theatre specialist Nigel Jamieson, who also directed the Tin Symphony for the Sydney Olympics. Photograph: Andrew Billington/Appetite

A picnic performance at Queen’s Park in Longton by charity B Arts, which featured music, theatre, pizza and tea. Photograph: Andrew Billington/Appetite

C-12 Dance Theatre perform Trolleys, a ballet that makes use of five everyday supermarket shopping trolleys. Photograph: Appetite

Emergency Poet, the world's first and only mobile poetic first aid service, makes a stop in Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent. Photograph: Appetite

Stoke residents stop and watch Reds, a street performance by off-stage specialists, the Natural Theatre Company. Photograph: Appetite

Red Shoes by Upswing, a circus and theatre company whose work combines physical skills and cultural contexts. Photograph: Appetite