A trip to a place in my heart…
Those people that end up returning to their old schools on programmes like Who Do You Think You Are? always trot out the cliché that “it’s a lot smaller than I remember.” Some parts of…
Accept things as they are…
“For me – and for everybody else, probably – this is my first experience growing old, and the emotions I’m having, too, are all first-time feelings. If it were something I’d experienced before, then I’d…
A world of plenty…
Here’s some thinking out loud I did last year when I was working with Invisible Dust on their three-year Surroundings project, writing about vegetables. A strange but fulfilling commission. Rather than let this little essay…
That was the year that was…
What a year, eh? Never before has Hull played host to such a party, nor its people partied so hard. 2,000 events in more than 250 venues, galleries, museums and performances spaces, as well as…
The Last Jedi…
I dislike nostalgia. I’m never sure where looking back gets any of us. Very little gets me dewy-eyed about the past. But there I was, in Vue, Hull, as the opening titles of Star Wars:…
Longing…
It gives us oxygen And gets felled all too easily Leaving us without Somewhere to shelter When the storm comes #TellYourStory
Vote with your head…
You’re not stupid. You’re intelligent. You can make informed decisions. You’re not swayed by the right wing press, the left wing press, press barons and media owners, or a media so overly obsessed with ‘balance’…
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…
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,…
#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,…