Middleton Hall presents Madame Fate, a mysterious fortune teller, has foreseen her own demise at midnight this very day. She has asked for your help in investigating each quirky carnival worker to determine their whereabouts at midnight.
The story is told with highly energetic Commercial Dances throughout.
In his intimate and highly-anticipated debut hour, Rich Hardisty (Channel 4, Netflix, BBC) takes us on a journey through the highs and lows of his unusual life.
Expect anecdotes and observations about momentous movies, missing dads and mania, all from his warm, inquisitive, childlike perspective. Rich tries to convey what mental illness looks and feels like, celebrating the beauty and silliness of it all.
As an accompaniment to ‘Home Is So Sad’ the first ever Philip Larkin Exhibition to be held at Beverley Art Gallery, join local poets and writers Vicky Foster and Chris Sewart, together with the Mechanicals Band from Larkin’s home city of Coventry, in a creative look at Larkin’s poetic legacy.
The whole evening is ‘a joyous shot at how things ought to be’, a line taken from Larkin’s poem ‘Home is so Sad’, but this time daring to be optimistic!
Chis Sewart lives in Beverley and is a creative writer and poet. In 2019, he won the Philip Larkin Poetry Prize at the East Riding Festival of Words for his poem, ‘Fencing Project’ and in 2022 won the Adult Gold Prize for ‘Peak District – June 1995’.
A hilarious skewering of the alt-right with: leader of the Regain Party, freedom fighter/icon, agitator extraordinaire, host of the TripadPfizer podcast, and professional feather ruffler, Lucinda Spragg.
Featuring songs, poetry, interviews and ramblings.
Written and performed by Grace Millie and directed by Kieran Dee (Offie Nominee 2022). Most recently performed as part of The Pleasance ‘Best of Edinburgh Comedy’ season.
One Thursday a month, Humber Street Gallery, will be showcasing new commissions relating to the themes of exhibitions on display in the venue. Art inspires art and these regular events will take many forms; dance, music, spoken word, performance art and more.
Hull based instigator, Michael Barnes-Wynters (MBW) delivers a response to Hetain Patel’s exhibition Baa’s House, including a performance in the preparation, cooking and offering of a designed dhal with chapatti for all attendees, aided by his collaborator Emma Diamond. SALAAM! is an ongoing series of peaceful interventions exploring otherness.
A physical print provocation titled Curry Empire will be the evening’s ‘takeaway’ mindfood, it includes an editorial about the word curry and its origins, a dhal recipe, a SALAAM! playlist and images from MBW.
An accompanying SALAAM! soundtrack has been created by Emma Diamond and Michael Barnes-Wynters.
Join us at the Central Library with your child or children for Storytime and rhymes.
Sessions are every Thursday morning (term time only), at 9:45am – 10.30am.
You don’t need to buy a ticket, just turn up.
We look forward to seeing you there!
Star of radio, T.V. and school assemblies, is coming back to the East Riding Theatre with a clutch of new verses a few older favourites and a cardboard camel with a moving jaw.
The biscuits in the show derived from a phrase used by Romantic Poet, John Keats:
“a scarcity of biscuit” – not the sort of phrase or spelling you expect from a romantic poet.
The show delves into the more eccentric side of Keats, alongside everyday goings-on in the Hegley homes of now and yesteryear. Includes 7 drawings of elephants, myths discos, daleks, optional community singing and the search for a sense of self-worth. Designed more for adults, but suitable for the odd nin-year-old, The show won a ‘Lustrum Award’ at the Edinburgh Festival 2022, even though there are no biscuits.
The legend Dean Wilson returns with another ALL-NEW secret line-up of the best live acts Hull has to offer. Expect to be surprised, amazed and (occasionally) mildly impressed.
It you’ve not been to a Deanworld show before, you won’t know what to expect; if you have, then you know to expect the unexpected.
An evening for lovers, the lonely, the lost and the lusty*
*Lustiness subject to licence
Steve Backshall’s new show Ocean is a love letter to the most exciting environment on our planet – and a great way to learn more about what we need to do to save our seas. Stunts, experiments, props, cutting edge science and big screen footage from his two decades in TV, will all help Steve to bring the icons of the Big Blue to life.
From great whites to great whales, seals to sardine shoals, Orca to the oddities of the deep: this is a fantastic opportunity for fans of all ages to dive deep into the wonderful world beneath the waves. A must-see for all the family!
THE GODS THE GODS THE GODS is the third show in the internally acclaimed series of Myths from the two ‘masters of storytelling’ (Fourth Wall) Wright&Grainger. Following their multi-award winning tellings of ORPHEUS and EURYDICE, Wright&Grainger call us to the crossroads where mythology meets real life.
Performed as a 12-track album, THE GODS THE GODS THE GODS is an exhilarating weave of big beats, heavy basslines, soaring melodies and heart-stopping spoken word.
The 65-minute show weaves together 4 stories: Two kids meet out dancing, they’re set to fall hard; A woman is on a beach, alone at night, looking at the stars; A bloke is on a bridge, thinking about jumping, just before dark. It’s a show about what we continually look for outside of ourselves, and what we might find in those people who surround us.
Hull Truck Theatre, 29 June, 2023
These two monologues, originally written for television by Alan Bennett; one of Britain’s best-loved and most highly acclaimed writers, are brought to life live on stage by ONE OFF PRODUCTIONS. Their stories are poignant, hilarious, sometimes sad and occasionally uplifting. They showcase Bennett’s sharp powers of observation, comic timing and exquisite turn of phrase. Alan Bennett may be regarded as a national treasure, but that title belies the darker, sinister and more satirically barbed nature of his work.
A Chip in the Sugar – Performed by Jamie Wilks
A Grown man, alone and still living at home Graham enjoys a safe and uncomplicated life with his mother. That is until Frank, Mam’s old flame, makes an unexpected and utterly unwelcome reappearance.
Bed Among the Lentils – Performed by Jackie Rodgers
Susan is a vicar’s wife who doesn’t necessarily believe in God, an alcoholic who steals the communion wine and whose floral displays are never up to much. But when she begins to buy her sherry from the handsome Leeds grocer Ramesh, life begins to look a little less ordinary.
Join in every Thursday with the popular Yada Yada Yada Open Mic Night at Off The Road – Live Lounge.
Time for sparks to fly at Wrecking Ball Arts Centre as poets included in the new Grist Books’ anthology We’re All in it Together: Poems for a DisUnited Kingdom, alongside Michael Stewart, the author of Four Letter Words, Killing The Horses author John Newsham and Roger Hyams, author of The Lightman System, come together on Guy Fawkes Day and Bonfire Night to provide audiences with literary fireworks. All of the poets and authors appearing produce work that goes off with a bang.
With readings from:
Michael Stewart
Steve Ely
Safia Khan
Gaia Holmes
Jim Greenhalf
Aamina Khan
John Newsham
Roger Hyams
The event will also include short films made based on short stories contained within Four Letter Words, Q&As with the writers, a chance to get up close, personal and ask the important questions of poets and authors and an opportunity to buy books. The event will close with a panel discussion.
We’re All in it Together explores the fault lines of national and regional identity and the rupture precipitated and exposed by Brexit. What does it mean to be ‘British’ now? Is it possible for the Kingdom to become United? Is it even desirable? It’s the poetry collection that Guy Fawkes would have wanted.
Four Letter Words – Bold, gritty and blackly comic, Michael Stewart’s new collection of short fiction, Four Letter Words, explores twin contemporary urban dystopias: work and home.
Killing The Horses – Killing The Horses is rooted in the landscape and dialect of West Yorkshire and fuses realism with the mythical. It brings the macabre and darkly-religious world of the American Southern Gothic to the north of England.
The Lightman System – “A superb novel – beautifully, beautifully written and with such heart-breaking truth and insight. Time is both cruel and kind, chance is more cruel than kind, and trying to defeat both is hard. This novel is a supreme example of how fiction can tell this story.” – Stephen Fry
Literary Fireworks will take place during the afternoon of November 5 and will run into the evening. The full line-up, additional guests and event schedule will be released soon.
Inspired by the Rugby League World Cup strapline “The Power of Together” artist and poet Robert Montgomery has joined forces with Emergency Exit Arts and eight leading poets, to create four, striking, double-sided light poems. ‘The Power of Poetry’ has been created in collaboration with poets Malika Booker, Vicky Foster, Jackie Kay, Zaffar Kunial, Sinéad Morrissey, Jacob Polley, Shane Rhodes and Louise Wallwein.
The poems will journey across the North of England stopping off at locations in and around Rugby League World Cup host cities, from civic squares, to stadiums, libraries to local rugby league clubs. Keep an eye out for the poems in Hull.
Hull dates, times and locations are as followed:
Tues 18 October 4pm-10pm in Queen Victoria Square
Wed 19 October 4pm-10pm on Humber Street and Hull Marina
Thurs 20 October 4pm-10pm on Humber Street and Hull Marina
Fri 21 October 4pm-10pm in queen Victoria Square
Sat 22 October 5pm-11pm at The MKM Stadium
Tickets are now on sale! We have another fantastic line-up for you this year, from the thrilling to the heart-warming, deep discussions and long journeys. Save money with a day pass for our popular espionage and crime themed day on Saturday, 15 October and the bestsellers day on Saturday, 22 October.
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