Hull Literature Festival {the mouth { 19th June - 4th July 2004

City Arts

Hull Literature Festival {}previewevents {the humber mouth { Saturday 12th June - 2.30pm 19th June - 4th July 2004 The Talbot Suite, Willerby Manor Hotel Anne Fine Distinguished Guest Lecture: Philip 2004 sees a number of changes to the Humber Mouth: we have Larkin, A Personal View joined forces with the Hull Festival, moved to our new summer Contact: John Osborne, School of American Studies, Hull University dates, and acquired a greater range of events and venues. Author of such novels as Taking the Devil's Advice and Madam Doubtfire (the basis for the Highlights this year include Brian Patten of the Liverpool poets; Robin Williams blockbuster film Mrs Doubtfire), winner of the Guardian's Literature Award, the queen of crime Val McDermid; explorer Benedict Allen; Geoff Carnegie Medal and the Whitbread Children's Award (twice). Dyer, author of Yoga For People Who Can't Be Bothered To Do It; Anne Fine speaking at the Larkin Society; John Gray Saturday 12th June - 5.00pm explaining the bestselling Straw Dogs; poets Ruth Padel, The Exhibition Area, Brynmor Jones Library Michael Donaghy and Roy Fisher; Orwell biographer DJ Taylor; & Photography master cartoonist Tim Hunkin, who will demonstrate the lost art Official Opening of safe breaking; a Family Fun Day in Queen's Gardens; and a Contact: John Osborne, School of American Studies, Hull University workshop by Mslexia magazine which looks at erotic fiction. Philip Larkin excelled in many spheres: a world- class poet; a distinguished novelist; a major jazz There is also involvement by locally based writers and artists critic; a provocative literary essayist and reviewer; and an outstanding University librarian. Thursday 17th June - 2pm It is much less well known that for a time he including Hull Blokes (theatre); a festival of new writing at Hull Parks School pursued photography with something of the zeal Truck; Dave Windass exploring the life of a critic; artwork by Ian he brought to these other enthusiasms, Lion Mountain: experimenting with photographic techniques African Music and Dance Killen; a travel writing workshop with Lee Karen Stowe; and and gathering his pictures into thematically Free music from the Electro-Accoustic Ensemble. unified albums. This exhibition, the first of its kind, combines Parks School is twinned with Samaria Primary family snaps of his childhood (a much less School in Freetown. There have been many challenges in presenting an even larger gloomy affair than one might imagine) with The link is one of friendship, learning about each festival in such a short space of time, but also a huge amount of examples of the mature Larkin's forays into others' cultures and exchanging educational portraiture (especially of his companions, literary ideas. The children have exchanged pen pal enthusiasm and commitment from everyone involved. Humber friends such as Kingsley Amis, John Betjeman letters and each class is twinned with a class in and John Wain), landscape photography, the other school. The main focus of the link is Mouth has added bite this year, and again promises to deliver a cityscapes and, not least, self-portraits. Many of learning through music. these images are valid works of art in their own programme with something for everyone. right; but even the lesser ones testify to the Children at the Parks School will have three passion for photography that informs poems days of workshops on the Music and Dance of such as Whatever Happened?, Wild Oats and Sierra Leone on the 15th, 16th and 17th June, Lines on a Young Lady's Photograph Album. with a performance showcasing their work on = Suitable for all the family There is even a snapshot of the hedgehog Thursday 17th June at 2pm. Parents and the famously memorialised in The Mower! public are welcome. There is no charge!

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Saturday 19th June - 11am – 5pm Saturday 19th June Sunday 20th June - 5pm-6pm Monday 21st June - 7.30pm – 9.00pm Central Library, Albion Street BCAE ( Community Arts Enterprise) The Annexe, Hull Time Based Arts Ltd, La Loggia, Travel Writing Workshop Dorchester Primary School, Dorchester Road, 42 High Street Writing Frames Bransholme Mixing and Scratching: Free 01482 616961 Booking essential Mixing and Scratching: the contemporary classical voice 01482 616961 Booking essential Ever wondered how Bill Bryson or Pete the contemporary classical voice meets street Taster sessions for adults who want to write for McCarthy got started? Ever fancied the life of a meets street pleasure or publication with tutors Jackie roving reporter or travel journalist? Locally - Free 01482 216446 Goodman and Sue Wilsea. Workshops:10am - 1pm & 2pm -4pm based photojournalist Lee Karen Stow Writing Frames offers an introduction to the introduces the skills and resources needed to Performance: 4pm-5pm A performance of works given by two artists University of Hull Certificate in Creative Writing begin a career in a practical, hands-on working in different fields, who use text as a Free 01482 821053 for information (there is no requirement to enrol on the certificate workshop designed for would-be travel basis for their work. Anna Myatt is a course). journalists, including the secrets of selling work Workshops with two artists working in different contemporary classical vocalist, performing to editors and gaining commissions. fields who use text as a basis for their work. works by composers using a variety of Anna Myatt is a contemporary classical vocalist techniques. Words are sometimes spoken, Lee Karen Stow is a Hull-based freelance and Scott Langthorpe is a phonic artist working occasionally sung, but more often split into journalist and photographer specialising in with turntables, combining dj skills with phonemes or syllables, creating a new sound people and places. A former features writer for computer based music software. Working with world. Sources may be poems, comic strips or the Hull Daily Mail, Lee has visited around 40 students from the Starsearch course at conversations. Scott Langthorpe is a phonic countries in the last six years and has had work Bransholme, the performance will mix poetry, artist working usually with four turntables published by The Times, The Daily Telegraph, comic strips and conversations with urban combining dj skills with computer based music The Express on Sunday, CNN Traveller, music, beatboxing, rapping and street poetry software. He uses fragments of Geographical, Wanderlust and others. She has which have been explored in the workshops. broken/melted/altered records to create loops also authored, co-authored and provided involving dialogue, urban music, beatboxing, photography for several travel books, including rapping, street poetry, mixing and scratching to the AA Adventure Traveller series. 6.30-9.00pm create constantly evolving sound pieces. In December 2003, she launched The Travel I’ve Building Cultural Bridges: An indescribable experience! Seen, a documentary photography exhibition Performance sponsored by Hull City Arts and Arts Council Kahijah Ibrahim, Oluseyi Ogunjobi at the Ferens Art Gallery in Hull. Her and Fosuwa Andoh Mixing & Scratching images are also on show at Salts Mill in Saltaire, near Bradford. Free 07930 173324

Three African artists concerned with exploring the path of spiritual truth invite you to an Saturday 19th June - 3.00-5.00pm evening of of Sufi poetry and music. EICH Gallery, Derek Crothall Building, A performance which combines artforms from University of Lincoln Hull Campus, George Street the Sufi tradition in an extraordinary fusion of Building Cultural Bridges: cultures. Drumming Workshop Kahijah Ibrahim, Oluseyi Ogunjobi and Fosuwa Andoh

Free 07930 173324 An opportunity to learn drumming skills with these exhilarating artists, writers, musicians and storytellers who work within the Sufi tradition. Loud, physical, mystical and fun. Suitable for all ages.

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Tuesday 22nd June to } Thursday 24th June - 7.30pm , Spring Street www.hulltruck.co.uk

june BLOCKHEADS: Monday June 21st - 7.00pm New Writing Festival june Pave, 16-20 Princes Avenue £3.50 Box Office 01482 323638 { } Geoff Dyer: Yoga for People World premieres of short plays by Hull and East Who Can't Be Bothered To Do It 22nd -based writers, with rehearsed readings 21st Free 01482 333181 (Booking essential) of three new plays every night and post-show talkbacks with writers, actors and directors! Uproarious, unclassifiable … he is assuredly among the funniest writers alive … a Hull Truck is one of the country's most prolific bohemian travel narrative as internal as any and renowned theatre companies and one that by Kerouac, told in language as aphoristic as is fully committed to new writing. Each year, Hull Oscar Wilde’s Truck commissions up to six new plays which tuesday

monday - San Francisco Chronicle are produced at the theatre as well as touring to { scores of venues nationwide. To further their Quite possibly the best living writer in Britain commitment to new writing, a new writer's - Daily Telegraph Tuesday 22nd June - 7pm group was formed in March 2003, enabling The Warren Centre aspiring, local, first-time dramatists to engage in Cool, unclassifiable and very, very funny, 47-49 Queen's Dock Avenue a series of writing workshops, masterclasses Geoff Dyer's bestseller was described by and discussions with professionals. William Sutcliffe as 'part string of stoner Migrant Voices Banner Theatre anecdotes, part memoir, part travelogue, part Local Voices: Warren Young Led by Gareth Tudor Price (Hull Truck Associate philosophical treatise, part comic tour-de- Peoples Theatre Group Director), the sessions have provided support force...If Hunter S Thompson, Roland and feedback for work in progress and have Barthes, Paul Theroux and Sylvia Plath all Free 01482 218115 (Chris Smith) given the nine writers in the group the went on holiday together in the same body, opportunity to discuss and evaluate their work. perhaps they could come up with something Interweaving beautiful live music with drama and like it. This is the funniest book I have read video, Migrant Voices is an emotionally charged With assistance from Arts Council England for a very long time. My book of the year.' theatrical experience created by one of the Uk's through their Creative Factory funding. best and most radical touring theatre groups. Middle Visiting Hull for the first time, Geoff Dyer is Eastern and British musical traditions are entwined the ultimate counter-tourist with the ultimate as the experiences of ordinary people fleeing Tuesday 22nd June - 8pm counter-guide to life. Definitely off-beat, persecution are set against some of the causes of Haworth Arms, Cottingham Road definitely clever, definitely silly. Unmissable. global instability that make people into refugees. Nothing Happens Here! Geoff Dyer is the author of three novels: Starting with a performance of Migrant Voices at the Paris, Trance, The Search, The Colour of Thorpes Resource Centre, Orchard Park on 12th Free Memory; a critical study of John Berger, May, a group of young people working with Banner Liberation. Revolution. Resurrection. Ways of Telling; a collection of essays Anglo- Theatre and Chris Smith, have created a stunning Ambivalence towards it all. Words can't bring us English Attitudes; and four genre-defying local response to the global issue of refugees. down, apparently. This is a showcase event, a titles: But Beautiful, The Missing of the night of diverse opinions; a night of people Somme, Out of Sheer Rage and Yoga For The new works are innovative and thought- talking about whatever they want. We call this People Who Can't Be Bothered to Do It. He provoking, showing both sides of the thorny freedom of speech and we are coming, of has won many literary awards including a political issue and taking you beyond tabloid course, from the streets. This evening is about 2003 Lannan Literary Fellowship. Born in headlines to the personal experiences of real you and me and how we have lived, out here on 1958, he lives in London. people: real drama. the periphery. The Warren's annual contribution to the Humber Mouth has developed a reputation as a 'must see' Have your say. Come out and celebrate another event. This year the result promises to be sizzling! Summer of Love in the mad and magical setting of 22nd Century Hull. As ever, we'll be following Project supported by Hull Youth Council, Hull the discussion with a disco. So be here, or stay Asylum & Refugee Support Team, Voices, Thorpes in and watch the square thing. You have nothing Resource Centre, Route 1, Unity in the Community. to lose but your minds...

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Wednesday 23rd June - 7.30pm George Hotel, Land of Green Ginger The Inside-Out Show Free june

d Following the enormous success of The Upside Down Show, an evening of literary pranks, { } surprises, games and some shouting. Philip Wincolmlee Barnes, Tony Petch, Andy Fletcher, 23r Wednesday 23rd June - 8pm John Robinson and others guarantee to Lamp, Norfolk Street entertain and challenge in equal measure. Great Simon Crump: fun, and great beer. My Elvis Blackout

Free 01482 326131

‘A brilliant book. Twisted, disturbing and very, very funny’ - Dan Rhodes

‘Deliciously obscene and darkly comic ... like wednesday Quentin Tarantino on acid. Extraordinary’ -The Times Wednesday 23rd June – Thursday 1st July ‘A deeply perverse set of ideas from an Various venues obviously troubled personality. I loved it’ -Todd McEwen A Tale of Tihany

Simon Crump is one of the UK's most Hull Community Theatre presents intriguing, brilliant and foul mouthed new writers. A Tale of Tihany, a play for children If you haven't yet caught up with My Elvis loosely based on Hungarian folklore, Blackout, Monkey's Birthday and Twilight Time, a story of greed, power and mischief- catch Simon's extraordinary diatribe live at the making with witches, spirits, princesses and Lamp. Truly filthy and truly funny, Simon Crump supernatural forces. Suitable for children aged lives in Sheffield and is an internationally 8 to 12. exhibited artist as well as a writer and journalist. He used to lecture at the Hull School of Art until Public performances: they sacked him. He is banned from the Ings Library Beatrix Potter archive. He is not for Wednesday 23rd June 6.30 – 8pm the easily offended. Goodwin Resource Centre Blood. Swearing. Elvis. It Friday 25th June 6.30 – 8pm doesn’t get any better The Learning Zone, The Stadium than this. Thursday 1st July 6.30 – 8pm

The performances are free but numbers are limited. To book tickets please telephone Ings Library on (01482) 331250 and the Learning Zone on (01482) 381948.

Performances may also take place in selected schools and other venues.

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Thursday 24th June - 10am - 11am Friday 25th June - 7.30pm Preston Road Library Hull Central Library, Albion Street Puppetry and Poetry Valerie Wood, Linda Acaster, Freda Lightfoot: Free 01482 376266 Romantic Novelists A session for the under 5's with Gina Douthwaite, First Steps Reading Fun. Gina's Free books include Picture a Poem and What Friday 25th June - 7.00pm for 7.30pm Three of the most exciting romantic novelists in Shapes an Ape? Ferens Live Arts Space, Ferens Art Gallery the region – and the country! The French Connexion: ood Valerie is married with two children and a celebrating Music Concrete with alerie W Thursday 24th June - 8pm the Electro-Accoustic Ensemble V grandchild. She won the first Catherine Cookson Hull Central Library, Albion Street Fiction Prize with her novel 'The Hungry Tide'. Robert Edric: Siren Song Free Linda’s work includes over seventy short stories in genres as diverse as romantic stories, horror, Free: book in advance 01482 223344 An exciting programme of music by three leading exponents: Jonathan Harvey (Mortuos crime, fantasy and science fiction. She has Robert Edric reads from the second part of his Plango Vivos Voco 1999); Jean Claude Risset published three historical novels, as well as travel Hull Trilogy, Siren Song, a crime sequence set in (Elementa 1998) ; and Francis Dhomont (Le features and opinion pieces in the press. the city. He has been acclaimed as one of Cycle du Son 1989 - 98) . Freda Lightfoot was born and brought up in the Britain's most exciting contemporary writers and mill towns of Lancashire. She has been a teacher, has published fourteen novels. He was born in Both the Risset and the Dhomont works were bookseller and smallholder but began her writing Sheffield in 1956, studied at Hull University and written to celebrate 50 years of music concrete career by publishing over forty short stories and now lives in Hornsea. and Cycle du Son is performed here in its entirety, diffused over a 'loudspeaker orchestra' articles and five historical romances under a and comprises the main part of the programme. different name. She divides her time between her eda Lightfoot

Mortuos Plango Vivos Voco by Jonathan Harvey Fr flat in the Lake District and her house in a small was originally created at IRCAM in Paris and is mountain village in Spain. one of the icons of electro accoustic music in the 20th century, utilising the latest computer Friday 25th June - 9.30pm - 10.30pm technology. Hull Truck Theatre, Spring Street The music installation Gallery Music (Stanislaw The Worst Seat in the House: Hansel 1989) will play between 2.00pm and Dave Windass 4.00pm in three of the Ferens galleries. Visit www.eae.org/french-connexion/ for further £4/£3 Box Office 01482 323638 information about music concrete and links to A hilarious look at the life of a critic by a man interactive pages, available from June 18th. who stumbled into the job by accident. Dave Windass, this year's festival critic, is theatre critic for The Stage, reviewer for The Big Issue, and fulltime journalist at the Hull Daily Mail. As well as serving as a handy guide to what to look out for when attending a performance, this comedic rant - part lecture, part stand-up, part public enquiry - will demonstrate why getting into the theatre for free several times a week is a

terrible job. Over the years, Dave has come into Dave Windass contact with many other critics, all of whom appear to do a much better job for a lot more

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Friday 25th June - 7.30pm Hull Truck Theatre, Spring Street Saturday 26th June - 1.00pm - 2.00pm Both artists perform with 'ime', founded by Jez Benedict Allen Holy Trinity Church, Market Place and including other local artists and improvisers. two-teburi-koe: There will be a separate evening of ime £5/£4 Box Office 01482 323638 performances entitled imetexture2, following on Gisele Bone and Jez Riley from last years successful Humber Mouth event, Benedict Allen – explorer, author, tv presenter, Free at the Adelphi Club, De Grey Street on 20th June filmmaker and daring hero for our times – at 8.30pm. visits the city give an inspirational talk about A new work exploring simple but often overlooked his adventures in some of the world’s most elements of language: small gestures and sounds remote and inhospitable regions. Truly eco- which make up our understanding of Saturday 26th June – Sunday 27th June friendly, he is famous for his low-tech communication. Using projected images and Holy Trinity Church, Hull expeditions, relying only on the guidance of intuitive music (including the voices of animals and indigenous peoples and on his survival skills. birds, insects, early sacred music and Japanese, Holy Trinity Open Weekend Bulgarian and Georgian music), the performance Benedict’s adventures include undergoing a will be enhanced by the setting of Holy Trinity 12pm – 4pm Saturday six week male initiation ceremony in Papua Church. Tea and light refreshments will be 2pm – 4pm Sunday New Guinea; a 1000 mile trek across Siberia available as part of Holy Trinity Open Day. Visit one of Hull’s most beautiful old buildings during the coldest winter in living memory; Gisele Bone is a respected locally based artist and find out more about Holy Trinity. Two days of adventures in Haiti, Mexico and Siberia with who has an active curiosity in a range of artistic events and quiet contemplation, with craft stalls, Shamans and witchdoctors to make the hit tv disciplines. Jez Riley has been an improvising refreshments, guided tours and of course, the series Last of the Medicine Men. musician/artist for over 20 years, developing the church shop. concept of intuitive composition. He has performed throughout the UK and Europe.

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Saturday 26th June - 3.00pm-4.00pm Hull Truck Theatre, Spring Street Brian Patten: Gargling With Jelly june £5/£3 Box Office 01482 323638 h {} A treat for children and their well-behaved parents. Brian Patten, one of the country’s best- loved poets, performs his comic verse in a show 26t designed for families and children aged six and upwards.

day Famous for his work as one of the Mersey Poets (with Roger McGough and Adrian Henri), Brian will be performing modern classics of his such as Juggling with Gerbils and Thawing Frozen Frogs. Tender, outrageous, uproarious

satur and silly, Brian’s verse is essential for the young at heart.

Saturday 26th June - 7.00pm saturday26thjune Hull Central Library, Albion Street {}Val McDermid Free 01482 223344

Queen of crime and bestselling author of books such as Wire in the Blood, The Last Temptation and the Kate Brannigan series, Val McDermid has won a wide readership and an astounding number of awards for her work. She visits the Humber Mouth for the first time to read, answer your questions, chat about her amazing career, and sign copies of her books.

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Sunday 27th June - 8.00pm Sunday 27th June - 10.30am Hull Truck Theatre Wyke Sixth Form College An Englishman’s Home Lemn Sissay £4/£3 01482 323638 Sold Out

Roger Beaumont lives alone in his crumbling Presentation and workshops by Lemn Sissay, Saturday 26th June - 7.30pm mansion in the remote Sussex countryside. poet, playwright & recording artist. Fusing the Hull Truck Theatre, Spring Street When his peace and solitude are disturbed by lyrical & the polemical, up-beat humour & deadly Straw Dogs: Thoughts on violent forces from the modern world, Roger seriousness - Lemn’s performances are defends himself the only way he knows how, notorious for their powerful energy & dynamism. Humans and Other Animals John Gray is Professor of European Thought at facing the rigor of the law whilst becoming an His books are published by Payback, John Gray the London School of Economics. In 2002 he unlikely hero of the popular press. Now home Bloomsbury & Bogle L’Ouverture. His recording published Straw Dogs, a book which stirred up a from prison, Roger is made to confront his past work includes collaborations with a number of £5/£4 Box Office 01482 323638 storm of thought about the human condition, and his drastic actions. The story he tells reveals musicians including Leftfield, Bryon Wallen, nature, and politics. Described as compelling, a far more complex and agonising chain of David Murray, Working Week & Dis Jam. 'Straw Dogs' challenges all our assumptions brilliant, tough-minded and entertaining, John events than the press have been led to believe. about what it is to be human, and convincingly Gray 'writes as he talks, with the exhilarating, This is a Rights and Participation Project arts shows that most of them are delusions. Who are high-risk urgency of a cavalry charge...' (Times Inspired by the Tony Martin story, An event for looked after young people. we, and why are we here? John Gray's answers Literary Supplement). Englishman’s Home is a solo performance by will shock most of us deeply. This is the most writer Richard Vergette. Directed by Andy exhilarating book I have read since Richard Intelligent and important. Thinking animals take Pearson. Dawkins' 'The Selfish Gene' - JG Ballard note: Gray is certainly not to be missed.

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{}monday28thjune Sunday 27th June - 2.00pm Tim Hunkin functions on the fringes between art Hull Truck Theatre, Spring Street and technology. As a cartoonist, his strip, The Tim Hunkin: Rudiments of Wisdom, ran in the Observer for 15 years. As an engineer, he has masterminded a Monday 28th June - 7.30pm Illegal Engineering range of innovative projects to bring the public Hull Screen Cinema closer to technology and won a NESTA award. www.fromthemargins.co.uk £4/£3 Box Office 01482 323638 He also wrote and presented the award winning From The Margins of In the last twenty years, the art of safe cracking Channel 4 series The Secret Life of Machines – has tragically declined…Tim Hunkin. an experience which allowed him to ‘have fun S.W. Holmes with electricity for the first time’. A great family show suitable for illegal engineers Free of all ages which takes a humorous (and As part of the Humber Mouth, Tim Hunkin will be From The Margins of… unearths the work of the practical) look at the forgotten art of cracking tackling safes and safe breaking. There will be a elusive composer S.W. Holmes. His career, codes and picking locks. live, on-stage demonstration. Naughty. spanning over three decades, will be made public during the Humber Mouth festival via a presentation (including performance) at Hull Screen cinema and a dedicated website archive. The project explores his short-lived affiliations with avant-garde luminaries, as well as his intriguing connections to the city.

A wilfully reluctant figure, Holmes’ has previously shied away from retrospectives and accolades; by temperament and by inclination, his work exists ‘on Monday 28th June - 7.30pm the margins’. Hull Central Library D.J. Taylor: Orwell: The Life Monday 28th June - 6.30pm - 9.00pm Free Ferens Live Arts Space, Ferens Art Gallery The adjective ‘Orwellian’ is now a byword for a Soulskin: } particular way of thinking about life and literature, Red Ladder Theatre Co but despite this iconic status, the author or Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four has remained an Free enigma. Who was the real George Orwell?

june Join one of the country’s most exciting theatre Reading from his work: Orwell: The Life - a groups for a performance of Soulskin: a story of h biography which draws on a mass of previously fractured families , loyalty, destructive pride, unseen interviews and material - D.J. Taylor responsibility, having to make difficult decisions and promises to shed light on the life and times of one growing up. Aimed at young people and their

27t of the twentieth century’s most important and friends, it’s also a story about courage and the ties brilliant writers. that bind. The drama explores the experience of one young person walking into the future and trying A well-known critic, reviewer and novelist in his to make sense of the world in a time of change. own right, D.J. Taylor won the Whitbread Award for this biography. His previous books include: This performance is also showing at the following After the War: The Novel and England since venues to youth groups:

sunday 1945, an acclaimed biography, Thackeray, and Maybury Youth Centre { the novels Trespass and The Comedy Man. Tuesday 29th June

Bransholme Astra Youth Centre

D.J.T Wednesday 30th June aylor Telephone Ruth Drake, Youth Arts Co-ordinator 01482 616804

Suitable for anyone aged 13 or over.

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Tuesday 29th June - 2.00pm - 3.00pm Wednesday 30th June - 7.00pm New Theatre Hull Central Library, Albion Street All This Will Be Yours

Hijinx Theatre: Into My Own y Free 01482 223344 £1 Tel 01482 226655 30t Three writers will discuss their books and will Into My Own is an inspirational play dealing with talk about the chain of support that is invaluable issues of interdependence, breaking ties and {} to writers. How can writers support each other? moving on. h And how do writers influence each others work? Ann is left alone - separated from her mother for Can a writer make it without being based in june the first time. Her brother has good intentions, Hampstead? An event aimed at book lovers, but when it comes to the crunch, can he help? reading group members and writers. The roots of dependency grow deep into family Jane Rogers is the author of several much tradition and habit, but with help and support, admired novels - including Mr Wroe's Virgins, tentative steps can blossom into independent Island and Promised Lands, which won the flight. Will Ann come ‘into her own’? Writers' Guild Best Fiction Award. She edited Hijinx Theatre is one of the UK’s leading theatre Oxford University Press's recent Good Fiction companies, with twenty-three years experience Guide. Her new novel is The Voyage Home, a of producing theatre for people with learning story about a woman who finds out more than disabilities, their families, friends and the general she expected from her father's diaries and who public. 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 Wednesday 30th June - 7pm become a word of mouth success among Public broadcast: reading groups, a book about a child growing Wednesday 30th June - 6pm Wednesday 30th June - 7.30pm Ye Olde Black Boy, High St, HU1 up in the 1960s, likened to Roddy Doyle's Hull School of Media Technology The Warren Online broadcast: www.illegalmedia.org Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha. He is working on his George St, Hull Snakebite A Bastard’s Tale second novel. Critical Platform Free Free Contact: [email protected] Tom Palmer is an unpublished novelist who £2 may or may not make it. He has had some Thought-provoking and moving, this two-person Set in a clearing, amid the beautiful, tranquil interest from publishers and agents, but none An event exploring the relationship between art performance takes its audience on a very forestry of an antiquated, non-specific, distant have them have bitten yet. He has just sent off and language through the work of two human journey. land, the treacherous twin brother of the King: the last draft of his novel News Junky, a story artists/performers: Caleb, has returned from exile with a Myth-Teller about TV war as entertainment and a distraction Based on personal experience, from afar. But his return brings the nation’s from anxieties closer to home. Anthony Howell is a performance artist and Snakebite has been written from fragile condition to fever pitch; the plebs are poet. He will talk about the interface between the point of view of a gay determined to see the violet execution of justice. performance and language and show a video of alcoholic and a woman who’s Tango Art, his latest performance piece. This husband was an alcoholic. A Bastard’s Tale is an intricate, original script looks at the tango as a physical language game, that gives consideration to the power of exploring dance as language and language as Not suitable for under 16’s. philosophical reasoning. Written with verve and dance. humour, it has a social consciousness and historical awareness. With extraordinary verbal Sam Rose is a visual performer who uses the wit and political underpinnings, this audio play body as a site for the exploration of language can be enjoyed on many levels. 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.

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Thursday 1st July Thursday 1st July - 7.30pm Friday 2nd July - 8pm Flamenco Workshops Wyke College The Sailmaker’s Arms £8/£10 Tel 01482 616808 for details. This is How it Ends An Evening with Signe Booking Essential. £2 adults Students free £4/£3 This is How it Ends charts the major conflicts Dutch singer songwriter back in Hull for a solo which have punctuated the course of 20th and accoustic performance. Thursday 1st July - 7.30pm early 21st century history. Using a variety of The Tamworth Suite, Dorchester Hotel different genre – verse drama, satire, physical 'She's something else...' Hull Blokes: Play-Ola! theatre – the performance travels from a Signe appears on the compilation CD 'Let Us Play' futuristic nuclear bunker back to the First World £2.50 War to examine the way our attitudes to country Plus support and to war have changed. Presenting an evening of short plays and featuring new writers, the Hull Blokes continue where they left off in last year’s festival. Friday 2nd July This time, all pieces are inspired by classic Increpacion Danza: Tablao some titles and cover subjects from political correctness gone mad, relationships, space £12.50/£10 Box Office: 01482 226655 pioneers, an unusual society, air travel and all manner of Hull characters. The Bloke’s look Uniting the traditions of Spanish Ballet, firstly to entertain, but hope to give the audience Thursday 1st July - 7.30pm Flamenco and Contemporary dance, Barcelona something to take away and think about too. EICH Gallery, George Street based Increpacion Danza return to Yorkshire Ruth Padel: with their haunting new production Tablao. Debbie T The Hull Blokes have recently had a six part The Soho Leopard With performers in a semi circle, scenes elapse comedy/drama broadcast by the BBC. aylor in the implicit dramatic structure of the Free traditional ‘tablao’ spectacle. Tablao is an open I love Ruth Padel’s poetry. She is sexy, strong, musical game, a classic masterpiece, a truly rhythmic, passionate, fully alive and a wiz with passionate insight into flamenco dance. words – The Times Friday 2nd July - 7pm – 9pm Hull Central Library Sensuous slangy riffs: her cinematic technique Mslexia: Debbie Taylor is humorous, tender, flamboyant and unforgettable – Independent In The Best Possible Taste: Ruth Padel is the great great granddaughter of the subtle art of writing Charles Darwin and will be reading from her about sex new collection; The Soho Leopard. These hugely enjoyable, hallucinatory and lyrical new Free 01482 616961: booking essential poems link mythology and zoological science, If your prose reads like pornography every time crossing Dulwich Pizza Hut with mating you venture beyond that row of little dots, this alligators and endangered animal species with could be the workshop for you. These frank stage directions from Beauty and the Beast. exercises aim to help you develop an original Ruth Padel has published five collections of erotic language and vocabulary. poetry and won the National Poetry Prize. Her Women only. previous collection Voodoo Shop was shortlisted for the Whitbread and T S Eliot Debbie Taylor is Editor of Mslexia, the national prizes. She writes the Wild Thing column for the magazine for women writers. Her latest novel, ablao

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Saturday 3rd July - 7.00pm Victoria Avenue Michael Donaghy & Roy Fisher with Live Jazz in the Avenues

Free 01482 616961 Tickets limited: booking essential Ring for venue details

Michael Donaghy was born in1954 in the Bronx, New York. He has lived in Britain since 1985. His most recent collections of poetry are Dances Saturday 3rd July - 11.00am-4.00pm Learned Last Night (Poems 1975-1995) and Queens Gardens Conjure, both published by Picador. His Humber Mouth numerous awards include the Whitbread Prize Family Fun Day for Poetry, the Geoffrey Faber Prize, and the Forward Prize. He is an outstanding performer Not to be missed! and poet.

Free Roy Fisher was born in Handsworth, Birmingham in 1930, but his style shows the For the first time this year Humber Mouth is influence of the Black Mountain School, offering an exciting, free, outdoor event in emanating from the college in North Carolina in Queen’s Gardens, featuring a wealth of writers the early 1950's. Despite this American and activities for children and their families. influence, Roy Fisher's poetry retains an There’s something for everyone from babies to essential English quality drawing upon the teens and the young at heart. Enter the World of landscape he knows so well. Helen Dunmore the Dark Forest with the 2 Steves; and marvel at has said of Fisher’s wonderfully witty and the amazing performance poetry and magic of anarchic poetry 'A poet of cities in growth and in Nick Toczek; write your own poem with Bernard dereliction His knowledge of urban landscape is Young and Graham Denton; or try your hand at formidable, and expressed with an originality of giant puppet making, story taping or video. All touch which makes these poems, at their best, sunday4thjuly this and much more in an action packed fun revelatory. These are fine investigative poems' {} filled day. Live jazz from local musicians.

Sunday 4th July - 7.00pm – Midnight William Nowik is an author, performer, musician, The Lamp, Norfolk St FREE songwriter, artist, storyteller, journalist, teacher, Independence Day Zen trickster, Buddhist monk-in-training and Dhama bum. Spending his life for the most part New York and Kurdistan unplugged from mainstream society, he re- The concert will bring together American and creates his stories of life in the underground with Kurdish artists to celebrate living together in multi-media work. harmony, and the hope of a peaceful future for The founder members of Gul Naz first met three everyone – Lou Duffy-Howard, organiser. years ago in an English immigration office after New York based Anti-war singer songwriter travelling 6000 miles to escape the regime of William Nowik will travel to Hull to perform on the Sadam Hussein. Since then, they have gained a last night of the festival with internationally strong reputation for delivering traditional and acclaimed Kurdish band Gul Naz. contemporary Kurdish dance music to audiences across the country.

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Thursday 17th – Saturday 19th June Thursday 24th – Friday 26th June Monday 28th June Tuesday 29th – Wednesday 30th June Fear X (12A) Girl with a Pearl Earing (12A) From The Margins of At Five in the Afternoon (U) Dir: Nicolas Winding Refn U.S.A. 2004 Dir: Peter Webber U.K. 2003 1hr 40 mins S.W. Holmes (Live performance) Dir: Samira Makhmalbaf Afganistan 2004 1hr 31mins 1hr 46mins (subtitles) Back by popular demand Free admission “At five in the afternoon comes death”, claims a “As the supernatural seeps into the everyday ‘From The Margins of…’ unearths the work of Not much is known about the Dutch master haunting snatch of poetry in this equally haunting world of malls, suburban housing estates, and the elusive composer S.W. Holmes. His career, Johannes Vermeer. Only 35 of his paintings remain picture from Iranian director Samira Makhmalbaf. freeway diners, FEAR X takes us on a creepy spanning over three decades, will be made and one of them (arguably his greatest One of the first feature films to emerge from journey into a mystery wrapped in a puzzle, public during the Humber Mouth festival via a masterpiece) was the subject of a bestselling book post-Taliban Afganistan (making it a worthy hidden in an enigma...owes a lot of its edgy presentation (including a performance) at the by Tracy Chevalier, first published in 1999. companion piece to Siddiq Barmak’s excellent frisson to Brian Eno’s disturbing score. John Hull Screen cinema and a dedicated web site Chevalier fictionalised what might have been the OSAMA), this follows Noqreh (Agheleh Rezaie) Turturro stars as a shopping mall security guard archive. The project explores his short-lived inspiration for this painting, and now, in his feature- as she struggles to redefine her role as a woman determined to find the man who murdered his affiliations with avant-garde luminaries, as well length debut, director Peter Webber transforms despite the protestations of her cranky, wife. Hoarding stacks of surveillance tapes from as his intriguing connections to the city. the building’s security cameras, he’s an isolated her novel impressively to the big screen. conservative father (Abdolgani Yousefrazi). Yet loner obsessively pouring over grainy black and Peter Webber gets nearly everything right in his A wilfully reluctant figure, Holmes’ has previously with death and misery everywhere, freedom white images for clues. It’s a quest that seems screen adaptation. Olivia Hetreed's screenplay shied away from retrospectives and accolades; seems an unlikely luxury” – bbc.co.uk/films hopeless, until he begins to have strange is skilful and deft, allowing silence and the by temperament and by inclination, his work visions, apparently prompted by the ghost of his unspoken often to carry more weight than the exists ‘on the margins’. missus.” – bbc.co.uk/films At Five in the After dialogue itself. This may essentially be a study Web site: www.fromthemargins.org.uk of a single event in history, but Webber's camera and editing make it into a compelling A Humber Mouth Special Commission curated by Espen Jensen & Philip Wincolmlee Barnes. Tuesday 22nd – Wednesday 23rd June and always interesting story. The period Infernal Affairs (15) settings, production design and photography all noon convey the flavour of the great painter's work. Dir: Andrew Lan / Alan Mak Hong Kong 2004 1hr 41mins (subtitles) www.Tiscali.co.uk

Ming (Andy Lou) is a mole in the Police Department. On the command of his Triad boss Sam (Eric Tsang), he became a cop when he Thursday 1st – Saturday 3rd July was merely 18. After a decade of hard work, he has become a police sergeant in the Criminal Eternal Sunshine of the Intelligence Bureau. With the help of Sam who Spotless Mind (15) tips him off with intelligence of his Triad rivals, Dir: Michel Gondry U.S.A. 2004 Ming manages to earn kudos from his 1hr 48mins superiors. Yan (Tony Leung) is a police mole in the Triads. Recruited before he even graduated Joel (Jim Carey) is stunned to discover that his from the Police Academy, he was initiated into girlfriend Clementine (Kate Winslett) has had her the Triads as a teenage underling. Leading memories of their tumultuous relationship erased. parallel lives, Ming and Yan are feeling Out of desperation, he contacts the inventor of increasingly trapped in their false surroundings. the process, Dr Howard Mierzwiak (Tom Wobbling in the inferno between the living and Wilkinson), to have Clementine removed from his the dead, they are desperate to find a way out. own memory. But as Joel’s memories

Girl with a Pearl Erring progressively disappear, he begins to rediscover his love for Clementine. From deep within the recesses of his brain, Joel attempts to escape the procedure. As Dr Mierzwiak and his crew (Kirsten Dunst, Mark Ruffalo, Elijah Wood) chase him nal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

Eter through the maze of his memories, its clear that Joel just can’t get Clementine out of his head.

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June 19th – July 4th Illegal Media: Mute/Record Take 5 Café, Central Library, Albion Street Working in partnership with a mental health Voices Of Hulls Refugees Hull 225 centre in Hull, Illegal Media present an original A text based artwork featuring 225 words by audio piece derived from texts generated by the Invited participants drawn from Hull’s refugee 225 people, all of whom work with, love or hate centre’s clients. Mute/Record is concerned with community will examine and portray, through language and have a connection with the city. anonymous voices, diary-like texts and with imagery and language, their life experiences, Invitations were sent to local wordsmiths and to individual expression. The project blends the aspirations and hopes for the future. The luminaries such as Andrew Motion, Roger spoken word with experimental collage. project will be a platform for the community to McGough, John Prescott, Douglas Dunn and touch upon issues such as housing, In addition to CD copies for the clients Roy Hattersley. Who replied and which word did employment, family life, local perceptions, themselves, it will also be publicly accessible they nominate? The artwork will be on display integration and long-term plans. Working in during the Humber Mouth festival by visiting throughout the festival. collaboration with The Learning Shop, Hull City www.illegalmedia.org Council and local organisations, the writer Ian Killen has been producing text based Daphne Glazer and photographer Sarah artworks for twenty years and these frequently Daniels will produce a publication for take the form of collective paintings where large Zoo & Logical Times distribution throughout the Humber Mouth numbers of contributions are taken from the Festival and Refugee Week 2004. public. The first issue of the Zoo & Logical Times appeared last year: a beautifully produced magazine of extraordinary magnitude. The second issue, produced as an audio magazine {}exhibitions&otherprojects 19th June – 4th July Hull Time Based Arts, High Street with pamphlet will be available from June 19th from [email protected] Full Circle 3rd & 4th July Primary School Heritage Open Days 2004 Tastes of Africa Full Circle is a multi-media installation using Hull Civic Society photography, ultraviolet text and lighting, The Book is Always Stoneferry primary School hosts an African week questioning memory, the passing of time, and inviting children to experience different cultures Better Than The Film Heritage Open Days enable historic and emotions past and present. and to meet people from the continent. Michael architecturally interesting buildings that are not www.humbermouth.org.uk Hardcastle, children’s author, will work with Spin Artist Mark Smith works with ultraviolet paint to normally accessible to be open to the public. Off Theatre Co to involve pupils in a day of create text which appears and disappears Each year a range of buildings are especially A web-based project by Louise Chapman who writing and thinking activities. opened and visited by hundreds of people. depending upon the position of the viewer. The has been working with older people to collect title of this exhibition, Full Circle, relates to a fragments of text and comments to form an Telephone Ian Loge on 07833 657290 for walk taken between two geographical points, alternative guide to life and language. Profound, further details, or pick up a leaflet from Tourist and two moments in time. Hull City Libraries flippant, essential and creative, comments can Information Centres, Libraries and . be read on the festival website. Hull Libraries Literary Quiz Throughout the month of June, the Libraries are running a literary quiz, open to anyone who Sunday July 4th July 11th 19th June - 4th July fancies their chances of winning a £30 book EICH Gallery, George Street Avenues Open Gardens token from Brown’s Books. Following the Dinah Kelly: The annual Open Gardens celebration in and success of the Big Read Quiz, the quiz will be around the Avenues area of Hull off Princes available from all libraries from 1st June. There Windows of Change Avenue. Whether you are a fan of Alan will be five runners-up prizes of £10. Entries will Exhibition and installation influenced by the Titchmarsh or Dairmud Gavin, you will find be accepted at any library up until June 30th. artist's travels to North Africa. The show something to amaze you in the region's biggest Thanks to Brown’s Books for their support. features a little house full of objects and images. open access garden event. This year there are The exhibition creates a narrative to enhance added festival events for all the family: awareness and understanding of Islamic culture in its many diverse forms. Dave Webb's Poetry with Kids will be at 52 Marlborough Avenue & Scrapstore will be at 109 Westbourne Avenue on Sunday 4th July from 2pm

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Concessions Festival Critic Readers Groups Writing Groups Concessionary tickets, where indicated, are Dave Windass Do you enjoy reading? Would you like to join Hull Writers Circle is a forum for poets and prose available to students, the unemployed, retired others at a Reading Group? At present more writers within the Hull area. Meetings are held on people over the age of 60, people with www.humbermouth.org.uk than 50,000 people in the UK belong to such a the first and third Thursday of each month in the disabilities, and the under 16’s. Proof of eligibility group, and there is a Reading Group in the Central Library and are open to writers at all ages is required. Check out events through our website reviewer Central Library which meets on the third and stages. Contact Sheila Green on 616836 for and send in your comments to Wednesday of every month. Contact Sheila more information. Access [email protected] Green on 616836 for more information. Every effort has been made to ensure that most Throughout the festival, Dave Windass will be festival venues for accessible for wheelchair posting reviews and comments. users. If you have any specific requirements please let the venues or the festival office know. He is a critic for the Big Issue, The Stage and a 4 full-time journalist for the Hull Daily Mail. See This programme is also available on page 11 for more about Dave and his own show The Worst Seat in the House audio-tape, in large print or in braille on request. Contact the festival office or 8 the City Information Service. 7 3 2

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