The People of Whitefriargate

The People of Whitefriargate

Whitefriargate refers not just to the street of that name, but this historic part of the Old Town with its rich Georgian and Victorian architecture, and all the commercial aspects of a vibrant city.

In recent times, the buildings on Whitefriargate and in Silver Street have benefited from funding from Historic England and Hull City Council, and the area is now home to many independent businesses.

This exhibition aims to tell you a little more about the people that makes Whitefriargate such a special place.

Taking The Knee

An exhibition shining a light on the history of ‘taking the knee’ launches today, with the help of the University of Hull.

The exhibition is part of ongoing community engagement work between the University of Hull’s Wilberforce Institute for Slavery and Emancipation, Hull Museums, and people from racially marginalised communities, in the city.

According to Senior Lecturer in Diaspora History, Dr Nick Evans, of the Wilberforce Institute, the launch of the exhibition is timely as Home Secretary Suella Braverman, this week announced her review ‘into activism and impartiality’ within police forces – which will include an evaluation of officers taking the knee.

Dr Evans said: “Taking the knee has a history dating back millennia, it is only in more recent centuries that the pose has taken on more political connotations. It was in the 1780s that it was first politicised in a way that we can understand today, when images of an enslaved man kneeling, were used by those campaigning for the abolition of the British slave trade.

“The opening of this exhibition, which is co-created with members of racially marginalised communities, couldn’t be more timely, as public discourse about the gesture continues because of the Home Secretary’s review into policing, and her letter to policing leaders which set out her expectation that the police should focus on tackling crime, rather than being involved in political matters.”

Creative Voice: Youth Arts Festival

Creative Voice Youth Arts Festival 2023 is happening this half-term!

If you are aged 13+ come along to find out more about the creativity of young people in the city and take part in free workshops in DJing, sustainable fashion, dance, theatre, circus skills and more, along with conversations around arts and mental health.

FRIDAY 3 NOVEMBER

12pm

Exhibition Launch – ‘What Makes You Happy?’

3D-printed exhibition with augmented reality by artist Anna Bean and young people from Astra

and Ainthorpe Youth Centres, This Ability Goodwin Trust, Artlink Explorers Young People in

Care Project and NICE.

12.30-3.30pm

Fun, drop-in workshops including wearable art and sustainable fashion, screenprinting, drama,

contemporary dance, Hull Zine Library, songwriting, circus skills and more.

6-9pm

Young People’s Performance Sharing with a focus on drama and dance. Performances from

professional dance company LOOP with JoinedUp Dance Company Young Contemporaries,

Ainthorpe Youth Centre, Pragnya Indian Dance, Max Life Dance Company, Wolfpack Theatre,

Freedom Road Creative Arts, and Youth Aspire Connect.

SATURDAY 4 NOVEMBER

12pm

Panel discussion with young people, NHS support workers, and creatives in Hull on the

Importance of arts in supporting mental health.

12.30-3.30pm

Fun, drop-in workshops including wearable art and sustainable fashion, screenprinting,

Afrobeats dance, DJ Mixing, music studio, Hull Zine Library, street theatre and more.

4-6pm

Screening of films and animations made by young people and local artists and filmmakers

about issues that are important to them around art and mental health.

6-9pm

Young People’s Performance Sharing with a focus on music. Performances from Music Lab,

Freedom Road Creative Arts, Layman and Noble, Young Women’s DJ Group and

Humber Drum Circles.

Creative Voice is a youth arts initiative led by Hull City Council Arts Development and

Youth Development Service in partnership with Artlink and Hull Dance, who are supporting

the dance elements of the Festival with their Move Together programme. Supported by the Smile Foundation I AM Fund and Youth Arts Takeover.

Victorian Christmas Market Event Day

Splendid Victorian Christmas themed market with activities scheduled throughout the day to include

Tradtional stalls with Christmas gifts, crafts, and food
Music – All For One Choir, Humberside Police Band
Historic Christmas Characters mingling with the crowds
Christmas themed trails inside the Minster and throughout the Old Town
Lord Mayor’s Christmas Tree Exhibition

Andy Lock – Orchard Park

Eight newly acquired works by artist Andy Lock will go on display to celebrate their 20th anniversary. The Orchard Park series captures the abandoned Vernon House tower block before it was demolished.

Andy Lock worked and studied in Hull for over 15 years, with many of his photographs capturing the post war, everyday architecture in Hull.

For the Orchard Park series, Andy took photographs in every apartment on all 22 storeys of Vernon House. The photographs show seemingly empty rooms, with abandoned furniture and belongings, left behind by the former residents that once called the Orchard Park block their home.

Andy Lock’s striking photographs are a result of an experiment with light.

The display of the Orchard Park series has been made possible with support from the Friends of Ferens Art Gallery.

Humber Eco Fest

Celebrating community action, building resilience and regenerating our unique wildlife habitat.

21 exciting days of opportunities for you to join in, celebrate and learn.

Opening on 22 October with a community day, featuring pizza, stalls and music, at urban farm Rooted in Hull, and eco-educational activities at The Deep, focused on wind energy, the festival will then continue to celebrate the sustainable projects around the Humber. Highlights include:

The return of the Hull Independent Photography Festival (HIPFEST) with a sustainability theme, encompassing 9 exhibitions both international & local, plus nature photo walks and 16 climate photography talks and workshops. The headline show is the international “Faces of Climate Change” exhibition with over 70 countries taking part, we will be revealing the winners for 2023 on the exhibition opening night in Hull.
The Hull Friends of the Earth’s Green Fair in Cottingham.
The Totally Locally Brigg Eco Fair
The Big Festival Beach Clean with Plastic Free Hornsea
A Zero Waste Supper in Scunthorpe
An Eco Quiz Night in Burstwick
Family Forest School Open Days at The Happy Homestead in Messingham and The Life Skills Hub in Preston.
A bicycle ride from Hull to Barton, connecting the North & South Bank communities

Printed By Hand Exhibition

Hull Print Collective are exhibiting “Printed by Hand”at Burton Constable Hall.

The printmakers employ a very personal approach to printmaking media to realise observation, ideas, memories and feelings.

The work on display will reflect personal interests by adopting to a graphic and abstract, decorative or narrative approach or by taking a realistic view of the world.

Open Daily from 10am-5pm (close 4pm from 29th October 2023)

Free Entry

Poster image by Janet Cox

The Elements

Experience the power of the Earth’s elements this winter.

Natural phenomena and the creation of our world is explored in this new spectacular immersive sound and light show by Luxmuralis.

Earth, Air, Fire and Water are the attributes of our world. They vary within different cultures and are intertwined with religion, local mythology and represented throughout art history in many ways worldwide.

The different states of matter are explored here in a new and contemporary way – mixing the Ancient with the Modern.

You will be enveloped by each element and witness the transformation of the majestic sacred space of the Minster with projection artworks which interpret the elements within our planets environment in which we live and impact upon our human behaviour.

The Minster will be divided into four areas transitioning you between the the elements which will illuminate the interior spaces in different ways.

The elements will be conveyed through artistic interpretations, sound and light and allowing you to witness volcanoes, be immersed in the sky and environment, watch as the natural world evolves through dramatic historic and artistic imagery and end in the Nave immersed in the power of the oceans, storms and great stories linked to water.

17:00 – 21:00 daily – booking of a timed slot required.

The Trinity room will be open for pre or post exhibition refreshments.

Entrance is through the North Door, on North Church side, opposite the Hideout Hotel.

Sola Olulode

Join us at 87 Gallery as we celebrate Sola Olulode’s newest exhibition, Burning, like the star that showed us to our love by British Nigerian artist Sola Olulode.

‘Sola Olulode is one of the most unique figurative artists working today. Her use of varied materials is exciting and engaging, and her message is crucial. I’m delighted to be bringing her work to Hull, even more so as it’s her first exhibition in the North of England.’ Becky Gee, Curator, 87 Gallery

City Of Water

Drawing on the Ferens’ important maritime art collection, this exhibition explores the effects of environmental change over the centuries.

This exhibition explores Hull & east Ridings relationship with the sea and highlights 800 years of flooding in a region that exists below sea level at high tide.

Themes will explore maritime work and leisure, the move from sailing to steam, exploration and the empire, wrecks and whaling. The Ferens’ collection will be reimagined as if under water, raising issues around Hull’s risky future and hopes of defence against the rising tides.

Image: Colin Gray, Hull Under Water, 1991, Photographic print

Hull On The Rise

The flood experience through the eyes of regional artists.

Inspired by Hull’s maritime legacy and its history of flooding, this exhibition is made up of newly commissioned artworks, from the Future Ferens members, and works by local artists.
The exhibition reflects on the power of art in demonstrating personal reactions to local environmental disaster, and the role art can play in shaping our vision for the future.

The exhibition will create a space for visitors to reflect, explore and respond to such impactful environmental events.

Hulloween Steampunk Festival

Please note last minute venue changes, due to the inclement weather.

Event highlights

FRIDAY 20^th 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 21^st 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.

SUNDAY 22^nd 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.

Amazing Grace

A touring exhibition telling the story of former slave ship captain, Reverend John Newton, writer and composer of “Amazing Grace”, curate-in-charge of St Peter & St Paul’s church in Buckinghamshire.

The hymn Amazing Grace in various musical styles, has gone on to inspire countless people and has even become known in America as the nation’s “spiritual anthem”.

Turning The Tide – Dance Project

An exhibition challenging the future of energy in industry.

Through an exciting partnership with the ‘Women’s Movement 100’, the Hull chapter of the ‘Turning the Tide’ film and exhibition aims to challenge the traditional view of industry by making it beautiful as well as functional. ‘Turning the Tide’ is about telling a better story about this new source of power on our shores – building together a more attractive narrative.

The aim: to attract more women into this new, exciting, revolutionary industry and research area and show the opportunities to engender real change. Through the medium of dance, our 15 ‘angels of the north’ express the power, beauty, strength and potential of the offshore wind industry – through movement and art. We are standing on the shoulders of those who fought so hard for equality 100 years ago.

We must ensure that we continue to fight for true equality at all levels – join us and work with us to work differently, to make a change for good.

Botanical Blueprints

Our Freedom Festival Exhibition! An exhibition of beautiful cyanotype prints by Angela Chalmers and stunning sculptural ceramics by Adele Howitt.

Angela’s creative practice reflects her passion for the Victorian era. Her photographic images are created using the medium of cyanotype, a nineteenth-century printing process, and camera-less photography techniques.

Adele’s ongoing research manifests as a series of large and small ceramic sculptures – intricate, seemingly delicate, focussed on microscopic pollen grains and a new understanding of the value of a wild and living landscape coupled with her re-discovery of pottery skills whilst researching the Mexborough and Dearne Valley Potteries

Perches and Flyways

Perches and Flyways is a new exhibition commissioned by Humber Street Gallery and produced by Creative Connections; an ongoing series of workshops run by Artlink Hull which pairs local artists with disabled communities to explore creative processes and improve wellbeing.

Working with artist Jennifer Holtridge and artist-duo Juneau Projects, the participants have created a collection of ceramic bird sculptures. Focusing on species which are becoming rare in the Humber’s environment, either due to changes in habitat or the bird’s behavior.

A number of evocative species, such as the Night Heron, the Shelduck and Ringed Plover, visited the location in the past. However, their numbers are declining in the area. The ceramic sculptures inspired by these bird breeds will be central to the installation and will form part of an engaging display showcasing the species within depictions of their habitats.