What? The Humber Mouth celebrates literature, language and text-based arts, combining author events with special commissions and community projects. The festival builds on a year-round programme of literature development activities called Reading River.
Established in 1993, the Humber Mouth is the city’s biggest festival and is managed by Hull City Arts.
The 2015 Humber Mouth Literature Festival will have the overarching theme “Ten Miles East of England”. Drawing inspiration from the writers and poets associated with the city. Humber Mouth 2015 will embody the city’s uniqueness, independence and pioneering spirit, and hold true to its distinctive character as a place and a festival with a unique character with plenty to say for itself.
Where? Venues in and around Kingston-upon-Hull , Yorkshire, Humber, England,
When? 6 -16 Novermber 2015
Who? 2015 TBA
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Festival Website: Humber Mouth
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Previous Festivals? George Monbiot, Adam Mars-Jones, Jenni Murray, Jon Ronson, John Hegley, Mike Jay, Simon Garfield and many others.
The 2011 festival will take place between 25 June and 10 July. The programme includes authors and speakers such as George Monbiot, Adam Mars-Jones, Jenni Murray, Jon Ronson, John Hegley, Mike Jay, Simon Garfield and many others.
Singer-songwriter Emmy the Great and Faber poet Jack Underwood, a celebration of Hull in literature throughout history, an exploration of what your choice of font says about you, a new show from performance poet Mab Jones (VIDEO BELOW), lost lectures from Victorian times, a new film of Larkin’s ‘Bridge for the Living’ featuring Barry Rutter, workshops, talks, exhibitions, children’s events.
Previous festivals: In the past the festival has welcomed feminist icon Germaine Greer, the controversial MP George Galloway, Orange Prize winner Lionel Shriver, best selling novelists Jonathan Coe and Louis de Bernieres, radical journalist John Pilger and psychotherapist Susie Orbach. Poets participating in the events have included—Ian Duhig, Carol Rumens and David Wheatley. Additional events and workshops are part of the program that includes young people, and “Special Commissions” and installations and art projects which have text and language as their focus.
If you are involved in this festival you can update or change details via the organisers page . Authors can list here.