Come and join the Geek Experience at Trinity Market on Saturday 30 March.
Entry is free
Event Categories: Festival
Pride In Hull 2026
The region’s biggest LGBT+ Pride celebration returns for 2026 to celebrate its 25 Anniversary.
Pride in Hull will be blazing rainbows across the city – you’re welcome to the party.
More details coming soon!
The Mini Malarkey Festival
We know that the winter months can be dull and dreary, so to brighten your school half-term holiday Hull Libraries’ Big Malarkey Festival Team have something very exciting planned… the very first Mini Malarkey Family Festival!
Tickets are free and activities will include many favourites from The Big Malarkey Festival, and some very special Malarkey surprises…
- Mambo Jambo
- Rewilding Youth
- Makerspace Team
- Hull Museums
- Make It, Take It
- Drawalong
- Steve Weatherill
- Humber Drum Circle
- Mike Covell
- Hull Truck Theatre
Tribfest 2025
Friday 15th – Sunday 17th August 2025
Thursday Early Entry 14th August
A tribute festival filled with family, friends and a line up of dreams, guaranteed to be the best weekend of your summer!
As well as two stages of world-class tribute bands, we’ve got loads more entertainment across several other stages too!
Including The Unsigned Marquee, Acoustic Marquee, Laughing Bull Comedy Marquee, Silent Disco / Bono’s Music Barn and the Kidzone. Plus we have a range of retail and catering outlets across the site so there’s plenty to keep everyone happy!
Our festival facilities are some of the best in the country; winning ‘Best Event’ in REYTA Awards 2023, ‘Contribution to the East Riding’ at the Hull Live 2021 Business Awards in addition to ‘Best Entertainment/Leisure Venue 2018 – 2020’ in the East Riding of Yorkshire Best Bar None Awards.
All weekend tickets include free camping and free parking!
Please visit our website for more information on the line up, our facilities and accommodation options etc.
Heritage Open Days 2025
The largest heritage festival in England is back for 2025!
Heritage Open Days takes place between 12th – 21st September 2025 with many events arranged for you to enjoy.
All events are FREE, with talks, open days, walks and tours.
Download the programme here 👉 HODS in Hull 2025
Comic Con Mania
Expect celebrity guests from film & TV, cosplay, gaming, anime, manga, prop & set recreations, board gaming, trade stands, comics, interactive Q&As & more!
Humber Street Sesh 2025
The award-winning Humber Street Sesh returns to Hull Marina in 2025, headlined by anthemic alternative/indie band The Howl & The Hum.
The festival showcases over 100 acts and provides a platform for regional emerging artists and musicians, and critically acclaimed breaking bands from further afield.
Joining them on the bill as headliners across other stages are notable national and regional acts, each bringing their unique sound to the festival. including: Nottingham’s Alt/Country 4-piece Divorce, Yorkshire’s latest alt-pop truth-teller Fiona-Lee, Liverpool’s soulful rock ‘n’ roll sensations Casino, And the ferocious electro-party punk of Hull’s own Jodie Langford.
Also on the lineup: Divorce, Fiona-Lee, Casino, Avalanche Party, DeafDeafDeaf, Downtown Kayoto, Hungry, Pleasure Centre, Westside Cowboy, Romy Taylor.
Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols
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.
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!