School children in Bransholme are coming together to produce a time capsule as part of the Hull estate’s 50th anniversary celebrations.
The capsule will be buried for 50 years before it is opened again in 2067.
Refugee Week kicks off next weekend with a special celebration of music, art, culture and unity in Hull.
Gig in the Gardens on Saturday June 17 will see musicians take to the stage in Queens Gardens for a fantastic day of world music.
Year ten students from Hull are set to have their artwork showcased at the world-famous Somerset House in London.
A group of 24 talented art and design students will travel to the capital on Saturday 17 and Sunday 18 June as the culmination of a year of weekly sessions held at Hull School of Art and Design (HSAD), funded by Hull UK City of Culture 2017.
A 24-foot ark is set to be built in Trinity Square as part of a fantastic festival in Hull. Noah, as well as other tales, will be recreated at a family festival at Hull Minister on Saturday June 24.
The festival – part of Hull UK City of Culture 2017’s Creative Communities Programme -will feature a 400-year-old medieval version of Noah directed by Philip Crispin, expert in Medieval Theatre at the University of Hull,
London’s award-winning celebration of emerging and established LGBT writers, Polari, returns to Hull in July at the invitation of Pride in Hull as part of Hull UK City of Culture 2017’s LGBT 50 celebrations, presented in partnership with the Sewell Group.
Following a hugely popular event in November 2016, this highly acclaimed literary salon, hosted and curated by critically acclaimed author Paul Burston, will be held in the city once again at Kardomah94 on Thursday 27 July.
A unique and intimate exhibition capturing the history of Hull’s fishing community has opened i the ciity.
The Hessle Roaders: Hull’s Fishing Community by Dr. Alec Gill MBE will be on display at Hull History Centre throughout June, before the two men behind the exhibition hope they can take it worldwide.
One of the city’s proudest and most exciting theatre festivals will be topped off next week with a special performance telling the story of one of Hull’s most creative and diverse communities.
Newland Avenue’s Assemble Fest takes centre stage on Saturday June 3 with show-stopping performances from the best local theatre companies in unlikely spaces.
Hull and Goole amateur actors with disabilities will take to the stage alongside professional performers for a daring performance in Hull Marina which will see movement, music, clowning and voices collide.
Casting on Humber: HERE is a collaboration between The Sobriety Project and Castaway Goole Accessible Music Theatre, directed by Sarah Louise Davies, founder of Hull theatre company Park Bench.
Two giant murals are being created in Hull to celebrate the city’s rich fishing heritage.
As part of the Hull 2017 Roots & Routes celebrations, Goodwin Development Trust and the residents of Hessle Road have come together to create the two murals on Hessle Road.
Radical London punk rock band The King Blues will join one of Hull’s finest LIFE next month as part of an incredible line-up of musicians, comics and circus acrobatics for one of Hull UK City of Culture 2017’s most diverse and exciting offerings.
Back To Ours is returning for another week of special shows across the city led by a stellar line-up of “proactive” and “provocative” bands.
This week poets will take up residency in four Hull primary schools to run workshops with pupils to encourage students, teachers and staff to read, write and create poetry as part of Hull UK City of Culture 2017.
Each child will create a poem to take home: their work will also be showcased in a special performance and feature in a school poetry anthology on the 2017 National Poetry Day theme of Freedom.
The line-up for Hull’s first children’s literature festival has been confirmed ahead of free tickets being released next week.
The Big Malarkey Festival will bring together writers, illustrators, cartoonists, performers, musicians and artists to a fantastical tented village for children inside East Park to celebrate children’s literature in all its forms and invite creativity through activities and workshops.
Libraries, archives and museums manager, Kevin Hadfield says visitors figures to the amazing Wildlife Photographer of the Year exhibition were stunning.
His comments come after it was revealed that a staggering 74,425 people visited the Treasure House in Beverley to enjoy this unique opportunity.
Hull’s rich fishing heritage is to be celebrated at an evening of inspiring stories that will make you laugh, cry, but above all feel proud of the city’s fishing roots.
Fishing Heritage Talks: An Evening with Alec and Peter is taking place on Friday June 30 at the beautifully restored ‘Fishermen’s Church’, St. John the Baptist off Hessle Road.
The last train departed from Stepney Station in Beverley Road, Hull, in 1965 but on Friday 16 June 2017 at 2pm, the first new arrivals in over 50 years will appear on the platform as pupils and guests of Stepney Primary School unveil a brand-new art installation.
Having obtained funding from Hull UK City of Culture 2017’s Creative Communities Programme, which is being delivered in partnership with the Big Lottery Fund; pupils, parents, staff and friends have been uncovering the history of the station and the branch line railway it once served.
Hull has claimed a major accolade at this year’s Yorkshire Property Awards.
The Game Changer Award, sponsored by Barclays, looks at projects that have had a material effect on the surrounding environment and local market, and it is where Hull’s title as UK City of Culture 2017 captured the attention of judges.
Calling all budding actresses! Fantastic opportunity for local young talent to play leading roles in sci-fi films being shot in Hull & Aarhus as part of an interactive art project for Hull UK City of Culture 2017
Are you up for a challenge and ready to take your next step in professional acting? The search is on for the best young acting talent Hull has to offer as a casting call launches for the leading roles in a series of sci-fi films being shot in the city.
A wedding breakfast with a twist in a church, a comic musical chase through the streets and a puppet show in a café are among the performances you can expect if you go to Newland Avenue this summer.
For one day only in Hull’s Newland Avenue, a theatre festival will transform the most unlikely of places into pop-up performance spaces. The avenue is set to come alive as flashmobs, interactive shows, music, art and dance erupt in a variety of the area’s independent venues.
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