Year ten students from Hull are set to have their artwork showcased at the world-famous Somerset House in London.
A group of 24 talented art and design students will travel to the capital on Saturday 17 and Sunday 18 June as the culmination of a year of weekly sessions held at Hull School of Art and Design (HSAD), funded by Hull UK City of Culture 2017.
A colourful and multi-cultural event will mark the first public event of the Lord Mayor’s civic year.
This popular annual gala will take place this Saturday (10 June), welcoming the new Lord Mayor into their role and is set to bring a blaze of colour, music, dance and fun activities to Queens Gardens in Hull’s city centre.
The Albemarle Music Centre is celebrating Hull UK City of Culture 2017 by opening its doors so that people can enjoy, experience and learn music – some for the first time.
The workshops – part of Hull 2017’s Creative Communities Programme – are taking place on selected Saturdays throughout the year.
The Tidal Waves beach music Festival in Bridlington this weekend (Friday 9 and Saturday 10 June) event has now added a second venue – The Spa Gardens, on Saturday.
The newly – announced schedule of music at the Spa Gardens on Saturday is:
Expert shipping lawyer Gordon Sewell has taken his career a step further by joining Hull firm Williamsons Solicitors’ civil litigation department.
He will provide maritime law expertise along with civil litigation and defence advocacy after working for two other firms over the past 12 years. He is also targeting more commercial business.
Participants in Hull’s Shared Lives scheme, where families care for an adult with a disability in their own home, have urged others to consider getting involved. Shared Lives is a chance for people to share their home with an adult who needs support and would otherwise be in residential care.
Those who become Shared Lives carers are carefully matched with the person they look after and receive full training and financial support. They also have access to the network of professionals behind Shared Lives, who provide practical help and advice at every stage of the process.
At the first weekend in June, T Sport Racing attended the third round of the British Truck Racing Championship at the high-speed circuit in Thruxton near Andover.
On early Friday morning, the team was among the first ones to be all set for a great race weekend on UK´s fastest circuit. Due to noise restrictions, however, neither they nor anyone else were able to practice or test their set-up until Saturday morning.
Undeterred by last year’s inclement weather, organisers of an outdoor folk and acoustic music festival are planning a bumper event and hoping for brighter weather for the 2017 festival.
The second Folk in the Field festival takes place on June 24 at The Playing Fields, Station Road, Shiptonthorpe.
A 24-foot ark is set to be built in Trinity Square as part of a fantastic festival in Hull. Noah, as well as other tales, will be recreated at a family festival at Hull Minister on Saturday June 24.
The festival – part of Hull UK City of Culture 2017’s Creative Communities Programme -will feature a 400-year-old medieval version of Noah directed by Philip Crispin, expert in Medieval Theatre at the University of Hull,
Born under the stars of punk, Dada, Fluxus and hacktivism, WORM is the blue-blooded hyperactive child of an impossible love between avantgarde recreation, DIY and sustainability.
Based in Rotterdam, their mission is to separate the cultural wheat from the artistic chaff through the staging of a motley collection of concerts, film screenings, lectures, music, research libraries, performance and general anarchy.
London’s award-winning celebration of emerging and established LGBT writers, Polari, returns to Hull in July at the invitation of Pride in Hull as part of Hull UK City of Culture 2017’s LGBT 50 celebrations, presented in partnership with the Sewell Group.
Following a hugely popular event in November 2016, this highly acclaimed literary salon, hosted and curated by critically acclaimed author Paul Burston, will be held in the city once again at Kardomah94 on Thursday 27 July.
A unique and intimate exhibition capturing the history of Hull’s fishing community has opened i the ciity.
The Hessle Roaders: Hull’s Fishing Community by Dr. Alec Gill MBE will be on display at Hull History Centre throughout June, before the two men behind the exhibition hope they can take it worldwide.
An outline planning application has been submitted to East Riding of Yorkshire Council by developer Sewell Group for the Yorkshire Energy Park, a large-scale industrial development on the former aerodrome at the edge of Hedon and adjacent to Preston South.
One of the city’s proudest and most exciting theatre festivals will be topped off next week with a special performance telling the story of one of Hull’s most creative and diverse communities.
Newland Avenue’s Assemble Fest takes centre stage on Saturday June 3 with show-stopping performances from the best local theatre companies in unlikely spaces.
Humberside Police have charged a following a hate crime that took place in the during the bank holiday weekend.
44-year-old Martin Alan Warhurst of Duesberry Street, Hull has been charged with racially aggravated harassment following an incident on Ferensway, Hull in the early hours of Sunday 28 May.
Humberside Police and Crime Commissioner Keith Hunter has announced Lee Freeman as the preferred candidate for Chief Constable of Humberside Police following the recent selection process.
Grimsby-born Mr Freeman (48), who is currently Temp. Deputy Chief Constable of the Force will now attend a confirmation hearing with the Humberside Police and Crime Panel in June. In the interim period before the hearing Mr Freeman will assume command of the Force with Garry Forsyth reverting to his role as Deputy Chief Constable with immediate effect.
Over 200 schoolchildren are getting ready to take to the stage at Hull City Hall on Monday 5 June when they come together for Opera North’s Big Sing.
The younger singers are being supported by 2017 Hull UK City of Culture and come from three primary schools in the city: Gillshill Primary School, Ings Primary School and Thanet Primary School; they are joined by Year 7 and 8 pupils from Baysgarth School in Barton Upon Humber, together with pupils from Opera North’s Singing Schools: Adelaide Primary School, Kingswood Parks Primary School and Bude Park Primary School.
A full house for OUR HOUSE has been announced, with street dancing sensation George Sampson confirmed to join the UK Tour of the Olivier Award-winning musical, at Bridlington Spa Monday 16 to Saturday 21 October.
Having won the second season of Britain’s Got Talent with his interpretation of Singing in the Rain, George has gone on to star in major films (Street Dance 2 and Street Dance 3D) and regular roles in Emmerdale (ITV), Waterloo Road (BBC), and Mount Pleasant (Sky). Playing the role of local bad boy Reecey, George joins previously announced cast members Deena Payne (Kath Casey), Jason Kajdi (Joe Casey) and Sophie Matthew (Sarah).