All welcome at St Mary’s on Lowgate in Hull for this traditional service of carols and readings followed by refreshments.
Free of charge, donations welcome.
Event Categories: Festival
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
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
Hull Coffee Festival
Hull’s First Coffee Event.
A weekend celebrating the colourful coffee culture in Hull. Showcasing the city’s best and most vibrant hospitality venues.
HCF 2023 is a festival for the coffee community, by the coffee community; with events popping up around the city.
Hull Coffee Festival is open to all. A weekend celebration with smaller events popping up throughout the city.
Join us at various venues around Hull.
Hull Trinity Festival Rebooted
Live music – local and regional acts playing at various venues around Hull city centre:
Trinity Festival Rebooted harks back to the early days of Hull Trinity Festival, which HullBID established in 2012 and saw a selection of bars in the Old Town host live music during the last weekend in July.
Celebrating the best in local and regional talent, the festival concluded with a large scale event in 2017 as part of the City of Culture programming.
This year, we are going back to its original roots, with various bars throughout Hull city centre the venues for an array of live music ranging from solo acoustic to full bands, over the last weekends of September, November, January and March. You’re welcome to stay in one venue or move around and sample the delights of all of them, and there’s no entry charge so indulge in a drink or two!
Venues involved below:
The Sailmakers
Scale and Feather Bar
Savile Row Bar Hull
Monroe’s Bar
Hull Cheese
The Dram Shop
Cherry’s
Humber Dock Bar
Ye Olde Black Boy
Vintage Bar Hull
Crown & Cushion
Vibe Bar Hull
The Star Hull
Drum & Cymbals and
Cymbals – the new extension to Drum & Cymbals.
The Compass
‘The Compass’: A light spectacular journey of Discovery at the Humber Science Festival.
Step into the captivating world of The Compass, an awe-inspiring spectacle that seamlessly blends story, sound, and light to redefine how we perceive scientific research and its profound impact on our lives.
Join us at the Humber Science Festival, after dusk from the 7th to 9th of September, as we project ‘The Compass’ from C4Di, across the mouth of the River Hull onto the side of The Deep.
Hull Horror Fest 2024
TV/Film guests, artists, authors, and photo ops and loads of horror-themed stalls at Hull Horror Fest.
Saturday 26th October at Costello Stadium Hull.
It’s like a comic con with a horror twist.
Don’t miss out!
Hulloween Steampunk Festival
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.
Vegetarian Cheese Festival
Vegetarian cheese festival at the Hop and Vine on Bank Holiday Monday.
All the cheeses use vegetarian rennet.
Best of ‘Ull
Hull is funny! Prepare for laughter as a selection of Hull’s comedy talent return for our annual “Hullarious” showcase, for one-night-only! Come and join Hull’s multi-award winning comedians to see what everyone is laughing about!
Beat The Heat
For the very first time in the city!
Young Persons Event
Beat the Heat!
Move with the beat of the music and get involved with different activities!
Exclusively for 11 -16 year olds
Wednesday 26 July 2023 at Zebedee’s Yard, Hull
Just turn up at any time between 2pm and 6pm!
What’s on offer………
- Local bands
- Create your own Tick Tock videos
- Silent Disco
- Clothing Swap*
- Inflatable Photo Booth
- Street Art Activity
- Fire Show
- Glitter Bar
- Circus Skills workshops
And much more!
*bring up to 5 items of clothing to refresh your wardrobe!
Festival of Remembrance
The 2023 Royal British Legion Festival of Remembrance will be led by Humberside Police Band supported by a variety of musicians and singers from around Hull and the East Riding and Cadets from local uniformed services.
We look forward to welcoming you once again to Hull City Hall for what promises to be a wonderful evening of music in support of the Poppy Appeal.
Heritage Open Days – Old Town Festival
Have you ever wondered why we renovate some medieval buildings but others become ruins? The key is people.
Holy Trinity Church, now Hull Minster, dates back 738 years, and it is still in use today by the people of Kingston upon Hull. At one time, everyone who lived in Hull could fit inside!!!
Join us on Heritage Open Days when the building will come alive with activities for all ages. From treasure hunts, tower tours, a heritage fair, face painting, and free craft stalls where you can try out heritage activities,
Throughout the day our programme of entertainment includes:
Morris Dancers,
The Town Crier,
The Police Band,
Punch and Judy,
Regency Dancing
Vista Festival 2023 – Princes Avenue
Vista Festival is Hull’s biggest free street festival, a locally organised event that takes place on Princes Avenue every year!
Telling Tales Of Tudor Hull
Nearly 500 years ago Hull was so important that King Henry VIII visited the place twice and commanded that new defences be built on the east bank of the River Hull.
At the King’s expense Hull Castle, two Blockhouses and a long defensive wall were built in the short time of two years.
Around 150 years ago the tales behind these Tudor defences began to fade away. Since 2017 the people of Hull have started to uncover these stories again and now it is your time to get involved.
For one weekend at the end of July, people from across the city will meet at the site of South Blockhouse to get creative and help tell the amazing story of Tudor – and later – Hull. At this event you will be able to:
- Talk to archaeologists to learn about the stories behind the South Blockhouse.
- Handle real artefacts from the site.
- Find out more about Hull’s maritime past.
- Find out what it was like to navigate the Humber Estuary during Tudor times.
- Make your own model sailing boat and test its seaworthiness in the drainpipe channel challenge.
- Set forth into the past by playing the time travel role playing game Timefort 1555.
- Have a taste of Tudor food.
- Make your own Scrap Store inspired Tudor clothing.
- Write a postcard story and tell your Tudor Tale.
Back To Life Festival
Travel back in time as actors portray the people of our monuments, telling their amazing and quirky stories throughout the day. With stories for all ages, there will be something to learn for all the family! Say hello to John Alderson and Agnes Bedford and Frank Appleyard through poetry, plays, stories and song, all performed as you wander around!
We’re recreating the scene of a medieval chapel where you can experience what it would have been like in 1458 when Agnes Bedford was laid to rest. We’ll explore the story of her life, death and later discovery in the 1800’s and the search to find her identity in 2020.
You’ll be able to see some of the archaeology from Castle Street Burial Ground which link Appleyard and Alderson and find out what city life was like for them when they were alive in the 1800’s.
Grave robbing was rife with bodies used for medical research. With thanks to the Thackrey Museum, we provide a glimpse of medical practice throughout history. John Alderson, a pioneer in medical innovation was crucial to improving the health conditions within Hull. As a tribute to him, we are providing a chance to see some of the major medical advances and history from the last 400 years.