Category: Arts

Hannah Hobson interviewed projection artist and fire performer Ed Grimoldby about his new digital poi project, Find Your Flow.

Following the success of June’s sell-out Big Malarkey Festival, where 4,300 people experienced the fun of Hull’s family festival and accompanying schools’ programme, Hull Libraries summer programme has launched this week with over 140 free activities.

Fire-breathing serpents, colossal creatures and magnificent monsters are set to swoop into Hull New Theatre when the fantastical Dragons and Mythical Beasts descend next week.

Our theatre reviewer, Hannah Hobson, shares her thoughts on Hull Truck Theatre’s production of Romeo & Juliet at Stage@TheDock.

The Ferens Open Exhibition is back. The exhibition, which celebrates some of the best artistic talent in the region, opens at Ferens Art Gallery on Saturday 24 July at 12noon.

Hull New Theatre is delighted to announce rescheduled dates for SIX – The Musical. The Queens will be back on the block next spring from Tuesday 5 – Sunday 10 April 2022.

Marking the BBC’s 100 Novels that Shaped Our World, Hull Libraries will be celebrating the amazing impact of comic novels with a host of workshops, talks and story times next month.

Folk in Hull, the charity behind the popular Hull Folk and Maritime Festival, has announced it is staging a day of free music and activities in and around Trinity Square this summer.

Hull city centre is set to come alive this weekend with an array of activities which promise to deliver family fun in a variety of socially-distanced settings.

KCOM has joined forces with Absolutely Cultured to get people from across Hull talking this weekend.

In conversation with Apphia Campbell ahead of Woke, Saturday 24 July as part of Hull Jazz Festival.

For a quarter of a century Michael Flatley’s Lord of the Dance has been dazzling audiences across the globe with its unique combination of high-energy Irish dancing, original music, storytelling and sensuality.

Concrete Youth is delighted to announce The ASMR Project – a ground-breaking new project, taking place in August, to explore the benefits and effects of autonomous sensory meridian response (ASMR) on audiences with profound and multiple learning disabilities (PMLD).

Back to Ours is excited to announce a new partnership today, with Hull’s Concrete Youth joining them as an Associate Theatre Company.

Eighteen months after their last live performance, Middle Child will return to the stage this month with a brand-new cabaret, performed outdoors in Queen’s Gardens.

Collabro – The World’s Most Successful Musical Theatre Group – have today announced local choirs from each town and city will be joining them on their massive 23-date Greatest Hits tour this autumn.

Our theatre reviewer, Hannah Hobson, shares her thoughts on Hull & High Water at Hull Truck Theatre.

In conversation with John Middleton ahead of Hull & High Water at Hull Truck Theatre, which runs until Saturday 10 July.

Sophie Hunter’s Hull, But Not As You Know It celebrates an intense love of our city.

Street theatre, performances and live music will take place in Hull next week as part of an exciting programme celebrating the city’s rich history.

TIDAL (1 July – 21 August) features new paintings of the River Hull by Susan Beaulau and Ceramic Moon Jars by Miray Mehmet Fontanelli.

Hull-based cultural development organisation Absolutely Cultured announces programme for Creative Hull, a weekend-long celebration of Hull’s creativity, taking place from 16-18 July.

Freedom Festival is back for its 14th year in 2021 with an extended programme spanning sixteen days.

Running until Sunday 27 June at 66-68 Humber Street, Grey Matter focuses on concepts of “isness” and “whyness”.

Our theatre reviewer, Hannah Hobson, shares her thoughts on Everything I Own at Hull Truck Theatre.

Pocklington Arts Centre (PAC) has announced it will reopen to the public on Tuesday 20 July, with film screenings recommencing on Friday 23 July – a total of 491 days since the venue’s last performance.

In conversation with Gabriel Paul and Amanda Huxtable ahead of Everything I Own, opening Thursday 17th June.

Documentary photographer Jason Shipley has been commissioned by Back to Ours to capture the pictures and stories of people local to Bransholme in stunning new exhibition We Are Bransholme, opening this week.

Curator Becky Gee says: “Camilla is the first artist we have commissioned for 87 Gallery, and we’re really excited to bring her new body of work to Hull.”

Photographers from around the region are invited to submit their best photos as bus company East Yorkshire launches its popular photographic competition.

Following the success of its first two courses, Thunk-It Theatre, in partnership with Pocklington Arts Centre (PAC), have announced a third term of youth theatre workshops.

Hull Truck Theatre are thrilled to announce their exciting open-air staging of Shakespeare’s Romeo & Juliet, running from 15 July – 7 August 2021 at Stage @TheDock.

Our theatre reviewer, Hannah Hobson, shares her thoughts on The Greatest Play in the History of the World at Hull Truck Theatre.

From the bestselling author of the much loved classic, Madame Doubtfire, to discovering the joys of new authors, Hull’s much-loved family event The Big Malarkey Festival returns on Saturday 26 and Sunday 27 June with a programme centred around playfulness, discovery and simple joys of connecting with nature.

Don’t miss this exciting digital turned physical international collaboration between Hull Dance and Lithuanian dance theatre Okarukas.

Internationally acclaimed multimedia artists Davy and Kristin McGuire are debuting their latest creation in their hometown of Hull.

Hull Truck Theatre is reopening its doors this June with a trilogy of captivating monologues featuring acclaimed actors Julie Hesmondhalgh, John Middleton and Gabriel Paul, two of which are world premieres and have been commissioned by the city centre theatre.

Tickets for the inaugural weekend at Hull’s Zebedee’s Yard are now on sale.

A collection of portraits celebrating our NHS heroes is to go on display at Hull Waterside & Marina as Pocklington Arts Centre takes its outdoor exhibitions on tour.

John Godber’s comedy drama April in Paris will be the first show to open at Hull New Theatre after more than a year of closure when the boulevards, boulangeries and bistros of the French capital hit the stage in just over a week’s time.

A universal love story that celebrates the human race in all its glorious messiness, confusion and joy.

Two outdoor live music events will be staged at twilight in a beautiful woodland setting in Pocklington this summer as PAC launches Primrose Wood Acoustics.

Hull Jazz Festival is delighted to be back with a series of live shows at Hull Truck Theatre from 22nd – 24th July, the festival’s first live events since November 2019.