Black teeth and a brilliant smile…
I struggle to read books these days. Too many days/nights staring at a blinking cursor on the laptop screen. Eye muscles that give up after four pages. Too much life, not enough down time. The ageing…
Heads Up Festival and The Rave Space: We are loved…
So it’s around 36 hours since Heads Up Festival’s eighth season drew to a close. And, as is the usual case around about this time, I’m still attempting to process what happened over the course…
#challengehull week 10…
Week #10 of Challenge Hull is courtesy of Pause Project, who provide a creative solution designed to address the needs of women who have, or are at risk of, multiple children being removed from their care. They urge…
The Hypocrite…
The early ‘hot ticket’ in Hull’s 2017 City of Culture year, Richard Bean’s bawdy, filthy, sex farce cum history lesson has sold out its run on Ferensway and much is being made that over a…
#challengehull week 5…
Week #5 of Challenge Hull came from 2017’s Learning and Participation Team. Take a piece of paper and see what you can turn it into. Fold it, tear it, cut it (but watch your fingers!) What can you…
Coffee dregs…
Finally went to see Lines of Thought, the British Museum’s touring exhibition currently in the Brynmor Jones Library exhibition space at the University of Hull. “The greatest gathering of artistic talent ever seen in Hull,…
Greed…
Worth remembering, in the clamour for tickets… “I am afraid that our eyes are bigger than our stomachs, and that we have more curiosity than understanding. We grasp at everything, but catch nothing except wind.”…
City of vultures…
“You ever get the feeling the world’s filling up with bastards? I do. What I want to know is what happens when all the bastards run out of people to crap on? What happens when…
Heads Up Festival tickets…
We’ve got another Heads Up Festival on the way. This will be number eight and the festival’s now in its fourth year. Yeah, we were doing culture in Hull before it was fashionable. Tickets are on sale. Theatre…
Ferensics…
So off we trotted to the Ferens, to see where a £5.2m revamp and the £1.6m acquisition of a 14th-century painting by Pietro Lorenzetti gets you. We’ve been in Rome, so everything seems small, especially a…