1 July - 6 September 2016

A summer festival celebrating Hull’s aviation heroine A woman of our time!

Welcome to Amy Johnson Festival and two months of arts and engineering events marking the 75th anniversary of the death of Hull’s flying heroine.

Born in 1903, Amy Johnson CBE was one of the most influential and inspirational women of the twentieth century. She was the first woman to fly solo from England to Australia and set a string of other records throughout her career. During the 1920s and 1930s aviation was dominated by the rich and famous and most female pilots were titled women such as Lady Heath, the Duchess of Bedford and Lady Bailey. But Amy was the first woman to gain a ground engineer’s ‘C’ licence and, whilst working as a secretary, she took flying lessons. In 1929 she was awarded her pilot’s licence and just a year later set o‹ solo for Australia!

Our festival celebrates Amy’s life, achievements and legacy with a wide ranging programme that we hope will appeal to all interests and ages. The festival will raise awareness of Amy Johnson’s achievements as an aviator, as an engineer and as a woman of her time, one of the first truly international celebrities.

Amy’s amazing story of adventure, glamour and tragedy has been an inspiration to artists and organisations who have brought Amy to life with imagination and ingenuity! From kites to comics, Leonardo da Vinci machines to cardboard planes, films to fantasy, the festival re-imagines Amy’s world through the lens of today. But above all, Amy is a fantastic role model for young people in general and young women in particular, a woman of unstoppable determination, engineering and aviation skills.

With the city facing a brighter future based on renewable energy, let’s hope that our festival inspires more young people to consider the exciting prospect of an engineering or technical career and follow Amy’s remarkable flight path!

Rick Welton Festival Director

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Festival takes Flight Festival takes Flight

Festival takes Flight Pif Paf: Planetary The Assembly Line A stunning physical theatre show mixing The ladies of the Assembly Line have chosen Saturday 2 July Zebedee’s Yard movement, aerial, acrobatics, theatre and to take the audience on the highs and lows of 10am - 8pm Whitefriargate, Hull HU1 2EX Russian swing on a brand new spinning stage. Amy Johnson’s solo adventure via a ukulele musical flight of fancy, inspired by the weather Three travellers arrive with an irresistible Amy encountered, the countries she flew invitation to a giant puzzle, a spinning planet across and the amazing people she met along A day of great family friendly entertainment Todays free shows in Zebedee’s Yard include: forged from 80 meters of steel pipe. There’s her epic journey. in the Festival’s city centre home, Zebedee’s only one crown and we each want it with every Yard. Join us for amazing performances in a The Journey bone in our bodies – unfortunately none of us unique piazza setting, picture yourself with has a clue how to get it. The Aviators some beautiful Moths for Amy, visit our Da Street theatre outdoor spectacle featuring Planetary unlocks a brand new piece of aerial Vinci Engineered exhibition, try the Peep kinetic sculpture, music, costumed characters How on earth will Amy and Jack theatre equipment. We’ll discover its secrets and Board Trail and watch artists paint the Amy and audience participation. reach for the skies? Johnson Mural. Zebedee’s Yard is open every maybe something about ourselves as we fight to It’s time to experience famous aviator Amy day throughout the festival until 22 August for The Journey street theatre show resembles be top dog in this tale of daredevil mayhem. It’s Johnson and her mentor, mechanic and possible events, information, snacking and shopping. an early flying machine with elements of Mad a journey of unstable alliances, misplaced trust, Max and Leonardo da Vinci concepts all rolled a bit of greed and what happens when - if - you love interest, Jack Humphries on stilts! These into one and set in an imagined future dystopia finally get what you want. fun and humorous walkabout characters packed full of bizarre characters trying to will lead the way as audience members are re-gain the magic of flight. For audiences of all encouraged to compete in races, break records ages, humorous, yet thought provoking, it’s fun Hull Samba and listen to a history lesson with a di‹erence. The Aviators promises to be an impressive to watch and welcomes participation – no hiding Playing vibrant rhythms of Brazil with a flavour visual spectacle and fun for all the family. Will at the back! of East Yorkshire, Hull Samba are a group of Amy and Jack survive the journey? Can they people who share a passion for rhythm. They reach for the skies? How will they prepare for bang out some hip swaying grooves, and bring take-o‹? a little musical sunshine to any event. Rio meets Hull; they’ll provide the beat, you just bring your Performed by circus skills double act Rachel dancing shoes! Harris and Robert Jamieson.

4 5 Festival takes Flight Exhibition

Bandanarama Amy’s Adventures Da Vinci Engineered A community street band with attitude, in the Air Trail From Renaissance mechanics to contemporary art Bandanarama play a lively mash-up of Disco Follow in Amy Johnson’s footsteps and fly hits, New Orleans Funeral Music, Indie Classics across the world via our thrilling and Cockney oom-pah, with a mix of brass, wind, An exhibition of Leonardo da Vinci flight and wind machines alongside works by 12 contemporary artists peep-board trail. percussion, strings, and vocals. Resembling a hairy, sweaty, greasy mob of bikers and rock Are you as adventurous as Amy? Have you Saturday 2 July - Sunday 21 August Zebedee’s Yard gods, the band love to strut their stu‹ through got the determination to complete Amy’s Open daily 10.00am - 5.00pm Whitefriargate any crowd. Adventures in the Air? Are you inspired to be Last admissions 4.00pm Hull, HU1 2EX by her side, on her epic solo journey across the Guaranteed to get kids bopping, nanas dancing globe bound for Australia? and adult toes tapping with a “feel good” factor In association with Green Port Hull and University of respond to ideas of flight or explore the use of Hull School of Engineering, supported by BAE Systems and infectious energy that’s truly memorable. engineering in their conceptualisation, design or If you’re up for the challenge (and we know and Spencer Group you are) it’s time to look out for our interactive production. This fascinating exhibition curated peep-boards in Zebedee’s Yard, where you will Amy Johnson Festival themes of engineering, by Lara Goodband reminds us that the creativity An Amy Johnson mural become a brave co-pilot and travel with Amy as flight and creativity come together in this of the engineer and the inspiration of the painted ‘live’ with the together you find your way to Australia on the must-see exhibition, displayed in our specially artist are two sides of the same coin of human most amazing and adventurous journey. constructed gallery in Zebedee’s Yard. Twelve endeavour and innovation. GROUND team faithful reproductions of Leonardo da Vinci’s This high-flying adventure will transform you A series of associated artists’ talks and hands- GROUND artists’ collective will be on site during flight and wind machines loaned by Da Vinci into a time travelling detective, taking in science, on workshops for young people will take place early July producing a bespoke mural for the Museum, Florence and created by Niccolai culture, art, music, theatre, sculpture, poetry, throughout July and August. See pages 36 - 37. Amy Johnson Festival – come and see their Teknoart SNC Firenze, demonstrate the society and politics. work in progress, buy them tea and watch remarkable prescience of this great artist beautiful things happen. Tell the world of your adventures by posting and his engineering genius. Alongside these Admission prices your images from the trail on social media, via Renaissance machines, specially commissioned Adult: £5 Instagram, Facebook and Twitter. Our hashtag and selected works by contemporary artists Concs: £3 (Students, under 18s, senior citizens) is #AmyJTrail Claire Barber, Sabine Bieli, Savinder Bual, Cath Please phone Festival O°ce 01482 224334 for Campbell, Clare Charnley, Nicola Dale, Nicola special prices and arrangements for school Ellis,Heinrich & Palmer, Simone Aaberg K®rn, groups and for groups of 10 or more. Ruth Levene, Clare Mitten and Helen Schell

6 7 Exhibition Family Workshop Music Concert New Statue

The Art Collection Flying High with Flying to Freedom A New Statue Amy’s Contemporaries Amy Johnson Colours of Music Orchestra of Amy!

A History Makers family craft and Lego event Saturday 2 July Saturday 2 July - Thursday 1 September The Amy Johnson Herne Bay Project, Amy Open 7 days a week, 10.00am – 5.00pm 2.00pm Johnson Festival and Keepmoat have together (7.00pm on Tuesdays. Closed public holidays) Saturday 2 July Free admission but booking is required commissioned sculptor Stephen Melton to create a dynamic new statue of Amy Johnson. Free admission 9:30am - 12:30pm Albemarle Music Centre Two versions of this life-size statue will be cast The Brynmor Jones Library Free admission 60 Ferensway in bronze, one to be placed in Amy’s birth city University of Hull, Cottingham Road Hull HU2 8LN Hull History Centre of Hull and one on the promenade in Herne Bay, Hull HU6 7RX Worship Street looking out into the Thames Estuary where she Hull HU2 8BG Spin o‹ Production in collaboration with Hull died. The Hull statue will form the focal point of The University of Hull Art Collection specialises City Council and Music 4U bring you Flying to the new open space at the heart of Keepmoat’s Freedom, a tribute to Amy Johnson and other Amy Johnson housing development and should in art in Britain 1890-1940, which closely Join us at the History Centre to design and make pioneering women. be a fitting memorial to an outstanding local corresponds to the life of Amy Johnson model planes as we follow Hull’s pioneer pilot, heroine, only a few hundred yards from where (1903-1941). The Collection covers paintings, Amy Johnson. The Colours of Music Orchestra is comprised of she was born and spent the early years of sculpture, drawings and prints and has been young people from Frederick Holmes, Ganton, With lots of Lego building and craft activities, her life. described by Fred Hohler (Chairman, Public Northcott and Tweendykes Schools as well as Catalogue Foundation) as ‘a collection of we explore the history that makes Hull such a Rhythm Pixies and Route One Youth Centre. The Amy Johnson development is part of the breathtaking quality’. It is now displayed in a unique and fantastic place to be. Come prepared wider Newington and St Andrew’s regeneration new gallery in the Brynmor Jones Library on the to build your planes and to colour, construct, With musicians Gary Hammond, Humber Taiko, programme which is seeing Keepmoat deliver University’s Cottingham Road campus. glue, bejewel and design as together we make Donna Smith and film makers My Pockets and almost 1500 new mixed tenure homes over the history! original music from David Barton, the orchestra The Collection will celebrate Amy Johnson next 12 years. It is anticipated that both statues will capture the initial solo flight by Amy Festival by particularly featuring works by All ages are welcome, from 2 to 102 - we just ask will be unveiled during September 2016. See Johnson, flying over countries and celebrating woman artists produced in the 1930s and 1940s. that under-16s bring a responsible adult along. our website at amyjohnsonfestival.co.uk for their own female heroines. news of developments.

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Outdoor Spectacle Zebedee’s Yard Acrobatic Dance Exhibition

Place des Anges Zebedee’s Yard Lance moi en l’air Flying Solo At the heart of the festival! Presented by Hull UK City of Culture 2017 and Yorkshire Sunday 3 July Friday 8 July - Saturday 3 September Festival, in association with Amy Johnson Festival. Saturday 2 July - Sunday 22 August 2.30pm and 4.30pm Tuesday – Friday, 9.30am - 5.30pm; 1st & 3rd Free admission – an open air performance Saturday of each month, 9.00am - 4.30pm Saturday 2 July / 9.45pm (gates open at 9.15pm) Open daily 10am - 6pm Free admission Free ticketed event. Later on event nights Zebedee’s Yard Book online at: hull2017.co.uk/placedesanges Whitefriargate Hull History Centre Hull HU1 2EX Worship Street Queens Gardens, Hull If you’re in town, call in and browse around Hull, HU2 8BG Zebedee’s Yard. There’s the Da Vinci Engineered exhibition in the Exhibition Marquee, live events Blurring the boundaries of dance, theatre and This summer, Hull 2017 and the Yorkshire on the Festival Stage, the Peep Board Trail, and circus, Joli Vyann take you on imaginative BA (Hons) Fashion Students studying on the Festival invite you to dance in a sea of feathers lots of pop-up action! Visit the Festival Shop for physical journeys, telling stories that excite, fashion degree programme at Hull School of as Gratte Ciel’s jaw-dropping ‘Place des Anges’ great Amy and Moth merchandise – Gipsy Moth enchant and electrify. Their energetic Art & Design (part of Hull College Group) were comes to the city. cardboard plane kits, Amy Johnson postcards, performances combine exciting acrobatic skills given the challenge to design a contemporary As night falls across the city, the skies above the Moth Colouring Book, Leonardo da Vinci flying with athletic yet graceful dance. collection of garments whose silhouette and Queens Gardens will come alive. Aerial machine models and lots more. Come in to the style were influenced by the life style of Amy Lance moi en l’air, Joli Vyann’s new summer performers will transform the area into a Information Centre and find out about everything Johnson. Students researched her love of show, choreographed by Florence Caillon with magical space bursting with fun and mischief. that’s going on - it’s not all in this programme as designer clothes, her famous plane ‘Jason’, the original music by Xavier Demerliac, is about the And just when you think it’s all over, an we will be adding events all the time. Gipsy Moth in which she flew from Great Britain sensitivity and connection between two people. extraordinary feather display will create a to Australia, the structure and flight of moths While you’re here have a drink and a snack at Can we be strong whilst relaxed? Heavy whilst ‘blizzard’ transforming the ground below into a and the original features of the trench coat. McCoys in The Yard, or visit Liquid Jade nearby. light? Grounded whilst levitated? Submissive dream-like sea in which you can dance and play whilst in control? A mixture of strength and The final collection is an eclectic mix of colours after the show. Nearest car parking is Princes Quay Shopping weakness? and fabric to produce a rainwear and jacket Centre - Sat Nav HU1 2NL - or on street around Providing a taste of things to come in 2017, this collection, lingerie, day and eveningwear, and Queens Gardens. Can we be dropped into the air? stunning event is suitable for all the family and that ever-important piece of millinery to give an kick-starts an exciting summer of city-wide Please note that there is no car parking in www.withoutwalls.uk.com/lance-moi-dans-lair outfit that final je ne sais quoi! activities and festivals. Zebedee’s Yard during the Festival.

10 11 Exhibition Family Workshop Exhibition

Fuelling Flight Drone School Far Horizons Flying for beginners Shell’s aviation achievements in the 1930s An exhibition of kites from around the world

presented by Abandon Normal Devices Friday 8 July - Saturday 3 September Saturday 9 - Friday 30 July Artlink Centre for Community Arts 87 Princes Avenue Tuesday – Friday, 9.30am - 5.30pm; 1st & 3rd Monday - Saturday, 10.00am - 4.00pm Saturday 9 & Sunday 10 July Hull HU5 3QP Saturday of each month, 9.00am - 4.30pm Free admission 12.00pm - 4.30pm daily Free admission Free admission Hull History Centre, Worship Street, Kites can come in all shapes and sizes, and collection, which has been drawn from countries Zebedee’s Yard, Whitefriargate, Hull HU1 2EX Hull HU2 8BG this exhibition shows some of that amazing in Europe and beyond. Alongside the kites, there variety. Pauline Taylor of Infinite Arts (who is a chance to see the Smithsonian Institution has created Far Horizons International Kite Traveling Exhibition Service (SITES) exhibition This exhibition celebrates Shell’s advertising Are you curious about drones? Weekend at Beverley Racecourse – see page 22 Colourful Kite Tales, giving a fascinating insight campaigns, sponsorship and record breaking At the Drone School Workshop you will get the for full details) has been collecting, making and into the history of kites and capturing their achievements in the 1930s. The exhibition chance to learn more about UAV’s (Unmanned flying kites for many years. Her kite collection beauty and diversity. particularly focuses on the company’s Aerial Vehicles) and pilot a Nano Drone through includes kites made from feathers and leaves endorsement of flight and women, coinciding See page 38 for details of our kite making our Drone School obstacle course. Here you will as well as those made in the traditional way with our festival themes. Shell provided the fuel workshops. have the opportunity to look through the eyes of from paper and bamboo. Modern day kites from for Amy’s record breaking solo flight to Australia a drone, whilst competing with your family and rip-stop nylon and carbon fibre complete the in 1930. friends in mini-missions of increasing di°culty The material comes mainly from the Shell to gain top pilot position. Heritage Art Collection, the Shell Archives, The workshop operates on a drop-in basis the Shell Film and Video department, the and no drone experience is needed as practice Shell Photographic department and the SMBP drones will be provided. archive. Exhibition curated by Nicky Balfour Penney and Emma Mackinnon at the Shell Under 14s must be accompanied by an adult, Heritage Art Collection. but all ages are welcome to participate.

Supported by BAE Systems 12 13 Lunchtime Talk Reminiscence Music Concert

The Mystery The Amy Johnson Hull Folk & Maritime Festival of Amy Johnson Scrapbook at Amy Johnson Festival Jane Priston Saturday 16 & Sunday 17 July Zebedee’s Yard Do you have a story to tell about Amy Whitefriargate Tuesday 12 July / 12.30 - 1.30pm Johnson, a family connection, an anecdote? 1.00 - 6.45pm Hull HU1 2EX We are interested in gathering memories and Admission: Free, but come early Free admission mementoes of Amy to bring together in the Amy as seating is limited to 100 Johnson Scrapbook, a series of recordings, Hull History Centre, Worship Street, cuttings, photos or any other Amy-related items Amy Johnson Festival is proud to host Hull Folk featuring Lola Waslin’s jazzy vocals, Kelvin Hull HU2 8BG – from her early life growing up in Hull, through and Maritime Festival on our stage at Zebedee’s Baldwin’s cool cajon and the gonzo guitar of her world wide aviation career to her tragic end Yard, with a packed weekend programme Je‹ Parsons, the Loudhailer Electric Company, of music fit for a celebration of Hull’s own Hase Waits – purveyors of ethnic, traditional and Jane Priston has also made her own extensive whilst on war service with the Air Transport pioneering globetrotter. contemporary folk music from around the world, researches into the circumstances of Amy’s Auxiliary. along with Hull favourites Crooked Weather, The death, and even persuaded local divers to The line-up at Zebedee’s Yard includes Dez and Contact our project worker, Glynis Charlton, if Dyr Sister and Mighty and The Moon. explore the seabed for remains of the Airspeed you have something to tell us, or a memory to Cathy Allenby, Rainbow People, a new band Oxford she was flying when she died. This talk share, by emailing Glynis@amyjohnsonfestival. promises to be a fascinating new perspective on co.uk, phoning us on 01482 224334, or coming aspects of Amy’s life and death. along to the Festival Shop and Information Saturday 16 July Sunday 17 July Jane is project manager of the Amy Johnson Centre in Zebedee’s Yard during the festival. 1pm - Lola Waslin’s Rainbow People 1pm - Amanda Lowe’s Amy Johnson Herne Bay Project and has done much to raise All recordings will be preserved as part of the 2pm - Urban Rain Song Cycle awareness in her local area of Amy’s tragic Untold Hull Archive curated by Hull Culture & 3pm - Farino 2pm - Cathy and Dez Allenby death so close to the North Kent coast. Leisure Ltd. 4pm - Crooked Weather 3pm - Work in Progress 5pm - The Dyr Sister 4pm - Loudhailer Electric Company For more information about the 6pm - Mighty and the Moon 5pm - Ricochet Violin and Guitar Duo Amy Johnson Herne Bay project visit 6pm - Hase Waits www.amyjohnsonhernebay.com.

14 15 Music Concert Centenary Plaque Lecture

A Musical Journey Unveiling of Lord The BAE Systems Brough Mayors’ Centenary Laurence Rugg’s Musical Journey will Centenary Lecture transport you across three fascinating Plaque Tracey Curtis-Taylor continents – can you keep up? Thursday 21 July My spirit found outlet in the air - Amy Johnson Wednesday 20 July 2.30pm 7.00pm Thursday 21 July Allam Lecture Theatre Rosedale Mansions Esk Building, Admission price - £5 6.00 - 7.00pm Boulevard Hull University Business School Free admission but advance Holy Trinity Church, St Mary’s Church Hull HU3 2TE Cottingham Road booking is recommended and the Civic Suite, Guildhall Hull, HU6 7RX

Amy Johnson was a pupil at Boulevard This stunning three stage musical journey Secondary School from 1915 until 1922. This Tracey will tell the story of her expeditions in meet thousands of women around the world, commences with Viennese music at Holy important period in her life will be marked and her 1942 bi-plane Spirit of Artemis over the allowing her the opportunity to share her Trinity, moves via St Mary’s Church on Lowgate celebrated with the installation on Rosedale past 4 years, flying Cape Town to Goodwood, message of freedom, ambition and inspiration. with Indian music and culminates in the plush Mansions (the former Boulevard Secondary Britain to Australia, and then completing the She will be speaking to slides with stunning surroundings of the Civic Suite at the city’s School building) of a Lord Mayors’ Centenary global tour with the flight across the USA. photos and breath-taking video footage from Guildhall with the Indonesian Gamelan. Plaque. The plaque will be unveiled by Mrs Interwoven within the incredible adventure her worldwide flight. Judith Chilvers, one of Amy Johnson’s nieces, of these flights which have taken her through The Carillon bells at the start and end of the in the presence of Councillor Mary Glew. The some of the most beautiful and challenging journey will be put to full use; these special Centenary Plaques will honour the people of parts of the planet, is the history of pioneering state-of-the-art bells can be programmed to Hull who have made a di‹erence internationally, aviation from the Golden Age of aviation during play any music and played out for the city’s nationally and locally. the inter-war period. people to hear, making for a unique and very special performance that will resonate far Tracey has been inspired by aviators such and wide. as Amy Johnson and Lady Mary Heath and her flights have given her the platform to

16 17 Physical Theatre Film Event Film Event Theatre

Altitude 75 Second Films 75 Second Film The Amy Johnson Awards Night Screenings Fan Club Performance-Parkour meets hi-flying stunts on a sca¡old bi-plane Saturday 23 July Tuesday 26 - Saturday 30 July You need three things to fly: guts, goggles and a plane. Emily has two. She doesn’t need the Saturday 23 & Sunday 24 July 7.30pm 10.00am - 6.00pm plane, coz she’s a Superhero. 12.00pm & 2.30pm Free admission but booking is recommended Free admission Free admission - open air performance Kardomah94, 94 Alfred Gelder Street, Kardomah94, 94 Alfred Gelder Street, Tuesday 26 & Wednesday 27 July Hull HU1 2AN Hull HU1 2AN Zebedee’s Yard, Whitefriargate, Hull HU1 2EX 8.00pm. Doors open 7.30pm. Admission Price - £5. Pre-booking is The Urban Playground Team present Altitude, a Film-makers and artists from around the world Continuous screenings of the award winning 75 advisable as capacity is limited new performance-parkour show commissioned have risen to the challenge of making a 75 Second Films and a selection of recommended Kardomah94, 94 Alfred Gelder Street, by Amy Johnson Festival for Zebedee’s Yard. second film inspired by the Amy Johnson Festival films will be shown daily in the comfort of Hull HU1 2AN themes and the 75th anniversary of Amy’s Kardomah94’s intimate theatre. Full café service A group of explorers discover, under wraps, a death. Film submissions include a wonderfully also available so call in for a drink, a snack or a machine that changed the world! Inspired, they eclectic mix of work from stop frame animation full meal with your films. Our girl loves Amy - a little too much. Because take a flight through the early history of aviation through to experimental film and short narrative, Amy was cool, broke records, wore boots. But in a non-stop race around the globe. Along the from established figures such as internationally Emily? She’s just a scru‹y kid from Hessle way they will encounter wing-walkers, pioneers, acclaimed animator, Max Hattler and Steven Road, with one special talent. She can fly. barn-stormers, smugglers, heroes and, of Woloshen (National Film Board of Canada), Without a plane. A one-woman show by award course, Amy Johnson herself. through to comparative newcomers. See films winning writer Rob Young, performed by Hull of innovation and imagination, meet the film based actress Charlie Sellers. This international four-person crew combines makers and enjoy all the tension of an awards authentic Free-Running with circus, dance and ceremony! There will be awards for Hull and the There will be a Q&A session after the first night theatre in a show for the whole family. East Yorkshire, UK, and International categories with the writer and actor. and for Best in Show. Each performance is followed by an open A Living Amy Commission supported by workshop in which YOU can learn the basics and James Reckitt Library Trust 75 Second Film has been curated by artist/ jump into the world of performance-parkour. filmmaker Kerry Baldry. 18 19 Music Installation Music Concert Outdoor Spectacle

Flight of the A Concert for Amy Far Horizons - International Kite Weekend Monarchs / Vuelo Kerrin Tatman and Freya Bryson Saturday 30 & Sunday 31 July Beverley Racecourse, de las Monarcas 11.00am - 5.00pm each day York Rd, Beverley HU17 8QZ Rob Mackay Saturday 30 July Supported by Siemens Wind Power and Look out for details of our free Far Horizons kite- 7.30pm East Riding of Yorkshire Council making workshops across Hull and East Yorkshire Friday 29 July - Wednesday 10 August Admission price: £6 (full) / £4 (concessions) Bring the family and enjoy a great day out, throughout July. Participants who attend the 1.00pm - 5.00pm kite-making workshops (details on page 38) will Holy Trinity Church where the sky will be filled with spectacular be able to get 50% discount on the entry price to Free admission King Street flying displays from around the world, including the Kite Weekend. Zebedee’s Yard Hull HU1 2JJ breathtaking artistic creations and synchronised Whitefriargate musical sport kite routines. On the ground there’ll Admission prices Hull HU1 2EX be a chance to see our exhibition of amazing Adults: single day £6, weekend £10 To commemorate the life of Amy Johnson, kites from di‹erent countries - fly one, buy Under 18s: single day £4, weekend £6 Beverley-bred composers Kerrin Tatman and one or even make your own in the kite-making Family: single day £15, weekend £25 (admits 2 Flight of the Monarchs is an immersive sound Freya Bryson bring you an evening of original workshop while enjoying trade and community adults and 2 children or 1 adult and 3 children) and video installation inspired by the incredible contemporary classical music and art-song in stalls, a fun-fair, Hull Carnival Arts, entertainment, Children under 3 years: Free journey that the Monarch Butterfly takes each the stunning setting of Holy Trinity Church. refreshments and family-friendly picnic area. year from Canada to Mexico. Combining video Travelling to Far Horizons and sound footage recorded in the El Rosario Featuring the public premiere of two pieces World-leading kite-makers and fliers who’ve By bus: From Hull, Market Weighton, Pocklington reserve in Michoacan with flute and Mexican inspired by Amy Johnson, the evening will be confirmed their attendance include Ron and Baew or York, catch EYMS Services X46 or X47. There’s poetry, this explores the resilience of this an eclectic mixture of piano, vocal, ‘cello and Spaulding from Thailand, Gerhard and Daniela a bus stop right outside the racecourse. You beautiful creature in the face of climate change. accordion music. Highlights include extracts Zitzman from Austria, Rene and Franziska Maier can also use this bus to get from Beverley Town from Bryson’s setting of William Blake’s Songs from Switzerland, Sta‹ord Wallace and Mehul Centre. For bus times and details see www. of Innocence and Experience and Tatman’s Pathak from India. From the UK we welcome eyms.co.uk or ring BusLine on 01482 592929 Mourn for Solo ‘Cello, the latter featuring aerial Malcolm and Jeanette Goodman, Paul and Natalie (open 8am-6pm, Mon-Sat). circus silks dancer Claire Harvey on a 6-metre Reynolds, Mike and Fran Goddard along with By car: Free car-parking nearby. high rig. world famous stunt flying team The Decorators! SatNav HU17 8QZ

20 21 Exhibition Exhibition

Amy Johnson - A Life in Pictures The Collected Photographs

Supported by BAE Systems Tuesday 6 - 27 September Exhibition Hall, The Brynmor Jones Library 10.00am - 5.00pm daily, including Sunday University of Hull, Cottingham Road Hull HU6 7RX As a celebrity, Amy was photographed and with her family, on holiday, horse riding and Free admission photographed! For this exhibition we have motor rallying as well as making celebrity drawn on a wide range of sources, both private appearances on flights across the world. and public, from the family archives to museum Also at Publication These often beautiful and moving pictures collections, to tell Amy’s remarkable story also give a rare glimpse of a past era and a The Seaside Museum, 12 William Street, Amy Johnson – A Life in Pictures will be through contemporary photographs. Many of rapidly changing world, spanning Amy’s 37 Herne Bay, Kent, CT6 5EJ published as a hardback large format photo book the images have not been seen before and eventful years. to coincide with the exhibition. It will include all capture Amy as a child and a student, at home Saturday 3 September - Sunday 16 October the exhibition photos and additional pictures, Tuesday to Sunday 10.00am - 4.00pm creating a beautiful and lasting tribute to Amy. www.theseasidemuseumhernebay.org Selected Photographs Sale price £18. Available at exhibition Admission: Adults £2, Concessions £1.60 venues, Festival Shop in Zebedee’s Yard, and Children under 16 free. Friday 5 August - Saturday 3 September Free admission Waterstones, Jameson Street, Hull. Pre-order your copy at the reduced price of £15 by sending Hull History Centre, Western Library, Boulevard, Hull HU3 3ED an email to [email protected]. Worship Street, Hull HU2 8BG Monday 10.00am - 5.00pm, Tuesday 9.00am Tuesday - Friday 9.30am - 5.30pm, 1st and -1.30pm, Thurs 1.00pm - 6.00pm, Saturday 3rd Saturday of each month 9.30am - 4.30pm 10.00am -1.00pm

Artlink Community Arts Centre, Freedom Centre, Preston Road, Hull, HU9 3QB Princes Avenue, Hull, HU5 3QP Thursday 8.00am - 7.30pm, Friday 8.00am - Monday - Saturday 10.00am - 4.00pm 6.00pm, Saturday 8.00am - 12.00pm

…and at other pop-up locations throughout the city.

22 23 Music Concert Lunchtime Talk Music Concert

Humber Street Sesh at Amy Johnson: Amy Johnson Amy Johnson Festival Hessle Road Tomboy Song Cycle Dr. Alec Gill, MBE Amanda Lowe Saturday 6 August Zebedee’s Yard Whitefriargate 11.30am - 6.45pm A performance of songs that explore the life Hull HU1 2EX Tuesday 9 August and achievement of a pioneering aviatrix. 12.30pm - 1.30pm The ever-popular Humber Street Sesh, now in Confirmed line-up is as follows: Free admission but come early Saturday 13 August / 7.00pm its fifth year, hits the Amy Johnson Festival on as seating is limited to 100 11.30am - Noon - Signs of Home our stage at Zebedee’s Yard. Hull History Centre, Worship Street, Free admission 12.30pm - 1.00pm - Sea of Wires Hull HU2 8BG Zebedee’s Yard, Whitefriargate, Hull HU1 2EX Previous years have seen over 30,000 in 1.30pm - 2.00pm - The Dyr Sister attendance at the festival and this year 180 2.30pm - 3.00pm - Late Night Marauders original bands and acts will play across 12 3.30pm - 4.00pm - Rich and Lou’s Loudhailer In this talk, author and local historian Dr Alec Acclaimed musician and songwriter Amanda stages in one day. 4,30pm - 5.00pm - Queenan and John Cox Gill gives an intriguing insight into the life and Lowe has written ten songs exploring the life 5.30pm - 6.00pm - Emma Fee death of Amy Johnson and sets out his own and achievements of Amy Johnson. The song Humber Street Sesh at Amy Johnson Festival theories about the uncomfortable relationship cycle covers Amy’s adventures and incredible promises to be an intimate a‹air, with a Free admission but capacity is limited. between Hull’s most famous celebrated achievements in aviation, her rise to celebrity packed programme of high-quality acoustic Festival wristbands for events on Humber daughter and her home city. The talk is based status, her love life and her untimely death. acts. The eclectic Humber Street programme Street are available from Zebedee’s Yard. on Dr Gill’s recently published e-book of the also includes live art, silent disco, photography Amanda’s song writing process is available same name. exhibition, a skate park, spoken word and a to all by visiting a project blog at www. festival market. amyjohnsonsongcycle.wordpress.com where details can be found of how to submit films in response to the songs. She will be performing a selection from the song cycle at the Festival on Saturday 16 July as part of Hull Folk Festival.

An East Riding of Yorkshire Council Commission

24 25 Installation Music Concert Exhibition

Through the Weather Glass The Gherkins Virtual Amy

An interactive installation in association with Wrecking Ball Press Sunday 14 August From August onwards

1.00pm Children’s Library, Hull Central Library, Saturday 13 and Sunday 14 August Zebedee’s Yard Free admission Albion Street, Hull HU1 3TF 10.00am - 5.00pm Whitefriargate Hull HU1 2EX Zebedee’s Yard Free admission Whitefriargate Supported by Hull City Council and Hull HU1 2EX James Reckitt Library Trust

What do we think when we think about climate a power generator, a google earth animated Virtual Amy uses 3D computer games change? film of the cycle route, some collage poetry and The Gherkins are noted for being seriously technology and visual e‹ects to bring Amy photography, music by Thea Gilmore and Eddie Johnson’s historic story back to life. Recreated Join Icarus on a Carrollian journey through the entertaining, light-hearted and scattered with Lang, a writing zone and – of course - a large as a life size digital character, Virtual Amy will weather glass of climate change into the world well crafted familiar songs from the past - what pair of poetry willow wings. recount stories of her journey and tell you about beyond. more could you want than four brightly coloured men clad in green suits and silly hats singing her life. We are encouraged to think about climate Lucy Burnett‘s hybrid novel, Through the four-part harmonies? change in new ways. Rather than seeking You can see Virtual Amy in the Children’s Library Weather Glass (Knives Forks Spoons 2015), tells solutions or persuading us to a particular from August onwards. You can also download a fantastic, fictionalised version of the author’s Expect an eclectic mix of songs, a backdrop point of view, the Through the Weather Glass her to your smartphones so that Amy can be struggles to understand environmental change of plucky stringed instruments, accordion, installation playfully invites us to participate in viewed on the festival’s Amy Johnson Virtual during a 2500-mile cycle to the Greek island of harmonica and a bit of percussion thrown into negotiating more positive stories about climate Reality headsets available from the festival shop Ikaria where Icarus fell. By design interactive, the mix while you marvel at their zany dance change than the apocalyptic norm. in Zebedee’s Yard. the installation comprises a bike connected to moves and sing along to their catchy tunes! This exhibit was created through a partnership between University of Hull, Ensemble 52, the Digital Design Studio in Glasgow and Amy Johnson Festival.

26 27 Aviation Event Community Parade Poetry and Film

Amy and Perambulation Sisters in Spitfires Hull Aero Club The Amy Johnson An evening of poetry and film in association with Wrecking Ball Press Parade Wings and Wheels Saturday 20 August Artlink Community Arts Centre A flight themed parade, bringing a carnival 7.30pm Princes Avenue Saturday 20 August Hull atmosphere to Hessle Road where Amy was born. Free admission but early booking HU5 3QP Invited Fly-In until 11.00am Produced and directed by Hull Carnival Arts. is recommended Air display 1.00pm - 4.00pm

Beverley Airfield, Linley Hill Road, Leven, Saturday 20 August / 1.00pm - 2.00pm East Yorkshire, HU17 5LT TS Eliot Prize nominated poet Alison Hill will the Forward Prize for Best Poem; his collection, read from Sisters in Spitfires (Indigo Dreams, The Lammas Hireling, was the Poetry Book Our grand parade starts at Massey Street field, October 2015) her latest collection celebrating Society’s Choice for Summer 2003, and was Hull Aero Club started life at Hull Municipal following a circular route along St Georges Road, the women who flew with the Air Transport shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize and Forward Aerodrome near Hedon where, on 11 August Hessle Road, Boulevard, Gordon Street and Auxiliary during the Second World War. Prize for Best Collection.

1930, it was flooded with fans and well-wishers finishing back on Massey Street field. ‘This collection is a real labour of love - a We will screen Laura Mulvey’s 1980 film flocking to welcome Amy back shortly after her celebration of the unsung heroines of the civilian AMY! an evocative and mesmerising film that return from Australia. She was greeted by the The Parade will celebrate the life of Amy, organisation the ATA ... Alison Hill has been enquires into what it means to be a heroine. Mayor and Mayoress of Hull to great acclaim, featuring world class street performers meticulous in her research and as a result the ‘The film is not so much about Amy-the-woman before giving an extremely well-received speech alongside 300 community participants, women come vividly to life, all of them larger than as about the power of representations to fix about her record-breaking flight across the world. musicians, dancers and sound systems. life characters.’ Pippa Little, The Lake the meaning of events. Amy becomes a legend Now based at Beverley Airfield, the club’s Hull Carnival Arts will be running parade maker that can be consumed and her action looses its Alison will be joined by Ian Duhig. He has won activities include general flying (light aircraft), workshops from their West Hull studios from subversive potential.’ Jane Clarke, Spare Rib. the National Poetry Competition twice, and also microlight and paramotor flying, with a 8 - 19 August to help people make their own warm welcome for qualified pilots, aviation costumes, props and mini-floats to take part. enthusiasts and passers-by alike. For Register in advance at www.hullcarnivalarts.org. more information on this and their popular The parade and workshops are subject to funding forthcoming 40s themed Wings and Wheels confirmation. event, visit www.hullaeroclub.co.uk

28 29 Family Workshop Aviation Event Music Concert

Maker Fest Amy’s Yorkshire Cross Borders A Mass of Moths! Flying Club A Musical Dialogue A Day of Inspiring Inventions sponsored Later in July by University of Hull Slingsby Week & Vintage Rally Thursday 1 September Every school in Hull and East Yorkshire has been Saturday 27 August 7.30pm given a small flight of cardboard Gipsy Moth Saturday 27 August - Sunday 4 September 10.00am - 4.00pm Admission price - £7 from hulltruck.co.uk plane kits for pupils to construct and decorate. Sutton Bank, Thirsk, North Yorkshire YO7 2EY These cleverly designed flatpack kits have been Free admission but early booking Hull Truck Theatre made in Hull by Garth West Ltd. A selection of the is recommended 50 Ferensway completed Gipsy Moths will be installed in public Zebedee’s Yard, Whitefriargate, Hull HU1 2EX Amy was a friend and collaborator of Fred Hull HU2 8LB locations around the area in late July. Details Slingsby, Yorkshire and the UK’s most famous will be announced on our website and through glider manufacturer, and she was also an early the media shortly. Gipsy Moth Plane Kits are Maker Fest brings together crafters, coders, Inspired by Amy Johnson’s leg of her journey member of Yorkshire Gliding Club at Sutton also available to buy from the Festival Shop in hackers, DIYers and inventors from across the through the Middle East, Cross Borders is a Bank which Fred helped found. Annually, the Zebedee’s Yard. region and beyond who love to make things and Club holds a Slingsby Week for the display and new collaboration between composers David want to share their passion with the public. flying of vintage Slingsby gliders and this year’s Gawthorpe and Nahro Zagros, and video artist Amy Johnson Festival has been working with gathering will celebrate the Club’s relationship Jay Moy. Heritage Learning Services on education activities Great fun for adults and children alike, try with Amy Johnson as well as being a great which include a series of educational workshops your hand at a wide range of activities from The work sets up a creative dialogue between opportunity for the Club’s ongoing promotion themed on engineering, flight and Amy Johnson, traditional crafts to hi-tech hacks. Get crafty Hull and Kurdistan, exploring the sights and Get Women Gliding, launched earlier this year and Discovering Amy Teacher’s Resource Packs with a soldering iron, marvel at robots, hack sounds, histories and the current epochs of to encourage women into this very do-able and which have been distributed to all schools in computers and feed your mind with the each culture. a‹ordable form of aviation. Hull and East Yorkshire. These can also be fascinating displays and shows. You’ll learn Compositions written in Hull but performed and downloaded from the Amy Johnson website. new things, deepen existing knowledge and be Come and see the vintage gliders and the filmed in Kurdistan will be screened alongside inspired whilst having fun! Yorkshire Club where Amy herself flew and Amy Johnson Education Programme and Teacher’s live performances by musicians from Kurdistan inspired generations of glider pilots. Talk to pilots Resource Packs are supported by BAE Systems Once inspired, you can also buy kits to take and Hull. Live visuals and video streams and perhaps enjoy a flight yourself. home and make yourself or even buy the accompany the music to fuse a vivid synergetic finished articles from the makers themselves. Full details of Slingsby Week at www.ygc.co.uk experience.

30 31 A Moth for Amy Sewerby Hall

A Moth for Amy Sewerby Hall Amy Johnson Moth Trail A flutter of moths coming to and Gardens Saturday 2 & Sunday 3 July locations near you! 11.00am - 4.00pm Admission price: Included in the Although a Hessle Road lass, Amy Johnson’s normal entrance price 1 July 2016 - 31 March 2017 Everywhere! influence spread far and wide across the locality as well as the world. Have fun finding Amy’s Moths! It is a well-known fact that Amy Johnson flew A map of where all of the moths are located will The beautiful Sewerby Hall has a particularly To celebrate the start of the Amy Johnson a De Havilland Gipsy Moth plane on her solo be available on our website and in printed form, strong link with Amy Johnson – she Festival and our very own Amy Johnson Moth flight to Australia. Inspired by this, we worked so that you can plan a fun day out moth-spotting famously opened the house in 1936 – and there will be a special Amy Johnson themed with sculptor Sa‹ron Waghorn to create a with your family and friends! we’re delighted to support and celebrate a trail at Sewerby. wonderful giant Mother Moth. From here, 60 programme of events organized by Sewerby So when the 1st July arrives, instead of looking moth sculptures were hatched for a Moth Trail to mark the 80th anniversary of this very at your feet or your phone as you walk through that will take you on a journey through Hull, special event. Amy Johnson Lecture the city centre, why not look up at the buildings the surrounding East Riding area and beyond! every so often and catch a moth? All events are held at: Colourful and vibrant, each sculpture has been Friday 15 July lovingly decorated with unique designs by For those planning an autumn visit, we are Sewerby Hall and Gardens 2.00pm artists from across the globe as well as local Church Lane creating a Moth Collector app which will enable Admission price: £3 / Booking Required community groups. These moths will be found you to tick o‹ each moth that you find. Sewerby resting on buildings from 1st July onwards. Bridlington Hear about Amy’s extraordinary life and If you are travelling further afield, look out The Moths will be on display from 1 July 2016 East Riding of Yorkshire achievements and her links to Sewerby Hall in for our Moths at University of She°eld, The right through to 31 March 2017, welcoming in YO15 1EA. this fascinating lecture by Dr David Marchant of Science Museum in London, Roundshaw Library Hull’s year as UK City of Culture. East Riding Museum Service. in Wallington close to the former Croydon Where booking is required, call the Welcome Moth maps will be available from Tourist Aerodrome and on the prom at Herne Bay, Centre on 01262 673 769. More details of all Information Centres, libraries, museums, shops North Kent. events at www.sewerbyhall.co.uk. and other venues.

Keep your eyes peeled - and look up!

32 33 Sewerby Hall Sewerby Hall

Marvellous Moths! Paper Airplane Making Sewerby Hall Bat Walk “The only argument that men can bring forward against Wednesday 3 August Tuesday 9 August Thursday 11 August woman’s intrusion is that of 5.30pm - 8.00pm 11.00am - 3.00pm 9.00pm Admission price: £3.50 for adults, Admission price: Included in the normal Free admission physical strength, but this £1.50 for children. Booking Required entrance price seems to me very poor grounds Meet the night time flyers of Sewerby! for establishing and retaining Join Entomologist and Moth expert Dr. David Make and fly your own paper aeroplane in the An opportunity to investigate the night time Chesmore for an evening dedicated to the Orangery at Sewerby Hall - can you get it o‹ a monopoly. After all physical flyers of Sewerby Hall and Gardens with a beauty of moths. Dr. Chesmore will give a talk the ground and how far will it go? strength is purely relative - Bat Walk round the grounds led by the East about di‹erent moths and their lifestyles, Yorkshire Bat group. Please bring stout there are some women stronger followed by a moth walk to the walled gardens footwear, appropriate dress and a torch. Please and the identification and release of moths Under 5s Amy Johnson than some men. In engineering note, there will be no toilets available on site. trapped the night before. Story Time there are many jobs beyond a There will also be a children’s activity based on man’s strength. What does he Tuesday 9 August Automata Making the Gipsy Moth aircraft flown by Amy Johnson. do? He fetches an instrument. 11.00am, 1.00pm, and 3.00pm Tuesday 23 August What did I do when I found a Admission price: Included in the normal entrance price 11.00am and 1.30pm job beyond my strength? Admission price: Included in the normal At first I used to fetch a real man Amy Johnson themed fun for children under 5. entrance price / Booking required engineer, and if he couldn’t do Enjoy an interactive Amy Johnson themed the job he’d fetch some tool that story time especially for the under 5s - daring Try your hand at making a working automaton would. I soon learned that adventures for eager ears! based on the theme of flight and inspired by Amy Johnson. it saved time to fetch the tool right away.”

Amy Johnson

34 35 Heinrich & Palmer Whittingham Jerome Photograph: Ruth Levene Nicola Dale Charnley Clare

Artists’ Talks Artists’ Talks

and a member of the Pennine Water Group at Da Vinci Engineered Artists’ Talks the University of She°eld. By working with Clare Charnley engineers, Ruth Levene has mapped the river A series of talks by exhibiting artists in association with BAE Systems and University of Hull networks and buried infrastructure to create a Thursday 4 August / 6.00pm - 7.00pm series of prints that explore Yorkshire’s natural and manmade water systems. This conversation will ask what it means to engineer something by Clare Charnley’s film to rock, on display in Heinrich & Palmer Lara Goodband questioning how the systems and infrastructure Da Vinci Engineered, is of a moving artwork we weave our lives around help to shape our she made with the help of the Mechanical understanding of the world. Engineering Department at the then Humberside in conversation with David Sowden, Thursday 14 July / 6.00pm - 7.00pm School of Engineering, University of Hull Polytechnic. Originally displayed in di‹erent The work was made during a residency with forms in London at City Racing and then Pennine Water Group and Faculty of Engineering Join Da Vinci Engineered curator Lara Goodband Whitechapel Gallery, the work involved large Thursday 7 July / 6.00pm - 7.00pm at the University in She°eld on a fascinating tour of the exhibition, explaining pieces of curved glass being rocked slowly with her selection of the works on display and the aid of motors, pulleys and gears. Charnley Heinrich and Palmer’s stunning new artwork providing an insight into the artists’ relationship has described this rocking motion as being linked uses movement and light to create an installation with engineering. Nicola Dale ‘to the idea of change’ and will explain why in this that is intriguing, mesmerising and interactive. illustrated talk which also puts the work into the context of her more recent practice. Thursday 28 July / 6.00pm - 7.00pm Working with the School of Engineering at the Ruth Levene University of Hull, the artists explored and developed their new commission through Nicola Dale revels in slow, human imprecision: in conversation with Liz Sharp from Pennine All artists talks are in Zebedee’s Yard, discussions with engineers and practical work the work on display in Da Vinci Engineered Water Group, University of She¬eld Whitefriargate, Hull, HU1 2EX and are free in specialist laboratories. In conversation with entitled Down is a pile of feathers cut from all admission, though booking is recommended. Senior Lecturer in Engineering, David Sowden, the Ordnance Survey Maps of Great Britain. In the artists, Anna Heinrich and Leon Palmer, will Thursday 21 July / 6.00pm - 7.00pm this talk she will explain her engagement with describe the process of making the work and manual processes in reaction to our screen- together they will examine some of the creative mediated world and a fascination with paper Ruth Levene will discuss work from her Hidden relationships between visual art and engineering. engineering. Waters series with Liz Sharp, Senior Lecturer in Environmental Planning and Governance

36 37 Young People’s Workshops Young People’s Workshops

Far Horizons Kite women engineers over the last century and Wing it Workshop Young People’s explore the science of wing design and flight Making Workshops mechanics before having a go at building an Monday 15 - Saturday 20 August Summer Workshops aircraft wing! Monday 25 - Friday 29 July This interactive, hands-on workshop based on Could you fly high and make your very own plane Leave your children at one of our morning from paper, card and recycled materials? Can Hear about Amy Johnson and her amazing life, the build of aircraft wings has been devised by workshops to take part in our fun, interactive, you scale new heights and become an aviation find out about kites and how they fly, then make Women’s Engineering Society. hands-on and educational workshops, while you engineer? Will your plane take flight and fly your very own simple kite. Add some colourful enjoy the Da Vinci Engineered exhibition, have Suitable for young people age 10 – 16 years elegantly like Amy Johnson’s bi-plane, ‘Jason’? decorative work and then take a test fly in co‹ee in Zebedee’s Yard, or just go shopping! Zebedee’s Yard - weather permitting! In association with Women’s Engineering Society and You will be captivated as, with help from artist Heritage Learning Services Each week there will be a di‹erent, amazing Adiej, your hand-crafted airplane takes its first Every kite-maker will receive a 50% entry subject for children to explore in a creative and flight of imagination around Zebedee’s Yard, discount voucher for Far Horizons International memorable way. Amy Johnson and Leonardo replicating the motions of flight. After your first Kite Weekend (see page 21) where you’ll be Supergrid da Vinci will be our inspirations as children solo flight, you will be able to keep your unique able to showcase and fly your kite alongside discover some of the wonders of science, art model plane for future magical adventures, high international kite-flyers. Monday 8 - Saturday 13 August and engineering in these creative sessions. in the sky. The workshops are run by local educational, Suitable for young people age 8 - 14 years Wind turbines are popping up all over our cities, Suitable for young people age 8 – 14 years industry and engineering specialists including In association with Artlink Community Arts Centre the countryside and across the North Sea. But Heritage Learning Services, ArtLink Community have you thought about how they work? Now you Arts Centre, and Humber Engineering Training can make your own wind power, your very own Association. Magnificent Women and Supergrid and learn all about them! Together we will investigate, experiment, design, test and All workshops will be in Zebedee’s Yard, their Flying Machines build the most e°cient wind turbine. Can you Whitefriargate, Hull, HU1 2EX find the best energy solution for OUR country? from 10.00am - 12.00pm, daily. Monday 1 - Saturday 6 August Supergrid is hands-on, fast paced and you’ll need to think on your feet. Workshops are free, but there are Would you like to create and build an authentic only 30 places per workshop. To avoid wing structure? Then this is the workshop for Suitable for young people age 8 – 14 years disappointment, please book your child’s you. You’ll look at the the pioneering work of In association with Humber Engineering place via Hull Box O®ce. Training Association

38 39 The Living Amy Commissions The Living Amy Commissions

The Living Amy My Spirit Found Outlet Queen of Air No Horizons in the Air The young woman from Hull who A girl from Hull flies to Australia through Commissions shadowboxed with fear….. the foreign, the exotic and the downright Young women of Hull take to the air and dangerous. Supported by James Reckitt Library Trust experience Amy’s pioneering spirit. Poet Joe Kriss and BAFTA nominated filmmaker Annie Watson have collaborated on making this Your library is the route to Australia! Follow How does it feel to take to the air for the first stunning film poem, which combines an original our Amy and hear her story as she winds her time? The essence of flight and the infinite The festival has been working with Hull Libraries poem with moving images projected onto hand-held camera through its shelves, weaving possibility of youth are brought together in this Service to commission artists across the buildings and locations around Hull. between the thousands of books that have short film by BAFTA nominated Ruth Carslaw. country to tell Amy’s story in new ways. Many become mountains, seas and deserts. This live Working with members of Hull Aero Club of these commissions will be accessed through theatre piece by Tom Glover is a fascinating and young people from Hessle Road Youth the Libraries Service, others are included in The Wind and the Weather blend of storytelling and videography that takes Network and weaving in archive footage of Amy the festival events programme, and some will its audience on the epic journey of a woman from 1930, this is a film full of jaw dropping A downloadable interactive game. be available very soon in a variety of formats! who knew no horizons. exuberance. Look out for details of all these remarkable There is nobody in the sky here, nobody but Amy commissions on the festival website where and her plane. you will also find information about venues, Girl with The Silver Wings Amy in love performances and screening dates. There’s something extraordinary about being A short zine exploring the earlier An illustrated eBook. in the air above half the earth, about stopovers in places you’ll never see again, about getting years of Amy’s life and loves. Meet Amy Johnson, rebel and record breaker. The into a plane one angry spring and emerging Amy was certainly a rebellious young woman! Girl with Silver Wings, written by Liz McPherson, in a late hot autumn. What choices would you Amy in Love looks at her life as a teenager living is an illustrated e-book for young people with make along the way? Let your imagination fly in Hull in the early 1900s, and how she began less reading stamina and those with English with this interactive digital story from game a daring love a‹air with a foreign businessman as an additional language. Interest level, teen. designers Matheson Marcault, and follow Amy’s that was bound to end in tears. Specially Reading level, 11 years + astonishing flight from England to Australia. commissioned by the Amy Johnson Festival Free download, available through Hull Libraries See the festival website after 1 July for game from the acclaimed artist/writer partnership Service ‘Borrowbox’ system. download details. Carol Adlam and Helen Cross.

40 41 The Living Amy Commissions The Living Amy Commissions

Jason Being Amy Flying Through #IAmAmy -

A full colour comic. Sounding the City. These Streets Letters from Tomorrow

It’s 1931 and Amy embarks on her most Discover flights of sound hidden round the city. How did the city of Hull prepare a young girl for On social media throughout the Festival. perilous flight yet ... this time to Moscow. Listen to the young Amy, a Hull bound dreamer, a life in the skies? So, what would you say to young 1920s Amy meet her older self - traveller, socialite and one Against all advice, Amy made her first flight This short film takes a di‹erent look at the from Hull? of the greatest aviators in the history of flight. to Moscow in atrocious weather in mid winter. formative years of Amy Johnson’s life in Hull, Local members of The Writing Squad were ‘I was perfectly horrid last night.’ What did Soviet Russia make of this young revisiting her birthplace and the streets where specially commissioned to create this series of woman from Hull who’d flown there all on her she lived with her family. short sound pieces, available online and through The language might be di‹erent, but when it own? Who did she meet and why? We asked comes to the emotional turmoil Amy faced as your QR code reader! Wander the streets of Hull Amy’s time in Hull was vital to her subsequent Bob Moulder & Andy Messer to investigate and a young woman, not much has changed. Sarah and listen . . . . life as a ground-breaking aviatrix. From long, together they created Jason, a beautiful full Wilkinson’s blog features fictional ‘replies’ to a solitary bike rides when playing truant from colour comic. Buy your copy and read all about selection of Amy’s real letters to her boyfriend school, to organising illicit swimming events and Amy’s daring flight in her beloved De Havilland Hans. Follow #IamAmy throughout the Festival Letters from Amy leading the ‘straw hat rebellion’, award-winning Gipsy Moth. and get involved! Posted online each Monday film maker Dave Lee (Here, Bridge For The Jason will be on sale in our festival shop throughout July and August Living and This Be The Verse) and writer Dave Extracts from original letters are reproduced in Zebedee’s Yard, as well as various other Windass (Sully, Revolutions) explore what made by kind permission of Hull History Centre, Amy writes home about all the challenges that locations throughout the city. the girl the pioneering woman that the world custodians of Amy Johnson’s letters. face her in her quest for change and excitement. would fall in love with.

Through eight fictional letters, Amy tells her Lee’s dream-like cinematography combines family and friends about her move to London with Windass’s prose and poetry to question and after leaving She°eld University, the thrill explore whether Amy’s upwards trajectory in of discovering a passion for flying, and her adulthood was fated. Voiced by Sarah Naughton battle to gain her engineer’s licence. Specially and filmed on the streets of Hull. commissioned from writer Laura Turner, with thanks to Hull History Centre, custodians of Amy Johnson’s original letters.

42 43 Amy Johnson Festival at a glance

Date Event Venue Time Details Page Date Event Venue Time Details Page

JULY Sat 30 A Concert for Amy Holy Trinity 7.30pm Music Concert 20 Church Sat 2 Flying High Hull History 9.30am Family Workshop 8 Centre Sat 30 & Far Horizons International Beverley 11am - 5pm Family Event 21 Sun 31 Kite Weekend Racecourse Sat 2 Festival takes Flight Zebedee’s Yard 10am - 8pm Family Entertainment 4 AUGUST Sat 2 & Moth Trail Sewerby Hall 11am - 4pm Family Activity 33 Sun 3 Mon 1 - Magnificent Women and Zebedee’s Yard 10am - 12pm Young People’s 38 Sat 6 their Flying Machines Workshop Sat 2 Flying to Freedom Albermarle 2pm Music Concert 9 Workshops Music Centre Weds 3 Marvellous Moths! Sewerby Hall 5.30pm - 8pm Family Activity 34 Sat 2 Place des Anges Queens 9.45pm Outdoor Spectacle 10 Gardens Thurs 4 Clare Charnley Zebedee’s Yard 6pm - 7pm Artist’s Talk 37

Sun 3 Lance moi en l’air Zebedee’s Yard 2.30pm & 4.30pm Acrobatic Dance 11 Sat 6 Humber St Sesh at the Zebedee’s Yard 11.30am - Music Concert 24 Amy Johnson Fest 6.45pm Thurs 7 Heinrich & Palmer Zebedee’s Yard 6pm - 7pm Artists’ Talk 36 Mon 8 - Supergrid! Zebedee’s Yard 10am - 12pm Young People’s 39 Sat 9 & Drone School Zebedee’s Yard 12pm - 4.30pm Family Workshop 12 Sat 13 Aug Workshop Sun 10 Tues 9 Paper Airplane Making Sewerby Hall 11am - 3pm Family Activity 34 Tues 12 The Mystery of Amy Hull History 12.30pm - Lunchtime Talk 14 Johnson Centre 1.30pm Tues 9 Under 5s Amy Johnson Sewerby Hall 11am, 1pm, 3pm Story Telling 34 Story Time Thurs 14 Lara Goodband Zebedee’s Yard 6pm - 7pm Artist’s Talk 36 Tues 9 Hessle Road Tomboy Hull History 12.30pm - Lunchtime Talk 25 Friday 15 Amy Johnson Lecture Sewerby Hall 2pm Lunchtime Talk 33 Centre 1.30pm Sat 15 & Hull Folk & Maritime Zebedee’s Yard 1pm - 6.45pm Music Concert 15 Thurs 11 Sewerby Hall Bat Walk Sewerby Hall 9pm Family Activity 35 Sun 17 Festival Sat 13 Amanda Lowe – Amy Zebedee’s Yard 7pm Music Concert 25 Weds 20 A Musical Journey Holy Trinity 7pm Music Concert 16 Johnson Song Cycle Church Sat 13 & Through the Weather Zebedee’s Yard 10am - 5pm Installation 26 Thurs 21 Unveiling of Lord Mayors’ Rosedale 2.30pm 16 Sun 14 Glass Centenary Plaque Mansions Sun 14 The Gherkins Zebedee’s Yard 1pm Music Concert 27 Thurs 21 BAE Systems Brough Hull University 6pm - 7pm Lecture 17 Centenary Lecture Mon 15 - Wing it Workshop Zebedee’s Yard 10am - 12pm Young People’s 39 Sat 20 Aug Workshop Thurs 21 Ruth Levene Zebedee’s Yard 6pm - 7pm Artist’s Talk 36 Sat 20 Wings and Wheels Beverley Airfield 11am - 4pm Aviation Event 28 Sat 23 & Altitude Zebedee’s Yard 12pm & 2.30pm Physical Theatre 18 Sun 24 Sat 20 Perambulation – the Amy Hessle Road 1pm - 2pm Community Parade 28 Johnson Parade Sat 23 75 Second Film Kardomah94 7.30pm Film Event 18 Awards Night Sat 20 Sisters in Spitfires Artlink 7.30pm Poetry and Film 29 Community Arts Mon 25 - Far Horizons Kite Making Zebedee’s Yard 10am - 12pm Young People’s 38 Centre Fri 29 Workshops Workshop Tues 23 Automata Making Sewerby Hall 11am, 1.30pm Family Activity 35 Tues 26 - 75 Second Film Night Kardomah94 10am - 6pm Film Event 19 Sat 30 Sat 27 Maker Fest Zebedee’s Yard 10am - 4pm Inventors’ Fair 30

Tues 26 - The Amy Johnson Fan Club Kardomah94 8pm Theatre 19 Sat 27 - Amy’s Yorkshire Flying Sutton Bank Aviation Event 30 Weds 27 Sun 4 Sept Club Thurs 28 Nicola Dale Zebedee’s Yard 6pm - 7pm Artist’s Talk 37 SEPT

Fri 29 July Flight of the Monarchs Zebedee’s Yard 1pm - 5pm daily Installation 20 Thurs 1 Cross Borders Hull Truck 7.30pm Music Concert 31 onwards Theatre

44 45 Amy Johnson Festival Exhibitions at a glance

Date Event Venue Page

2 July - 21 Aug Da Vinci Engineered - renaissance and Zebedee’s Yard 7 contemporary art and engineering 2 July - 1 Sept The Art Collection - Amy’s Contemporaries University of Hull 8 8 July - 3 Sept Flying Solo - fashion from macs to millinery Hull History Centre 11

8 July - 3 Sept Fuelling Flight - Shell and aviation Hull History Centre 12

9 - 30 July Far Horizons Kite Exhibition Artlink Community Arts 13

29 July - 10 Aug Flight of the Monarchs (installation) Zebedee’s Yard 20

5 Aug - 3 Sept Amy Johnson - A Life in Pictures Hull History Centre 22 Selected Photographs Artlink Community Arts Freedom Centre Western Library and around the city

6 - 27 Sept Amy Johnson - A Life in Pictures University of Hull 23 The Collected Photographs

3 Sept - 16 Oct Amy Johnson - A Life in Pictures Seaside Museum, Herne Bay 23 Selected Photographs Simone Aaberg Kærn

46 47 Amy Johnson Festival Limited Board of Directors Contact us

Rob Bell Vickie Bissett Amy Johnson Festival 2016 Sarah Brignall Steve Chandler Graham Chesters Zebedee’s Yard, Whitefriargate, HULL HU1 2EX Vicky Johnson Marianne Lewsley-Stier Email: [email protected] Rick Welton

Telephone: 01482 224334

The Festival Team amyjohnsonfestival.co.uk Kerry Baldry, 75 Curator Sarah Taylor, Exhibition Co-ordinator Glynis Charlton, Living Amy Project Manager Sa°ron Waghorn, Moth sculptor Michele Davy, Outdoor Arts Programme Lead Rick Welton, Festival Director Unless otherwise stated, all tickets are Nicky Ellam, Administrator Jerome Whittingham, Photographer available through www.hullboxo®ce.co.uk Lara Goodband, Curator, Da Vinci Engineered Dave Windass, Performing Arts Programme Lead Clare Huby, A Moth for Amy Project Manager Chrissie Lewis, Marketing Lead PR and Social Media Services - Mercury Group

Alex Nicholson, Operations Manager Graphic Design and Website - Human Design ALFRED GELDER STREET Pauline Taylor, Far Horizons Project Manager

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our apologies to those we may have missed): WHITEFRIARGATE

David Elf of Africa Studios, All Occasions Marquees, Jane Priston of Amy Johnson Herne Bay Project, Apus PARLIAMENT STREET WHITEFRIARGATE Productions, Rachel Elms and Andrew Quinn at Artlink Community Arts Centre, Assembly Line Ukelele Band, Carnegie Local History Centre, Lou Du‹y-Howard, Elaine Burke, Ensemble 52, Freedom Festival Arts Trust, Dave Gawthorpe, Lindsay West and Dean Cutsforth at Garthwest, Paul Gibson, Jane Avison and ZEBEDEE’S David Alcock at Heritage Learning Services, Jon Purdy at HIVE (Hull Immersive Visualisation Environment), YARD PRINCES DOCK STREET PRINCES QUAY Hull Carnival Arts, Paul Holloway and the Hull City Arts Team, Martin Taylor and Simon Wilson at Hull SHOPPING CENTRE History Centre, Ian Goodison, Michelle Alford and all at Hull Library Services, Hull School of Art & Design, Martin Green and all at Hull UK City of Culture 2017, Ideal Standard, KCOM, National Aerospace Library, POSTERNGATE TRINITY HOUSE LANE

Mark Page, Mark Pollard, Royal Aeronautical Society, Laurence Rugg, Sewerby Hall, Strata Holdings, LANE DAGGER POSTERNGATE The Science Museum, Captain Watts and Mike Outram of Trinity House, Women’s Engineering Society, Professor Stephanie Haywood at University of Hull School of Engineering, Wrecking Ball Press

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