Saturday 19th June - 11am .. 5pm
Central Library, Albion Street
Travel Writing Workshop
Free 01482 616961 Booking essential

Ever wondered how Bill Bryson or Pete McCarthy got started? Ever fancied the life of a roving reporter or travel journalist? Locally - based photojournalist Lee Karen Stow introduces the skills and resources needed to begin a career in a practical, hands-on workshop designed for would-be travel journalists, including the secrets of selling work to editors and gaining commissions.

Lee Karen Stow is a Hull-based freelance journalist and photographer specialising in people and places. A former features writer for the Hull Daily Mail, Lee has visited around 40 countries in the last six years and has had work published by The Times, The Daily Telegraph, The Express on Sunday, CNN Traveller, Geographical, Wanderlust and others. She has also authored, co-authored and provided photography for several travel books, including the AA Adventure Traveller series.

In December 2003, she launched The Travel I’ve Seen, a documentary photography exhibition sponsored by Hull City Arts and Arts Council England at the Ferens Art Gallery in Hull. Her images are also on show at Salts Mill in Saltaire, near Bradford.

Saturday 19th June - 3.00-5.00pm
EICH Gallery, Derek Crothall Building, University of Lincoln Hull Campus, George Street
Building Cultural Bridges:
Drumming Workshop
Kahijah Ibrahim, Oluseyi Ogunjobi and Fosuwa Andoh
Free 07930 173324

An opportunity to learn drumming skills with these exhilarating artists, writers, musicians and storytellers who work within the Sufi tradition.

Loud, physical, mystical and fun. Suitable for all ages.

Saturday 19th June
BCAE (Bransholme Community Arts Enterprise) Dorchester Primary School, Dorchester Road, Bransholme
Mixing and Scratching:
the contemporary classical voice meets street
Workshops:10am - 1pm & 2pm -4pm
Performance: 4pm-5pm
Free 01482 821053 for information

Workshops with two artists working in different fields who use text as a basis for their work.

Anna Myatt is a contemporary classical vocalist and Scott Langthorpe is a phonic artist working with turntables, combining dj skills with computer based music software. Working with students from the Starsearch course at Bransholme, the performance will mix poetry, comic strips and conversations with urban music, beatboxing, rapping and street poetry which have been explored in the workshops.

6.30-9.00pm
Building Cultural Bridges:
Performance
Kahijah Ibrahim, Oluseyi Ogunjobi and Fosuwa Andoh
Free 07930 173324

Three African artists concerned with exploring the path of spiritual truth invite you to an evening of of Sufi poetry and music.

A performance which combines artforms from the Sufi tradition in an extraordinary fusion of cultures.

Sunday 20th June - 5pm-6pm
The Annexe, Hull Time Based Arts Ltd, 42 High Street
Mixing and Scratching:
the contemporary classical voice meets street
Free 01482 216446

A performance of works given by two artists working in different fields, who use text as a basis for their work. Anna Myatt is a contemporary classical vocalist, performing works by composers using a variety of techniques. Words are sometimes spoken, occasionally sung, but more often split into phonemes or syllables, creating a new sound world. Sources may be poems, comic strips or conversations. Scott Langthorpe is a phonic artist working usually with four turntables combining dj skills with computer based music software. He uses fragments of broken/melted/altered records to create loops involving dialogue, urban music, beatboxing, rapping, street poetry, mixing and scratching to create constantly evolving sound pieces.

An indescribable experience!

Monday 21st June - 7.30pm .. 9.00pm
La Loggia, Ferens Art Gallery
Writing Frames
01482 616961 Booking essential

Taster sessions for adults who want to write for pleasure or publication with tutors Jackie Goodman and Sue Wilsea.

Writing Frames offers an introduction to the University of Hull Certificate in Creative Writing (there is no requirement to enrol on the certificate course).

Monday June 21st - 7.00pm
Pave, 16-20 Princes Avenue
Geoff Dyer:
Yoga for People Who Can't Be Bothered To Do It
Free 01482 333181 (Booking essential)

Uproarious, unclassifiable .. he is assuredly among the funniest writers alive .. a bohemian travel narrative as internal as any by Kerouac, told in language as aphoristic as Oscar Wilde’s - San Francisco Chronicle

Quite possibly the best living writer in Britain - Daily Telegraph

Cool, unclassifiable and very, very funny, Geoff Dyer's bestseller was described by William Sutcliffe as 'part string of stoner anecdotes, part memoir, part travelogue, part philosophical treatise, part comic tour-deforce...

Visiting Hull for the first time, Geoff Dyer is the ultimate counter-tourist with the ultimate counter-guide to life. Definitely off-beat, definitely clever, definitely silly. Unmissable.

Geoff Dyer is the author of three novels: Paris, Trance, The Search, The Colour of Memory; a critical study of John Berger, Ways of Telling; a collection of essays Anglo-English Attitudes; and four genre-defying titles: But Beautiful, The Missing of the Somme, Out of Sheer Rage and Yoga For People Who Can't Be Bothered to Do It. He has won many literary awards including a 2003 Lannan Literary Fellowship. Born in 1958, he lives in London.

Tuesday 22nd June - 7pm
The Warren Centre, 47-49 Queen's Dock Avenue
Migrant Voices Banner Theatre
Local Voices: Warren Young Peoples Theatre Group
Free 01482 218115 (Chris Smith)

Interweaving beautiful live music with drama and video, Migrant Voices is an emotionally charged theatrical experience created by one of the Uk's best and most radical touring theatre groups. Middle Eastern and British musical traditions are entwined as the experiences of ordinary people fleeing persecution are set against some of the causes of global instability that make people into refugees.

Starting with a performance of Migrant Voices at the Thorpes Resource Centre, Orchard Park on 12th May, a group of young people working with Banner Theatre and Chris Smith, have created a stunning local response to the global issue of refugees.

The new works are innovative and thoughtprovoking, showing both sides of the thorny political issue and taking you beyond tabloid headlines to the personal experiences of real people: real drama.

The Warren's annual contribution to the Humber Mouth has developed a reputation as a 'must see' event. This year the result promises to be sizzling!

Project supported by Hull Youth Council, Hull Asylum & Refugee Support Team, Voices, Thorpes Resource Centre, Route 1, Unity in the Community.

Tuesday 22nd June to Thursday 24th June - 7.30pm
Hull Truck Theatre, Spring Street
www.hulltruck.co.uk
BLOCKHEADS:
New Writing Festival
£3.50 Box Office 01482 323638

World premieres of short plays by Hull and East Yorkshire-based writers, with rehearsed readings of three new plays every night and post-show talkbacks with writers, actors and directors!

Hull Truck is one of the country's most prolific and renowned theatre companies and one that is fully committed to new writing. Each year, Hull Truck commissions up to six new plays which are produced at the theatre as well as touring to scores of venues nationwide. To further their commitment to new writing, a new writer's group was formed in March 2003, enabling aspiring, local, first-time dramatists to engage in a series of writing workshops, masterclasses and discussions with professionals.

Led by Gareth Tudor Price (Hull Truck Associate Director), the sessions have provided support and feedback for work in progress and have given the nine writers in the group the opportunity to discuss and evaluate their work.

With assistance from Arts Council England through their Creative Factory funding.

Tuesday 22nd June - 8pm
Haworth Arms, Cottingham Road
Nothing Happens Here!
Free

Liberation. Revolution. Resurrection.
Ambivalence towards it all. Words can't bring us down, apparently. This is a showcase event, a night of diverse opinions; a night of people talking about whatever they want. We call this freedom of speech and we are coming, of course, from the streets. This evening is about you and me and how we have lived, out here on the periphery.

Have your say. Come out and celebrate another Summer of Love in the mad and magical setting of 22nd Century Hull. As ever, we'll be following the discussion with a disco. So be here, or stay in and watch the square thing. You have nothing to lose but your minds...