MELVYN BRAGG AND CITY OF CULTURE BOOKS FROM OUR MOUTHS
- kerryevans1
- Oct 4, 2017
- 3 min read
Humber Mouth Festival 2-8 October
Central Library Hull
Earlier in the week I had a relaxing breakfast in the library’s café Food for Thought. Spreading butter on my toast I had time to relax and take in views of Hull on the walls all around me . Paintings of local scenes in Hull by local artist Cliff Foreshaw. You should go and see if you can work out where the images are drawn from.
This evening I am will be here at 6pm in the Teen Zone for Hull to Iceland and Back: A voyage in music, poetry and paint. It is a free ticketed event available from the City of Culture web site. Tickets are still available.
Flood II in Victoria Dock would have been amazing. The reality is I still have a moon boot on due to an operation in July and I can hobble about as far as my local library from the Interchange. You can come and join me and tell me about your experiences of the evening. Tickets are free and some are still on offer from the Hull City of Culture web site.
There are both more local and national offerings here as part of the Humber Mouth literary festival which runs from the 2nd to the 8th of October. It’s the 26th anniversary this year already. A more local event that will go on beyond 2017.
I caught broadcasting off shoots of Flood 1 on the television. Hull performances are hitting national arenas which I hope to see building over the next four years.
I am a journalist and author myself, so before I am entertained downstairs I will leave back my overdue book and go to listen to a talk by Melvyn Bragg.I have anchored my roots in Hull.
It’s utility bill week and an eight pounds price tag with my disabled concession is more accessible for me right now than a large scale performance. I can go and get some tips on how to publish more of my books from this BBC broadcaster and author. He has presented art and science shows for the BBC for many years.
I was in a documentary made for BBC 2 Safe as Houses. Not quite Melvyn’s heights. It was about living with autism while moving house. Like me he seems to try his hand at different genres. I have worked for national leisure magazines and am now writing whaling, autism and city of culture offerings anchored here in Hull. City of Culture has helped me try different genres and given me new voices.
Melvyn has experience of living with a loved one with dementia and I have written three books about living with autism. Two of my sons are on the spectrum. This is what the Humber Mouth festival is all about. Finding large events or more local performances where you can bathe in things that interest and relate to you. That is how culture should be. Open to everyone.
Melvyn kicks off at 4pm. Tickets again are still available from the City of Culture web site.
I will tell you all about it my visit when I return. Of course there will be more detail in my forthcoming book 2017 Hulls Special Year.
A book about culture in Hull will be penned by me for the next three years. Books that reflect ordinary people’s response to the cultural life taking place now here in Hull and into the future.
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