Wednesday 23rd June - 8pm
Lamp, Norfolk Street
Simon Crump:
My Elvis Blackout
Free 01482 326131

‘A brilliant book. Twisted, disturbing and very, very funny’ - Dan Rhodes

‘Deliciously obscene and darkly comic ... like Quentin Tarantino on acid. Extraordinary’ -The Times

‘A deeply perverse set of ideas from an obviously troubled personality. I loved it’ -Todd McEwen

Simon Crump is one of the UK's most intriguing, brilliant and foul mouthed new writers.
If you haven't yet caught up with My Elvis Blackout, Monkey's Birthday and Twilight Time, catch Simon's extraordinary diatribe live at the Lamp. Truly filthy and truly funny, Simon Crump lives in Sheffield and is an internationally exhibited artist as well as a writer and journalist.

He used to lecture at the Hull School of Art until they sacked him. He is banned from the Beatrix Potter archive. He is not for the easily offended.

Blood. Swearing. Elvis. It doesn’t get any better than this.

Wednesday 23rd June - 7.30pm
George Hotel, Land of Green Ginger
The Inside-Out Show
Free

Following the enormous success of The Upside Down Show, an evening of literary pranks, surprises, games and some shouting. Philip Wincolmlee Barnes, Tony Petch, Andy Fletcher, John Robinson and others guarantee to entertain and challenge in equal measure. Great fun, and great beer.

Wednesday 23rd June .. Thursday 1st July
Various venues
A Tale of Tihany

Hull Community Theatre presents A Tale of Tihany, a play for children loosely based on Hungarian folklore, a story of greed, power and mischiefmaking with witches, spirits, princesses and supernatural forces. Suitable for children aged 8 to 12.

Public performances:
Ings Library Wednesday 23rd June 6.30 .. 8pm
Goodwin Resource Centre Friday 25th June 6.30 .. 8pm
The Learning Zone, The Stadium Thursday 1st July 6.30 .. 8pm

The performances are free but numbers are limited. To book tickets please telephone Ings Library on (01482) 331250 and the Learning Zone on (01482) 381948.
Performances may also take place in selected schools and other venues.

Thursday 24th June - 8pm
Hull Central Library, Albion Street
Robert Edric: Siren Song
Free: book in advance 01482 223344

Robert Edric reads from the second part of his Hull Trilogy, Siren Song, a crime sequence set in the city. He has been acclaimed as one of Britain's most exciting contemporary writers and has published fourteen novels. He was born in Sheffield in 1956, studied at Hull University and now lives in Hornsea.

Friday 25th June - 7.00pm for 7.30pm
Ferens Live Arts Space, Ferens Art Gallery
The French Connexion:
celebrating Music Concrete with the Electro-Accoustic Ensemble
Free

An exciting programme of music by three leading exponents: Jonathan Harvey (Mortuos Plango Vivos Voco 1999); Jean Claude Risset (Elementa 1998) ; and Francis Dhomont (Le Cycle du Son 1989 - 98) .

Both the Risset and the Dhomont works were written to celebrate 50 years of music concrete and Cycle du Son is performed here in its entirety, diffused over a 'loudspeaker orchestra' and comprises the main part of the programme.

Mortuos Plango Vivos Voco by Jonathan Harvey was originally created at IRCAM in Paris and is one of the icons of electro accoustic music in the 20th century, utilising the latest computer technology.

The music installation Gallery Music (Stanislaw Hansel 1989) will play between 2.00pm and 4.00pm in three of the Ferens galleries.

Visit www.eae.org/french-connexion/ for further information about music concrete and links to interactive pages, available from June 18th.

Friday 25th June - 9.30pm - 10.30pm
Hull Truck Theatre, Spring Street
The Worst Seat in the House:
Dave Windass
£4/£3 Box Office 01482 323638

A hilarious look at the life of a critic by a man who stumbled into the job by accident. Dave Windass, this year's festival critic, is theatre critic for The Stage, reviewer for The Big Issue, and fulltime journalist at the Hull Daily Mail. As well as serving as a handy guide to what to look out for when attending a performance, this comedic rant - part lecture, part stand-up, part public enquiry - will demonstrate why getting into the theatre for free several times a week is a terrible job. Over the years, Dave has come into contact with many other critics, all of whom appear to do a much better job for a lot more money. He may even persuade several of them to attend and review his performance. Bitter.

Friday 25th June - 7.30pm
Hull Central Library, Albion Street
Valerie Wood, Linda Acaster, Freda Lightfoot:
Romantic Novelists
Free

Three of the most exciting romantic novelists in the region .. and the country!

Valerie is married with two children and a grandchild. She won the first Catherine Cookson Fiction Prize with her novel 'The Hungry Tide'.

Linda’s work includes over seventy short stories in genres as diverse as romantic stories, horror, crime, fantasy and science fiction. She has published three historical novels, as well as travel features and opinion pieces in the press.

Freda Lightfoot was born and brought up in the mill towns of Lancashire. She has been a teacher, bookseller and smallholder but began her writing career by publishing over forty short stories and articles and five historical romances under a different name. She divides her time between her flat in the Lake District and her house in a small mountain village in Spain.

Friday 25th June - 7.30pm
Hull Truck Theatre, Spring Street
Benedict Allen
£5/£4 Box Office 01482 323638

Benedict Allen .. explorer, author, tv presenter, filmmaker and daring hero for our times .. visits the city give an inspirational talk about his adventures in some of the world’s most remote and inhospitable regions. Truly ecofriendly, he is famous for his low-tech expeditions, relying only on the guidance of indigenous peoples and on his survival skills.

Benedict’s adventures include undergoing a six week male initiation ceremony in Papua New Guinea; a 1000 mile trek across Siberia during the coldest winter in living memory; adventures in Haiti, Mexico and Siberia with Shamans and witchdoctors to make the hit tv series Last of the Medicine Men.

Saturday 26th June - 1.00pm - 2.00pm
Holy Trinity Church, Market Place
two-teburi-koe:
Gisele Bone and Jez Riley
Free

A new work exploring simple but often overlooked elements of language: small gestures and sounds which make up our understanding of communication. Using projected images and intuitive music (including the voices of animals and birds, insects, early sacred music and Japanese, Bulgarian and Georgian music), the performance will be enhanced by the setting of Holy Trinity Church. Tea and light refreshments will be available as part of Holy Trinity Open Day.

Gisele Bone is a respected locally based artist who has an active curiosity in a range of artistic disciplines. Jez Riley has been an improvising musician/artist for over 20 years, developing the concept of intuitive composition. He has performed throughout the UK and Europe.

Both artists perform with 'ime', founded by Jez and including other local artists and improvisers.
There will be a separate evening of ime performances entitled imetexture2, following on from last years successful Humber Mouth event, at the Adelphi Club, De Grey Street on 20th June at 8.30pm.