Theatre sorts…
I still have no idea why but I was summoned to a photocall, along with just about everyone else that makes theatre in the city of Hull. It was a veritable who’s who of relatively…
#challengehull week 3…
Hull 2017 have teamed up with 64 Million Artists and community groups and organisations across Hull to set a weekly creative challenge to encourage everyone in the city to try something new. This week’s challenge,…
#challengehull week 2…
We did our #challengehull dance in Basilica S. Pietro in Rome. Channeling Footloose. Right @2017Hull, we’ve done our #challengehull dance in Basilica S. Pietro in Rome. Channeling Footloose pic.twitter.com/Lqic05K7ou — Dave Windass (@DaveW) January 13,…
Blade in Hull…
A massive turbine blade, manufactured by Hull employees at the new Siemens factory in Hull, was transported overnight to Hull’s city centre. As Made in Hull was packed down, the blade was en…
Culture crowds…
We went to bid farewell to the Made in Hull installations because they’re so gob-smackingly superb. We knew there’d be a crowd, given this was a final chance to see them, and that word had…
The brilliance of Bowhead…
I sat in front of Louise Dempsey’s brilliant Bowhead – a whale model and animated interaction – for quite a while. But not as long as Louise, a third year student at Hull School of…
Hull before culture…
So Day Five of Hull’s journey in 2017 included me appearing, albeit briefly, on Radio 4 as a contributor to part-one of a two part documentary called Hull Before Culture, produced by Mary Ward-Lowery. John…
Pot luck…
“I don’t know about you,” I said to tonight’s audience, “but I have no fucking idea what day it is. And we’re only four days in.” I swore early on, because the night I was…
Made in Hull 2…
We went back for more. This time to look at the faces on the people looking at Made in Hull. And each and every one of them fucking loved it.
#challengehull week 1…
The first challenge of 2017 in Hull? Make a self-portrait. What was it like to draw yourself? Trouble with my dad being a half-decent illustrator and artist, when he wasn’t creating signage for Jackson’s supermarkets,…