A flagship Hull UK City of Culture 2017 project will culminate next month with Land of Green Ginger Unleashed, a spectacular parade by masters of story-telling and street performance Macnas.
Renowned the world over for spell-binding experiences, Galway based Macnas’ impressive portfolio includes performances in China, Australia, San Francisco and most recently in Austin, Texas for SXSW Festival 2016. They’ve even brought the magic to the MTV Awards and to Wilderness Festival.
A Beverley Town Centre trader says she thinks North Bar Within is becoming the ‘independent boutique area’ of Beverley.
Trading from St Mary’s Arcade, Tyler & Black business owner Jane Tyler feels that what is happening in their part of Bevelrey is exactly what shoppers and visitors really want.
A moving new exhibition that highlights the effects of war and conflict on women and girls around the world is set to open at Humber Street Gallery.
The installation, called Torn, will be on display from Monday 6 November until Sunday 31 December and features photographs of wild poppies that have been picked, dried and torn apart by Beverley-based photographer Lee Karen Stow.
If like me you have a pet who becomes very distressed by the noise created by fireworks then 5 November really is a weekend you can do without.
With bonfire night falling on a weekend it should mean there will be less nights of fireworks to deal with as most people will be able to hold their celebrations over the weekend.
La Serenissima present Viva Vivaldi, a vibrant and buzzing concert of chamber music by Vivaldi and his close friends and rivals, on Thursday 2, November 2017 at 7.30pm at Toll Gavel United Church, Beverley.
Vivaldi wasn’t just a fine composer but also a legendary violinist in his own day as well and was said to have played ‘so high up the fingerboard that there was scarce room for the bow’.
Photos from the final night of the Beverley Blues Weekender which came to a conclusion at Beverley’s premier music venue, the Sun Inn. A packed house enjoyed a great night of live music featuring some of the best musicians in the region who took to the stage to perform.
Artists are to take over the Ferens Art Gallery, the home of Turner Prize 2017, for a unique evening of celebration, creativity and fun.
Turner//Return is a special late event, which will take place on Thursday 16 November and see the gallery transformed with live music, dance, film screenings, as well as workshops, tours and talks by artists, curators and writers.
Business leaders from across the region will be reflecting on the success of Hull 2017 while getting the first look at the county’s tourism strategy for the next five years when they attend next week’s annual tourism conference organised by Visit Hull and East Yorkshire.
Some 250 delegates will be attending Thursday’s (November 9) event at the Mercure Grange Park Hotel in Willerby and will hear from Fran Hegyi, executive director Hull 2017, and Matt Jukes, chief executive of Hull City Council, reflecting on all that has been achieved during City of Culture, before listening to industry expert Professor John Lennon, who will unveil VHEY’s new five-year tourism plan.
Public Health England (PHE) and the NHS’s joint Stay Well This Winter campaign has launched with the national flu vaccination programme, now available nationwide to all eligible people.
Last year in Yorkshire and the Humber, 38% of children aged 2-4 years were vaccinated, with children also offered the vaccine in school years 1, 2 and 3. The vaccine was also administered to 48% of people in at-risk groups and 72% of people aged 65 or older. Uptake by pregnant women nationally was 45%.
East Riding of Yorkshire Council’s Cabinet has approved free parking for the four weekends in December running up to Christmas.
The popular scheme, which the council has run for the past eight years, will apply to all council-run on-street and off-street car parks.
A visit to this fascinating country house at Christmas is the perfect chance to lift your spirits for the festive season ahead.
Meander upstairs and downstairs through 30 evocative rooms filled with fine art and furniture that will be transformed with seasonal floral displays, stunning decorations and garlands.
Bonfire Night will be going with a bang at the Potting Shed thanks to a fabulous professional fireworks display and a bonfire for customers to burn their own Guys on!
The bar will be lighting up the skies over Flemingate with two spectacular fireworks shows, starting at 8pm and 9pm, and offering free sparklers to anyone who wants to create their own mini version.
In November, The Treasure House Museum and Beverley Art Gallery are launching sessions for children under 5 and their families.
These will take place on four Thursday afternoons – 9, 16, 23 and 30 November, from 1:30-2:30pm in the Education Room.
Beverley Town Cricket Club is bidding to bag a massive cash boost from the Tesco Bags of Help initiative.
Tesco teamed up with Groundwork to launch its community funding scheme, which sees grants of £4,000, £2,000 and £1,000 – raised from carrier bag sales in Tesco stores – being awarded to local community projects.
Phoenix Dance Theatre will present their 2017 Mixed Programme at Bridlington Spa on Tuesday, 7 November, at 7.30pm.
They present a thrilling programme of work demonstrating the company’s internationally respected athletic power, emotional intensity and dynamic movement, including work by Douglas Thorpe, Aletta Collins and a new commission by Sandrine Monin, Calyx.
Campaigners opposed to changes to Sheltered Housing provision have been bolstered over the weekend with news that opposition to Council proposals is growing.
The consultation with residents closes tomorrow with those who are against the plans say residents through the East Riding are voicing their concerns.
Pupils at a primary school in Hull are a step closer to understanding what to do in a flood following a visit from the Environment Agency.
Year five students at Stoneferry Primary School took part in an interactive workshop where they engaged in a range of flood-related activities where they were taught which household objects can be the most useful in a flood and saw them using a geographic model to better understand how rivers flow.
HU17.net Magazine Issue 371 is out and available to purchase from Molescroft News on Woodhall Way.
This week’s issues includes photos from the Youth in Brass Concert, Masquerade Ball @ Lazaat Hotel and the Beverley Blues Weekender.