Category: Arts

Song composed as a tribute to our injured service personnel finally gets the orchestral treatment

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In commemoration of the 42nd anniversary of the end of the Falklands War, which began on 2nd April 1982 and lasted for 74 days, Memories of You, a very fitting, reflective song, is, after over a decade, finally being recorded by an orchestra and will be presented to the FVF Liberty Lodge FI (Falkland Islands) charity, to help raise much-needed funds in the form of a download single.

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University of Hull mounts photographic exhibition in the House of Commons

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The University of Hull is delighted and honoured to have been invited to mount a photographic exhibition on the War in Ukraine, in the House of Commons. This exhibition is sponsored by Dame Diana Johnson, MP for Kingston upon Hull North, who describes it as, “a very powerful reminder of the human cost of this war”.  The exhibition will be shown in the Upper Waiting Hall of the House of Commons, from 17-22 February 2024.

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Natasha Tripney talks to author David Almond, playwright Zoe Cooper and director Esther Richardson about the forthcoming stage production of A Song for Ella Grey

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“People have been telling this story forever,” says author David Almond about the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice. “It’s one of the oldest stories ever told. There are endless versions of it, in cinema, on stage, in books and poetry and songs. I knew, at some point, I was going to write my version of it.”

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