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6th - 16th November FREE - Various Venues throughout the Festival Saturday 15th November

Songwriting Workshop with Emma Rugg - 11am - 1pm £5 Tel. 01482 616961 for details and booking

Emma Rugg is one of the most accomplished and exciting singer-songwriters to emerge in the last few years … and she lives in Hull. Impressing critics and audiences alike with her CD Isolated Impressions, Emma writes powerful lyrics and performs with strength and style. Join her in a workshop which looks at the art of song writing and specifically the skills needed to interpret the music and words of great songs, discover how to connect emotionally to material and how to perform with confidence and real feeling. Places strictly limited to 15 - book early to avoid disappointment.

Literally Speaking Endsleigh Centre, Beverley Road, Hull - 7.30pm £5/£4 Tel. 07958 311102 / credo@playful.com / Good News, 67 Wright Street, Hull

Credo presents an entertaining and thought-provoking exploration of language through poetry and prose, speech and silence, twists and truths, songs and sonnets. Join them on a journey via drama, humour, movement, music and video towards a better understanding of how language shapes our lives. Tickets are limited - early booking recommended.

RE: Write Matalo Hull Screen, Albion Street, Hull - 7.30pm £2.50 Tel. 01482 327600

Dir: Jean Stephane Sauvaire 2003 10mins (subtitles) In association with Hull Short Film Festival, a special screening of Matalo, as re-scripted by a very diverse group of writers. The four consecutive showings of this ten minute film have each had a different soundtrack added and written respectively by Glynis Charlton, Anton Hecht, Philip Wincolmlee Barnes and Steven Hall. Showing tonight with the original, this project promises to explore ideas of authorship, narrative determinism, ownership and control. 'Once upon a time there was a devil, lost in the centre of Mexico city - harassed, hounded, his path crossed that of two children ..'

New Writing Day with John Godber, the Blockheads & Guests Hull Truck Theatre, Spring Street, Hull - 10am - 9.15pm Free or £5/£4 as marked - Box Office 01482 323638

The Blockheads and John Godber invite you to an all day exploration of new drama, workshops, performance and free foyer fringe entertainment. An exciting mix of local and national talent join forces to discover the best in new theatre and theatre practice. All day free access to performances including sustenance from the foyer soup kitchen, some events priced separately.

Foyer Fringe

The hub of the New Theatre Writing Day, the foyer will have stands, stalls, artwork, entertainment, a soup kitchen and bar to keep people going.

The Upside Down Show 2pm - 3pm

Following their sell-out show In Other Words earlier in the year, Alternative Entertainment present experimental poetry and dramas in a lightning-quick and participative performance. Expect the unexpected!

Emma Rugg 5.15 - 6.00

Emma Rugg is Hull's latest musical sensation, gaining rave reviews and a loyal following for her album Isolated Impressions.

Stephen Jeffreys is one of Britain's leading playwrights and the author of more than twenty plays including The Libertine, I Just Stopped by to See the Man, Valued Friends and A Going Concern. For a decade he was the Literary Associate at the Royal Court and is currently writing Playwriting for Nick Hern Books.

Blockheads - Hull Truck writers group.

Since April 2003 a group of 11 new playwrights from the region have been working with Hull Truck Theatre to develop and explore their skills in writing for the stage. The group has worked alongside various playwrights, directors and actors during a continuing course of workshops and meetings, strengthening their already individual styles. This festival sees the first staging of the writers' work from the past weeks,, and demonstrates a work-in-progress glimpse at their development. Since the beginning of September the group members have been working specifically on producing a short piece for the literature festival. The only directive given was that it must be no more than 10 minutes in length, requiring minimal set and props. True to form the group has produced an eclectic mix of work, which a team of professional actors and directors will develop for rehearsed readings throughout the day, join us as together we bring this work to the stage for the very first time. Blockheads and Hull Truck Theatre are grateful for support received from Arts Council Yorkshire for 'Creativity Factory' funding for this project.

John Godber

John Godber has always been committed to new writing. Since his days in drama training, through his teaching at Minsthorpe High School and for the past 20 years as artistic director at Hull Truck Theatre, John Godber has written and directed a continuous stream of new work. We now welcome him to the 2003 Humber Mouth Literature Festival at a time when his creative juices are at full flow! With his latest production Screaming Blue Murder currently touring throughout the UK, what better time to hear his views on making a career writing for the theatre.

The Test Tube Theatre: Versus the Silent Majority

The Test Tube Theatre: Versus the Silent Majority. The overall aim is to overload you with ideas. Test Tube Theatre events are created around short plays, stories and poems drawn together to form diverse programmes aimed at doing what theatre does best - stimulate. The company has a policy of promoting new talent in the fields of acting, directing and writing and it depends and thrives upon the vibrancy of emerging practitioners and their work.

Versus the Silent Majority is a collection of short pieces drawn from the work of respected playwrights such as Harold Pinter and Lonesco and new and exciting writing from Steven Hall, Jake Walker and others. Main Programme: 10.00am - 10.45 Blockheads 11.00am - 1.00pm Stephen Jeffreys Master class 1.00pm - 1.30pm Lunch at the Foyer soup kitchen 1.30pm - 2.30pm Blockheads 2.30pm - 3.00pm Coffee Break 3.00pm - 4.00pm John Godber: What's Funny About That? £5/£4 4.15pm - 5.15pm Blockheads 5.15pm - 6.00pm Dinner at the Foyer soup kitchen 6.00pm - 9.00pm The Theatre Test Tube: Versus The Silent Majority £5/£4 9.00pm - 9.15pm Round up and close.

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6th - 16th November FREE - Various Venues throughout the Festival Sunday 16th November

Readers Day: Jake Arnott, Julia Darling, James Nash EICH Gallery, University of Lincoln, George Street, Hull 11.00am - 4.00pm £5 Day ticket. Single event tickets £3/£2 Tel. 01482 223344

A day to enjoy the pleasures of reading and talking about books with a great line-up of writers and a chance to find out about Book Groups and how to become involved. The day begins with an open chat with the writers chaired by James Nash, followed by a choice of group sessions and ends with a reading. Get a day pass for £5 or buy a single ticket for any part of the programme.

Jake Arnott, the author of stylish and dangerous crime novels, has been credited with inventing 'geezer chic'. David Bowie said of his work 'Funny, fast, witty and brutal Whenever he's got a new book out I drop everything, knowing the next couple of hours are going to be pure gangland bliss' Born in 1961, he has worked variously as a labourer, mortuary technician, life model and as an actor. In 1989 he worked for Red Ladder Theatre Company in Leeds and began writing while working part time for Leeds Social Services. He is the author of The Long Firm (soon to be broadcast by the BBC) He Kills Coppers and this year, Truecrime.

Julia Darling is the celebrated author of Crocodile Soup and The Taxi Driver's Daughter, an early contender for this years Booker Man prize. She is also an accomplished poet and has recently published Sudden Collapses in Public Places, a Poetry Book Society recommendation for Summer 2003 which is a personal exploration of the effects of having breast cancer. She lives in Newcastle, where she has a Royal Literary Fund Fellowship and works with health professionals to promote the value of creative writing and reading in health care and recovery. Sean O'Brien has called her work 'observant, inventive, witty, wildly funny at times and wholly unsentimental' (Sunday Times).

Patrick Gale has written many novels, including Rough Music (short listed for the Whitbread Award), The Aerodynamics of Pork, Tree Surgery for Beginners and A Sweet Obscurity. He has also written a biography of Armistead Maupin. The master of bittersweet explorations of family life, his work has been called 'romantic', 'hip', 'brutal' and 'superb'. Of Rough Music, The Independent on Sunday said 'astute, sensitive and at times tragically uncomfortable meditation on sex, lies and family … a fabulously unnerving book'. 11.00 - 12.00 Panel Discussion & Questions £3/£2 12.00 - 1.00 Group sessions £3/£2 Patrick Gale & James Nash Julia Darling & Jake Arnott 1.00 - 2.00 Break 2.00- 3.45 Readings: Julia Darling & Jake Arnott; Patrick Gale & James Nash £3/£2 3.45 BBC Big Read Quiz: Presentation of prize to Hull Libraries Big Read Quiz winner.

Opposites Dis-tract: Seminar The RED Gallery, 19 Osbourne Street, Hull 2pm - 5pm Free

Organised by Anthony Housman and Pippa Koszerek Three of Hulls creative minds, each from a different artistic discipline, have been invited to critically discuss works shown throughout the Humber Mouth Festival. This open seminar encourages cross-disciplinary discussion by setting each critic the task of considering works in a different field from their own.

Barrie Rutter: Hull Poets Hull Truck Theatre, Spring Street, Hull 6.00pm - 7.30pm £6/£4 Box Office 01482 323638

In association with the Philip Larkin Society. Humber Mouth is delighted to present an evening of readings by one of Hull's most distinguished and creative sons. Barrie Rutter will read poems by Philip Larkin and other Hull poets he admires such as Sean O'Brien, Alan Plater and Douglas Dunn as well as delivering a commentary on Hull And the East Riding in the inimitable Rutter style. Barrie Rutter was born in Hull in 1964 and has achieved international success as an actor and theatre director. He has won may awards including the Sam Wanamaker Award and the Creative Britons 2000 prize. He has worked for the Royal Shakespeare Company, the Royal National Theatre and with Northern Broadsides. He is currently touring with Blake Morrison's new translation of Antigone and is appearing in a new series of Fat Friends on ITV.

England's Burning: The Fire Poet, Valerie Bloom & the Inklein Quartet Hull Truck Theatre, Spring Street, Hull 8.00pm £6/£4 Box Office 01482 323638

A blazing new fusion of word and music featuring the UK's foremost performance poet, The Fire Poet with the uplifting and unique Valerie Bloom. They will be performing alongside Shirishkumar, tabla maestro and The Inklein String Quartet - the magic behind Talking Heads and Morcheeba. The Arts Council-funded tour arrives in Hull for a blazing festival finale, with specially commissioned new work for the City of Hull.

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