In this issue
Hull Dance Move Now workshops over the summer
These taster workshops will be running weekly as part of the Healthy Holiday Youth Activities and are being delivered by Holly Gibbs, Zoe Johnson and Eva Laurie. They will be using a range of dance styles and will also provide the chance for participants to feed into future plans for youth dance across the city. They are taking place at the following four youth centres:
Route One Youth Centre, Hall Road Primary School, Hall Rd, Hull HU6 8PP.
Tuesday Afternoon 2.30 pm – 3.30 27 July, 3 August, 10 August, 17 August, 24 August
Kingston Wesley Methodist Church, 882 Holderness Rd, Hull HU9 3LP (Maxlife Youth Project)
Wednesday 7 pm – 8 pm (6.45 pm – 8.15 pm) 28 July, 4 August, 11 August, 18 August, 25 August
Ainthorpe Children and Young People’s Centre, Ainthorpe Grove, HULL. HU5 9EB
5 sessions Thursday 2 pm – 3 pm, 29 July, 5 August, 12 August, 19 August, 26 August
Astra Youth Centre, 100 Barnstaple Road, Bransholme. HU7 4HQ
Thursdays 4 pm – 5 pm, 29 July, 5 August, 12 August, 19 August, 26 August, 2 September
Check out their new website for more information.
Humber Mouth: micro-commissions from Hull writers
We’re excited to be publishing new work from Andrew Hodgson, Jay Mitra, Michael Good and Louise Beech on Humber Mouth channels in July and August.
Thursday 12 August
Yellow by Louise Beech
Follow Humber Mouth on twitter and Facebook
City Arts Forum - more information for follow
Thursday 16 September, 2pm, online with captioning available.
City Arts News
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Complete the online form with your idea or development needs or email cityartsenquiries@hullcc.gov.uk
Hull City Council Grants to Arts
You may be eligible to apply for a grant of up to £5000 for activity that:
is within the Hull city boundary and open to the general public
serves an identified interest group
increases the range of art opportunities available to local communities
supports and celebrates cultural diversity
develops local artistic talent
promotes innovation and excellence
All applicants will need to demonstrate that they are working within Covid-19 restrictions and adhering to government advice.
Details of the grants scheme and the online form can be found on the Hull City Council website here.
Edward Grimoldby - Faustus: an outdoor production
Grants to Arts have match funded a successful application to Arts Council by projection artist Edward Grimoldby who is working with writer Josh Overton. He is developing a performance that involves a fusion of circus skills with family-friendly traditional pantomime within a modern adaptation of the classic story of Faustus. 6 circus skills workshops will also run, allowing children to safely learn the skills displayed within the show, with fabric & LED circus props. 2 writing workshops will also be held with University of Hull & showcasing adaptive scriptwriting practice.
Check out his website for further information.
Hull Dance
Dance Classes for People over 55 and living in Hull
Wednesday 11 August, 18 August and 25 August
Free
Why not join Hull Dance for 3 classes on Zoom over the summer? Connect your mind and body, relax and enjoy moving in the privacy of your own home. Great if you want to dance but are not quite ready to return to a community space yet. If you are interested email Keyna on info@hulldance.com
Classes are free to people living in Hull thanks to funding from the CCG, social prescribing.
To find out more and reserve your place email info@hulldance.com or check out their website
Rosie Kay Dance Company - 5 Soldiers
Edinburgh Drill Hall - Live Streamed Online
Tuesday 10 – Wednesday 11 August
10am, 12pm, 2pm, 6pm, Tickets £5
Following 5 Soldiers – The Body is the Frontline, Rosie Kay curates a series of live and hybrid panel discussions around freedom, security and warfare, examining if the new frontline is now being fought in our minds.
Check out their website for more information.
Missed out on National Youth Dance Festival? Go to U.Dance: On Demand
There are still a few weeks remaining to catch up on the incredible sessions from the U.Dance National Festival! All masterclasses and Q&As are available to stream online so please take a look or pass on the links to any young people who might like to dance with leading professionals or learn more about the dance industry by listening to one of the insightful Q&As. Watch the country's most creative youth dancers in short dance films in our U.Dance National Showcases.
Check out their website for more information.
Beach Body Ready is back with online showing
Shaving? Tanning? Over-exercising? Cabbage-souping? Starving? Don't bother. Grab your pals and your biscuits and watch Beach Body Ready.
It's the season of cutting carbs, hitting it hard at the gym and shaving everything from the chin down. Summer has rocked up and coerced us all into thinking about how awful our bodies are. We've been shamed, dehumanised and humiliated for how we look, and we've had enough. Beach Body Ready sees The Roaring Girls smash their way through ingrained fears, food insecurities and toxic advertising in this defiantly feel-good show which sticks two fingers up to everything the media says we should look like.
Created in The Roaring Girls semi-improvised style, Beach Body Ready blends impassioned rants with cheesy fitness routines, and live, informal chats with a beach trip on film, accompanied by a banging soundtrack.
Beach Body Ready is available to watch now until Wednesday 1 September. Tickets are pay what you can with a recommended donation of £5.
Check out their website to find out more.
Hull Truck Theatre welcomes an eclectic trio of shows ahead of its Autumn programme
A trio of shows including a rescheduled performance by singer songwriter Eliza Carthy MBE have been announced by Hull Truck Theatre ahead of its Autumn programme, kicking off on Friday 27 August. As well as the renowned folk artist, Hull’s fifteenth annual Freedom Festival will return to the theatre with shows from multi-award winning Sh!t Theatre and an endearing and funny kids’ show from Daryl Beeton productions.
Check out their website for more information and bookings.
Wrecking Ball's Film Club
Check out their website for more information.
Hull Independent Cinema
Like all cinemas HIC is currently closed due to Covid-19 situation. However just before they closed HIC had finalised their April to June season of films.
Although they can't share the films with audiences on a cinema screen, each week they are going to announce which film they had planned to screen, and let you know alternative ways to watch. They will also recommend another film that's connected with the scheduled one in some way.
For information on this week's films, visit the HIC website.
Out Now: Talitha Wing's debut collection
Talitha Wing's debut poetry collection The Things I Learnt And The Things I Still Don’t Know About is published today (July 26) by Wrecking Ball Press.
This debut poetry collection from writer and thrilling live performer of spoken word and poetry Talitha Wing will propel Talitha to prominence in the world of poetry and spoken word.
The honest, raw and intimate nature of the poetry in this debut will make a positive impact on your life.
Check out their website to find out more.
2021 International Literary Prize - Open for Entries Now
Creative writers in Hull and East Yorkshire are being invited to share their talents in the 2021 Hammond House Publishing International Literary Prize Competition, open to people who produce short stories, poetry, scriptwriting and, new for this year, song lyrics.
The closing date is Thursday 30 September and there is an entry fee.
Check out their website for more information.
Hull Bach Choir are intending to restart rehearsals on Monday evenings in September ‘21.
There are vacancies in all voices. Ability to read music is desirable.
You will be very welcome.
Check out their website for further information or email secretary@hullbachchoir.org.uk
Hull Choral Union are intending to restart rehearsals on Wednesday evening, 8 September ‘21 for a concert in Hull Minster in November '21.
There are vacancies in all voices. Ability to read music is not necessary
You will be very welcome.
Check out their website for further information and use the Contact Us page to register interest.
Tribfest 2021 is still on.
Friday 20 - Sunday 22 August.
Check out their website for more information and to book tickets.
Frank Turner, Ocean Colour Scene and Haçienda Classiçal to headline In The Summertime 2021
Friday 3 - Sunday 5 September, Hull’s Zebedee’s Yard
Frank Turner, Ocean Colour Scene and Haçienda Classical have been revealed as the headliners for this September’s In The Summertime weekend of gigs at Hull’s Zebedee’s Yard.
Check out their website for more information.
Legendary Haçienda DJ heads to Hull
Thursday 16 September, Wrecking Ball Arts Centre
Legendary Haçienda DJ and acclaimed writer, Dave Haslam, will be in conversation with Hull author Lucy Nichol to talk about the impact music has on our lives at an informal event. The writers will talk about how music has influenced their work and their lives – from clubs and venues to music and social tribes. There will also be an audience Q&A and exclusive book signing session, followed by a choice selection of music.
Expect fascinating stories, and entertaining revelations.
Tickets cost £5 plus eventbrite booking fee. Drinks and snacks will be available to buy from the bar following the event.
Check out eventbrite for more information.
Gigs take off at new Wrecking Ball Arts Centre
The doors of the first-floor venue at Wrecking Ball Music & Books, in Hull, opened for the first time in May with a reduced capacity and in-line with Covid-19 guidance and legislation and to ensure safe social-distancing for audiences.
Now re-christened the Wrecking Ball Arts Centre, a number of live music events have been announced for the coming months.
Hothouse Flowers frontman Liam O’Maonlaí plays an intimate solo show in our new venue on Saturday 9 October. Liam O’Maonlaí is one of the most talented, charismatic and soulful performers of Irish traditional music today. But his musical prowess goes beyond his own cultural roots with his amazing vocals and an array of instrumental mastery from piano to flute, harmonica to bodhran.
Check out their website for more information.
Nick Harper live at the Back Room
Friday 15 October, £5
The Back Room, Cottingham, HU16 4BB
Nick Harper is one the UK’s best kept musical secrets. Those who have witnessed the spellbinding, one-man show will tell you this. A childhood growing up surrounded by the musical prowess of some of the 60’s most revered songwriters & musicians, not to mention being son of Roy Harper, along with 20 years of crafting songs & touring the land has spawned a truly one-off, original guitarist & songwriter who stands alone as a UK great, to be cherished & revered.
Check out this website to book tickets
Check out this website for more information
YVAN survey
What is an artist's journey and why would you want to take it?
YVAN are calling out for artists in collectives, studios and networks to tell us what is needed and what works.
How do artists come together, and stay together?
What are networks survival techniques?
What are the systemic failures that need addressing?
Are the current support systems adequate or too competitive and divisive?
In order to improve support for visual artists across the region, They need a deeper understanding of how artists support each other, stay, and thrive in Yorkshire and Humber. They are asking for your valuable help here in gathering this knowledge through a short (2 minute) survey we have designed.
Check out their website for the survey.
Humber Street Gallery - Leo Fitzmaurice
Enjoy Civic Life
Until Thursday 5 September
Opening upstairs in Space 2, this newly commissioned collection of work takes inspiration from a collection of mounted plaques on display in Hull’s Guildhall. Fitzmaurice will explore our relationship with branding, identity, architecture, and the history of objects.
Check out their website for more information.
Tidal
Runs until Sunday 22 August. Open Wednesday – Sunday 11am – 4pm free
Studio Eleven Gallery, Humber Street, HU1 1TG
Exhibition featuring Susan Beaulah. Susan’s paintings capture and contrast the crystal-clear water of the River’s source through the idyllic rural England near Driffield, with the heavy, dark brown clay water of Hull itself. The paintings are executed in oils to achieve accurate colour and tone. Accompanied by Miray Mehmet Fontanelli’s beautiful moon jars.
Email address - info@studioeleven.co.uk
Check out their website for more information
Hull Truck Theatre Summer School Projects
Local young people are in for a treat as a week of Summer School projects return to Hull Truck Theatre
Secret Agent Academy (for ages 7 to 11) runs from 9 – 15 August and Play in a Week: The Forgotten Year (for ages 12 to 16) runs from 9 – 15 August. Cost for the week is £60 per participant for either project
Check out their website for more information and bookings.
If you have any questions, please contact our Creative Learning team at engagement@hulltruck.co.uk or call 01482 488209.
Arts Award Discover at Home
Families with children ages 5-11 can keep boredom at bay and get creative during the summer holidays with Arts Award Discover at Home. They could even get a certificate! Our activity videos and specially designed logbooks are still available to watch and download.
Check them out and share here.
Join in the Creative Voice Campaign and the Hull Dance consultation
Starting with an online conversation with young people and organisations about "How are you creative?
The campaign will give context to the current youth arts offer but is very much about asking questions, seeing how young people are creative and then moving forward to influence future art offers and events including the annual Youth Arts Festival as well as a long term ambition for a creative event where young people can find out about and influence their wider arts offer.
The conversation has now progressed to a discussion about an inclusive youth dance framework and inclusive principles.
Follow @youthartshull twitter and creativevoicehull facebook and get involved in the conversation.
Freedom Festival 2021
Friday 20 August - Sunday 5 September
This includes an online programme.
Check out their website for the detailed programme and bookings.
Tidal
Runs until Sunday 22 August. Open Wednesday – Sunday 11am – 4pm free
Studio Eleven Gallery, Humber Street, HU1 1TG
Exhibition featuring Susan Beaulah. Susan’s paintings capture and contrast the crystal-clear water of the River’s source through the idyllic rural England near Driffield, with the heavy, dark brown clay water of Hull itself. The paintings are executed in oils to achieve accurate colour and tone. Accompanied by Miray Mehmet Fontanelli’s beautiful moon jars.
Email address - info@studioeleven.co.uk
Check out their website for more information
2021 Open Exhibition
Until Sunday 3 October, free
Ferens Art Gallery, HU1 3RA
The annual Open Exhibition at the Ferens Art Gallery has celebrated the creativity of local amateur and professional artists since 1967. Each year the Open Exhibition provides an exciting opportunity for artists to display and sell artwork.
Email address - museums@hcandl.co.uk
Check out their website for more information
87 Gallery now open with Camilla Bliss and Gallery Explorers
Artllink Hull have launched their newly renovated Gallery, studio and shop on 87 Princes Avenue with an exhibition by Camilla Bliss.
Alongside the exhibition, they have launched 87 Gallery Explorers - new collectives for young people meeting weekly in their new studio space at 87, where they will learn new processes and the use of emerging technologies in Art & Design linked to their exhibition programme.
Check out their website for more information.
Hull College Art Walk
Until Sunday 5 September
Hull College building, HU1 3DG
This is the end of year exhibition by students at Hull College of Art and Design. Visitors are invited to follow a trail around the outside of the building where they can view student's work in individual window displays.
Email address: fineartgroup@hull-college.ac.uk
Check out their website for more information.
Exploring Art with Liz Dees
Weekly Wednesdays & Saturdays
Venue - Online via Zoom, 4 for £40
Learn practical drawing and painting techniques through a mixture of demonstrations and practice.
Telephone number - 07838394558
Email address - traenerhus@gmail.com
Check out their website for further information.
Saturday Zing - Singing workshops via Zoom
Weekly Saturday morning singing sessions run by community choir leader Clare Drury, via Zoom.
Clare is passionate about the value of singing for wellbeing, the positive health benefits of singing, the beauty of vocal harmony, and is keen to keep people singing in the community. She is running singalong sessions fortnightly on Saturday mornings (10:15am for 10:30 til 12 noon), via Zoom, with supporting materials online.
A variety of songs - from traditional folk, world, pop, contemporary and original songs are shared online for these sessions.
Contact Clare via email - SingwithClare@outlook.com for further information.
Feral Art School and Hull Dance set up home as former bank becomes creative hub
An art school led by a group of professional creatives has set up its own home for the first time in Hull’s historic Old Town, with support from one of the city’s leading companies, Wykeland Group.
Feral Art School was founded three years ago as a community interest company with cooperative values. Part of a growing network of alternative art schools, it encourages collaborative and individual work, offering introductory and more specialist courses for adults, including painting, textiles, print, fashion and photography, as well as staging student exhibitions.
The three-storey building will initially provide a base for Feral’s Supported Studios pilot project aimed at students who have completed painting courses and would like their own space to work both collaboratively and individually, with weekly tutor support.
The ground floor is allocated for painting and drawing teaching areas, some print courses and exhibition space, while the top floor has been allocated to another local arts group, Hull Dance, an organisation which maximises opportunity for dance in Hull, as a workshop and project space as part of their wider offer.
Creative and Cultural Skills Podcast
Featuring insight and ideas from professionals across the creative and cultural sector, as well as young people at the start of their careers, this brand-new podcast explores the impacts and opportunities that may have been heightened by, or arisen, during the pandemic.
Covering everything from apprenticeships, freelancers, diversity and inclusion, careers information, volunteering, class prejudice and much more, the podcast explores fresh perspectives and offers advice around fair, equal and inclusive recruitment so together, we can all give young people a fair start in the creative and cultural sector.
Check out their website for more information.
Creative Providers Map
Curious Minds have created an interactive digital map of summer activities to connect schools and settings with cultural educators. The purpose of the map is to make it as easy as possible for people to identify what is happening in their area, and help plan and deliver fun and engaging summer learning provision. Via the map, schools and local authority commissioners can visualise and connect with the creative and cultural workforce in their local area.
If you work with young people to offer creative learning opportunities, don’t miss the opportunity to put your marker on the map. It should only take 5 minutes #SummerOfFun
Check out their website for more information.
Carry On Touring - Open Letter To Lord Frost
Add your signature to Carry On Touring's open letter to Lord Frost, regarding securing a Europe-wide visa waiver and cultural passport agreement for UK touring professionals and artists.
Check out the letter and sign the letter on their website.
Funding for Grassroots Live Music Venues in England - Arts Council
Funding is available to grassroots music venues and promoters in England to present live music programming, and for activities that put them in a better position to deliver their work in the long term.
Applications will be accepted from organisations whose main function is to host and/or promote live music events in venues. Usually, this will be venues and promoters (or groups of venues and/or promoters).
The programme particularly seeks to support those venues and promoters who work in the grassroots part of the sector (ie those working with new, developing talent in small to mid-size venues). The programme supports projects that bring the full spectrum of contemporary popular music genres to live audiences.
Grants of between £1,000 and £40,000 are available, for projects lasting up to a maximum of three years. Applications may be made at any time.
Check out their website for more information
Seed Funding for Projects that Bring Neighbours Together
Applications are welcome from faith groups, places of worship, partnerships of different faith groups, and informal local groups comprising people of different faith groups and backgrounds. Applications from secular organisations that are working with faith communities are also encouraged.
Grants of between £250 and £3,000 will support projects and activities with a total cost of no more than £15,000.
The funding has covered a broad range of work, environmental, social, cultural, artistic, and sporting, that furthers the programme’s aims of encouraging social interaction and social action.
Applications are accepted on a rolling basis with the final deadline for applications of 10 December.
Check out their website for more information.
Culture Recovery Fund: Emergency Resource Support
The Emergency Resource Support fund is open to for-profit (commercial) and non-profit arts and cultural organisations who are at imminent risk of failure within twelve weeks of making an application.
This is a rolling programme; applications can be submitted between 15 July and 14 October with the aim to communicate a decision within six weeks. To submit an application, you'll need to receive Permission to Apply (PTA) first.
Your organisation must:
Demonstrate that they are at risk of no longer trading viably within twelve weeks of the point of application
Have been sustainable before Covid-19 and have exhausted all other reasonable options for increasing their resilience
Demonstrate how this funding will allow them to return to financial viability (by no later than 31 December)
You can apply for a minimum of £25,000 and up to £3 million if you’re a non-profit organisation or up to £1 million if you’re a for-profit organisation.
Check out their website for more information.
BFI Relaunches Short Form Animation Fund
The BFI Short Form Animation Fund has been established with the aim of supporting growth in the UK animation sector. It will back projects which represent a significant advancement in their work, enable progression and open up new opportunities.
Supporting higher-budgeted animated work of up to 15 minutes in length, the Fund can support narrative short form projects in any animated technique or genre and for any platform, including cinema, digital platforms, and emerging media such as VR (though not work intended primarily for broadcast television). Awards of between £30,000 and £120,000 are available for successful projects.
The deadline for applications is Monday 16 August (09:00 BST).
Check out their website for more information.
Volunteer at Freedom Festival 2021
Check out their website for more information.
Sony Launches 2022 World Photography Awards
The Sony World Photography Awards celebrate the best contemporary photography from the past year. The Awards give exposure, visibility and opportunity to photographers worldwide on an annual basis.
A total prize fund of $60,000 (USD) plus the latest Sony digital imaging equipment is shared between winning photographers. Photographers are taken on a year-long journey, bringing exposure and providing a global stage on which to present their work.
The Awards are free to enter and open to all photographers operating in the photographic industry across the world.
Four competitions make up the overall programme:
• Professional - Recognising outstanding bodies of work.
• Open - Rewarding the world’s best single images.
• Youth - Best single images by photographers aged 12-19.
• Student - For photography students worldwide.
The deadlines for applications to be received are: 30 November 2021 for the Student category; 31 December 2021 for the Youth category; 7 January 2022 for the Open category; and 14 January 2022 for the Professional category.
Check out their website for more information.
Scops Arts Trust
The goal of Scops Arts Trust is to give people of all ages a better quality of life by enabling them to understand, participate in and simply enjoy the arts, particularly music, drama, opera and dance.
Check out their website for more information.
The Foyle Foundation
The Foundation seeks applications that make a strong artistic case for support in either the performing or visual arts.
Check out their website for more information.
Creative England Announces New Funds for Screen Businesses
Creative England has confirmed the launch of two of its ‘Creative Enterprise’ business support offers for 2021.
The New Ideas Fund and Business Planning Grants are now open to creative screen businesses operating in the English regions (outside of London), providing expertise and training to futureproof the next generation of moving image companies.
The New Ideas Fund provides small grants for creative entrepreneurs and companies working in moving image for storytelling. The scheme offers grants of between £1,000 and £25,000 to support the development of new and innovative ideas that have the potential to impact an entrepreneurial journey and grow a business.
Through the Business Planning Grants, Creative England will pay up to £5,000 to subsidise the cost of working with an expert to support companies with their business planning and strategy.
Applications for both schemes are now being accepted on a rolling basis.
Check out their website for more information.
Call out for Artists - Fish & Hull Collection: Video/Digital/Virtual Reality Artists Required
Artist Chris Wilmott is looking for a Hull Artist to be involved with his latest proposal ‘The Fish & Hull Collection’. The project concerns city heritage related to fishing, Baltic trade and the personal lives of those in communities dependent on the sea. The collection starts with a Vertical Diptych painting. Chris collaborates with a Swiss poet who finds inspiration for poems in that painting. The task of a local Hull artist would be to find inspiration in that painting and poem, translating into video/digital/virtual reality. Puppet Theatre may be involved and for sound a sea shanty.
UK based artist Chris Wilmott makes Vertical Diptych Painting Collections for stairwells, board and dining rooms. The collections are inspired by location, heritage and also by famous paintings. His paintings feature frolicking fish.
Chris explores the impact on our future personal lives of rising sea levels. When rising oceans make harbours redundant, destroy coastal infrastructure, agriculture and trees - lost through saltwater pollution - and change national boundaries, with warming water, acidification and pollution making fishing grounds redundant, sea food inedible or unavailable. Where the threat to coastal communities comes from environmental degradation, flooding, increased storms, unrestrained exploitation of the marine system and the loss of cultural heritage. .
The Fish Project works alongside old communities, creating new ones. Bringing together citizens to communicate in new ways, with a message about heritage and changing oceans, in the context of the loss of the habitats / species. When the habitat that may be lost is ours rather than that of fish.
This is an experimental project for which funding has not yet been secured.
If you are an artist and would be interested in collaborating on this project, please contact Chris Wilmott Tel - 07771822420
Check out their website for further information
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - Arts-based Learning Fund
Grants to support work which enables pupils in formal education settings, particularly those experiencing systemic inequality or disadvantage, to thrive through engagement with high quality, arts-based learning.
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - Arts Access and Participation Fund
Grants for organisations to widen and deepen participation in the arts.
Arts Council Project Grants Deadline 31st August
Grants of between £1,000 - £100,000 are available for arts, museums and libraries projects that engage people in England with arts and culture. Additional guidance that explains how the fund will work between now and September 2021 is now available on their website.
Check out their website for more information.
The John Ellerman Foundation aims to advance the wellbeing of people, society and the natural world by focusing on the arts, environment and social action. They believe these areas, both separately and together, can make an important contribution to wellbeing.
Check out their website for more information. There are no deadlines.
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