LTP sponsors ‘Reimagining Hull’, the Royal Town Planning Institute Yorkshire’s annual lecture and reception.
Local Transport Projects (LTP) has sponsored the Royal Town Planning Institute (RTPI) Yorkshire’s Annual Lecture and Reception, which is being held in Hull.
A powerful and emotive street performance drawing links between the slave trade and the repression of those living with a disability is taking place in Hull this Friday.
Slave to the Senses is a factual, contemporary and theatrical production performed by adults with learning difficulties.
The tastes, sounds and vibrant colours of India will be showcased in Hull next weekend as part of a spectacular celebration at City Hall.
Hull Indian Mela, on Saturday 16 September, will see performances from exotic and authentic dancers, as well as tasty and mouth-watering food served up by one of the city’s hottest restaurants.
A Hull-based movement is using creativity to increase awareness of mental health and get people talking about issues that many still find it difficult to discuss.
During 2017, Mad Pride is delivering 40 workshops across the city before taking the art to the street next Saturday (16 September) for a fantastic and colourful carnival.
A fantastic photography festival showcasing Hull starts next month before some of the images will take pride of place in watering holes throughout the city.
To submit a picture all you have to do is upload a photo to Instagram, Twitter or Facebook using the hashtag #Hullphoto2017
The amazing work of talented young artists in Hull will be projected onto The Warren building in the city centre during next month’s Freedom Festival.
Art Celebrating Equality is bringing young people together with award-winning artists through a wide range of workshops covering contemporary art, photography, digital illustrations, poetry, spoken word and shadow theatre at The Warren in Hull throughout August.
An exhibition inspired by gay cruising saunas and sex clubs that were closed by law during the AIDS crisis in the 80s and 90s will launch in Hull this month.
British artist John Walter will transform Artlink’s gallery space into a multi-media, multi-sensory and immersive show, exploring the relationship between visual culture and HIV today.
Hull will be heading back to the 70s next month for a nostalgic walk down memory lane as part of Hull UK City of Culture 2017, and organisers want you to be a part of it.
Why Couldn’t They be Like We Were on the Marfleet estate will look back at how things used to be back in the 70s and how things have changed since on Saturday August 26 between 12 – 3pm at Sure Start Children’s Centre.
Following their spectacular 50 Queers for 50 Years piece in the Pride in Hull parade this weekend, leading arts and performance company Duckie will return to Hull this Saturday (29 July) to present A Duckie Summer Tea Party.
Duckie helped kick off Hull UK City of Culture’s LGBT 50 celebrations in style this weekend at the first ever UK Pride. After taking up residency in Hull, Duckie spent the last couple of months working with members of the LGBT community to create 50 handmade LGBT+ icons.
Award-winning LGBT literary salon Polari returns to Hull later this month as part of Hull UK City of Culture’s LGBT 50 celebrations, and writers from the city are being invited to take part.
Following a hugely popular event in November 2016, Polari host and curator, critically-acclaimed Paul Burston brings his celebration of emerging and established LGBT writers back to Kardomah94 on Thursday 27 July at the invitation of Pride in Hull.
Greatfield in Hull will take centre stage this month with a string of fantastic exhibitions and events celebrating the Hull estate’s 60th birthday.
Greatfield’s month in the spotlight begins this week with Creative Aspirations – an exciting exhibition of art and craft work designed and created by the students of Aspire Academy.
Hull will soon be joining the likes of London, Edinburgh and Bath as a brand new city tour bus is announced.
The Hull Explorer will be an open top bus which will take visitors on a tour around the city centre’s most fascinating sights. Calling at the Cenotaph, Queen Victoria Square, the Wilberforce Monument, Old Town, the Museums Quarter, Hull Minster/Trinity Square, The Deep and the Marina, a tour guide will tell the story of the city, giving a fascinating insight into Hull, past and present.
A provocative and interactive art installation exploring barriers within our society is set to appear at Hull Minster throughout Hull UK City of Culture 2017’s Freedom Season.
The Electric Fence, inspired by the everyday experience of people facing hate crime around the world and the dark horrors that have resulted throughout history, will be open to the public at Hull Minster in Trinity Square from 4 July through to the end of September.
A group of lifelong football fans have worked together to ensure their beloved Hull City plays a part in the Hull UK City of Culture 2017 celebrations.
The group are putting the final touches to plans for an exhibition of classic Tigers’ kits, which will go on display from Monday 3 July.
Different generations are coming together to share their stories using art.
Young people in the Ings area of Hull have created a graffiti mural which will go on display as part of a creative and memorable pop-up exhibition this weekend.
Local artists are working with homeless people in Hull to examine why people within our society become abandoned and forgotten.
The unique art exhibition, part of Hull UK City of Culture 2017’s Creative Communities Programme, opens at St Mary’s Church on Sunday (June 25).
Tickets for the closing concert of a week-long celebration in Hull marking the 50th anniversary of sexual freedom in the UK go on sale on Friday (23 June).
Coinciding with Hull’s status as UK City of Culture 2017, the 50th anniversary of the start of decriminalisation of homosexuality in the UK will be marked with LGBT 50, presented by Hull 2017 in association with Sewell Group and supported by Spirit of 2012.
A new play that has been specially commissioned by Pride in Hull explores what it means to be a young LGBT person in the city.
Based on real-life, local stories, Lads & Lasses has been written by Aidan Thompson-Coates of Hull-based ApposArts and will be performed for the first time on Monday 24 July at Fruit in Humber Street as part of Hull UK City of Culture 2017’s LGBT 50 programme, a celebration of LGBT+ culture across the arts to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the partial decriminalisation of homosexuality in the UK.