Internationally renowned photographer Martin Parr will announce the winners of the Hull Beermat Photography Festival at Kardomah94 later this month.
Parr will reveal the 20 images that will be printed onto beermats throughout Hull, as well as giving a talk about his life and work.
Hull Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) is sending a shout out to men across the city to join local health professionals and expert speakers for a day dedicated to their health issues.
On November 8, 2017, NHS Hull Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) will be hosting a Men’s Health Information Day at the Britannia Royal Station Hotel, Ferensway from 9.30am until 3pm.
Bridlington Spa has announced Joanna Lumley OBE, FRGS as headline speaker for The Business Day’s return in 2018. The Business Day will take place on Friday 8 June 2018, with business networking at the heart of a day of discovery and insight.
The event in 2018 follows the successful inaugural sell-out event in June 2017, with 650 business leaders from across the region hearing from speakers such as Baroness Brady of Knightsbridge CBE and John Simpson CBE
East Riding of Yorkshire Council has announced that work to improve the nature trail around South Landing Local Nature Reserve is due to begin soon. The work will mean restricted access to the site until Christmas.
The surface of the nature trail has deteriorated over the past few years, resulting in the surface becoming rutted and unusable, especially for users of wheelchairs and families with pushchairs.
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.
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%.
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.
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.
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.
East Riding of Yorkshire Council and BAM Construction have been shortlisted in the best public service building category at this year’s Local Authority Building Control (LABC) Awards for Building Excellence.
The council’s building control and project and design management teams, working alongside BAM Construction, have been selected as a finalist for the impressive work undertaken on the new £25 million East Riding Leisure Bridlington development.
Around 100 delegates have attended a major rural tourism event to help make connections and grow their businesses.
Held at the Rix Pavilion, at Driffield Showground, the event encouraged those attending to network with each other and with a wide range of organisations that share the same aim of increasing the number of visitors to the area and celebrate locally produced food and drink.
An exhibition celebrating the history of Hull City is heading into extra time.
On The Road, the third and final instalment of the Tiger Rags exhibition at the Streetlife Museum, will showcase away and changed shirts through the years.
East Riding Leisure Driffield is to benefit from a complete refurbishment of the Tone Zone, starting in November.
The old equipment will be removed on the weekend of Saturday and Sunday 18 and 19 November, leading to two weeks of building work and the installation of the new equipment.
Hull Libraries has extended a competition inviting Hull’s youngest writers to have their work published in a new competition, sponsored by the J Venn Foundation.
The Venn Young Writers’ Competition is now open until Wednesday 8 November, in a bid to reach more young people across the city.
East Riding of Yorkshire Council is looking to recruit new foster carers for children from babies upwards.
The council is holding drop-in events in Bridlington and Hornsea where staff will be on hand to discuss what is involved in becoming a foster carer. Anyone interested in fostering is welcome to pop in for a chat and to pick up an information pack.
For one week only, the beautiful and historic Court Room at the Hull Maritime Museum will be transformed into a movie theatre screening a series of films relating to the sea and seafaring as part of the national Museums at Night.
This is a chance to see some much loved classics, family favourites and fascinating documentaries on the big screen in a magnificent museum setting. Screenings start on Saturday 21 October and run until Friday 27 October.