Category: Events

Two classic children’s stories featuring a wooden toy who dreams of becoming a boy and a dragon who doubles as an air ambulance are set to delight little ones at Hull Theatres.

Hull’s Feral Art School is set to open its first art exhibition at its new City centre premises. The show opens on the ground floor of the former Co-operative bank.  It showcases recent work in painting and mixed media created by seven artists who work in their first floor studios as part of a new initiative.

Our theatre reviewer, Hannah Hobson, shares her thoughts on The Railway Children at Hull Truck Theatre.

A Great Christmas Adventure gets underway at Hull Truck Theatre between 18 – 24 December, where children aged 3 – 6 and their families join a quest to save Christmas.

Books and items buried deep in the archives of Hull Libraries will be the focus of a new exhibition delving into the city’s rich history.

We can’t wait to see The Railway Children at Hull Truck Theatre. In this interview with Mark Babych (Director) and Mike Kenny (Playwright), we find out how E Nesbit’s classic tale has been transformed into a wonderfully fun and festive show that’s perfect for all the family.

Hull Truck Theatre has announced a landmark year-long programme to mark its 50th anniversary in 2022, putting the theatre’s past, present and future in the spotlight. Specially commissioned plays will celebrate the journey from its radical roots to becoming one of the UK’s most innovative regional theatres.

Busking in the Bar is back at Pocklington Arts Centre with the award winning venue announcing a string of free live music events featuring some of the region’s best emerging artists.

Hull is to host the UK public film premiere of the internationally-award winning feature One Summer When You Went Away in the city’s Old Town next Friday evening, 19 November.

A collection of concert favourites chosen by audience and players will mark the return of live classical music to Hull City Hall this month.

The Culture Train Tour 2021 is once again bringing a taste of the Hull music scene to communities in East Yorkshire after being derailed by the pandemic in 2020.

Hull Jazz Festival returns to Hull Truck Theatre from 10-13 November, celebrating jazz icons from the past 100 years alongside a spotlight on new music, with a strong focus on its home city.

Over 100 people including civic dignitaries, music fans and art lovers have gathered at Pocklington Arts Centre to celebrate the opening of the venue’s new exhibition by illustrator Simon Cooper.

After spending 2020 on shore leave, Hessle Theatre Company are ready to set sail on the high seas with festive fun and frolics in their hilarious pantomime, ‘Robinson Crusoe’ at Hessle Town Hall this Christmas.

This Christmas, E Nesbit’s classic story The Railway Children will steam into Hull and onto the stage at Hull Truck Theatre from Friday 26 November 2021 – Sunday 2 January 2022.

On Wednesday 3 November at sunset, The Hull Vigil reached the half-way point. Starting on 3 May 2021 and finishing on 3 May 2022, every day at sunrise and sunset a vigil keeps watch over Hull from a bespoke structure located on top of the Hull College building.

Hull Independent Cinema has announced its return with its first season of films since shutting down because of Covid in March 2019.

Our theatre reviewer, Hannah Hobson, shares her thoughts on The Catch at East Riding Theatre.

Hull Truck Theatre has announced the world premiere of a specially commissioned new play, inspired by the real-life story of the theatre’s creation. Written by Richard Bean and directed by Mark Babych, the production will launch the theatre’s 50th anniversary programme in 2022. 

Barrie Rutter’s last appearance in public was January 2020 at Hull Truck, sharing the stage with his friend and colleague Eliza Carthy. The audience was unaware that two days previously he had been diagnosed with throat cancer.

In a year that has seen them perform on the same stages as Liam Gallagher and Blossoms as well as playing a blinding set at The Isle of Wight Festival, Manchester band Rosellas heads to Hull this December for a special headline show.

Our theatre reviewer, Hannah Hobson, shares her thoughts on Lone Flyer at Hull Truck Theatre.

As winter creeps in, Studio Eleven Gallery has an explosion of colour to brighten those shorter days.

Absolutely Cultured is proud to present an evening of physical performance in partnership with the University of Hull, taking place on 25 and 26 November.

Hull-based Middle Child are celebrating their ten-year anniversary this month as one of the UK’s leading theatre companies.

#WeMadeThis sent us some info about their Christmas Wishes campaign.

Come and catch a rare sighting of The Dyr Sister as she wanders into town to sing her songs in magical surroundings. As the darkness of winter approaches, she invites you into her strange and surreal universe…

Hull Jazz Festival returns from 10-13 November, celebrating jazz icons from the past 100 years alongside a spotlight on new music, with a strong focus on Hull.

On the night of 21st October 1904, out in the Dogger Bank area of the North Sea, Russian warships mistook a fleet of British fishing trawlers for enemy Japanese warships and opened fire. One of the fishermen killed that night was George Henry Smith, great-grandfather of Gareth Smith, the lyricist and artist behind Vanishing.

Rich and Lou Duffy-Howard are delighted to announce that Nick Harper will be back at the Back Room, Cottingham as part of his Back in the Room Tour this autumn on Friday 15 October.

The award-winning Hull theatre company celebrates its tenth panto anniversary this Christmas with a return to its spiritual home on Humber Street.

There will be plenty of gags and bags of ballet as two very different shows head to Hull New Theatre.

The Herd’s brand new show brings together immersive prehistoric design, hilarious silent comedy and audience play for a highly original theatre experience for young audiences.

The Viewfinder Photographic Society’s (VPS) annual exhibition gets underway once again in October in a newly refurbished Skidby Village Hall after the coronavirus pandemic forced the cancellation of the event back in 2020.

This autumn, Absolutely Cultured presents FloodLights, a newly-commissioned public project featuring captivating projections and soundscapes, brand new for Hull in 2021.

Our theatre reviewer, Hannah Hobson, shares her thoughts on The Ballad of Johnny Longstaff at Hull Truck Theatre.

Adopted by his blacksmith mother as a baby, Merlin has spent years wondering where his powers came from and what he should do with them. With a great battle between warring kingdoms about to cause untold devastation, only Merlin can end the conflict.

87 Gallery is a contemporary art gallery located at 87 Princes Avenue. They support artists to explore, make and show new work, and are passionate advocates of creative expression and visual culture.

Our theatre reviewer, Hannah Hobson, shares her thoughts on East Riding Theatre’s production of The Dumb Waiter.

Katharine Kavanagh talks to star circus director Shana Carroll about their hit show Passagers, which will be performed at Hull New Theatre on Tuesday 28 September.

Strictly Come Dancing star Joanne Clifton is set to swap the sequins and ball gowns for a more gothic look when she plays the role of Morticia Addams in The Addams Family at Hull New Theatre next spring – because as the character says, “Black is such a happy colour”.

Turn and Face the Strange returns to Hull Truck Theatre with a 2021 Special Edition featuring new songs and stories along with all the stunning multi-media elements that have wowed audiences over the past few years.

The trip of a lifetime full of death-defying feats, awe-inspiring acrobatics and breath-taking physical theatre awaits when The 7 Fingers circus stars take over Hull New Theatre later this month.

Due to popular demand an extra performance of Dirty Dancing – The Classic Story On Stage has been added to the dazzling show’s run at Hull New Theatre.

Call for people to send in poems inspired by food of the Wolds and the culinary history of Sewerby Hall & Gardens.

Celebrated crime fiction festival Hull Noir is joining forces with the city’s Waterstones book shop in the first of the festival’s autumn events.

It’s a bumper Dean Wilson month, with Back to Ours co-commissioning two new events from the self-confessed fourth best poet in Hull alongside Freedom Festival Arts Trust.