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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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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PRESS RELEASE: Heads Up Festival – March 27-30
Now Is The Time To Say Nothing

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 […]

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PRESS RELEASE: Heads Up Festival back with theatre that makes a difference
Heads Up Festival September 2018

Heads Up Festival’s autumn 2018 season will take place from September 12 – September 22 at various venues, including Kardomah94, the University of Hull and Hull Central Library. The festival will include the return to the festival of new E52 production Pale Blue Dot (September 12-14) at Heads Up’s festival hub Kardomah94, as well as the […]

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Bring your heirlooms and antiques and meet TV antique dealer Mike Melody
Victoria and Mike Melody in Ugly Chief

Television antique dealer Mike Melody – instantly recognisable from shows such as Real Deal – wants to help you put a price on your family heirlooms. Along with his daughter Victoria Melody, Mike is appearing in Ugly Chief at Heads Up Festival (March 2-3). But before the curtain goes up on the real-life father and […]

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Heads Up Festival back at Hull Minster
Victoria and Mike Melody in Ugly Chief

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 […]

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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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Artistic talent join forces to ask What Is … Light?
What Is ... Light?

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, […]

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