The jubilee celebrates 70 years since the Queen became the head of state after her father, King George VI’s, death on February 6, 1952. A four day bank holiday weekend will take place on Thursday 2 June to Sunday 5 June, to mark the occasion
Here in Hull we are proud of our royal connection. There is so much going on over the weekend including an amazing array of activities in the city centre.
Humber Street Sesh, the multi award-winning music festival will return to its spiritual home on Hull Marina, Saturday August 13th, with early bird tickets on sale now. Festival organisers, Sesh Events Ltd, are delighted to bring the festival back to its birthplace after three years away. The pandemic put paid to the festival in 2020, followed by flood barrier work preventing Humber Street Sesh 2021. Inner City Sesh, a new, smaller event was staged in Queens gardens last year, supported by Hull City Council. Director, Dave Mays said “Hull Marina is home territory – we know the site inside out. We put on the first festival ten years ago with a few bands in warehouses down Humber Street. Navigating this urban landscape, with its obstacles and new developments is always a challenge but we can’t wait to get cracking with the team to deliver a first-class event on the Marina again.” The festival will take place on the east side of the Marina, with a free fringe area encompassing Humber Street and Stage@thedock that will stage some events. The fringe area will allow Marina businesses to operate without festival constraints and lessen the impact of the event on the burgeoning residential areas. Humber Street Sesh started in 2012 to provide a powerful platform for the emerging artists of the region. By 2019, the event saw a stellar line up of UK national emerging artists like The Hunna, The Blinders and Yonaka. This year Humber Street Sesh 2022, will return to its roots showcasing over 100 acts celebrating Hull’s incredible artists, many of whom have gained national attention. Director, Mark Page said “Right now, the city’s music scene is stronger than ever with bands playlisted on Radio 1 and 6; touring nationally and internationally; and playing big festivals like The Great Escape and SXSW in Texas. Low Hummer’s critically acclaimed debut album, “Modern Tricks for Living” has also reached the top 40! We’ve a lot to be proud of and celebrate as a city of music – this year’s festival promises to be something really special.” Community favourites include: the Silent Disco; Team Extreme Skate Park, with displays from the experts; Hip Hop Amphitheatre; Creative Arts Marquee by Scrapstore; art installations and photography exhibitions throughout the site; and an array of food choices and bars.
Festival organisers are committed to improving the event’s green credentials each year and have opted for biodegradable bamboo wristbands for 2022. The bamboo wristbands and the Main
Stage are proudly supported by the University of Hull. Sesh Events Ltd would like to thank the following sponsors for supporting Humber Street Sesh 2022: University of Hull, Hull Business Angels & Citywide Partners, Hull Trains, Wilberforce College, Goodwin Development Trust, along with partners Hull City Council and Wykeland Group.
Humber Street Sesh 2022, Hull Marina, Saturday, August 13, 12pm-11pm
Early bird tickets £10. May 9 – June 9
Advance tickets £15. June 10 – August 12
Pay on the gate £20 August 13
Tickets can be purchased via humberstreetsesh.co.uk and seetickets.com Booking fees apply.
Free entrance for 12yrs and under, when accompanied by an 18yrs+ fee paying adult.
Wristband exchange locations TBC
Iconic Hull landmarks the Hull Maritime Museum, The Deep, the Humber Bridge, Hull City Hall, Hull New Theatre and Hull Truck Theatre can now be printed and made into paper models!
Visit Hull has worked closely with local designer Joe Cox from Form Shop and Studio on Humber Street, who has designed the models. They will be available exclusively to Visit Hull for 12 months.
Anthony Yates, Head of Visitor Destination for Hull said: “These great little keepsakes are the perfect way to remember any visit to some of the city’s great attractions. We hope they will encourage people to explore the website and visit these attractions.”
Joe Cox at Form Studio and Studio said: “It’s been a great project to work on! While I regularly draw buildings around Hull, this has been interesting to look closer at parts of these iconic landmarks that you don’t usually see. It’s been a fun challenge getting them into simple 3D models and I hope everyone has as much fun building them as I did illustrating and creating them.”
Today (Tuesday 29th March) marks 200 days to go until the Rugby League World Cup 2021 (RLWC2021) makes a real impact across the nation when England take on Samoa in the tournaments’ opening fixture at St James’ Park, Newcastle on 15 October 2022.
To commemorate the milestone, the tournament has been undertaking a 48-hour trophies tour of the 18 host towns and cities in celebration of a 48-hour ticket upgrade offer, whereby fans can benefit from a ticket upgrade that is too good to miss. This means any fans that buy a Category C ticket for the New Zealand v Jamaica fixture at MKM Stadium will have their tickets automatically upgraded to Category B.
The trophies tour, whereby the silverware from the men’s, women’s and wheelchair tournaments will be paraded around the towns and cities getting ready to host the 61 matches of the upcoming World Cup, commenced today (Tuesday 29th March) at 07:00 in Newcastle with RLWC2021 Ambassador Jason Robinson.
With the city hosting three fixtures, including a double header of the women’s match between Papua New Guinea and Brazil and a men’s quarter final, Hull will see some of the best action the tournament has to offer. The three trophies were joined by soap star Gemma Oaten, Hull FC players Josh Reynolds and Scott Taylor, and many RLWC2021 representatives, where they sat down in the changing rooms with a class of school children for an exclusive Q&A.
The promotional tour features the tournament’s new campaign ‘This is Real Impact’, to support ticket promotion and provide a platform to tell the many stories of the contribution the tournament is making in communities through its social impact programme and in respect to inclusivity in hosting the men’s, women’s and wheelchair tournaments under one World Cup for the first time in the sport’s history.
Jon Dutton, Chief Executive of RLWC2021, said: “After an incredibly challenging couple of years for everyone, it is hugely exciting to be able to take our three unique trophies to each host partner as they put on their own celebration and make a ‘Real Impact’ in their local communities.
“We’d like to thank our partners in Hull for their brilliant event to mark the milestone. The road to RLWC2021 starts now and with this limited ticket offer and exciting new campaign being released, we hope to encourage fans up and down the country to obtain the best seats in the house at the best possible price.”
Ticket prices for the tournament start as low as £2.21 for concessions, as the unique tournament will be one of the most accessible and affordable for fans with more than 80% of tickets priced below £50. Fans can purchase tickets via www.rlwc2021.com/tickets.
Follow the Trophies Tour live on RLWC2021’s official social media channels Twitter, Instagram, TikTok and Facebook, with exclusive content including interviews, event snaps and behind-the-scenes footage of the 48-hour tour.
Following a successful bidding process by Hull City Council’s Conference Hull team, Hull has been chosen as the host-destination for INTERKULTUR’s prestigious International Choir Competition.
Taking place from 27 April to 1 May 2023, the large-scale event is expected to attract up to 1000 individuals worldwide from participating choirs.
There will be an opening and closing ceremony, and throughout the five days there will be multiple choir competitions, pop-up concerts, and individual coaching sessions available.
Cllr Rosemary Pantelakis, portfolio holder for corporate services, museums & cultural assets, said:
“We are delighted to announce this news after months of hard work behind-the-scenes, and we’re looking forward to welcoming choirs from around the world to our ‘singing city’.
“As well as bringing our streets, squares and community spaces alive with the sound of music, the five-day multi-event will be great for Hull’s hospitality industry.”
The competition will see a range of activities happening city-wide throughout the week.
Local choirs and artists will have the chance to perform at the respective opening and closing ceremonies, hosted at Hull City Hall.
The main choir competitions will be held at city-centre venues; the Albemarle Centre, Jubilee Central and Hull City Hall. Competition categories will include Mixed and Equal Voices, Children’s and Youth Choirs, and choirs with a focus on a musica sacra, pop, jazz or gospel repertoire.
Members of the public can enjoy ‘friendship concerts’ – pop-up events designed to surprise visitors at Hull Minster, Queen Victoria Square, Princes Quay and Trinity Market.
Evaluation performances and individual coaching sessions will also be available to the choirs throughout the competition, providing the opportunity to get valuable advice from international choral experts.
INTERKULTUR President Günter Titsch said:
“Choirs from all over Britain have been travelling to our international choir events for many, many years. So it’s our huge pleasure that now we will be finally able to bring the world to them: I’m sure that Hull will be an attractive destination for many choirs from abroad, which gives English choirs the opportunity to get in touch with choral music and traditions from other countries, learn from them and make new friendships for a lifetime.
My huge thanks go to our fantastic partners in the city of Hull, who have already been highly engaged with the preparations for this event. I am sure that thanks to them, each and every singer will feel warmly welcomed – like a visit at a good friend’s home!”
Tickets for public events will be available closer to the time. For more information visit www.interkultur.com/hull2023
Hull will host the first event of UNBOXED: Creativity in the UK, the UK’s “most ambitious celebration of creativity to date”.
Hull is one of five places to be staging About Us, a spectacular, never before seen, free open-air event that combines live performances and multimedia installations to celebrate the entire history of the universe from Big Bang to the present day.
Featuring poems and Scratch animations from young people from schools in Yorkshire, across England and the rest of the UK, the 25-minute projection shows will immerse audiences in an exhilarating journey through 13.8 billion years of history since the dawn of the universe in a celebration of the infinite ways in which we connect to the cosmos, natural world, and one another.
About Us is an open air event that will take place in Queen Victoria Square.
About Us is the opening event for UNBOXED: Creativity in the UK, a once-in-a-lifetime celebration of creativity taking place across the UK this year.
It will take place in Queen Victoria Square, Hull from April 30 until May 6.
Martin Green CBE, who knows the city well having been director of Hull UK City of Culture 2017, is the chief creative officer of UNBOXED: Creativity in the UK.
He said: “UNBOXED is the UK’s most ambitious celebration of creativity to date and this free spectacular performance will show us what can be achieved when we harness the creative power of scientists, technicians, producers, musicians, poets and mathematicians to produce and present a truly extraordinary and inspirational experience, that audiences, and the choirs and young people who have contributed, will never forget.”
About Us will transform Queen Victoria Square into a vast canvas combining awe-inspiring live projection-mapped animation with poetry, music, and beautiful live choral singing to create a unique spectacle.
About Us has been created by the award-winning 59 Productions.
The evening shows will feature winning entries from the About Us nationwide poetry and Scratch animation competition, on the theme of ‘connectivity and the universe’, selected by a host of distinguished judges including Poet Laureate, Simon Armitage, and mathematician, author and broadcaster, Rachel Riley.
Councillor Daren Hale, leader of Hull City Council, said: “Hull is a city that has culture and creativity running through its veins, so I’m delighted that we are hosting About US, the opening event of UNBOXED: Creativity in the UK.
“Our historic Queen Victoria Square will be the backdrop for an incredible and inspiring art installation that will feature animation, poetry and live music and performance from the outstanding Hull Freedom Chorus. About US promises to be one of the highlights of the year, and an event that cannot be missed.”
Acclaimed composer and musician Nitin Sawhney CBE has composed the original score which will be performed as part of the live shows by Hull Freedom Chorus.
Sawhney has scored more than 60 films and his past collaborators have included Sir Paul McCartney and the London Symphony Orchestra.
Choir performances of About Us are musically directed by composer, Osnat Schmool, who will conduct alongside local choir leaders.
There is still an exciting opportunity to join Hull Freedom Chorus for the live performances of About Us.
Rehearsals are on Tuesday evenings, and singers above the age of 18, of all experiences and abilities, have until Thursday 10 February to register interest at hullfreedom.chorus@hullcc.gov.uk
If interested, email your name, voice part (if you know it) and the phrase ‘About Us Hull: Yes’.
‘Great live music, tasty food and welcoming crowds’ – Trinity Live set to return on Thursday 9 September
The hugely successful Trinity Live is returning to Hull’s Trinity Market.
The weekly live music event, which last year brought thousands of extra people into the market on an evening as well as giving a platform to many local bands and performers, will return next month
The event, organised by Sesh Events, will return on Thursday 9 September.
Mark Page, from Sesh Events, said: “Following on from the initial success of Trinity Live in 2019, Sesh Events is delighted to of been asked to curate its return following it’s enforced break due to Covid. Working closely with Hull City Council Events team at the Trinity Market, we aim to shine the spotlight on the many fantastic independent traders within the market, whilst providing a platform for the some of the region’s very best talent.”
Trinity Live originally launched in May 2019 in the run-up to the annual, and enormously popular, Humber Street Sesh festival. This time it’s relaunching in time for the run up to the recently announced Inner City Sesh, due to take place in Queens Gardens on Saturday 18th September.
In total Sesh Events put on 32 Trinity Live events in 2019/2020, bringing more than 15,000 people into the market and giving a platform to almost 100 local bands and musicians.
Rich Stephenson, from the band Listening Club, is one of the many musicians to have performed at Trinity Live. He said: Great live music, tasty food and welcoming crowds. Trinity Live has been a great inclusion to the live music scene in the city.
We’ve loved both performing there and heading down to watch other bands too.
Councillor Daren Hale, Leader of Hull City Council said: It’s great news that Trinity Live can take place again. The events have always been well attended for the talented musicians, eclectic food and drinks on offer, with the market venue providing a vibrant atmosphere. The events will see more people coming into the city centre on an evening once again, which will benefit the night time economy, and the events provide a platform for our local talented musicians to showcase their music.
As well as the live music, various different market traders support the event by serving up their diverse selection of food and drink.
John Copley and Jayne Allen recently opened Only, a vegan-friendly food stall in the market.
John, a familiar face on the Hull music scene, with the band Low Hummer as well as being a gifted solo performer, has graced the Trinity Live stage on a number of occasions.
John said: I’m are looking forward to trading at it after playing it a few times, it’s a great event for the market with extra footfall for the traders as well as a unique atmosphere.
As well as serving up their vegan food, John and Jayne will also be selling vegan beers and wine.
From 3 May, every day for a year, at sunrise and sunset, a Vigil (person) will keep watch over Hull from a bespoke wood and glass structure located on top of the Hull College building, facing east and west, overlooking Queen’s Gardens and the
William Wilberforce statue at one side, the River Humber, the docks and East Hull
on the other. Over the course of the year 730 people will contribute to the
collective vigil – a 365-day silent performance – watching over the city.
From 10am on 1 March 2021 you can reserve your place by signing up at www.thehullvigil.co.uk. Places will be allocated on a first come first served basis, with 730 places available throughout the year.
Freedom Festival, an organisation known for creating the unexpected, is proud to be commissioning and producing The Hull Vigil, as Hull becomes the first UK city to host this timely, thought-provoking and large-scale monumental work.
The Hull-based Arts Trust had planned to start The Hull Vigil in March, however the UK’s third national lockdown delayed the build of the shelter and recruitment of volunteers.
Created by Australian-Belgian choreographer Joanne Leighton from Paris-based WLDN, over the past eight years Vigil has been running continuously in France, Germany, the Netherlands and Austria and in 2021 it comes to Hull for its 10th iteration.
This ambitious project is presented as part of the Global Streets and the Creative Europe In Situ programmes and funded by Arts Council England. It is also supported thanks to funding from local partners Hull City Council, Hull College and Esteem.
Mikey Martins, Artistic Director and Joint Chief Executive of Freedom Festival said: “The Hull Vigil is an amazing artistic project which connects with and is delivered by the community. It will be built by Hull building firms for the people of Hull, with a narrative that will develop throughout the year. While each Vigil stands alone, together they form a human chain of community, humanity and resilience. Something even more significant today.
“The Hull Vigil is the perfect opportunity for us to spend some time to take stock of who and where we are and hope for a more positive future.
“Vigil (person) will step inside the structure, without their phone or camera, to watch over the city for an hour at sunrise and sunset – looking out across the Humber to the east, the urban spread to the north and out across the suburbs and countryside to the west… when will you take your Vigil?”
This unique structure designed for the city by Benjamin Tovo and built by Hull firms for the people of Hull, the shelter is where the vigil takes place. Located on the rooftop of Hull College overlooking Queen’s Gardens, for the first time in its 10 iterations, it has been built to give unobstructed views to the east and west.
The shelter is being built by Hull Esteem Consortium LEP Ltd, along with their partners who are supporting the project through generous donations of time,
expertise and resources.
Richard King, Chair of Esteem, said: “The Hull Vigil is a really unique and exciting project for the city and one we were keen to get involved in. By offering our expertise and supporting the Freedom team in getting this project off the ground, we’re proud to be playing a part in bringing this international performance to the city at a time when people need a boost and something to look forward to.
“I’d also like to thank our partners and local contractors who have got behind the project by donating materials, equipment and time to construct the shelter and erect it on site. I can’t wait to see it finished and hear about the experiences of people who take part.”
Anthony Baker Executive Director and Joint CEO of Freedom Festival continued: “We’re incredibly grateful to our partners at Arts Council England, Hull City Council, Hull College and Esteem for
helping to make Vigil possible, alongside our creative partners Global Streets and In Situ as we work together again, in this year-long participatory performance, which will showcase the beautiful choreography of our northern city as the sun rises and sets.”
Anyone over 18-years-old is invited to participate, signing up via the Freedom Festival website and app, or direct at www.thehullvigil.co.uk from 10am on 1 March.
Participants can choose their own date and time and will have their own reasons for participating. Places will be allocated on a first come first served basis. Only one vigil can be booked per person.
The Hull Vigil is presented by Paris-based WLDN and commissioned and produced by Freedom Festival Arts Trust, supported by IN-SITU and Global Streets.
A new maritime experience at Hull’s historic North End Shipyard is set to become one of the most energy efficient buildings in the UK’s cultural and heritage sector.
As part of the ambitious Hull Maritime project, the historic shipyard will become the new home of the Arctic Corsair, Hull’s last remaining sidewinder trawler.
To showcase and celebrate the trawler’s dramatic story, a state-of-the-art new ‘Passivhaus’ building – which is sympathetic to the industrial heritage of the area – will sit alongside the historic ship, the dock and the last Scotch Derrick crane in Hull.
The new visitor attraction, designed by architect Purcell, is being developed with meticulous attention to detail in order to achieve rigorous ‘Passivhaus’ standards – a German model, which reduces a building’s energy consumption, requiring very little energy to heat. This method achieves savings of up to 90 per cent compared to a typical new building. This is being achieved through early engagement of TGA Consulting Engineers with Purcell Architects and Hull City Council.
Passivhaus buildings provide high levels of comfort for staff and visitors, using mainly passive heat sources like the sun, household appliances and human occupants to cover heating demand.
The exhibition area of the new visitor attraction will be typically heated using less than 1.3 kW per hour – that is equivalent to a small plug in domestic heater.
The new two-storey visitor centre will include an entrance space, extensive exhibitions that will tell the story of Hull’s last remaining sidewinder trawler and the heyday of Hull’s trawling industry. An interactive learning space to engage and educate young people also forms part of the scheme.
The 500 sq m building will use a system of heat exchangers which collect heat leaving the building and use it to heat the colder air coming in. This approach will also cool the building in the summer.
In response to Hull City Council declaring a climate emergency and to support its 2030 Carbon Neutral Strategy, the building is targeting net zero carbon in operation. The building will generate energy through renewable technologies to offset the carbon associated with the energy consumed within the building.
Councillor Daren Hale, Portfolio Holder for Economic Investment, Regeneration, Planning, Land and Property, said: “North End Shipyard is one of Hull’s hidden gems, an area at the very heart of the city’s maritime and trade history which spanned the world.
“These highly ambitious plans will not only create a new visitor attraction that will showcase the many maritime stories but also achieve the best energy efficient standards.
“This will be a remarkable achievement and demonstrates our continued commitment to sustainability and to Hull becoming carbon neutral by 2030.”
Owen Plummer, Senior Architect, Purcell, said: “Purcell is delighted to be collaborating with Hull City Council in their commitment to a sustainable future for the city.
“Through our design of a new visitor centre to Passivhaus standards as a key aspect of the Hull Maritime project, this significant yet overlooked area of the city will be rejuvenated and brought back into use as a visitor destination in its own right and as part of the wider interpretation of Hull’s maritime heritage.”
Due to open in 2023, the new and exciting visitor attraction incorporating the Arctic Corsair, shipyard and visitor centre is expected to attract 135,000 visitors a year.
For more information on the ambitious maritime project, visit maritimehull.co.uk
Hull’s popular Fish Trail is going digital thanks to a free app that can turn your mobile phone into a virtual time machine.
The trail, which weaves its way through Hull’s Old Town, can now be enjoyed alongside an app that brings historic areas of the city back to life.
The What Was Here? app, developed by the East Riding Archives, features a number of heritage trails throughout the region.
The app allows people to turn their mobile devices into a virtual time machine.
Simply find a fish and the nearby yellow sticker, open the app and step back in time to see see what that street, building or area used to look like.
Many of the images are drawings from celebrated Victorian artist F.S. Smith, who was a familiar figure sketching on street corners in Hull in the late 19th and early 20th Century.
The What Was Here? app was a finalist at this year’s Remarkable East Yorkshire Tourism Awards (REYTA).
Historical facts and information have been provided by English Heritage accredited guide, Paul Schofield.
Paul said: “Since 1992, the Fish Trail has encouraged thousands of people of all ages to explore Hull’s fascinating Old Town. The app adds another dimension and will reveal more about the city’s rich and varied history to locals and tourists.”
The digital Fish Trail features locations such as High Street, Beverley Gate and Queens Gardens.
The What Was Here? app can be downloaded from Google Play and the App Store.
Pride in Hull has launched its bid to bring EuroPride – the biggest LGBTI celebration in Europe – to the city in 2023.
EuroPride takes place in a different host city every year, attracting hundreds of thousands of attendees from across the continent – and world – to celebrate all things LGBTI. In addition to the traditional Pride festival event and parade you might expect, EuroPride also incorporates an opening and closing ceremony, an HIV vigil, and a human rights conference along with an expanded programme of LGBTI events and activities.
And if Hull is successful in its bid, the organisers are planning a year of activity to take place across the city in a rainbow-strewn echo of the Hull UK City of Culture 2017 – the year which also saw Hull named as the first ever UK Pride.
Pride in Hull has hosted events in the city to celebrate the LGBTI community since 2001, growing from initially a small crowd in Queen’s Gardens to a major festival, drawing in tens of thousands of people from across the UK, with more than 50,000 celebrating in 2019.
The chosen host city is one that has a proven track record in holding LGBTI events, and after the runaway success of Pride in Hull being UK Pride in 2017, there is a quiet confidence that Hull could be the city of choice come 2023.
Matt Walton, chair of Pride in Hull, believes there’s never been a better time to stand up and throw a hat into the ring to host EuroPride in 2023. He said: “EuroPride is such a huge event, bringing thousands of people to its host cities, and we believe that Hull is ready to shine as the hosts of EuroPride.
“The volunteer team behind Pride in Hull have proven time and again that we know how to put on a safe, fun and spectacular celebration, and we’ve learned a huge amount over the past few years.
“We’ve faced huge changes as a city and a nation – from Brexit to the current situation with the coronavirus lockdown – but the Pride in Hull committee absolutely believe in the city’s passion to build bridges and reconnect people.
“We’ve seen the power of the rainbow to bring hope in the past couple of weeks, and we know that EuroPride in Hull would be such a source of joy and hope for all.”
A huge planning effort has already begun behind the scenes, and will continue to raise support and create concepts ahead of the full bid submission in early summer, with a decision expected at the European Pride Organisers Association AGM in Oslo this October.
The planning team are now hoping to capture the imagination of the people of Hull to make this huge opportunity a reality.
Matt added: “What we saw in the UK City of Culture year in 2017 was a huge coming together of people from all walks of life – from arts lovers to sceptics – and we know the city can do it again.
“We were devastated to have to cancel this year’s Pride in Hull event due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, but it was for the best reasons. Hopefully us revealing this great big and frankly audacious bid will help raise some smiles to everyone who’s currently isolated.”
Pride in Hull’s official letter of intent to bid to host EuroPride 2023 was submitted on March 31 and full bid will be submitted in June ahead of the AGM in October.
Soon, the Pride in Hull team will be unveiling more about how people can get involved and get behind the bid, from writing letters of support to recording messages and submitting ideas for events and venues.
The iconic Pet Shop Boys will be visiting Hull’s Connexin Live this summer.
The band – currently at number three in the album chart with new record ‘Hotspot’ – will visit the Arena on Wednesday, 24 June.
Tickets go on general sale at 10am this Friday.
Pet Shop Boys are an English synth-pop duo, formed in London in 1981 and consisting of Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe.
They have sold more than 100 million records worldwide and are listed as the most successful duo in UK music history by The Guinness Book of Records.
Three-time Brit Award winners and six-time Grammy nominees, since 1985 they have achieved 42 Top 30 singles, 22 of them Top 10 hits in the UK Singles Chart, including four UK number ones: “West End Girls“, “It’s a Sin“, a synthpop version of “Always on My Mind“, and “Heart“. Other hit songs include a cover of “Go West“, “Opportunities (Let’s Make Lots of Money)” and “What Have I Done to Deserve This?” in a duet with Dusty Springfield.
At the 2009 Brit Awards in London, Pet Shop Boys received an award for Outstanding Contribution to Music and have a host of other accolades in a glittering career.
New album ‘Hotspot’ is the band’s 17th top 10 record.
Standing and seated tickets will be available for this gig. Tickets go on general sale on Friday at 10am. Max six tickets per person.
They will be available from Entertainment Events & Venue Details | Connexin Live Hull or call 0844 8440444. Calls cost 7p per minute plus your phone company’s access charge.
Accessible tickets are available from 0800 9884440.
The venue formerly known as Fruit will open its doors soon, operated by the team behind the Humber Street Sesh. “Social” on Humber Street in Hull’s Fruit Market will reflect the eclectic, spontaneous programming of its predecessor, with live and visual performance at its core. It will be operated by Sesh Events UK, which runs the hugely popular annual Humber
Street Sesh grassroots music festival, as well as The Sesh weekly music nights and Made in Hull, Trinity Live and Hull City Sesh events. A licence application has been submitted for the newly refurbished music and arts venue and planning is now underway for it to re-open with an exciting programme by April.
The opening of Social will complete the vibrant, creative enterprises housed within 61-63 Humber Street, which has undergone a £1.2m revamp by the Fruit Market LLP, the joint venture between Wykeland Beal and Hull City Council, to create a thriving cultural hub. The building is also now home to Juice Studios, a co-working community of artists’ studios located on the first floor; Label Worx on the second floor, providing digital music services for independent record labels; and indie art shop, Form Shop & Studio, next to the new venue on the ground floor. The Sesh Events UK team says the venue will be “a modern take on the old social club. It will embrace all, with a wide programme of entertainment and be a great place to hang out and socialise”. It marks a return to the venue for Sesh Events UK Director Dave Mays, who founded Fruit nine years ago and operated it until the venue closed to allow the revamp to take place. He said: “I know better than anyone how much loved Fruit was and I’m really excited to be part of the Sesh team bringing the venue back to life.“We’re looking forward to welcoming back Fruit fans as well as people who may not
have been before. We’ve got some great plans – watch this space!”
Humber Street Sesh founder and Festival Director Mak Page, who is also a Director of Sesh Events UK, said: “The venue is the heartbeat of Humber Street. We’ve worked really closely with the building’s owners to ensure it will be beating again very soon.”
The team behind Hull’s ambitious maritime project has secured more than £255,000 to care and conserve many of the city’s priceless artefacts and enable deeper understanding and in-depth research of Hull’s maritime collections.
Successful bids to the John Ellerman Foundation for £170,000 and Arts Council England Designation Development Fund for £88,113 will now contribute to the £2.6m funding shortfall to support the wider £27.4m Hull: Yorkshire’s Maritime City project.
Sir John Ellerman was a Hull-born son of a German immigrant. He is widely acknowledged to have once been the richest man in Britain and just one of his hugely successful businesses was the Hull-based, shipping business, Ellerman’s Wilson Line. And now, thanks to the Foundation that was subsequently set up in his family’s name some of Hull’s most important maritime objects and artefacts will be in the best ever condition. The three year grant will support the conservation and redisplay of some of Hull’s important maritime collections, as part of the refurbishment and redevelopment of its Maritime Museum.
Work to document, restore and conserve some of the museum’s objects has already been completed and has not only improved the collection but also helped prepare for the re-display of the refurbished galleries. There have also been some rewarding audience engagement opportunities and it is intended that these will continue throughout the life of the project, assisted by these grants. Over the next three years, £1.8m – from various funding streams, will be invested in the care of the collection as well as the creation of a new collections’ store at Dock Office Chambers.
Individual grants were available from the Arts Council England Designation Development Fund for between £20,000 and £90,000. The fund recognises the importance of excellent collections and provides funding for projects that ensure their long-term sustainability, maximise their public value and encourage the sharing of best practice across the sector. The funding awarded to the council will support the ‘Diving Deeper’ project which will enable increased understanding of Hull’s maritime collections.
Through research with source communities, collating existing academic research and exploring/making accessible archival holdings, there will be greater insight into Hull’s 800 years of maritime history and the collections that tell the city’s story. The most significant element of ‘Diving Deeper’ is the research to inform content and activities linked to our Inuit collection which will reveal hidden stories and improve our knowledge of this important part of Hull’s maritime history.
Councillor Daren Hale, Portfolio Holder for Economic Investment, Regeneration, Planning, Land and Property, said: “We’re delighted to have secured this funding from both the Arts Council England Designation Development Fund and the John Ellerman Foundation. It will now support us in making our collections more accessible to more audiences, increasing the understanding of our collections in more exciting and engaging ways.
“It will enable people to delve deeper into the stories of a maritime city so visitors, both local or from further afield, can discover more about our nationally significant collections.
“This will in turn create a more authentic experience for those visiting the museum, following its extensive refurbishment.”
Robin Diaper, Curator of Maritime and Social History at Hull Maritime Museum, said: “We are delighted to receive this significant funding. This substantial investment in the museum’s collection will help us deliver our vision for excellence at Hull Maritime Museum. It will enable us to care for the collections and improve access to the many untold stories of Hull’s rich maritime past, in turn improving the visitor experience further.”
Pete Massey, Director, North, Arts Council England, said: “Congratulations to Hull City Council on its successful application to our Designation Development fund for investment in their Diving Deeper project. It is an exciting time to be in Hull and it is fantastic to see the legacy of Hull 2017 being realised with projects like this.
“Hull is a city built on its maritime past and so it is brilliant to see that this project revealing more of the city’s history through its maritime collections. I look forward to seeing where the project takes those researching the collection and what new stories they can tell us about Hull.”
John Ellerman Foundation, said: “We are delighted to support the curatorial and conservation strand of work in the redevelopment of this important museum, as a significant part of an ambitious major project.”
Funded by the National Lottery Heritage Fund and Hull City Council, five key maritime treasures will be transformed, these include – the Arctic Corsair, North End Shipyard, Spurn Lightship, Dock Office Chambers and the Hull Maritime Museum.
For more information on the major maritime project, visit maritimeHull.co.uk
Today, Tuesday 29 October, has seen the 8 millionth visitor enter Hull’s award-winning aquarium The Deep.
The Silburn family from Hull, made up of mum Karina, Grandma Sue and children Tilly and Daniel were the lucky ones to be presented with an exciting behind the scenes penguin experience by The Deep’s mascot Pebbles. This money can’t buy experience will allow the family to go inside the penguin exhibit, carry out a scatter feed, learn all about our loveable VIP’s from our experts and get up close to them.
We were delighted to hear that the penguins are one of the children’s favourite animals with Tilly exclaiming “I can’t wait for them to come up to me when I’m in there.”
Mum Karina said: “I’m just super excited – we can’t wait to meet the penguins. I can’t believe we’re the 8 millionth visitors.”
Grandma Sue also commented: “We were born and bred in Hull, and we think The Deep is a fabulous place to come. We’ve been lots of times over the years, in fact we visited within the first few weeks of it opening. We’re going to celebrate in the café with a coffee and a cake!”
Katy Duke, CEO at The Deep said: “We are thrilled to have reached our 8 millionth visitor. It’s a real milestone for us after 18 years of operation to have attracted so many visitors to the area. It is a testament to the fantastic team we have in place, many of whom have been here since day one and offer our customers a fantastic experience every day.
“We are constantly developing our exhibits for people to enjoy and finding new ways to engage our visitors with important environmental messages. Our visitors play a huge part in helping us achieve our conservation outputs so a really big thank you to everyone whose visit has supported our charitable work. We look forward to welcoming the next 8 million and seeing what we can achieve together for the conservation of the marine environment.”
Deep facts (since The Deep opened):
• The total volume of water in The Deep is 3,243,192 litres – that’s equivalent to 40,500 bath tubs
• Our Marine Red List Officer has assessed over 1,600 species for the IUCN Red List globally
• We have supported 67 BSc/MSc student projects through our Husbandry department
• Since opening we have used 2,500 tonnes of salt in our tanks
• Our guiding team have delivered 27,450 hours of presentations including dive shows, penguin feeds, scatter feeds and interactive shows
• Over 540,000 children have taken part in educational visits
• We have put on over 10,200 dive shows
• Donated over 9,000 family tickets to good causes
• We have sold 61,000 kilos of pick and mix – that’s the equivalent to two humpback whales!
• On our busiest day, we welcomed 5,484 visitors – that’s like filling Hull City Hall more than 4 times
• 47,561 children have slept over at The Deep – that’s 100,000 pieces of toast served
• Each of our divers has spent the equivalent of a month and a half underwater, that’s 24 hours a day!
Following on from the success of UK City of Culture 2017, the project is the next major milestone in the delivery of Hull’s City Plan and 10-year Cultural Strategy, which set out how Hull will achieve its ambition to become a world-class visitor destination.
As well as celebrating every element of its maritime past, present and future, the project represents the next major phase in the regeneration of this historic maritime city and is pivotal to Hull’s plans to continue to develop as a unique and exciting cultural destination, ensuring a lasting legacy from UK City of Culture 2017.
The grant of £13.6m from the National Lottery, means that Hull will secure pride of place on the maritime map and showcase its seafaring heritage on a global scale. Hull City Council’s commitment to the project means they are putting forward £10m of match funding, along with a further £4.3m for the redevelopment of Queens Gardens, once the world’s largest dock, which will connect the three important sites involved in the project.
The project will see Hull Maritime Museum; Dock Office Chambers and the North End Shipyard regenerated and two historic vessels, the Arctic Corsair and Spurn Lightship, preserved. Creating a new experience and maritime trail, visitors will be able to discover Hull’s global links and how its heritage has led to shaping the city into the cultural icon it has become today.
The awarding of The National Lottery Heritage Fund grant and the match funding of the City Council has been bolstered by a fundraising campaign, which is on the way to achieving its £2.6m funding target with £250,000 already secured. The success of the fundraising campaign embodies the support and passion of the people of Hull for the project, ensuring that their city remains at the forefront of arts, culture and heritage following its triumphant reign as the UK City of Culture since 2017.
Over the last two years, more than 100 heritage and community organisations, 40 schools and 15,000 people have helped to shape the exciting plans, making this project the people’s project.
Work is due to start in the coming months once permission to start has been granted from The National Lottery Heritage Fund. The project will be completed in a phased approach, the full visitor experience is expected to be completed by 2024.
For more information on the plans visit maritimehull.co.uk
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