The Humber Mouth Literature Festival 2009 (7/7)

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Saturday July 4th Walk on the Wild Side 1pm - 3pm Drop-in East Park Animal Education Centre FREE A drop in event for families. To celebrate the publication of his latest anthology of poetry for children, Wild! Rhymes that Roar (Macmillan Children's Books) Graham Denton reads poems from the book and takes participants on a short ramble around the animal compound in East Park The event will finish with the chance for all to write their own ''Wild" poem in this drop-in session in the park.

Suitable for 7-9 year olds.

Willie MacKenzie: Stop the Whaling Maritime Museum, Victoria Square 2pm FREE Willie MacKenzie is a leading Greenpeace UK whaling expert and regularly appears as media spokesperson. He visits the Maritime Museum to talk about the history, politics and future of whaling; a must-see event for anyone concerned about the environment or with an interest in Hull's past.

Willie Mackenzie has an acute awareness of whaling issues, both what is going on globally today and how the industry in this country was shaped last century. Coming from a whaling heritage himself, he is an informed spokesman, drawing on his seafaring childhood in Shetland as well as from his time on board all three of Greenpeace's current vessels. Stop The Whaling presents the facts, the arguments and the history in a concise, accessible and authoritative way. Sunday July 5th

Barry Cryer: Still Alive With Colin Snell Hull Truck Theatre 7.30pm £15/£12 concs. Box Office 01482 323638 And he is - in a completely new, organically grown show, old Baz recalls, reminisces and recounts on a trip down Memory Lane, pausing only for tea and macaroons at the Stannah Stairlift CafŽ. What memories - if only he can remember them.

Jokes, songs, stories and on certain nights, Pole Vaulting, if his friend Vaclev from Warsaw turns up. Currently 72, a third of his life has already passed and he invites you to join him in a decorous orgy of nostalgia. This show is proactive! You have the chance to shout out a page number from one of his books and he will relate the story thereon. 'Truly a once in a lifetime experience' Lowestoft Mercury Join Baz as he wanders through his life and yours. Two hours of chuckle therapy - all patients seen immediately. Presented by All-Electric Productions. Monday July 6th

Creative Voice Hull Truck Studio 7pm FREE Box office: 01482 323638 Further information: creativevoice@hullcc.gov.uk Youth Theatre Platform Performances from youth theatre groups from across the city featuring specially commissioned scripts from writer Morgan Sproxton and drama tutor Kathryn Lee .

These have been devised with young dramatists who have something to say, reflecting the issues and humour of their lives. The Lost Boy The West Hull Youth Theatre Group present the story of Jake, a cool and popular teenager who seems to ''have it all" - including an ability to click his fingers and make magical things happen. Over the course of a day Jake comes to terms with a tragedy in his past and lays a few ghosts to rest. Who am I? Northcott Special School examine the big questions in life: who am I? what do I want to be? where am I going? In conjunction with Spin Off Theatre Company, this devised piece takes a fresh look at some age old questions with surprising and inspiring results. CanTEEN Inspired by the day to day happenings in the school canteen, Malet Lambert students present a play that looks at the secretive world of eating disorders as we join Carol, weatherworn head dinner lady, over the course of a lunch hour. Kathryn Lee directs. Morgan Sproxton has previously written for Hull Truck Theatre including the critically acclaimed Fathers 2B, Game Boys and Console Cuties. Morgan was one of fifty promising new writers selected to celebrate the Royal Court's 50th anniversary. Kathryn Lee is a qualified drama teacher and experienced performer. Tuesday 7th July

Creative Voice Hull Truck Studio 7pm FREE Box office: 01482 323638 Further information: creativevoice@hullcc.gov.uk Youth Theatre Platform Featuring Hull Truck Youth Theatre with ''Baby Blues" by Mark Rees, a hard hitting contemporary look at teenage pregnancy and its aftermath.

Also, pieces devised by young people at St Michael's Youth Centre who have been working with Act Now and Tweendykes, and Ganton Schools who have been working with Spin Off Productions. At the time of print these shows were still being devised so look forward to some new, exciting and very topical themes. Organised by Hull City Council with support from Inter@ct, Act Now and Spin Off Productions.

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	It was in America that horses first roamed. A million years before the birth of man, they grazed the vast plains of wiry grass and crossed to other continents over bridges of rock soon severed by retreating ice. They first knew man as the hunted knows the hunter Read more...

Reviews, Books - Eleanor Rigby by Douglas Coupland Reviewed by Steve Rudd
	I realise that by deciding not to do things, I've lost millions of threads of chance and opportunity to have new experiences, to meet new people - to be alive, really. So now I'm going to start doing things I'm bad at again. Heck, I'm going to do things Read more...

Reviews, Books - The Cossacks by Leo Tolstoy Reviewed By Steve Rudd
	The one way to be happy is to love, to love self-denyingly, to love everybody and everything. If you fancy a nice little slab of classic literature, then this beauty of a story might be for you. Set on the harsh Russian Steppes back in the nineteenth century, this simple-living Read more...

Reviews, Books - Pink by Gus Van Sant Reviewed By Steve Rudd
	Famed Hollywood-based director Gus, like actor Ethan Hawke, is now making his name as an author too. This is his debut novel, and a bizarrely tripped-out one at that, putting the reader in the mind of Douglas Coupland Read more...

Reviews, Books - God's Debris by Scott Adams Reviewed by Katherine Horrex
	God's Debris explores the philosophy of physical science within a fictional story. It was written by Scott Adams, creator of Dilbert and is the number one best-selling E-book on the planet. Adams himself describes it as a Read more...

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	This is Steve's sixth action-thriller novel, and it is arguably his most exciting and accomplished so far. Michigan-born Steve sets all his work in such a perpetually snowbound state (or so it would seem from reading his work), Read more...

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Reviews, Books - Lost Horizon by James Hilton Reviewed by Steve Rudd
	This awesome tale of adventure and intrigue was first published in 1933 and still makes for a remarkable read, as four people are kidnapped in the Far-East and then somewhat inexplicably left stranded in a secluded Tibetan valley, an area that they soon come to know as Read more...

Reviews, Books - To the Poles Without a Beard by Catherine Hartley Reviewed by Steve Rudd
	This extraordinary woman was the first British woman to reach first the South Pole and then the North Pole (along with another lady called Fiona), and this is her story... Essentially an exquisite autobiography, this book starts out by chronicling Catherine's life - in brief - Read more...

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	I've been a Ken Loach fan ever since I saw Kes. I tend to think of that film now as the million-times-better precursor to Billy Elliott ( I couldn't be doing with that schmaltzy effort). Loach is the king of social realism that hits you where it hurts, and yet leaves you with a lingering sense of having Read more...

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	Autobiographical tales don't come much more nail-biting than this living nightmare, recalled by mountaineer Joe who was left for dead on a snow-riddled peak in Peru back in 1985. After getting into trouble on the 21,000 ft Siula Grande with friend Simon Yates Read more...

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