For the first time this year Humber Mouth is offering an exciting, free, outdoor event in Queen’s Gardens, featuring a wealth of writers and activities for children and their families.

There’s something for everyone from babies to teens and the young at heart. Enter the World of the Dark Forest with the 2 Steves; and marvel at the amazing performance poetry and magic of Nick Toczek; write your own poem with Bernard Young and Graham Denton; or try your hand at giant puppet making, story taping or video. All this and much more in an action packed fun filled day.

Saturday 3rd July - 7.00pm
Victoria Avenue
Michael Donaghy & Roy Fisher with
Live Jazz in the Avenues
Free 01482 616961
Tickets limited: booking essential
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Michael Donaghy was born in 1954 in the Bronx, New York. He has lived in Britain since 1985. His most recent collections of poetry are Dances Learned Last Night (Poems 1975-1995) and Conjure, both published by Picador. His numerous awards include the Whitbread Prize for Poetry, the Geoffrey Faber Prize, and the Forward Prize. He is an outstanding performer and poet.

Roy Fisher was born in Handsworth, Birmingham in 1930, but his style shows the influence of the Black Mountain School, emanating from the college in North Carolina in the early 1950's. Despite this American influence, Roy Fisher's poetry retains an essential English quality drawing upon the landscape he knows so well. Helen Dunmore has said of Fisher’s wonderfully witty and anarchic poetry 'A poet of cities in growth and in dereliction His knowledge of urban landscape is formidable, and expressed with an originality of touch which makes these poems, at their best, revelatory. These are fine investigative poems'

Live jazz from local musicians.

Sunday 4th July - 7.00pm .. Midnight
The Lamp, Norfolk St
Independence Day
New York and Kurdistan
FREE

The concert will bring together American and Kurdish artists to celebrate living together in harmony, and the hope of a peaceful future for everyone .. Lou Duffy-Howard, organiser.

New York based Anti-war singer songwriter William Nowik will travel to Hull to perform on the last night of the festival with internationally acclaimed Kurdish band Gul Naz.

William Nowik is an author, performer, musician, songwriter, artist, storyteller, journalist, teacher, Zen trickster, Buddhist monk-in-training and Dhama bum. Spending his life for the most part unplugged from mainstream society, he recreates his stories of life in the underground with multi-media work.

The founder members of Gul Naz first met three years ago in an English immigration office after travelling 6000 miles to escape the regime of Sadam Hussein. Since then, they have gained a strong reputation for delivering traditional and contemporary Kurdish dance music to audiences across the country.