Sunday 27th June - 10.30am
Wyke Sixth Form College
Lemn Sissay
Sold Out

Presentation and workshops by Lemn Sissay, poet, playwright & recording artist. Fusing the lyrical & the polemical, up-beat humour & deadly seriousness - Lemn’s performances are notorious for their powerful energy & dynamism.

His books are published by Payback, Bloomsbury & Bogle L’Ouverture. His recording work includes collaborations with a number of musicians including Leftfield, Bryon Wallen, David Murray, Working Week & Dis Jam.

This is a Rights and Participation Project arts event for looked after young people.

Sunday 27th June - 8.00pm
Hull Truck Theatre
An Englishman’s Home
£4/£3 01482 323638

Roger Beaumont lives alone in his crumbling mansion in the remote Sussex countryside. When his peace and solitude are disturbed by violent forces from the modern world, Roger defends himself the only way he knows how, facing the rigor of the law whilst becoming an unlikely hero of the popular press. Now home from prison, Roger is made to confront his past and his drastic actions. The story he tells reveals a far more complex and agonising chain of events than the press have been led to believe.

Based on recent events in the media, An Englishman’s Home is a solo performance by writer Richard Vergette. Directed by Andy Pearson.

In the last twenty years, the art of safe cracking has tragically declined.. Tim Hunkin.

A great family show suitable for illegal engineers of all ages which takes a humorous (and practical) look at the forgotten art of cracking codes and picking locks.

Tim Hunkin functions on the fringes between art and technology. As a cartoonist, his strip, The Rudiments of Wisdom, ran in the Observer for 15 years. As an engineer, he has masterminded a range of innovative projects to bring the public closer to technology and won a NESTA award.

He also wrote and presented the award winning Channel 4 series The Secret Life of Machines .. an experience which allowed him to ‘have fun with electricity for the first time’.

As part of the Humber Mouth, Tim Hunkin will be tackling safes and safe breaking. There will be a live, on-stage demonstration. Naughty.

Monday 28th June - 7.30pm
Hull Central Library
D.J. Taylor: Orwell: The Life
Free

The adjective ‘Orwellian’ is now a byword for a particular way of thinking about life and literature, but despite this iconic status, the author of Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four has remained an enigma. Who was the real George Orwell?

Reading from his work: Orwell: The Life - a biography which draws on a mass of previously unseen interviews and material - D.J. Taylor promises to shed light on the life and times of one of the twentieth century’s most important and brilliant writers.

A well-known critic, reviewer and novelist in his own right, D.J. Taylor won the Whitbread Award for this biography. His previous books include: After the War: The Novel and England since 1945, an acclaimed biography, Thackeray, and the novels Trespass and The Comedy Man.

Monday 28th June - 7.30pm
Hull Screen Cinema
www.fromthemargins.co.uk
From The Margins of S.W. Holmes
Free

From The Margins of.. unearths the work of the elusive composer S.W. Holmes. His career, spanning over three decades, will be made public during the Humber Mouth festival via a presentation (including performance) at Hull Screen cinema and a dedicated website archive. The project explores his short-lived affiliations with avant-garde luminaries, as well as his intriguing connections to the city.

A wilfully reluctant figure, Holmes’ has previously shied away from retrospectives and accolades; by temperament and by inclination, his work exists ‘on the margins’.

Monday 28th June - 6.30pm - 9.00pm
Ferens Live Arts Space, Ferens Art Gallery
Soulskin:
Red Ladder Theatre Co
Free

Join one of the country’s most exciting theatre groups for a performance of Soulskin: a story of fractured families , loyalty, destructive pride, responsibility, having to make difficult decisions and growing up. Aimed at young people and their friends, it’s also a story about courage and the ties that bind. The drama explores the experience of one young person walking into the future and trying to make sense of the world in a time of change.

This performance is also showing at the following venues to youth groups:
Maybury Youth Centre Tuesday 29th June
Bransholme Astra Youth Centre Wednesday 30th June

Telephone Ruth Drake, Youth Arts Co-ordinator 01482 616804
Suitable for anyone aged 13 or over.

Tuesday 29th June - 2.00pm - 3.00pm
Hull New Theatre
Hijinx Theatre: Into My Own
£1 Tel 01482 226655

Into My Own is an inspirational play dealing with issues of interdependence, breaking ties and moving on.

Ann is left alone - separated from her mother for the first time. Her brother has good intentions, but when it comes to the crunch, can he help? The roots of dependency grow deep into family tradition and habit, but with help and support, tentative steps can blossom into independent flight. Will Ann come ‘into her own’?

Hijinx Theatre is one of the UK’s leading theatre companies, with twenty-three years experience of producing theatre for people with learning disabilities, their families, friends and the general public.