Tickets are now for a feast like no other. Homegrown in Hull, you’re invited to sit, share and feast amongst a fantastical performance in this year’s FEASTival.
The theatrical community feast will take place on Sunday 3 September as part of this years’ 10th anniversary Freedom Festival and is set to be a gastronomic event like no other.
As the city’s calendar of spectacular arts and cultural events has gained rapid momentum, so has the wide variety of produce which more than 100 volunteers, growers, community groups and allotment sites across Hull and the East Riding have spent the first part of the year growing. Once harvested, a group of talented local chefs will prepare a feast to be reckoned with.
In two sittings, at 4pm and 6pm, on the closing day of this year’s Freedom Festival, Freedom FEASTival ticket holders will share in the delight of locally grown and cooked produce, eaten as part of a true community feast.
Festival Gardens situated in Queens Gardens, Hull, will host the feast, with a theatrical, artistic programme of entertainment for FEASTival-goers to enjoy while they eat.
Mikey Martins, Artistic Director and Chief Executive of Freedom Festival Arts Trust, said: “This year’s feast sits amongst what is going to be a beautiful artistic programme. By bringing people together to share food at the end of what is set to be a carnival of colour and fun, we hope it will inspire more people to grow food, cook it from scratch, make friends and catalyse new projects. The feast will be delicious, in every sense, how it looks, tastes, smells and sounds. We can’t wait.”
Freedom Festival Arts Trust in partnership with Hull Harvest Feastival and Keepmoat Homes, are working together to deliver an event that will celebrate the abundance of the harvest grown by the people of Hull and surrounding areas.
Kate Macdonald at Hull Harvest Feastival, said: “Throughout the year, a city-wide growing project has been taking place to grow vegetables to be harvested in time for this event. The commitment and care that has been given has been astonishing. We’re eager to see the final crop and what the talented chefs create for the many plates.”
The Hull Harvest Feastival, now in its third year, is a DIY community event that everyone can play a part in creating. It takes hundreds of people to make the feast happen, whether that is growing food, promoting the ‘sow-a-row’ and veg pledge campaign on an allotment site or helping out on the day. For the biggest, locally grown feast in the city, there is no doubt it is worth the effort.
The feast – sponsored by Associated British Ports (ABP), Coletta and Tyson and William Jackson Food Group – is part of a wider programme of outdoor arts, circus, interactive installations and workshops where thousands of people will come together in a celebration of people, cultures and community.
Tickets are free and are available from Hull Box Office.
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