Famous names, world premieres and special performances for Hull's final City of Culture season

The final season of Hull's year as City of Culture has the theme 'Tell The World' Credit: City of Culture Promo Video

Hull's culture team has announced details of its programme for the final three months of 2017 as its year in the spotlight as UK City of Culture draws to a close. There is a world premiere, a string of famous names and many specially commissioned shows which all centre on the theme of 'Tell the World'.

Here are some of the highlights:

The National Theatre will bring Jane Eyre to Hull New Theatre in September Credit: Hull New Theatre

SEPTEMBER

  • 18th-23rd: The National Theatre's production of Jane Eyre comes to the Hull New Theatre.

  • 22nd: World Premiere of the dark comedy A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian at Hull Truck Theatre telling the story of a lovesick grandfather and two daughters at war.

  • 26th: The Ferens Art Gallery hosts art's often controversial Turner Prize with work from the four shortlisted artists Hurvin Anderson, Amdrea Buttner, Lubaina Himid and Rosalind Nashashibi.

  • 27th: World premiere of John Godber's The Kings of Hull at Hull New Theatre which runs till 7 October.

  • 28th: The poetry and performance festival Contains Strong Language starts with over 50 events across the city including Kate Tempest, John Cooper Clark and Simon Armitage.

  • 28th: The start of the month long Lit Up Festival celebrating literature in Beverley which will welcome musician Woody Woodmansey, punk hero Cosey Fanni Tutti, comedian Jenny Eclair, presenter Gyles Brandreth and Yorkshire broadcaster Ian Clayton.

Hull's Trinity Square will be transformed with 16 metal pillars into a Hall for Hull Credit: Picture from Pezo von Ellrichshausen

OCTOBER

  • 1st: A Hall for Hull will see a series of 16 metal columns installed in Trinity Square next to Hull Minster.

  • 1st: Every telephone box in Hull will ring at 2pm with messages from the future as part of a year-long series of works called 2097: We Made Ourselves Over.

  • 2nd-8th: The Humber Mouth literature festival is celebrating its 25th year and will this year include a digital project linking up with Hull's twin cities.

  • 5th: Hull City Hall welcomes the Royal Philharmonic's Last Night of the Proms as part of its Classics Season.

  • 7th: Hull's Martime Museum welcomes Turner and the Whale - an exhibition that unites pictures from Hull's own whaling collection with works from the artist JMW Turner including some on loan from the Tate.

  • 13th: An exhibition of photos entitled Hull, Portrait of a City opens at the Humber Street Gallery exploring the unforgettable year of 2017 for Hull.

  • 18th-21st: Hull New Theatre hosts the Northern Ballet's new The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas.

  • 26th-28th: Opera North bring their production of The Little Greats to Hull New Theatre.

  • 27th: The Back to Ours festival includes Shaun Ryder's Black Grape performing at the North Point Shopping Centre in Bransholme.

The comedian Joel Dommett who starred in I'm A Celebrity last year will perform at Hull Comedy Festival

NOVEMBER

  • Date to be announced: The latest instalment of the secret Green Ginger events which have so far seen 40,000 people from communities across Hull attend will be a spectacular art installation.

  • 2nd-22nd: The 10th year of Hull Comedy Festival as it welcomes Greg Davies, Katherine Ryan and Joel Dommett.

  • 3rd-18th: A major new work at Hull Truck Theatre that tells the story of the Hull fishwives entitled The Last Testament of Lillian Bilocca written by the award winning Maxine Peake.

  • 7th: The singer Jake Bugg performs at Hull City Hall.

  • 11th-18th: Nine days of Hull Jazz Festival which is celebrating its 25th anniversary with the Grammy award winning guitarist Pat Metheny at Hull City Hall.

  • 12th-19th: Celebrating crime fiction Hull Noir will also link up with Iceland Noir from Reykjavik.

The story of the Hull fishwives will be explored in The Last Testament of Lillian Bilocca

DECEMBER

  • 5th: Another chance to see Tony Visconti and Woody Woodmansey's Holy Holy perform The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars at Hull City Hall.

  • 7th-10th: A virtual reality experience entitled A Colossal Wave will allow people to experience an explosion of colour after a ball is thrown from a great height to create a huge virtual wave.

  • 7th-10th: A new festival called Substance aims to get people thinking about the issues of the day with a series of debates and talks.

  • 8th-10th: A new art commission will transform The Deep, one of Hull's most iconic buildings, with light, sound and digital media.

A virtual reality experience will look at what happens when a ball is dropped from a great height

2018

  • The cultural programme extends into next year with a play at Hull Truck Theatre by acclaimed writer James Graham which is a behind the scenes comedy about the City of Culture year.

For further details about the events planned, visit the Hull 2017 website