

Half-Term Fun Returns in Hull with Back to Ours
Hull's Back to Ours team will bring arts and culture to the city for the October half-term, boosted by funding from the Arts Council for another three years. The team will bring a free outdoor show to the North Point Shopping Centre, and the return of Australian circus giants Casus to Hull for their October festival next week. Back to Bransholme – a free, outdoor show in the car park of North Point – has been devised, produced and directed by the Back to Ours team. Borne out


Hull prepares for return of children's literature fest
Hull’s very own children’s literature festival will transform East Park into a world of stories and imagination. From Tuesday 25 June until Sunday 30 June, writers, poets, cartoonists, artists, illustrators, musicians and performers will gather in ‘Malarkey Park’ for The Big Malarkey Festival as imagination becomes reality for children and grown-ups of all ages. The festival is back for its third year - a legacy of Hull 2017 - and has attracted a host of national and local na


Heads Up achieves its first dozen Hull festivals
Hull’s Heads Up Festival returns for a 12th season from March 27-30 at various venues, including Hull Minster, Hull Central Library and Kardomah94. This season’s artistic programme includes The Paper Cinema’s Macbeth (March 29 & 30), Now Is The Time To Say Nothing (a collaboration between Syrian film-maker Reem Karssli, a group of young Londoners and artist Caroline Williams, on March 28-30) and Olivia Furber, Ramzi Maqdisi, 9T Antiope and Hannah Mason’s The Land’s Heart Is

kd lang launches UK tour in Hull
Canadian singer/songwriter k.d. lang will be coming to Hull's Bonus Arena on 13th July 2019.
This will be the first date of her UK tour to celebrate the 25th anniversary of her second solo album, “ingénue”, and she will be supported by Leonard Grigoryan. The album was nominated in five categories in the 1993 Grammy Awards and won the Grammy for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance for the single “Constant Craving”. This was her third Grammy Award and she went on to be awarded


Boxing drama starts regional tour
Delicate Flowers, a fast-moving Hull boxing play that punches above its weight, is starting a tour of the region this month. Written by Hull-based playwright Mark Rees and produced by his Single Story Theatre Company, Delicate Flowers tells the story of Barbara Buttrick, the young boxer and wrestler from Hessle, East Yorkshire, who fought adversity in her personal life in the 1940s and 50s to fight opponents in the ring. Narrated in the current day by Karen, a young Hull boxe


Invite to go "Back to Ours" for Hull Half-Term
A staple of the Hull Half-term calendar, Back to Ours is renowned for bringing acts from all around the world to stages in the hearts of Hull communities and this February is no different. These are the acts coming to the East Yorkshire city: New Perspectives’ The Giant Jam Sandwich. Based on the children’s book of the same name, how on earth are the inhabitants of Itching Down going to get rid of the four million wasps plaguing their village? There can only be one answer: wi


"Here Come the Boys" for a Bonus Trip to Hull
Three of the biggest rock stars of dance combine their incredible talents in a brand-new show. Watch Aljaž Škorjanec, Giovanni Pernice and Gorka Marquez, giants of the ballroom and Latin world battle it out on the dance floor, they will be visiting the Bonus Arena, Hull on 17th July 2019. The setting is a club, and the challenge is to find out who is the best on the dance floor! Tickets go on general sale on Friday 18th January at 10am They are here to impress, willing the au


Olly Murs books a visit to Bonus Arena
Pop superstar OLLY MURS is to bring his UK arena tour to Hull next year. Olly will take to the stage at the Bonus Arena on Tuesday, 21 May and tickets go on sale tomorrow, Friday 7th December, at 9am. After finishing second in the X-Factor in 2009, Olly Murs has shot to fame with a string of hit singles, huge selling albums and as a TV personality. Olly – who has been nominated for six BRIT Awards and two Ivor Novello awards – is known for the hits ‘Heart Skips A Beat’, ‘Danc


"Back to Ours" brings Half-Term Entertainment to Hull Venues
Hull's Back to Ours festival returns for the October 2018 half-term with a package of dance, theatre, music and comedy. Avant Garde Dance will be taking over Wilberforce Sixth Form College with the formidable Tony Adigun’s hip-hop reworking of the Dickens classic, Oliver Twist. Coming to the festival as part of their acclaimed UK autumn tour, Fagin’s Twist is the untold story of the notorious, complex, and perhaps even misunderstood villain. In his world, the streets are har


Box Office | August 2018
Jeannine Ridha presents a roundup of what's on in the Humber Region, including legendary comedian Bernie Clifton, a family festival in Cleethorpes and - just for Ted - Peppa Pig Live. Theatres:
www.visitcleethorpes.co
www.eastridingtheatre.co.uk
www.louthriverheadtheatre.com
www.bathshall.co.uk
www.plowrighttheatre.com
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