More than 900 ‘Pauper’s graves’ in a Beverley cemetery are to be officially marked at a ceremony organised by East Riding of Yorkshire Council.
The council has installed a headstone, an information board and also planted trees around the unmarked graves in Queensgate Cemetery as a mark of respect and remembrance to the people buried there.
BBC Radio 2 Folk Award Winners The Young’uns present their popular festive concert on Friday 8 December 2017 at St Mary’s Church in Beverley.
The Young ‘uns have proved themselves a unique proposition – writing and performing a cappella or subtly accompanied songs that tell it how it is alongside traditional songs from their native North-East and further afield.
Local artists are working with homeless people in Hull to examine why people within our society become abandoned and forgotten.
The unique art exhibition, part of Hull UK City of Culture 2017’s Creative Communities Programme, opens at St Mary’s Church on Sunday (June 25).
Quiet Riot the monthly music night which ran in Beverley during 2015 returns to the town on Friday 9 June, coming back to a venue that was witness to many fantastic nights.
Quiet Riot- The Beverley Alternative brought fifty established acts from the Hull music scene to play at Hodgsons Pub and acts who played at the big local festivals such as Humber Street Sesh, Freedom Festival and Cottingham Springboard performed here on a monthly basis.
A coffee morning organised by local runner Lucy Stamford at St Mary’s Church in Beverley has raised over £1000 for the charity Heads Together.
Lucy who recently completed the London Marathon, raising funds for the charity held the coffee morning to help boost the overall amount for Heads Together.
A new project is bringing a taste of the Hull music scene to communities in East Yorkshire located alongside the Hull to Bridlington railway line.
The ‘Culture Train’ is to bring musicians from Paragon Station and play free concerts at six venues including Bridlinton station itself from April 1st to June 3rd as part of a project funded by East Riding of Yorkshire Council’s ‘Active Creative’ 2017 funds.
Hull Dance, the leading voice for professional dancers in the UK’s City of Culture, presents Transgression: Breaking the rules between Friday 12 and Sunday 14 May, with exceptional performances, insightful discussion and workshops from artists all well-known for breaking the rules.
From Internationally renowned New Art Club creating their usual brand of mayhem in the Guildhall’s council chamber to Colette Sadler’s Notebook Series, where she creates a conversation with her laptop.
The first of four exhibitions has opened showcasing work created as part of Hidden Voices, an initiative aimed to unlock the voices and creative talents of the 60 homeless people living rough on the streets of Hull who are fed twice a week by St Mary’s Church in Lowgate, will open.
Hidden Voices is one of 60 new projects to receive funding through the Hull 2017 Creative Communities Programme, which is being delivered in partnership with the Big Lottery Fund.
2017 marks the coming of age of the much loved Beverley & East Riding Early Music Festival, (Friday 26 – Monday 29 May) as the Festival celebrates its thirty years of music-making alongside an extraordinary year for culture in the region, as Hull is 2017 City of Culture.
Initiated by the local authority, with the aim of attracting visitors to the area to discover a rich medley of history, striking architecture and music of the past, over the years the Festival has grown to be recognised as a ‘jewel in the cultural crown’
Beverley will this weekend get to enjoy a special show as a part of the Hull UK City of Culture 2017 celebrations.
On Saturday 14 January from 6PM to 8PM a special show, Hullywood Icons will run simultaneously at Beverley Minster and St Mary’s Church.
Longcroft school held their annual Carol Concert at St Mary’s Church with the students performing to a packed house.
During the event the students performed a number carols and also gave some readings with a festive feel.
Beverley Arts Trust have raised over £500 for the St Mary’s Church Appeal by holding an evening of Music and Words.
The annual Beverley Festival of Christmas returns for 2016 on Sunday, 11 December, from 10am-4pm, and will take place at venues and locations across the town.
As of Thursday 1 September residents who breach public space protection orders in Beverley could face being fined by the council.
Members of the public were given the opportunity to view the ideas and plans of the Beverley Arms Hotel new owners Daniel Thwaites.
Daniel Thwaites will be unveiling its initial plans for The Beverley Arms at a special event next week.
Secretary of the East Yorkshire Thoroughbred Car Club Bill Barratt says the relocation of his club members at this year’s Beverley Festival of Christmas is purely a commercial one.
A crowd funding project called Beverley Soup is set to be launched in June at St Mary’s Church.