Monster line-up for half-term arts festival

A MERCURY Prize-winning singer-songwriter, award-winning hip-hop theatre, and a feast of beastly films, complete Hull UK City of Culture 2017’s Back To Ours line-up.

Badly Drawn Boy, inset, and Picture House are all part of the festival, which takes arts and culture to doorsteps across the city during the autumn halfterm holidays.

A shopping centre, schools and The Freedom Centre will once again host music, film, dance, theatre and comedy. Badly Drawn Boy, whose debut album

won the Mercury Prize, will be performing at The Freedom Centre on November 2.

Following previews at Latitude and Edinburgh festivals 201 Dance Company presents which fuses urban and contemporary dance with an original score, at Winifred Holtby Academy on Tuesday, October 31, and Wednesday, November 1. Meanwhile, Hull 2017 has teamed up with Hull Independent Cinema to present a beastly trilogy:

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Film-goers are encouraged to dress up as Monsters Inc will be accompanied by a Monsters Mash; Beauty and the Beast a Beastly Ball and Rocky Horror Picture Show a live DJ. Tickets will be available at North Point Shopping Centre from 10am on Thursday. With tickets costing from just £2.50 for and £7.50 for Badly Drawn Boy, they are likely to be snapped up fast.