The Humber Mouth - Hull Literature Festival 2000 - Thursday 9th November - Sunday 19th November 2000

Monday 13th November 12.30pm - 1.30pm Ferens Art Gallery, Victoria Square (01482) 613933
FREE
Debating Society
Soapbox At The Ferens with Amy Johnson Secondary School
on: "Cars in today's society - do we need them?"

Pupils from Hull Schools discuss news and current affairs as they affect young people. Visitors to the gallery are invited to join in the debate. Soapbox is a Learning Services Initiative in conjunction with The Humber Mouth. Soapbox takes place every lunchtime from Monday 13th to Friday 17th Nov.

Special Festival Projects
Schools & The Humber Mouth

The Humber Mouth Short Story and Poetry Competition
Poems on the Underground co-founder Gerard Benson will present prizes to the winners he selected from hundreds of entries sent in by participating secondary schools. Everyone is welcome to the adjudication event at Hull Screen on Friday 10th November at 5pm.

Soapbox at The Ferens
A series of 5 lunchtime debates at the Ferens Art Gallery by pupils of five Hull Secondary schools, including Amy Johnson, David Lister, Kingston and Winifred Holtby. The public is welcome to join in the debate every day from Monday 13th to Friday 17th from 12.30 to 1.30 at the Ferens Art Gallery.

Roy Roika / Michael MacMillan / Irene Rawnsley / Leap Dance
Writers and Poets in schools
During the festival period poets, writers and performers work with the pupils of a number of the city's secondary and primary schools.

For any further information on the Schools & The Humber Mouth programme please contact Louise Carroll, School Improvement Teacher for English Literary (01482) 616625, Hull City Council Learning Services.

 

Monday 13th November 4.00pm Meet at The Old Grammar School, South Church Side, Market Square
£2.50 for adults £1 for children - no advance booking required
Hull Scares & Scandals
Guided Walk

It's a dark, misty night in the Old Town of Hull. You are standing in a medieval graveyard, the bodies of the dead below your feet. A mysterious figure approaches through the damp evening fog. A spirit of the past? A ghost from the grave? Far worse.....it's your guide Keith Daddy about to lead you on the 'Scares & Scandals' walk around Hull to tell you a thing or two about the gruesome and the ghostly of the Old Town. All are welcome and there is no need to pre-book.

For more information on this and other guided walks around Hull contact Keith Daddy via the festival office (01482) 616876

Monday 13th November 7.00pm Avenues Library, Chanterlands Avenue
£2 (includes a glass of wine) - Tickets (01482) 445912
Poetry Reading
Peter Knaggs & Daithidh Maceochaidh

An evening with two poets of the younger generation - entertaining, sharp and fast-moving. Unmissable.

For further information please ring Barry Ward, Hull Libraries (01482) 616809

Monday 13th November 8.00pm Hull Truck Theatre
Germaine Greer Critical Eye £8 (Conc £6) - Box Office (01482) 323638

In conversation with Germaine Greer

A unique opportunity to meet the Australian author, journalist, media pundit and academic who has been at the cutting edge of feminism since the 1960's. Probably best known as the author of books such as The Female Eunuch and most recently The Whole Woman, Germaine Greer is coming to Hull to be in conversation with 'you' the audience.

"Greer has put her head above parapets others still fear to scale" (Lisa Jardine on The Whole Woman)


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