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.
Libraries in East Yorkshire, including Beverley Library, will be hosting a series of events next month with ArtERY Live.
Every year, ArtERY Live brings the best in live performance to East Yorkshire, including dance, drama, music, and poetry. These performers will be performing at East Riding Libraries for the first time.
Afternoons of fine music will feature throughout July as the Orangery Concerts take place at Sewerby Hall and Gardens.
The first concert of the month, on Thursday, 7 July at 2-3pm, is the Driffield Ukulele Band. Listen, sing, tap your feet and rattle your jewellery to this fantastic band, covering a wide range of music, including pop, folk and country, jazz and blues, and contemporary rock.
Stage-ed Celebrates 10 years in the Wirral with an incredibly special Summer School hosted at Middleton Hall, Hull.
Stage-ed has been running Holiday schools in Hull for the past 10 years and this year to celebrate10 years we will be back for a fun-filled week at Middleton Hall.
Fans of Neil Diamond’s music are in for an enjoyable evening at Bridlington Spa as Pretty Amazing Productions will present their lavish tribute production on Saturday 14th May.
A Beautiful Noise will celebrate the music in tribute to Neil Diamond for one night only this May.
A Night Upstairs With Barrie Rutter, November 14th, 7.30pm at the Wrecking Ball Arts Centre, Wrecking Ball Music & Books.
Barrie Rutter’s last appearance in public was in 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.
The East Riding Festival of Words presents a hilarious evening of words, music and comedy with Ian McMillan and Luke Carver Goss at Beverley Memorial Hall on Friday, 15 October at 7pm.
One of the region’s leading independent theatres is aiming to boost the business expertise among its cast of trustees as it prepares for a programme of 50th-anniversary celebrations.
Hull Truck Theatre is putting out a call to people with excellent local or regional business networks for volunteers who can bring diverse voices and skills to an organisation that is working to raise awareness of its wider community role.
A radical new reworking of Herman Melville’s epic, classic novel, Moby Dick, will be put on at Hull’s Stage @TheDock by The John Godber Company this June.
The production is supported by Wykeland Group, a leading supporter of the arts and culture in the city, and Arts Council England, and sees the return of live performances to the stunning waterside amphitheatre.
The Litten Trees are eight gifts to local communities around the UK: temporary light sculptures in everyday public settings that have been carefully chosen to be seen by those communities as they enjoy their daily exercise or go about their daily business.
Bridlington Spa has revealed its exciting plans for live indoor performances in September as the venue slowly comes back to hosting live events regularly.
Bridlington Spa has today revealed its exciting plans for live indoor performances in September as the venue slowly comes back to hosting live events regularly.
Today, Tuesday 11 August, the live events industry across the UK will come together in solidarity to host a series of creative action to help save the live events and entertainment sector, which is on the verge of collapsing without financial support from the government.
Hundreds of venues are expected to turn their lights red, along with other creative activities being staged in more than 20 cities across the UK to symbolise the industry going into red alert.
Public Campaign For The Arts is a grassroots campaign set up to support theatres and arts organisations across the nation, during and after the COVID-19 pandemic.
They are calling on people of all ages and backgrounds to come together and call on the government to help our creative industries survive.
Three brilliant pieces of classical entertainment are just some of the big screen events coming to Vue Hull in March.
On Tuesday 17 March, Beethoven’s only opera, Fidelio comes to the big screen. This new production, conducted by Antonio Pappano, is an uplifting story of risk and triumph.
Plans for the £4.3m Queens Gardens refurbishment are to go on display as part of a public consultation in Trinity Market.
The plans incorporate modern, eco-friendly features including electric charging points, the introduction of plants and trees to increase the gardens’ biodiversity and the incorporation of designs and functions that will allow the area to be used for flood alleviation.
WorkwithSchools, a York-based supply teaching agency, is offering local primary schools the chance to win a rip-roaring prize.
They are giving schools in the area a chance to win a class trip to see the highly acclaimed Lion King at the Alhambra Theatre in Bradford in May for a matinee performance.
British actor Rory Maguire will star as Dennis in Selladoor Family and Beano Studios’ new stage production Dennis & Gnasher The Musical! The show will be at Bridlington Spa for eight performances from Tuesday 28 January.
Rory is currently starring as Gerard in American Idiot (UK Tour & New Zealand). His previous theatre credits include Summer Holiday (UK Tour), Thoroughly Modern Millie (Avalon, Canada), Mamma Mia (UK Tour), Peter Pan (Greenwich Theatre & Rickmansworth), George’s Marvellous Medicine (88 London Road, Brighton), Grease (BKL), Ushers (Arts Theatre & Edinburgh Festival), Aladdin (Brighton Emporium) and Shrek (UK Tour).
Miss Rachael’s School Of Dance have opened their own studio in Beverley. Owner of the business, Rachael Mellins says the move will allow the school to expand on the number of classes offered.
Located at Waltham House on River View Road, the venue features two dance Studios. To celebrate the move those with links to dance school were invited to a special opening ceremony.