Leisure & Culture

View article Heated Lido swimming returns to Albert Ave Pools and Fitness

Heated Lido swimming returns to Albert Ave Pools and Fitness

Heated lido sessions will begin this week at Albert Avenue Pools & Fitness. The pool will open this weekend with three new sessions starting on Friday (2 May) including a twilight swim exclusively for adults. Open daily, the lido will offer a variety of family and adult-only sessions throughout the week. Since its opening in […]

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View article Polish Heritage Day celebrations at Streetlife Museum

Polish Heritage Day celebrations at Streetlife Museum

Visitors to the Streetlife Museum on Saturday (3 May) are invited to celebrate Polish Heritage Day with free crafts, food and live music making it a fun day for the whole family. This free family event will include fun outdoor games in the Museums Quarter Gardens, art workshops run by Hull ScrapStore and a concert […]

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View article What’s on in Hull – May 2025

What’s on in Hull – May 2025

With spring in full flow and summer just around the corner, here’s just a selection of things taking place in Hull this May. Hull Minster Beer Festival Hull Minster, Thursday 8 May until Saturday 10 May The annual Hull Minster Beer Festival returns this May, combining one of the city’s most iconic buildings with some […]

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View article Move over, CBeebies stars – Hull’s young storytellers steal the spotlight at red carpet premiere

Move over, CBeebies stars – Hull’s young storytellers steal the spotlight at red carpet premiere

Hull’s newest screen stars lit up the red carpet last night at a special premiere event celebrating the magic of reading aloud and the power of performance. Hosted at Hull Central Library, the glamorous event marked the finale of ‘Hull’s Young Storytellers: Lights, Camera, Read!’, a creative literacy project that saw 36 year five pupils […]

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View article Ferens Art Gallery announces interactive family friendly art exhibition for the summer

Ferens Art Gallery announces interactive family friendly art exhibition for the summer

A new family-friendly exhibition will take place at Ferens Art Gallery for the summer season. It will see parts of the gallery transformed into an immersive space filled with large stunning technicolour digital art projections. This interactive digital art exhibition responds to visitors’ movements, inviting people to be creative. Microworld is a free family exhibition […]

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View article Improvements for Costello running track

Improvements for Costello running track

Costello Stadium’s running track will undergo several weeks of refurbishments from today, Tuesday 22 April. A surface respray and specialist deep clean of the current track will take place, whilst necessary repairs and installation of a new surface overspray are planned. The existing surface is in such a condition that major improvements are required to […]

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View article VE Day 80 celebrations come to Hull

VE Day 80 celebrations come to Hull

Families in Hull will have the opportunity to come together and pay tribute to the Second World War generation from Saturday 3 to Thursday 8 May. A number of celebration events will take place across Hull to commemorate VE Day’s 80th year. On Monday 5 May a street party will be set up in East […]

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View article Victory! Watch how Hull celebrated VE Day with free archive screenings at the Hull History Centre

Victory! Watch how Hull celebrated VE Day with free archive screenings at the Hull History Centre

Hull History Centre are hosting screenings of Hull’s Victory in Europe (VE) Day celebrations next month. Thursday 8 May marks the 80th anniversary of the end of the Second World War in Europe. To celebrate this momentous anniversary, Hull History Centre will be hosting a free event on Saturday 3 May. There will be screenings […]

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View article Exhibition celebrating the Polish community in Hull opens at Streetlife Museum 

Exhibition celebrating the Polish community in Hull opens at Streetlife Museum 

A new exhibition celebrating over 100 years of the Polish community in Hull has opened at the Streetlife Museum.   Cześć Hull, To My!/Hi Hull, It’s Us! explores Polish traditions, food, dress, and lifestyle that enrich Hull’s cultural landscape and highlights some of the local legends with Polish heritage.   Hull Museums have worked with pupils from […]

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View article Exciting new children’s book project coming to schools with free public launch event this Easter

Exciting new children’s book project coming to schools with free public launch event this Easter

A ground-breaking city-wide literacy project for all year six pupils, the first of its kind in Hull, will begin this summer. ‘One Hull of a Read’ is run in partnership with the publisher Scholastic, Hull Libraries, Hull Schools’ Library Service and previous James Reckitt Hull Children’s Book Award winning author, Helen Rutter. Helen’s new ‘choose […]

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View article What’s on in Hull – April 2025

What’s on in Hull – April 2025

Spring is here and there’s plenty going on in Hull this month. Here’s just a small selection of what’s on offer. Healthy Holidays Various dates and locations There is tonnes of stuff going on over the Easter Holidays as part of the Healthy Holidays programme. There are events and activities for all sorts of ages, […]

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