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The Humber Mouth Festival 2004
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Festival Events Diary Page.
Index Page.
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2004 sees a number of changes to the Humber Mouth: we have joined forces with the Hull Festival, moved to our new summer dates, and acquired a greater range of events and venues.
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Highlights this year include Brian Patten of the Liverpool poets; queen of crime Val McDermid; explorer Benedict Allen; Geoff Dyer, author of Yoga For People Who Can't Be Bothered To Do It; Anne Fine speaking at the Larkin Society; John Gray explaining the bestselling Straw Dogs; poets Ruth Padel, Michael Donaghy and Roy Fisher; Orwell biographer DJ Taylor; master cartoonist Tim Hunkin, who will demonstrate the lost art of safe breaking; a Family Fun Day in Queen's Gardens; and a workshop by Mslexia magazine which looks at erotic fiction.
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There is also involvement by locally based writers and artists including Hull Blokes (theatre); a festival of new writing at Hull Truck; Dave Windass exploring the life of a critic; artwork by Ian Killen; a travel writing workshop with Lee Karen Stowe; and music from the Electro-Accoustic Ensemble.
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There have been many challenges in presenting an even larger festival in such a short space of time, but also a huge amount of enthusiasm and commitment from everyone involved. Humber Mouth has added bite this year, and again promises to deliver a programme with something for everyone.
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The Humber Mouth 2004 - Soulskin by Red Ladder Theatre Company Monday 28th June 04 By Annie age 14
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Chrissie, a sixteen year old teenager who is rather like a ten year-old, feels lonely and picked on by both her grandmother (Mary) and mother (Bernie). Because Bernie was only fifteen when she gave birth to Chrissie, the pressure and responsibility became too much for her and she became mixed up
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The Humber Mouth 2004 - Benedict Allen at Hull Truck Theatre Friday 25th June by Michelle Dee
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It is not often you get to see a truly awe-inspiring person. Benedict Allen is a pioneer of exploration and adventure, pushing the boundaries of human endurance to their outermost limits. His desire to make home in some of the most inhospitable places in the world could be viewed as sheer
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The Humber Mouth 2004 - Sufi Poetry and Music night at the EICH Gallery, 19th June by Michelle Dee
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People were greeted by a thunderous drum call as they entered the performance space of the EICH gallery.
Oluseyi Ogunjobi, Fosuwa Andoh and a girl of barely ten brought the audience to attention, playing
pounding rhythms on African drums.
The night's proceedings were introduced by Toyen, resplendent in
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The Humber Mouth 2004 - The Blockheads New Writing Festival
Hull Truck Tue June 22nd by Lee Cassanell.
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Special Guest Reviewers - Jenna Jameson - Adult movie Starlet, Jesus Christ - The son of God ™ and He-Man - Master of the Universe
A pale faced prostitute (Louisa Hutchinson) is torn between a sexually deviant superstore manger (Lee Green) and a Sean Connery impersonating pimp
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Reviews, Theatre - ConPromise by Mal Williamson, Directed by Mathew Smith
EICH Gallery, Hull
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By Michelle Dee
I shall start with no preamble but immerse you straight away very much the same way that the 30+ audience were.
Last Friday night at the EICH Gallery in Hull I was sat in the front row, watching and listening to the reading of ConPromise by Mal Williamson.
For the first 5 minutes I tried desperately to understand the ..
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Hull Truck Theatre - presents the 20th anniversary production of.. Up n Under - Written and directed by John Godber Thursday 8th - Saturday 31st July, 8.00pm
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Hull Truck Theatre are celebrating John Godber's 20-year anniversary as Artistic Director
by staging his Olivier award-winning play, Up n Under.
Godber joined the company in 1984, bringing with him his unique brand of accessible
comedy / drama which catapulted Hull Truck Theatre
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Check out thisisull.com reviews from Humber Mouth 2003 below.
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Humber Mouth Reviews -BBC Telling Lives Showcase
Film Screening
8th Nov 2003 Quality Royal Hotel, by Cilla
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Since January the BBC Telling Lives team has been helping local people from the Humber region tell their real-life stories and turn them into short films that are broadcast by the BBC.
Some are deeply moving, some funny, some quirky - and each one is unique to the storyteller - they are 'stories no one else can tell'.
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Humber Mouth Reviews - Daphne Glazers The Wardrobe.
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Monday 10th November Reviewed by Michelle Dee
In Daphne Glazers case they certainly do. Daphne, a novelist and short story writer was originally from Sheffield she now resides in Hull with her family and beloved parrot, "Squawter".
Her father was also a writer though his work is sadly unpublished. In her early twenties Daphne lived and worked in Nigeria where she produced a serial in a national newspaper.
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Humber Mouth Reviews - Theatre Test Tube : Versus the Silent Majority at the Hull Truck Theatre
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Reviewed by special guest reviewer - Broten.
I was kindly asked to write this review by Steven Hall, one of the authors involved in tonight's performances, as he quite wrongly pointed out that it would be artistically corrupt to review his own plays. I personally think he would have done a wonderful job, and frankly would have been more honest and critical than me. But there you go, you're stuck aren't you.
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Humber Mouth Interviews - Tony Petch: Vanishing Point
By Nicholas Boldock
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Tony Petch could be regarded, in the nicest possible way, as an elder statesman of poetry in Hull. He's certainly been around for a while now (and I'm sure he won't mind me pointing that out) and has been published in innumerable anthologies and magazines over the years. It comes as a surprise to discover that Vanishing Point is his first solo collection.
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Reviews - Readers Day: Jake Arnott, Julia Darling,
Patric Gale, James Nash By Humber Mouth Critic Steve Hall
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Jake Arnott -
Author of the hugely (and rightfully) successful novel The Long Firm and its two sequels He Kills Coppers and truecrime, Arnott's work to date has explored crime, crime culture and criminals in stark, dirty, realistic and above all, disturbingly human manner. His novels stand as an important counterpoint to the brown tinted, stylised mockney gangster-ism of films like Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels and ..
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Humber Mouth Reviews - Thur 13th Nov Pooh Bear
Reading Workshop Central Library By Steve Hall
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Aimed at parents and carers, the workshop I attended was one of a number being run by the Pooh Bear Reading Assistance Society in various Hull libraries throughout the Humber Mouth festival.
We did a lot of exercises - we looked at how to identify various types of children's books by their covers, at how some children's books are structured with repetitions and rhymes to help young readers predict the story and learn to ..
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Humber Mouth Reviews - Wed 12th Nov Imetexture
Red Gallery By Steve Hall
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I struggle with sound art.
That's not a criticism, more an admission of a little personal blind spot. You see, what I need, I think, when I'm taking in a piece of work, is narrative - some kind of key of ideas which lets me unlock the work, lets me understand where it's going, what concerns and what issues it intends to deal with. By this I don't necessarily mean spoken words, or one of those little cards galleries stick next to their paintings -
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