The 12th Heads Up Festival is now just over one week away. Heads Up Festival’s 12th season will take place from March 27-30 at various venues, including Hull Minster, Hull Central Library and Kardomah94, Heads Up coincides with IETM Hull, which will see delegates from the informal theatre and performance network heading to the city from […]
We challenged festival blogger Michelle Dee to tell us why she is kickstarting her cultural year in style, with the twelfth Heads Up Festival March 27-31. After initially being struck by the international flavour of the festival – with representation from Iceland, Syria and Palestine as well as the UK – she found Five Really […]
Heads Up Festival’s 12th season will take place from March 27-30 at various venues, including Hull Minster, Hull Central Library and Kardomah94, This season’s artistic programme includes The Paper Cinema’s Macbeth (March 29 & 30), Now Is The Time To Say Nothing (a collaboration between Syrian film-maker Reem Karssli, a group of young Londoners and artist Caroline […]
E52 and Heads Up Festival are delighted that IETM (Informal European Theatre Meeting) – the international network for contemporary performing arts – is holding its March 2019 plenary in Hull. The initial idea to bring IETM to Hull was hatched in Budapest in 2015 when, along with other theatremakers from the city, IETM member E52 […]
At the beginning of the festival we sent writer and Heads Up’s official blogger Michelle Dee to relive Ensemble 52’s Pale Blue Dot – scratched previously at Heads Up – and performed in 2018 at Blue Dot, the science music, art and culture festival at Jodrell Bank, where it was seen by various audiences including […]
Dave Windass has had a quiet few years. A pinned tweet on his twitter account states that he’s “given up writing to lay one-fingered piano parts over the Amen break.” Yet he’s returned to writing with Pale Blue Dot, a collaboration between E52, illustrator and comic-book artist Gareth Sleightholme, electronic music producers The Broken Orchestra […]
Ugly Chief by Victoria Melody Where: Hull Minster When: March 2 & 3, 7.30pm Tickets: £15/£10 Heads Up Festival, now in its tenth season, is making a return to Hull Minster. The festival previously sent ripples through the historic church – then Holy Trinity – with Made In China’s Gym Party at the first-ever Heads […]
E52’s new production – an adaptation of bestselling novelist David Mark’s acclaimed debut novel Dark Winter – will receive its world premiere at Hull Truck Theatre as part of Heads Up Festival (March 13-17). The book has been adapted by playwrights Richard Vergette (Dancing Through the Shadows, As We Forgive Them) and one of the most […]
Bill Drummond (The KLF, The K Foundation), responsible for twinning Hull with Your Darkest Thought, is making a return to the city with a double-bill of new work for the stage presented at Heads Up Festival. Drummond was last seen in Hull in 2017, when he presented Your Darkest Thought at the New Adelphi Club […]
What Is … Light? When: At Heads Up Festival, Wednesday 7th March 2018 Where: An intimate space and secret location in Hull’s Bankside industrial estate. An event that brings together a host of artists will take place at Hull’s Heads Up Festival. What Is … Light? will see visual artists, photographers, musicians, audio artists, writers, […]