Experience the 2025 British Ceramics Biennial – after hours.

25 Sep 2025 at 5:30 – 9pm

2 Oct 2025 at 5:30 – 9pm including The Queen’s Shoulders

Performance 1: 6pm – 7pm

Performance 2: 7.45pm – 8.45pm

For one special evening, we open the doors late for an experience where history, performance and clay collide.

In 1964, Staffordshire artist Arnold Machin was commissioned to sculpt Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II for Britain’s coins and stamps. His elegant clay cameo became iconic – but it sparked an unusual royal request: the Queen needed shoulders.

Join us for a Biennial Late as The Phoenix Singers and Claybody Theatre bring this remarkable story to life in music and performance. Discover the drama behind one of the most reproduced images in the world – and why a set of royal shoulders made history.

You’ll never look at a stamp the same way again.