ArtWaves has announced the return of the Open Air Painting Competition ‘Paint Out’ as part of the 2019 Festival offering in June 2019.
Paint Out encourages artists to brave the elements of the East Yorkshire Coast and put their plein air painting skills to the test for the chance of winning a £200 prize at the festival.
Following the recovery of a woman’s body yesterday afternoon (Wednesday, 20 March) from the Humber Estuary, Detective Superintendent Martin Smalley has issued the following: “A post-mortem examination commenced this afternoon and is continuing to be carried out this evening, however formal identification has now taken place and we can confirm the body recovered is that of missing woman Libby Squire. “Libby’s family have been informed and are receiving support from specially…
Difficult Women Of Burton Constable is a new exhibition for 2019 that tells the story of independent women who have helped to shape this historic house.
Society has long since seen those who fail to conform as ‘difficult’ or ‘meddlesome’. But were they truly difficult – or were they simply different?
Hymers College has appointed a new Headmaster to take one of the leading private schools in the North of England into a new era.
Justin Stanley joins Hymers from Hereford Cathedral School where he is Deputy Headmaster (Academic). He will take up the reins at the Hull co-educational day school at the beginning of the new school year in September.
Acclaimed composer Gavin Bryars and his Ensemble will be joined by singer and songwriter Gavin Friday for a performance of Nothing Like the Sun, Bryars’ commission for Opera North and the Royal Shakespeare Company, at the University of Hull’s Middleton Hall on 4 April.
The haunting, dramatic piece for chamber group and voices weaves Bryars’ music through eight of Shakespeare’s sonnets. The performers include Bryars himself on double bass, tenor John Potter, and American soprano Claron McFadden.
The Burton Constable Foundation has received support from the National Lottery Heritage Fund to increase its organisation resilience and sustainability.
Thanks to National Lottery players, the project aims to secure the future of Burton Constable by reviewing the effectiveness of the organisation, building capacity through adopting new ways of working, testing out ideas, increasing the skills of staff, volunteers and trustees and becoming more financially sustainable.
Enterprising youngsters have created a travel card making it easier and cheaper for young people to travel around the region.
The KAT Card, created by Hull’s Young People’s Parliament (HYPP), allows young people aged 19 and under to ride buses in Hull and parts of the East Riding for just £10 per week.
A rural company from Yorkshire says superfast broadband has transformed their business.
Cambrian Granite, which specializes in providing granite and quartz work surfaces to customers all over the UK, often found their systems crashing because a customer had sent them a file that was too big for their bandwidth to cope with.
Hull Trains gave its passengers and local key stakeholders a glimpse into the future of rail travel when a test version similar to its new £60m fleet visited the city.
Hundreds of people visited Hull Paragon Interchange on Friday to catch a first-hand glimpse of the state-of-the-art Hitachi Class 802 train.
In advance of the full programme release in early April, the ArtWaves Festival has today announced a special workshop by award-winning artist Richard Allen, as part of the fifth annual event taking place on Saturday 22 and Sunday 23 June 2019.
ArtWaves is a vibrant festival of traditional, digital, contemporary and urban art allowing artists from beginners to experts to try something different or master a skill in this year’s exciting programme of workshops, demonstrations, talks, exhibits and more.
Get It Loud In Libraries, a national organisation bringing some of the world’s most exciting bands and artists to libraries all over the UK is returning to Hull this weekend.
Post-punk trio Working Men’s Club will be performing at Hull Central Library on Sunday (10 March).
A new touring exhibition will open at Ferens Art Gallery, Hull on Saturday 4 May.
Is This Planet Earth? features curious life-forms and strange landscapes created by nine artists. In their sculptures, paintings, sound-art, performance art and videos, every colour and sensation is heightened – and it is all a bit sci-fi.
Major roadworks are set to get underway in Wymersley and Wold Road from Monday 4 March.
The work will be split into four phases, lasting over a period of ten weeks.
Humber Street Gallery, a contemporary art gallery has today announced its next programme of exhibitions for spring 2019.
Artists will exhibit their new ambitious work which has been commissioned by Absolutely Cultured. Work will be on display in at the popular Fruit Market gallery.
News that Hull City Council is to take action in relation to empty buildings in Hull has been welcomed by a local property developer.
David Shepherd, Director of Iguana Developments has invested £42M regenerating parts of Hull. He feels the council’s announcement will help bring properties in the city back to life.
The first names for this year’s Big Malarkey Festival, Hull’s annual children’s literature festival, have been announced.
The announcement follows the festival securing funding from Arts Council England and James Reckitt Library Trust, meaning the festival will return for at least the next two years.
Hull-based property firm, Iguana Developments has joined a scheme which enables students to undertake an innovative Degree Apprenticeship, to earn while they study for a University degree.
The dilemma of choosing between a degree or an apprenticeship is resolved with the opportunity for students to earn a salary and study for a degree with University fees funded by the Government Scheme. This aims to achieve a target set in 2015 to create 3 million new apprentices by 2020.
Boutique holiday park, Willow Pastures Country Park near Skirlaugh, announces today it is working with Cottingham based manufactures, Swift Group, to launch two brand new top of the range lodges.
The partnership will see the luxury holiday park expand its range of holiday lodges to include two luxury holiday lodges that will be exclusive to Willow Pastures Country Park.