Name: SARA PASCOE
Start: 2017-10-06 20:00
End: 2017-10-06 23:55
Location: Central Library

A DAY IN THE LIFE OF TED LEWIS

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A DAY IN THE LIFE OF TED LEWIS
TED LEWIS GROUP.
Hull and Lincolnshire Novelist, Graphic Artist and Jazz Musician

12:00 – 14:00

TED LEWIS’ LIFE AS AN ART STUDENT IN 1950S HULL. ROMANCE, DRINK AND JAZZ.

The Brew House, Nelson Street, Hull HU1 1XE

With others who were involved, trace Lewis’ romance at the location he wrote about and learn how his exploits influenced British crime writing forever.

£3 on the door

19:00 – 23:00

The Lairgate, Beverley, HU17 8EP

TED LEWIS’ JAZZ DAYS AT THE LAIRGATE.

With a private table and reasonably priced dinner, Listen to Ted Lewis’s 1950s music, his jazz days recounted by Ron Burnett, trombonist, and Tony Dugdale, clarinet, with Unity Jazz Band and others. Live music from the fantastic Climax Jazz Band featuring Dugdale and Burnett.

FREE No tickets required

Commissions, Events, Film, HM, Music

A DAY IN THE LIFE OF TED LEWIS

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A DAY IN THE LIFE OF TED LEWIS
TED LEWIS GROUP.
Hull and Lincolnshire Novelist, Graphic Artist and Jazz Musician

10:00 – 12:00

SCHOOL DOODLES AND MAGAZINE STORIES TO GET CARTER.

Old School Canteen, Joseph Wright Hall, Queen Street, Barton upon Humber DN18 5QP

Listen to the sound of Ted Lewis playing in 1958 Unity Jazz Band. Listen to a member of the Ted Lewis Group as they show the importance of Ted Lewis through novel readings, personal anecdotes and his young life and influences growing up in Barton. Trail or film to follow.

Talk: FREE / Trail or Film £5 on the door

16:30 – 19:30

Broderick Gallery, Hull College of Art and Design, Wilberforce Avenue, HU1 3DG

TED LEWIS, AFTER GET CARTER.

How Lewis came to write Get Carter and then drew on his Hull and Humber Estuary experiences to write an even darker novel, Plender. Screening of Eric Barbier’s 2006 film thriller, The Serpent on which that novel was based.

FREE No tickets required

Debate, Events, Talk

THE EVOLUTION OF SCIENCE WRITING

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It’s the 30th anniversary of the Royal Society Insight Investment Science Book Prize, and the 25th anniversary of Humber Mouth. No better time to talk about the past, present and future of science writing. Join our exciting panel of past prizewinners and judges as they discuss the evolution of science writing over the past thirty years, and how it could evolve over the next thirty.

Eugenia Cheng

Eugenia is an English mathematician and pianist, an honorary fellow of pure mathematics at the University of Sheffield and a scientist and residence in liberal arts at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Her 2017 shortlisted title, Beyond Infinity: An Expedition to the Outer Limits of the Mathematical Universe, explores inside the weird and wonderful world of infinity, from endless hotels to bottomless cookie-jars

Gaia Vince

Gaia was the first ever solo female winner of the prestigious award, putting her name amongst an impressive roll-call including Stephen Hawking, Stephen Jay Gould, Jared Diamond, James Gleick and Bill Bryson in 2015.

Her book, Adventures in the Anthropocene: A Journey to the Heart of the Planet, was researched over two years of intense travelling the world, visiting slums in Colombia, silver mines in Bolivia and a man who’d built an new island from rubbish in the Caribbean.

Dr. Steve Cross (host)

Once upon a time, Steve was a spectacularly poor lab scientist, then an OK science communicator and for a while, a museum and art curator (for Wellcome Collection).

These days he’s a geek comedian, presenter and producer, travelling across the UK helping all sorts of intellectual types share their passions. He trains clever people to be funny, through his project CLEVERmakeFUNNY, and has worked with academics, museums professionals, software engineers, architects and lawyers to make comedy part of their lives.

Tickets: £7 / £5 concessions
Tickets Available 31 August

Events, Music, Reading

KATHRYN WILLIAMS & LAURA BARNETT

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Artists Laura Barnett and Kathryn Williams are welcomed back to Hull with their acclaimed collaboration based on Laura’s novel Greatest Hits. The novel tells the story of Cass Williams, a fictional singer who had great success in the early 1970s, only to retire mysteriously at the height of her fame. Decades later, she decides to put together a Greatest Hits album which causes her to reflect on her past. Laura says “ it was clear to me that I wanted my character’s musical output to have a life beyond the page”. This desire led to the collaboration with Mercury Prize nominated singer-songwriter Kathryn Williams and the eponymous accompanying album to the novel Greatest Hits. This promises to be a great evening for fans of literature and music alike, with Lura reading from the novel and Kathryn preforming songs relating to each reading.

Laura Barnett’s debut novel The Versions of Us was a number one best seller with over 200.000 copies sold in the UK alone. Kathryn has enjoyed an 18 year career, having recently written songs inspired by Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar which received much critical acclaim.

Tickets: £5 / £4 concessions
Tickets Available 31 August

Commissions, Events, HM, Music, Poetry, Reading

HOW WE FEEL NOW

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The Change Collective and Renaissance One present

HOW WE FEEL NOW.

Giving voice through poetry, music and straight talking

Kei Miller, Glynis Neslen, Andi Dakin, Cecila Oxaal, David Okwesia, Melanie Abrahams, Cassandra Dalton and Asher Gammon.

An exploration of the state of our times and life in Hull by artists, writers and commentators. The event offers a handpicked soundtrack of words, images and music by poets, artists and wordsmiths, and a reading in response to the theme by poet, novelist, essayist and Forward Prize winner Kei Miller.

www.renaissanceone.co.uk

FREE EVENT

Events, Film, HM

LOOKING FOR H

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Four Hull stories: people you want to meet, people you don’t want to see, people you miss – writers and film-makers from the Writing Squad’s Project H weave film out of the city’s Pride celebrations, a night out, the old town, our waterfront. Join us for the premiere, no red carpet, just a wide river and a Humber street.

FREE EVENT

Events, Poetry

PAMELA ROBERTSON-PEARCE & NEIL ASTLEY

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Award-winning filmmaker Pamela Robertson-Pearce and Bloodaxe Books editor Neil Astley, appear at this screening of In Person: World Poets, an international collaboration and a sequel to In Person: 30 Poets (2008), the world’s first poetry DVD-anthology.

Pamela Robertson-Pearce’s films include IMAGO: Meret Oppenheim (1996), winner of the Swiss Film Board’s Prize for Outstanding Quality and the Gold Apple Award at the National Educational Film and Video Festival in America. Bloodaxe editor and founder Neil Astley’s many books include the Staying Alive trilogy of anthologies.

Tickets: £5 / £4 concessions
Tickets available 31 August

Events, In Conversation, Reading

ALEX WHEATLE IN CONVERSATION

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Alex Wheatle is the author of several novels, some of them set in Brixton, where he grew up. Born in London of Jamaican parents, his first book, Brixton Rock (1999), tells the story of a 16-year old boy of mixed race, in 1980s Brixton. His second novel, East of Acre Lane (2001), has a similar setting, and won a London Arts Board New Writers Award. He was awarded an MBE for services to literature in 2008.

Tickets: £5 / £4 concessions
Tickets available 31 August

Events, Talk

SALLY GARDNER

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Sally Gardner is a multi-award-winning novelist whose work has been translated into more than twenty-two languages. Her novel Maggot Moon won both the Costa Children’s Book Prize and the Carnegie Medal 2013. Sally’s genre-defying novel The Double Shadow was also longlisted for the Carnegie Medal 2013. Sally also won the 2005 Nestle Children’s Book Prize for her debut novel

I, Coriander. Aside from her many children’s novels and series, Sally also writes adult fiction under the pseudonym Wray Delaney. Simultaneously educational and infectiously entertaining; Sally will be talking about dyslexia and creativity.

Tickets: £5 / £4 concessions

Events, In Conversation, Reading

SARA PASCOE

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Here to talk about her first book Animal; Sara Pascoe is a comedian who has appeared on Live at The Apollo, Mock the Week, QI, Room 101, Never Mind the Buzzcocks and 8 out of 10 Cats as well as acting in Twenty Twelve and The Thick of It and writing columns for The Guardian. Animal explores theories of how the female body evolved alongside cultural analysis and personal experience. The book provides a fascinating insight into the forces that mould and affect modern women- and It’s packed full of jokes too.

Tickets: £10 / £8 concessions