Please note last minute venue changes, due to the inclement weather.
Event highlights
FRIDAY 20th OCTOBER
7pm – 9pm: Nosferatu with live music score, Trinity Market.
This 1922 classical and innovative blood-fest set the standard for everything to come. This is the original and the best adaption of the Dracula legend. Doors open at 6pm. Food vendors open. Book here
8pm – 9.30pm Ghost Walk with Mike Covell (Age 20+) – Join local historian, author and expert on all things spooky Mike Covell on a walking tour of Hull’s ghostly myths and legends. The walk will begin at 8pm at the Andrew Marvell Statue outside the Hands on History museum in Trinity Square.
Numbers are strictly limited so advance booking is essential. The cost is £5 per head. To book your place on the tour, send an email to amazinghulltours@hotmail.com quoting reference ‘Steampunk’.
SATURDAY 21st OCTOBER
10am: Hulloween Parade from Paragon Square to Trinity Square
Whether you are alive or dead, or somewhere in between, this is your chance to join us in your finest (?!) Halloween-themed costume or outfit as we take a leisurely Hulloween ‘shamble’ along the streets of Hull.
10am-4pm: Hulloween Steampunk Market, Princes Quay, ground floor (PQ Event Space)
A mixture of over 40 Steampunk and other traders will be vying for your attention and your pennies.
10am – 4pm: Exhibition of Steampunk costumes and artefacts, Princes Quay, atrium
In the magnificent building of Hepworth Arcade you can expect to find several shop units taken over for the Hulloween weekend by the Ministry of Steampunk and friends
10am -4pm: Steampunk Celluloid Junkie, Princes Quay, atrium
The Steampunk Celluloid Junkie will be bringing his characterised style of digital art to the Hulloween Steampunk Weekend.
11am: Teapot Racing, Princes Quay, atrium
Few Steampunk pastimes make more sense than Hulloween teapot racing. It’s another high-adrenaline sport which combines that quintessentially Steampunk vessel from which one of our favourite beverages is served with the thrill of a race.
12noon – 4pm: Steampunk Talks, Princes Quay, ground floor
Come and meet Howard Callaway and friends from the Hull Wilberforcian Steampunks to discover all you need to know about the Steampunk scene in Hull and further afield.
2pm: Steampunk 1on1, Princes Quay, ground floor
Come and join the Ministry of Steampunk to find out everything you need to know about Steampunk.
7pm-Midnight: Immortal Ball, The Guildhall (16+) – Ticketed book here
Mrs Nellie Lovett and Mr Sweeney Todd invite the pleasure of your company at the second Immortal Ball to be held at the Guildhall in Hull.
8pm – 9.30pm Ghost Walk (age 20+) with Mike Covell. Join local historian, author and expert on all things spooky Mike Covell on a walking tour of Hull’s ghostly myths and legends. The walk will begin at 8pm at the Andrew Marvell Statue outside the Hands on History museum in Trinity Square.
Numbers are strictly limited so advance booking is essential. The cost is £5 per head. To book your place on the tour, send an email to amazinghulltours@hotmail.com quoting reference ‘Steampunk’.
SUNDAY 22nd OCTOBER
10am-4pm: Hulloween Steampunk Market, Princes Quay, ground floor (PQ Event Space)
A mixture of over 40 Steampunk and other traders will be vying for your attention and your pennies.
11am-3pm: Exhibition of Steampunk costume & artefacts, Princes Quay, ground floor
Imagine what a shock you would get if you came across an earnest gentleman such as the one you see here inviting you to peruse an array of weird and wonderful artefacts with a spooky, curious and even evil ‘something’ about them.
11am: Teapot Racing, Princes Quay, atrium
Few Steampunk pastimes make more sense than Hulloween teapot racing. It’s another high-adrenaline sport which combines that quintessentially Steampunk vessel from which one of our favourite beverages is served with the thrill of a race.
Raven Morris Dancing
11am-11.30am & 12pm-12.30pm, Princes Quay, ground floor (1pm-1.30pm, 3pm-3.30pm)
Clashing of sticks, shouting, shantie singing, border dances and giant puppets, all done in the gorgeous style of steampunk.
Steampunk Talks, Princes Quay, ground floor
11am Defensive Couture and Combative Coach Tails
12pm Glunda the veg witch
1pm Wilberforcian Steampunks
2pm Wtiting Your World
12pm: Steampunk 1on1, Princes Quay, ground floor
Come and join the Ministry of Steampunk to find out everything you need to know about Steampunk.
1pm: Ethereal Voices, Hull Minster
Are you the next Mary Shelley, Cherie Priest, or William Gibson? Join The Extra-Ordinary League of Literary Luminati and share your work!
1pm Tea Duelling, Princes Quay, ground floor
Do you have nerves of steel? Do you have what it takes to resist eating your dunked biscuit until the very last moment before it collapses in a mess?
1.30pm – 2.15pm: Illicit Market, Princes Quay, ground floor
Nobody really knows whether the illicit market takes place. If it ever does, it might be going to take place on Sunday at Hulloween. It could possibly take place in Zebedee’s Yard at about 1:30PM before the Grand Parade (nudge nudge).
2pm – 2.15pm: start Grand Steampunk Parade
Join in with the Ministry of Steampunk and the Hull Wilberforcian Steampunk group as we parade through the city from Zebedee’s Yard to Paragon Square to Trinity Square in fantastic costumes.
3pm: Facial Hair Competition, Princes Quay, ground floor (at the end of the Grand Parade)
You don’t need a Y chromosome to enter the competition, but you do need facial hair, even if you have borrowed it for the occasion.
Full details for the three day event can be found here.
Venue Details
Whether you are looking for places to shop, places to eat, relaxing activities and enjoyable attractions, in Hull you will find what you are looking for. Hull is an up and coming water front city which is popular with small groups and coach parties alike. Hull has eight free museums, The Deep, Hull Truck Theatre, new retail and leisure centres and many places to eat and drink in Hull are all waiting to be discovered - all the ingredients for a perfect city break or day out.
