Wednesday 30th June - 7pm
Public broadcast:
Ye Olde Black Boy, High St, HU1
Online broadcast: www.illegalmedia.org
A Bastard’s Tale
Free Contact: audiblebastard@yahoo.co.uk

Set in a clearing, amid the beautiful, tranquil forestry of an antiquated, non-specific, distant land, the treacherous twin brother of the King: Caleb, has returned from exile with a Myth-Teller from afar. But his return brings the nation’s fragile condition to fever pitch; the plebs are determined to see the violet execution of justice.

A Bastard’s Tale is an intricate, original script that gives consideration to the power of philosophical reasoning. Written with verve and humour, it has a social consciousness and historical awareness. With extraordinary verbal wit and political underpinnings, this audio play can be enjoyed on many levels.

Wednesday 30th June - 7.00pm
Hull Central Library, Albion Street
All This Will Be Yours
Free 01482 223344

Three writers will discuss their books and will talk about the chain of support that is invaluable to writers. How can writers support each other? And how do writers influence each others work? Can a writer make it without being based in Hampstead? An event aimed at book lovers, reading group members and writers.

Jane Rogers is the author of several much admired novels - including Mr Wroe's Virgins, Island and Promised Lands, which won the Writers' Guild Best Fiction Award. She edited Oxford University Press's recent Good Fiction Guide. Her new novel is The Voyage Home, a story about a woman who finds out more than she expected from her father's diaries and who is forced to decide whether or not to help a pair of asylum seekers fleeing Nigeria.

Ray French's new novel All This Is Mine has become a word of mouth success among reading groups, a book about a child growing up in the 1960s, likened to Roddy Doyle's Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha. He is working on his second novel.

Tom Palmer is an unpublished novelist who may or may not make it. He has had some interest from publishers and agents, but none have them have bitten yet. He has just sent off the last draft of his novel News Junky, a story about TV war as entertainment and a distraction from anxieties closer to home.

Wednesday 30th June - 6pm
Hull School of Media Technology George St, Hull
Critical Platform
£2

An event exploring the relationship between art and language through the work of two artists/performers:

Anthony Howell is a performance artist and poet. He will talk about the interface between performance and language and show a video of Tango Art, his latest performance piece. This looks at the tango as a physical language game, exploring dance as language and language as dance.

Sam Rose is a visual performer who uses the body as a site for the exploration of language and signification. The artist will show work including Surfaces of Inscription which focuses on the importance of language in framing experience and subjectivity and the notion that the body is framed, marked and maintained by language.

Wednesday 30th June - 7.30pm
The Warren
Snakebite
Free

Thought-provoking and moving, this two-person performance takes its audience on a very human journey.

Based on personal experience, Snakebite has been written from the point of view of a gay alcoholic and a woman who’s husband was an alcoholic.

Not suitable for under 16’s.

Thursday 1st July
Flamenco Workshops
£8/£10 Tel 01482 616808 for details.
Booking Essential.

Thursday 1st July - 7.30pm
The Tamworth Suite, Dorchester Hotel
Hull Blokes: Play-Ola!
£2.50

Presenting an evening of short plays and featuring new writers, the Hull Blokes continue where they left off in last year’s festival.

This time, all pieces are inspired by classic some titles and cover subjects from political correctness gone mad, relationships, space pioneers, an unusual society, air travel and all manner of Hull characters. The Bloke’s look firstly to entertain, but hope to give the audience something to take away and think about too.

The Hull Blokes have recently had a six part comedy/drama broadcast by the BBC.

Thursday 1st July - 7.30pm
Wyke College
This is How it Ends
£2 adults Students free

This is How it Ends charts the major conflicts which have punctuated the course of 20th and early 21st century history. Using a variety of different genre .. verse drama, satire, physical theatre .. the performance travels from a futuristic nuclear bunker back to the First World War to examine the way our attitudes to country and to war have changed.

Thursday 1st July - 7.30pm
EICH Gallery, George Street
Ruth Padel:
The Soho Leopard
Free

I love Ruth Padel’s poetry. She is sexy, strong, rhythmic, passionate, fully alive and a wiz with words .. The Times

Sensuous slangy riffs: her cinematic technique is humorous, tender, flamboyant and unforgettable .. Independent

Ruth Padel is the great great granddaughter of Charles Darwin and will be reading from her new collection; The Soho Leopard. These hugely enjoyable, hallucinatory and lyrical new poems link mythology and zoological science, crossing Dulwich Pizza Hut with mating alligators and endangered animal species with stage directions from Beauty and the Beast.

Ruth Padel has published five collections of poetry and won the National Poetry Prize. Her previous collection Voodoo Shop was shortlisted for the Whitbread and T S Eliot prizes. She writes the Wild Thing column for the Times, and is also a singer, explorer, rock and opera journalist, member of the London Zoological Society and a friend to animals.

Friday 2nd July - 8pm
The Sailmaker’s Arms
An Evening with Signe
£4/£3

Dutch singer songwriter back in Hull for a solo accoustic performance.

'She's something else...'

Signe appears on the compilation CD 'Let Us Play'

Plus support

Friday 2nd July
Hull New Theatre
Increpacion Danza: Tablao
£12.50/£10 Box Office: 01482 226655

Uniting the traditions of Spanish Ballet, Flamenco and Contemporary dance, Barcelona based Increpacion Danza return to Yorkshire with their haunting new production Tablao.

With performers in a semi circle, scenes elapse in the implicit dramatic structure of the traditional ‘tablao’ spectacle. Tablao is an open musical game, a classic masterpiece, a truly passionate insight into flamenco dance.

Friday 2nd July - 7pm .. 9pm
Hull Central Library
Mslexia: Debbie Taylor
In The Best Possible Taste: the subtle art of writing about sex
Free 01482 616961: booking essential

If your prose reads like pornography every time you venture beyond that row of little dots, this could be the workshop for you. These frank exercises aim to help you develop an original erotic language and vocabulary.

Women only.

Debbie Taylor is Editor of Mslexia, the national magazine for women writers. Her latest novel, The Fourth Queen was described by the Independent as ‘literary Viagra’.