Hanami, which means ‘flower viewing’ in Japanese, is the traditional custom of enjoying the beauty of cherry trees in bloom.
These beautiful blossoms always bring a smile, so let’s spread some Hanami joy to Hull and make garlands to decorate our windows, rooms, doors and gardens!
Join the We Made This Hull team for a blooming marvellous maker session.
This session is Adults only. Booking required as places are limited.
Come and join in at Central Library for this Spring holiday event. You can join in looking at nature, spring, bees, birds and butterflies.
Fun stories about gardening and nature and wildlife friendly gardening.
Booking required.
Age 5+
Come and make bath bombs with us and learn the science behind the fizz.
Every child will make two bath bombs of their choice.
Lab coats and safety glasses provided. Suitable for children aged 5 upwards.
Spring Family Craft Activity: Streetlife Museum – enjoy time together crafting and exploring the museum.
11am-12.45pm and 1.15pm-3pm.
Free, drop in
Prospect Shopping Centre will be holding an Easter Event this year!! Hurray!! We have invited ScrapStore to help us make Easter Bonnets.
A competition and much more will be happening on the day – 12th April 2022 -11am-3pm
What would Easter be without some craft activity? We’ll be offering up a range of Easter crafts including our rather competitive colouring-in competition!
Come along and get creative and make something to remember your day by.
Join us in the Carriage House, select an activity, find a seat and allow your imagination to run like the Easter rabbits.
Information:
Dates: 15th-18th April
Times: 10am-4pm
Location: Carriage House (North Stable Block)
Cost: Included in your Grounds or Hall & Grounds admission ticket. Note that prices may vary and additional charges may apply across Easter weekend due to other accessible activities.
It’s that time of year where kids and adults alike become crazily creative and even more competitive when it comes to an Easter Bonnet competition.
We’re giving you the entire Easter weekend to get involved and four opportunities to be crowned king or queen of Easter.
We’re expecting excessive, original and inspirational bonnets to leave our judge’s jaw dropped in astonishment.
Join us outside the Carriage House (North Stable Block) at 1pm, for your chance to win a prize!
Information:
Dates: 15-18th April
Time: 1pm
Location: North Stable Block – outside the Carriage House.
Cost: Included in your Hall & Grounds admission ticket. Note that prices may vary and additional charges may apply across Easter weekend due to other accessible activities.
A new family-friendly exhibition, funded by Hull City Council’s Grants to Arts programme, will begin this weekend on Humber Street.
Offering free entry, Baker’s Dozen is hosted by Hull-focused arts project Caprani Arts, showcasing contemporary, local talent.
It brings together their diverse talents in design, illustration, photography, sculpture, painting and print, as well as offering creative activities for families to take part in.
Visitors of all ages will have the opportunity to get involved in free, artist-led activities, with colouring, illustration and collage in this accessible, joyful and celebratory show.
It’s the first physical event led by Caprani Arts and one that promises to be bright, positive and inspiring.
Visit Baker’s Dozen at pop-up space one, 66-68 Humber Street.
The Hull Maritime project has teamed up with local community arts group, #WeMadeThis to deliver a four year programme of maritime themed creative taster sessions across the city.
The Nautic’Hull Alphabet project enables us to communicate across Hull using nautical flags from The International Code of Signals. Each flag is an individual letter or a whole message. It could be your street name or the name of the place where you live, or your own name to wear as a badge, or on your door. It could be the name of your school, or a message to people passing by, the possibilities are endless.
You can make your own flags at several maker day crafty taster sessions:
Get involved with our Arts & Crafts and create something special this half term!
There’ll be plenty of activities on offer from colouring in competitions to more adventurous creation opportunities – just visit our different craft stations.
Take some time out indoors and join us in making something memorable to take away.
Location: Indoor Riding School (South Courtyard)
Tickets – This activity is included in your Grounds ticket. Please, aim to book in advance and bring your proof of purchase with you on the day. Although, we will accept drop-ins & ‘pay on the day’.
Burton Constable Annual Pass Holders gain free entry.
Please abide by our policies and procedures at all times, whilst respecting our premises, staff and volunteers.
Get your craft on at Hull Central Library, every Thursday 6pm.
Learn how to craft and take away your creations! Book your place below.
Spaces are limited – everyone attending must have a ticket.
A great, weekly event for all Lego fans (5+)
Make new friends and build every Wednesday 6pm, and Saturday 2pm book your place below.
Spaces are limited – everyone attending must have a ticket.
The Winter edition of the Good Things Market returns to Hull’s Fruit Market on Saturday 27th and Sunday 28th of November.
Print / jewellery / homewares / art / vintage / ceramics / food / drinks / music / more good things. Find Good Things in the warehouse on Blanket Row (behind Humber Street)
Got a Dad who reckons he can fix anything? Or a kid who thinks they have the answer to everything! Put them to the test with our Family Scrapheap Challenge!
We’ll provide you with a range of weird, wonderful and totally ordinary objects and materials, 2hrs and a brief! Make ‘this’ out of your materials! You’ll have zero time to plan, research or test.
The challenge will test your bond as a family, improve team work, encourage positive communication and create a LOT of giggles!
At the end of the 2hrs, who will be crowned the scrapheap champion?
Step into storyland, an amazing place where anything can happen.
A place with heroes and villains, action and adventure where the only limit is your imagination.
Join the team on a quest to help save Storyland.
On a Great Adventures in Storyland Saturday, the event takes place twice with the free arts & craft sessions starting at 10am and 11.30am.
Join us on the last day of the Festival of Archaeology with a celebration of the archaeology in Hull. There will be guided tours, exhibitions, and talks. In our closing event Executive Director of the CBA, Neil Redfern will be hosting an “In Conversation with…. Professor Carenza Lewis” local communities are invited to send in their questions which we will ask on the day to festival@archaeologyuk.org.
This showcase is only possible because of the amazing people in the following organisations:- Hull Culture and Leisure, Hull City Council, Whitefriargate High Street Heritage Action Zone, Humber Field Archaeology, Museum of London, Archaeology, Oxford Archaeology, Petruaria Revisited, Hull Minster
Plan your day around our programme of events
MUSEUM GARDENS:
During the day there will be Wandering Medieval Characters along the high street, and a high street trail. There will also be an official opening and guided tour of the new medieval galleries at Hull and East Riding Museum (this is by invitation only)
Displays
Archaeology of South Blockhouse,
CitiZan: Display of Coastal & Intertidal zone project with Pop-up foreshore
Fjordr Ltd: Dr Antony Firth, Display on R.38 Zeppelin Crash
Bookable tours (book at the event)
11:00 Archaeology of the Museums Quarter (30 minutes)
11:00 Imagery, Imagination and Interpretation (45 minutes)
12:00 Archaeology of the Museums Quarter (30 minutes)
12:30 Imagery, Imagination and Interpretation (45 minutes)
13:00 Archaeology of the Museums Quarter (30 minutes)
14:00 Imagery, Imagination and Interpretation (45 minutes)
14:00 Archaeology of the Museums Quarter (30 minutes)
EVENT MARQUEE (in Museum Gardens)
(Max Capacity 50 people) no booking required first come first served basis.
11:30 Petruaria Uncovered Presentation
12:00 Fjordr Ltd: Dr Antony Firth, Presentation on R.38 Zeppelin Crash
12:30 CitiZan and you! Video footage of CitiZan Projects and Q&A with the team
BOOKING REQUIRED FOR THE AFTERNOON EVENTS : Book via https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/164299063923(link is external)
13:15 ‘Welcome’ by Neil Redfern and Cllr Haroldo Hererra-Richmond
13:30 In Conversation with Time Team’s Professor Carenza Lewis
13:55 Archaeology Achievement Awards Launch
TRINITY SQUARE:
Displays
Discoveries from Trinity Burial Ground
Archaeology of the Minster
Petruaria Revisited – excavation information and handling activity
11-3 Call our Bluff – Object (or laminated photo) ID with Finds Specialist
11-3 Funny Bones – Craft Activity
11-3 ‘My-seum’ Activity – members of the public create their own museum (drawing activity)
Tour – book on the day, tours are every half hour
12:00-2.30 Guided Chantry Chapel Visits to view the recently discovered medieval church foundations (max 10 people)
BEVERLEY GATE: No booking required
11-3 Whitefriargate High Street Heritage Action Zone
11-3 East Riding Archaeology Society (ERAS) and Whitefriargate HSHAZ will have information stalls and display of artefacts in Gazeebo’s. ERAS will also be using a batter resonator on the grassed area next to Beverley Gate.
12-3 Brief 10 minute presentations throughout the afternoon on the history of Beverley Gate, also on the work of ERAS.
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