PRESS RELEASE: Countdown to Heads Up Festival #12

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 […]

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PRESS RELEASE: A provocation against armchair passivity will chime with being human
Now Is The Time To Say Nothing

Caroline Williams and Reem Karssli’s  Now Is The Time To Say Nothing is an interactive video installation exploring the role of screens in observing global conflict that will take place at Heads Up Festival at various times at Hull Central Library from March 28-30. The show is a provocation against armchair passivity. Artist Caroline Williams said: “The […]

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FESTIVAL BLOG: Five reasons to kickstart your cultural year at Heads Up
Paper Cinema's Macbeth - Photo by James Allan

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 […]

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PRESS RELEASE: Heads Up clocks up a dozen festivals
Paper Cinema's Macbeth - Photo by James Allan

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 […]

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E52’s Dark Winter at Hull Truck
E52's Dark Winter

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 […]

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Bill Drummond to present double bill of new work
Bill Drummond Credit: Tracey Moberly

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 […]

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