In this issue
UK City of Culture: Countdown to 2017
The groundwork is now being laid for the biggest programme of events in Hull’s cultural history - and you can find out more about the preparations in the latest Hull 2017 newsletter. In this issue the focus is on the plans for improving city centre public realm and infrastructure, high profile partnerships and public engagement. You can read the newsletter and subscribe to future issues here.
Richard Silvester playing and singing 50s/60s music
Friday 7 March, 7.30pm
The Endsleigh Centre, 481 Beverley Road, Hull, HU6 7LJ
£7/£8
Come along and have fun to 50s and 60s music played by the talented Richard Silvester. You are also welcome to have a bop too.
Box office: The Endsleigh Centre
Telephone number: 01482 342779
Email address: angela-j-marshall2011@hotmail.co.uk
Visit the Endsleigh Centre website for more information
Penny Duck Theatre Company presents - Six
by Dave Windass, Tom Atkinson, Ian Winter, Andy Wilson, Lucy Thurlow and James Marsters
Tuesday 11 and Wednesday 12 March, 7.00pm for 7.30pm
14+
£6 Standard, £5 Conessions (OAP, NHS, Armed Forces, Students)
Tickets for Tuesday or Wednesday available online from Hull Box Office
Six stories, six playwrights, one experiment. Mixing elements of comedy, tragedy, mystery and physical theatre, Six is an experimental piece of drama designed to entertain and show off the best of Hull’s culture prior to 2017, and is curated by Penny Duck Theatre Company in association with Ensemble 52 and 2020 Theatre.
Please note this performance will require the majority of the audience to stay on their feet and move around the venue.
The Sirkis/Bialas Band
Wednesday 12 March, 8.30pm
Goodfellowship, Cottingham Road, Hull, HU5 4AT
£12
Sylwia Bialas - Vocals, compositions
Asaf Sirkis - Drums, compositions
Frank Harrison - Piano, Keyboards
Patrick Bettison - Bass, Harmonica
This project is a fresh new collaboration between Israeli drummer/percussionist Asaf Sirkis and Polish vocalist extraordinaire Sylwia Bialas. Asaf Sirkis himself is known for his own trio and work with the Lighthouse Trio and Gilad Atzmon. Expect soulful melodies, atmospheric sounds and jazz full of colour. All with an ethnic touch.
Telephone number: 01482 346239
Email address: info@itsjazz.org.uk
Visit the Hull Jazz website for more information
Asaf Sirkis Workshop
Wednesday 12 March, 2pm, free
Middleton Hall, University of Hull, Cottingham Road, Hull, HU6 7RX
Asaf Sirkis leads one of his ever-popular rhythm workshops. Observers welcome. Please book in advance.
Box office: FASS Events
Telephone number: 01482 462045
Email address: fass-events@hull.ac.uk
Visit the culturenet website for further information
Student Showcase V
Friday 14 March, 1.15pm, free
Middleton Hall, University of Hull, Cottingham Road, Hull, HU6 7RX
Examples of work by students specializing in advanced performance and composition.
Box office: FASS Events
Telephone number: 01482 462045
Email address: fass-events@hull.ac.uk
Check out the culturenet website for further information
Early Music Ensemble
Monday 17 March, 8pm
Chapel University of Hull, Cottingham Road, Hull, HU6 7RX
£6 (£5 senior citizens, £3 other concessions) Venue :
University of Hull Early Music Ensemble
Directed by Žak Ozmo
The House of Medici was a political dynasty and a royal house whose members were some of the most enthusiastic European patrons of the arts during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. This concert will feature some of the most lively and sumptuous music composed for the Medici feasts, which made Florence one of the most ostentatious (and musical) centres of Renaissance Europe.
Box office: FASS Events
Telephone number: 01482 462045
Email address: fass-events@hull.ac.uk
Visit the culturenet website for further information
The Devil's Chord
19, 20, 21, 22 March, 7.30pm
Hymers College, Hull (March 19)
Hull Collegiate, Anlaby (March 20)
Holy Trinity Church, Hull (March 21-22)
£10 (£8 concessions)
Written by Richard Vergette. Directed by Andrew Pearson.
The World Premiere of The Devil's Chord
The Devil's Chord brings two extraordinary, intertwined stories to life on stage. This new play tells the story of two individuals separated by race and culture. Both characters have fascinating.backgrounds and were able to use their shared musical prowess to survive a dreadful and harrowing period of history. Ernst 'Putzi' Hanfstaengl was a Harvard graduate, celebrated pianist and Nazi. Alma Rose was the Jewish daughter of the leader of the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, niece of Mahler and a virtuoso violinist.
Includes performances of music by Beethoven, Wagner and Mendelssohn.
Email address: info@e52.co.uk
Follow the links for box office and further information.
Orchestra of the Swan - The English Genius
20 March 2014, 7.30pm
Adults £14, Concessions £12
Toll Gavel United Church, Toll Gavel, Beverley, HU17 9AA
Box office: Beverley Tourist Information Centre, Tel: 01482 391672
Visit the East Riding Council website for further information
Orchestra of the Wawn present The English Genius
Thursday 20 March, 7.30pm
Toll Gavel United Church, Toll Gavel, Beverley, HU17 9AA
Adults £14, Concessions £12
The programme includes some of the finest repertoire by four of the greatest English composers of the 20th Century, and a rising star of the 21st century, Huw Watkins, Orchestra of the Swan’s ‘Composer in the House’.
They will open with Holst’s ebullient St Paul’s Suite, composed for his students in West London and then to Elgar’s touchingly intimate Serenade, dedicated to his wife and life-long muse, Alice. Huw’s new work ends our first half and Tamsin Waley-Cohen performs the iconic The Lark Ascending before we conclude with another joyous work, Britten’s Simple Symphony.
Holst St Paul’s Suite
Elgar Serenade for Strings
Watkins New work
Vaughan Williams Lark Ascending
Britten Simple Symphony
Tom Hutchinson from Royal Philharmonic Society and Huw Watkins from Orchestra of the Swan will be giving a free pre concert talk at 6.45pm on Thursday 20 March. The talk will last approximately 20 minutes. I hope you are able to join us
Box office: Beverley Tourist Information Office
Telephone number: 01482 391672
Check out the council website for further information
Hull University Big Band Society
Friday 21 March, 7.30pm
Johnny Mac Bar, Hull University Union, Cottingham Road, Hull, HU6 7RX
Free admission – all welcome
Box office: FASS Events
Telephone number: 01482 462045
Email address: fass-events@hull.ac.uk
For further information visit the culturenet website
Ellipsis
Friday 21 March, 1.15pm
Middleton Hall, University of Hull, Cottingham Road, Hull, HU6 7RX
£6 (£5 senior citizens, £3 other concessions)
Robert Manasse (flute)
Melanie Ragge (oboe)
Susanna Stranders (piano)
Programme to include:
Quantz Trio Sonata in C minor
Musgrave Trio
Britten ‘Pan’ from Six Metamorphoses after Ovid
Debussy Syrinx
Kronke Deux Papillons
Music is delighted to welcome Ellipsis, whose members enjoy busy and varied careers across the globe performing in many of the world’s leading concert and recital halls and are distinguished professors at leading specialist music schools and conservatoires.
2.30pm: Masterclass.
Box office: FASS Events
Telephone number: 01482 462045
Email address: fass-events@hull.ac.uk
Visit the culturenet website for further information
Unmythable Temple Theatre
Wednesday 26 March to Sunday 30 March
Various ticket prices - Please contact promoter.
Wednesday 26 March, 7.30pm
Beverley, Longcroft School HU17 7EH
01482 391672 or 870751 callybarker@barker05.karoo.co.uk
Friday 28 March 8.00pm
Bishop Burton Village Hall HU17 8QJ
01964 551543
Saturday 29 March 8.00pm
North Dalton Village Hall, YO25 9XA
01377 219901 Chris.wade@adastra-music.co.uk
Sunday 30 March 7.00pm
North Newbald Village Hall YO43 4SJ
01430 827493 deniseatherton21@gmail.com
It’s one show, three actors and all the Greek myths. Heroes, monsters and randy gods go head-to-head in a hilarious and unforgettable journey through the greatest stories ever told. Temple Theatre's Unmythable does for Greek myths what the Reduced Shakespeare Company did for the Bard.
Further information available online via the Artery website
Pragnya Indian Arts Centre
We offer classes to suit all abilities in variety of Indian dance including Indian classical, Bollywood dance and deliver school and college workshops and also train students for ISTD grade exams.
Regular Saturday classes:
Hindu Cultural Association Centre, 7 Little Park Street, Hull, HU3 2JF
Primary Grade - 9am - 10 am
Grade 1 - 10am - 11am
Grade 2 - 11am - 12pm
Grade 3 - 12pm - 1pm
Grade 4 - 1pm - 2pm
Adult - 2pm - 3pm
For more informaiton please contact; Dr.Roopashree NS, Artistic Director, roopa1236@gmail.com
Community Ceilidhs
Come and join us for a great Yorkshire knees up. Barn dance the night away at Hull’s very own Community Ceilidh.
Friday nights: 28 March / 25 April, 7.30-10.30pm
The Endsleigh Centre, 481 Beverly Road, Hull, HU6 7LJ
Open to dancers of all ages and abilities
Tickets are available on the door priced at £7 each or £12 couple/family ticket
To reserve tickets or for further information the contact numbers are:
07891 590111 or 07877 434739
Northern Ballet presents Three Little Pigs
28 March 2014, 12.15pm 2pm, 4pm
Adults £5, Concessions £4
The Spa, South Marine Drive, Bridlington, YO15 3JH
Box office: The Spa Bridlington, tel: 01262 678258
Visit the Bridlington Spa website for further information
Dan Greenley - Paintings
Saturday 8 March until Sunday 30 March, 12-4pm Saturdays and Sundays, free.
KAG Gallery, 26-27 Humber Street, Hull, HU1 1TH
Dan’s Paintings are absorbed in an analysis of textures and surfaces, be it the Yorkshire landscape or the skin of an orange.
Mark making is of primary importance, alongside an expressive use of colour nurtured by intuition. These points of reference recede, and the landscape itself becomes less important than the marks and textures on the canvases.
The striking images on display in this exhibition span a period of the last five years since the Artist’s leaving college and demonstrate a diverse collection of charcoal drawings, textured canvases, and bold Acrylic studies.
Dan has been a member of KAG since 2009, and studied Art at Breton Hall College, West Yorkshire. He has shown at the Hanover Gallery in Liverpool, Helmsley Art Centre and the Sledmere House Gallery. This is his first solo show.
Visit the Kingston Art Group website for more information
The Human Clay Revisited
Saturday 8 March, 11am, free
Studio Eleven Gallery, Humber Street, Hull, HU1 1TG
is an exhibition of paintings and sculpture by twelve artists selected from across the UK and the show is split between Ropewalk Artspace in Barton on Humber and Eleven in Hull representing the first collaboration between the two galleries to bring the very best art to this region. In parallel with this exhibition is the White Room Arts Council touring show of the paintings of Sally Gatie and this exhibition is split between Eleven and Hull School of Art and Design.
Both exhibitions provide an excellent opportunity for visitors to experience figurative paining at its best and running alongside this show is a series of figure drawing workshops and printmaking workshops at Studio Eleven Gallery. Contact the gallery for details.
Box office: Studio Eleven Gallery Hull and Ropewalk Gallery Barton.
Telephone number: 01482 229600 and 01652 660380
Email address: info@studioeleven.co.uk
Vist the Studio Eleven website for more information
The Hull Art Circle Annual Exhibition is currently showing at Hull University, Middleton Hall (artcafe), Cottingham Road until Friday 14 March.
Admission is free Monday to Friday, 10am - 4pm.
Open Exhibition
Until 27 April, 10am - 4.30pm, free
Ferens Art Gallery, Queen Victoria Square, Hull, HU1 3RA
This popular annual exhibition, for both amateur and professional artists, is a celebration of creative talent. Bringing together both contemporary fine art and craft it’s an ideal opportunity to find an original work of art at an affordable price. This year's selectors were Desmond Brett, Visual Artist and Course Leader in Fine Art at Hull School of Art & Design and Kate Crawford, Gallery Development Worker, Artlink.
Follow us on Twitter @HullFerens #FerensOpen
Telephone number: 01482 613902
Email address: museums@hullcc.gov.uk
Check out the Hull CIty Council website for further information
Creation Fine Arts presents – Icons a collection of paintings by Mark Hebblewhite
19 March - 5 May
Preview: Friday 21st March 7.00pm - 9.00pm
At Creation Fine Arts, 7 North Bar Within, Beverley, East Yorkshire. HU17 8AP
Tel: 01482 868884 / 07534 981220
Further information on Creation Fine Arts and Mark Hebblewhite online
Comedy Warehouse - Fruit
Fruit, 62-63 Humber Street, Hull, HU1 1TU
Visit Fruit Space
Hull Screen - The Invisible Woman
Friday 7 March - Thursday 13 March
Cert: 12A
Weekdays: 2:20pm and 5:00pm
Saturday / Sunday: 5:20pm
Nelly (Felicity Jones), a happily-married mother and schoolteacher, is haunted by her past. Her memories, provoked by remorse and guilt, take us back in time to follow the story of her relationship with Charles Dickens (Ralph Fiennes) with whom she discovered an exciting but fragile complicity. Dickens - famous, controlling and emotionally isolated within his success - falls for Nelly, who comes from a family of actors. The theatre is a vital arena for Dickens - a brilliant amateur actor - a man more emotionally coherent on the page or on stage, than in life. As Nelly becomes the focus of Dickens' passion and his muse, for both of them secrecy is the price, and for Nelly a life of "invisibility".
Reel Cinema, St Stephen's Shopping Centre, 110 Ferensway, Hull, HU2 8LN
Enquiries: 01482 223 113
Booking line: 01509 221 155
Cult Cinema Sunday: Natural Born Killers
Sunday 16 March, 6pm
Fruit, Humber Street, Hull, HU1 1TU
£4 adv, £5 otd
The original, challenging and just plain cool from the world of cult & genre film on the third Sunday of the month, with the perfect mix of Thieving Harry's themed food and drink, free film quiz, raffle and art prints.
America has become a society steeped in violence and most decent, ordinary people are sick of it. Or are they? From two of the world’s most controversial filmmakers - Quentin Tarantino and Oliver Stone - comes one of the most controversial films ever made. Meet Mickey and Mallory, the most terrifying, relentless and cold-blooded killers imaginable. Rejected by society, these two lost souls embark on a murderous rampage. But as the body count soars, so too does their notoriety, and before long the greedy tabloid press has made them into cult heroes. In the media circus of life Mickey and Mallory have just become the main attraction...
Box office: Fruit
Telephone number: 01482 221113
Email address: amy@giveitsomewelly.com
Visit the Fruit website for more information
Seamus Heaney: A Tribute
Tuesday 8 March, 6.30pm
Art Gallery, Middleton Hall, University of Hull, Cottingham Road, Hull, HU6 7RX
Free Admission - All Welcome
Through readings and discussion of Heaney’s work, university sta" and friends will honour a man whose grace and intelligence ensured an extraordinarily wide range, from the poetry on school syllabi, to translations and scholarly essays. On the day of his funeral, RTE (Irish TV and Radio) broadcast his Collected Poems until late evening. The day before, over 80,000 people applauded him at an All Ireland Gaelic football semi-final. The Taoiseach (Prime Minister) spoke of the great sorrow to Ireland, to language and to literature. Patricia Craig in the Independent described Heaney as probably the best-known poet in the world. Please join us.
Box office: FASS Events
Telephone number: 01482 462045
Email address: fass-events@hull.ac.uk
Visit the culturenet website for further information
Arts Award Advisor Training in Hull
Bronze & Silver - Learn how to deliver and assess Bronze (Level 1) and Silver (Level 2) qualifications
Friday 4 April, 9.30am-4.30pm
Artlink
Arts Award offers young people an inspiring arts journey. Each path can take a different direction – from fashion to film-making, from dance to design, from photography to poetry. Whichever route they choose to follow, young people are always in the driving seat. Arts Award’s unique qualifications support young people to develop as artists and arts leaders. The programme develops their creativity, leadership and communication skills.
Open to anyone aged up to 25, Arts Award embraces all interests and backgrounds. Through working towards an award, young people learn to work independently, helping them to prepare for further education and employment.
Arts Award motivates and celebrates young people’s artistic achievements. Young people can achieve an award through any arts, media or cultural activity, developing knowledge and understanding of their chosen art forms.
Young people are supported by Advisers who can be teachers, teaching assistants, lecturers, youth workers, arts co-ordinators or arts professionals.
Arts Award is managed by Trinity College London in association with Arts Council England working with 10 regional Bridge organisations. CapeUK is part of this network, funded by Arts Council England, who lead on Arts Award regional development.
Arts Award is…
• a great way for children and young people to be inspired by and enjoy the arts
• offered at five levels, four accredited and one introductory award
• a framework for learning new skills and sharing them
• an opportunity to develop creativity and leadership skills
• a link between young people and creative arts professionals
To book your place visit the Arts Award website or for more information contact Daniele De Lissandri on 0845 450 3700 or email daniele.delissandri@capeuk.org
Calling all Dance Groups
Big Dance 2014
The Spa Gardens Bridlington
Big Dance 2014 is the UK’s biggest ever celebration of dance and is taking place in Bridlington for anyone who dances, wants to dance or wants to watch dance, whatever their age.
Be part of this national event in Bridlington at: The Spa Gardens and the Mass Dance Event on the Beach on Saturday, 5 July 2014 11am to 3pm
If you are a dance group that would like to get involved, please call
Call June Mitchell on (01482) 392651 or e mail june.mitchell@eastriding.gov.uk for further information and an application form to take part.
Follow the Herring - Hull
The visual arts dimension to this project had a successful launch last week with well attended events in Princes Quay and Artlink. We're interested to hear from knitters and stitchers who'd like to be involved in Hull. Knitted herrings are already being produced by Hull knitters, but there will also be opportunities to produce other textile and craft based work for exhibition in June.
City Arts are co-producing this collaborative theatre and visual arts project, on the Hull leg of its east coast tour. The touring co-production between The Customs House Arts Centre and Guild of Lillian's Theatre Company (supported by Arts Council England's strategic touring fund) aims to engage coastal communities on the East coast in the arts through singing, performing and knitting - on a fishy theme around Herring Girls.
Hull participants have an opportunity to join in singing, knitting, crafting, and story telling activity. The project culminates in a production of 'Get Up And Tie Your Fingers' at Hull Truck Theatre, and exhibitions at Artlink and in the City Centre with the exciting life sized knitted boat which will sail into an exhibition at Holy Trinity Church in June.
Further information giving details about local workshop opportunities, and ways for groups and individuals to get involved will be released soon via the Artlink website.
If you would like to Follow the Herring in Hull, please contact cityartsenquiries@hullcc.gov.uk to register your interest.
Visit the Hull City Council website to find out further information about the project and its background, and to download a pattern to knit your own Herring.
Printmaking and Ceramics creative Workshop Sessions
Saturday 8 March, 11am
Studio Eleven Gallery, Humber Street, Hull, HU1 1TG
£40 members and £45 non members
Starting on 8 March we have a series of Saturday and evening workshops including Colour Lino Printing, Colour Collagraph Printing, Sculptural Ceramics, Batik and Silk Painting, Drypoint Etching and Figure Drawing . All are artist led and would suit artists or beginners in our small friendly but professional environment.
Eminent artist Jake Attree also returns by popular demand to lead an inspirational drawing workshop in late March.
Details of all workshops and how to reserve a place are available from Studio Eleven by email or telephone .
Box office: Studio Eleven gallery
Telephone number: 01482 229600
Email address: info@studioeleven.co.uk
Vist the Studio Eleven website for more information
Freedom To Tell Tales Storytelling Workshop Programme
At Hull Central Library, Albion St, Hull HU1 3TF
Workshop Programme Dates:
Sat March 8th 10am-4pm
Sat March 22nd 10am-4pm (with Shonaleigh & Amanda Lowe)
Sat April 5th 10am-4pm
Sun Apr 27th -Storytelling Sharing Evening- (with afternoon prep workshop) –venue to be confirmed
You can find out more and sign up for the workshop programme online or via Facebook
Sing Saturdays – singing workshops with Hull Community Voices
Saturdays 8 & 22 March and 5 April 2014
Hull's only World Music Acapella singing group presents a new series of Sing Saturday workshops, led by Clare Drury. Sessions explore harmony singing from around the world. Costs are £5 per session, concessions £4, children £1 (all under 16s must be accompanied).
No auditions - no pressure - no previous experience necessary. All songs are taught by ear. Just turn up, join in and have fun.
The Hilden Charitable Fund
The aim of the scheme is to help community groups run Summer Playschemes for the benefit of children from refugee and ethnic minority families. Funding of between £500 and £1,500 is available for Summer Playschemes for children aged 5 - 18 years lasting for 2 - 6 weeks with strong volunteer support. The funding is available to voluntary agencies with an income of less than £120,000. Some priority will be given to projects which show they are inclusive of children from refugee families, and show BME involvement.
The closing date for applications is the 15th March 2014.
For further information visit the Hilden Charitable Fund website.
Volunteering opportunity – Artlink
Artlink are looking for a regular Saturday volunteer to join their team. You will share this position with our current Saturday volunteer and would alternate each weekend. You will need to be available every other Saturday 12pm until 4pm.
Your tasks will include:
• Invigilation of the exhibitions
• Provide information to the visitors regarding the exhibition
• Answer the telephone and divert calls to relevant staff
• Record visitor numbers
• Undertake small administrative duties
This is a great chance for anyone wishing to enhance their CV for future gallery jobs. If this sounds like something you might be interested in please fill out our volunteer form (which can be downloaded from the Artlink website) and we will get back to you in due course.
Hull Freedom Chorus - recruiting members for 2014 projects
Hull Freedom Chorus is a massed choir organised by City Arts Unit, Hull City Council. The group is made up of people from the local area that want to free their voices and celebrate Hull. Singing a variety of songs in different styles, members get a chance to work with some of the UK's most inspirational singing leaders.
If you would be interested in taking part in a our exciting programme for 2014 please sign up. All you need to do is enjoy singing, want to sing in harmony with a large group, want to be part of celebration events in the City. Visit our website for more information or to sign up online or find us on facebook and like our page.
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