Tales in Motion: Stoke stop-motion workshop on 12 August
Tales in Motion is scheduled for 12 August 2026 at Mitchell Arts Centre (MAC), Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent. The family-led workshop is intended for children aged 7–10, and one parent or guardian must remain with each child and take part.
Visit Stoke Events does not list a price, booking arrangements or a start and finish time. Its listing also provides no organiser, transport or accessibility information, so families will need to confirm those practical details before making plans.
From a short film to a stop-motion story
The workshop begins with a short film before moving into hands-on storytelling and animation activities. Families will explore classic fairy tales and folk stories, using familiar narratives as the starting point for their own creative work.
Children will help narrate a tale and draw its characters and key scenes. Those separate contributions will then be brought together as a miniature stop-motion film, allowing participants to see how spoken storytelling, illustration and animation can work as parts of the same production.
The sequence gives the session a clear progression: first watching a story on screen, then identifying the people and moments within a tale, and finally turning drawings into an animated sequence. It is therefore more than a conventional film screening, with the children supplying both the visual material and part of the narration.
What parents and guardians will be doing
Tales in Motion is explicitly described as a family-led activity rather than a drop-off workshop. The accompanying adult is expected to stay and join the session, so families should plan for both the child and parent or guardian to participate throughout.
The stated age range is 7–10 years. That guidance is the only suitability information supplied by the listing, and there are no separate details about required experience or materials. The activities described cover several forms of participation—watching, narrating, drawing and making stop-motion animation—within one shared storytelling project.
Useful details
| Detail | Confirmed information |
|---|---|
| Event | Tales in Motion |
| Date | 12 August 2026 |
| Venue | Mitchell Arts Centre (MAC) |
| Address | Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, ST1 4HG |
| Audience | Children aged 7–10 with a participating parent or guardian |
| Format | Short film followed by narration, drawing and stop-motion activities |
| Price and booking | Not stated by Visit Stoke Events |
Before travelling to Mitchell Arts Centre, families should establish the session time, cost and whether advance booking is required, as none of those details is included in the supplied Visit Stoke Events listing.
Source: Visit Stoke Events
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- No price, booking arrangements or session time were supplied.
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- 2026-07-27 12:10
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