Microbes is the Ferens Art Gallery’s family-focused summer exhibition which opens on Saturday 18 May.
It promises to be an engaging sensory landscape of giant inflatable microbes, allowing children to learn more about microbes as well as have fun.
Following the release of the full programme, ArtWaves Festival is proud to be highlighting a brand new strand to the festival taking place on Saturday 22 and Sunday 23 June; The Environmental Project.
The festival recognises the need for a greater understanding of plastic pollution and the impact this is having on our seas.
Local people caught in the trap of expensive legal fees, and limited access to legal aid, are being successfully helped by a local legal eagle, David T. Wade.
Mr Wade, whose Student at Law business operates across the Humber, Lincolnshire and Yorkshire, supports clients in Hull, Goole, Grimsby, Scunthorpe, Selby and York as well as serving others across the UK.
A popular vegan market is returning to Hull’s Old Town this month.
Trinity Market hosted its first Trinity After Dark vegan market in February, with hundreds of people turning up to grab a bite of vegan food or browse one of the vegan-friendly pop-up stalls.
Hull’s award-winning international Freedom Festival, an established fixture on the national and international cultural calendar. It will return for its 12th year in 2019 with an extended and audacious arts programme spanning five days.
In an extraordinary celebration of art, community and humanity, artists and audiences from Hull and around the world will once again converge on the city, transforming it into a world of wonder, to feast upon a world-class programme of art and a festival as unique as the city to which it is anchored.
A woman from Hull has been fined £200 after a man she hired through Facebook to take away her rubbish dumped it near Skirlaugh.
A streetscene enforcement officer from East Riding of Yorkshire Council was called to investigate a report of fly-tipping found in a layby off the A165 between Skirlaugh and Coniston on 9 April this year.
Residential developers, Queensway Properties will host an open day to showcase their unique apartments at Garden Village Shopping Centre on Saturday, 4 May 2019.
The event will recreate the Reckitt family’s original opening ceremony of the Garden Village development which took place in the 1900s.
Grab your picnic blanket and head down to the coast as Bridlington Kite Festival returns bigger and better for 2019!
Beautiful and vibrant kites will be soaring high over Sewerby Fields on Saturday, 18 and Sunday, 19 May, flown by some of the world’s most internationally renowned flyers.
Two entrepreneurs want to help new companies in Hull grow after funding allowed their tree surgeon business to branch out.
Sarah Fenwick, 28, and Gareth Pennington, 29, have set up The Tree Fellas Hull, which specialises in tree-planting, pruning and felling.
Following the initial workshop releases, ArtWaves Festival is proud to be unveiling the full programme for the fifth visual arts event returning to Bridlington Spa on Saturday 22 and Sunday 23 June, with the ArtWaves Fringe commencing on Monday 17 June.
This year’s event will be the biggest visual art showcase yet, bringing traditional, digital, contemporary and urban art through a vibrant programme curated for all; from the experienced artist to those simply looking to get creative.
A boxer from Hull is will launch embark on his latest mission as he looks to improve the lives of young people in the area.
Tommy Coyle will officially roll out his Box Cleaver Bus on Thursday 25 April. His goal is to help young people from across the Humberside and East Yorkshire region.
Buoyed by the success of the 2018 event, the Fete in the Field Festival returns to the Shiptonthorpe, East Yorkshire playing fields for 2019 with a Wild West theme.
The fourth Fete in the Field festival takes place on June 29 at The Playing Fields, Station Road, Shiptonthorpe and will feature daytime entertainment from acts including the Lonestar Old West Re-enactment Group, Starbrite Studios, local singer-songwriter Rachel Makena, the East Riding Rock Choir and Driffield’s cigar box maestro Dogfinger Steve.
Lulu still has plenty to shout about as she embarks on another mammoth tour of the UK, including Bridlington Spa on Wednesday 16 October.
A singer, songwriter, actress, national treasure are all labels that have been attributed to Lulu.
Maintaining the general stonework of such an iconic building as York Minster requires a regular supply of stone for the masons and carvers to create replacement ornate features for this landmark church building.
This vital job falls into the hands of the first Isuzu Grafter Green to be run by York Minsters’ own stoneyard.
Specsavers in Hull has just invested £40,000 in 3D scanning technology. The new technology allows optometrists to view the eye in more detail than ever before.
The Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) machine is a cutting-edge piece of equipment. It is usually found in hospital eye departments.
Local MP Emma Hardy says she is utterly appalled and what teachers are telling with regard to school funding.
The MP for Hull West and Hessle comments come following a survey which detailed the funding crisis within our schools.
Ferens Art Gallery has acquired a painting by one of the region’s most celebrated artists with a generous grant from Art Fund.
The stunning triptych – a canvas in three parts – is called, Portrait of a Woman, and was recently displayed at the gallery as part of the exhibition, Ian McKeever: Paintings 1992-2017.
Fly-tipping incidents in Hull are falling rapidly, according to new figures released by Hull City Council.
Reports of illegally dumped waste made to Hull City Council stood at 5,795 in the past year. This is 368 fewer than the 6,163 in the previous year. While it is 1,932 fewer than the 7,727 in 2016/17.