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The sun is shining on everyone this week, Here's w

The sun is shining on everyone this week, Here's what's on over the next fortnight at PIP! ☀️ Please note: we have cancelled our activity today, Tuesday 23rd June (Youth Club and Gardening Club) due to the hot weather.

You can get your free ticket to the PIP and @potteriesmuseum event 'Dreaming of an Artist Residency' by clicking the link in our bio.

This week:

⛹️‍♀️ Tuesday 23rd June
🕓 4.00–5.30pm
Youth Club at The Pippin (Cancelled)

🌱 Tuesday 23rd June
🕓 4.00–5.30pm
Gardening Club at The Pippin (Cancelled)

🎨 Friday 26th June
🕑 6.30 - 8.30pm
Dreaming of an Artist Residency Event at PMAG

🏀 Saturday 27th June
🕒 3.00–4.30pm
Sports at the Park

Next week:

⛹️‍♀️ Tuesday 30th June
🕓 4.00–5.30pm
Youth Club at The Pippin

🧘‍♀️ Tuesday 30th June
🕓 5.30 - 6.30pm
Yoga with ESPI at Festival Park

🌱 Saturday 4th July
🕓 1 - 3pm
Gardening Club at The Pippin

🏀 Saturday 4th July
🕒 3.00–4.30pm
Sports at the Park

🚶‍♀️Saturday 4th July
🕖 6.30am
S.M.U.T Walking Group at The Pippin

Have a lovely week in the sunshine but please stay safe. Be sure to keep hydrated, find shade when you can and top up on the sun cream.

#whatsoninstoke #stoke #artevent

Most people will now know the enormous job we had

Most people will now know the enormous job we had to underpin the building as part of the building project which meant digging right down to create some extra foundations to ensure the building will be solid for the next one hundred years.
We found some lovely yellow clay under the building which has been used to make the tiles for our bathrooms and we also found this erratic.

An erratic is a large rock or boulder that differs completely in composition and type from the local bedrock it rests upon. Named from the Latin word errare (to wander), they are “out of place” because they were transported from elsewhere, usually by ancient, moving glaciers.

Erratics act as natural geological breadcrumbs. Because they often contain distinctive rock types, geographers can trace them back to their exact source origin. This allows scientists to map the flow paths of past ice sheets, determine the maximum extent of ancient glaciers, and study how the landscape changed over time.

We would like to know more about our erratic and wonder if we know any geologists that could help us? We are also interested to hear what people think we should do with the erratic. What do you think? #geology #erratic #glacialmovement #geologist

Massive happy birthday to PIP Director @rebeccamar

Massive happy birthday to PIP Director @rebeccamariadavies thank you for all the graft and lols - enjoy a well deserved day off - from everyone @theportlandinnprojectcic 🎉

Anna has been on a research trip as part of the Re

Anna has been on a research trip as part of the Retrofit Connects learning journey we have been part of this year - organised by The @nationalretrofithub and @civic_square .
First was a visit to @giroscope_hull to see their beautiful community developed building and some of the houses they are currently working on as part of their Community Led Housing offer which brings long term empty properties back into use as genuinely affordable and safe homes.

Then we headed over to Leeds to see the truly inspiring work of @canopyhousing , championing bio based materials in their retrofit projects and working with community volunteers, training them in building and housing development skills to transform problem houses into beautiful and sustainable homes with and for people.
They are a Community Land Trust and Community Benefit society and shared so much knowledge and insight into proving it’s possible to work with communities to develop housing with dignity.

Huge thanks to everyone for generous sharing and to the Retrofit Connects folks for solidarity and hope.