Career-developing volunteer positions for this July’s Beverley Puppet Festival are open for applications.
“The festival is looking for volunteers with community spirit, love of the arts and an interest in ensuring a great experience for visitors,” said Vicky Yannoula, festival director (trainee), and volunteer manager and trainer.
Action men, dead bodies, potato crisps and what it’s like to be a man in the modern world when you don’t fit a macho stereotype, Big Boys Don’t Cry, from Opposable Thumb Theatre takes the stage at East Riding Theatre (ERT) on Saturday, July 16th.
For adults and teens, Big Boys Don’t Cry, is a bold, brilliant and hysterical production which pulls no punches,’ it premiered earlier this year at the London International Mime Festival.
The award-winning Beverley Puppet Festival has now opened its volunteer positions for this July’s festival, the first ‘in-puppet’ festival since 2018.
At the same time, festival directors Kerrin Tatman and Anna Ingleby have unveiled an exciting, rarely available puppetry workshop which will be running between July 10th-15th.
Beverley hosts so many festivals throughout the year from early music to literature to folk and spoken word. Not least of which is the award-winning biennial Beverley Puppet Festival.
But this year whilst the Minster may still stand, although it stands empty for the first time in almost a millennium, nearly every festival in the calendar has had to cancel or is soon going to face that tough decision as Covid-19 continues to wreak havoc the across the nation.
The Hull Philharmonic is to premiere a piece written by Beverley-born Kerrin Tatman in the first of three concerts to recognise and celebrate local talent.
The performance of his Fantasy for Viola and Orchestra at Hull City Hall on May 11 is the result of an initiative that enables young composers to have their work performed by a symphony orchestra.
Following the acclaimed exhibition of author and artist Tove Jansson and her tales of Moominvalley at the Dulwich Picture Gallery earlier this year, 2018 sees more Moomin mischief as Beverley Puppet Festival.
Beverley Puppet Festival has announced a puppet version of this much loved fictional family over the festival weekend on Sunday 15th July. Created by the Finnish author in the 1940s, these internationally adored curious creatures are currently undergoing a renaissance with a new animated television series also in the pipeline for 2019.
Dates for Beverley Puppet Festival 2018 have been announced, with exciting news about new developments that will see the quality of this award winning event soar to even greater heights.
The 8th Beverley Puppet Festival, a Beverley Arts Trust event, takes place over two days and three nights between 13th and 15th July 2018. A major boost for local tourism, the festival is set to attract thousands of visitors into Beverley’s Town Centre.
Kerrin Tatman, a composer from Beverley, is kickstarting a new project in commemoration of the 2017 Hull City of Culture bid
What feels like a life time ago now but was, in fact, on only few days ago I took a trip to the Beverley Leisure Centre where the Beverley Folks Festival was being held.
Local theatre company ‘No Soup!’ Productions performed their latest play ‘Marvell at Midnight’ in the Beverley Minster Parish Hall. This show was one of many including performances in Selby, Newcastle, Camden (London), and at the Edinburgh Fringe. ‘Marvell at Midnight’ is an original play suffused with jazz, comedy, surrealism and accordions: a vibrant expose of the trials and triumphs of up-and-coming artists in 1930’s Hull. The performance is punctuated by…
‘NO SOUP!’ Productions was started in 2008 by Rosie Bristow and Kerrin Tatman in Beverley and is now in it’s 3rd year of business. After the success of ‘The Death of Isabella Bird’ in Beverley and ‘Wondering’ which went on tour around the country, NO SOUP has written another play, ‘Marvell at Midnight’. The production takes the audience to 1930’s Hull and follows the stories of a range of interesting…