The Warren Nature Poems
Ten poems commissioned to be played at the Trinity Live Special nights for The Awakening 2023
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Ten poems commissioned to be played at the Trinity Live Special nights for The Awakening 2023
Taking the recognisable form of a station or airport arrivals and departures board, the artwork invites the public to share the names of people who have arrived and departed as a way to celebrate a birth or commemorate a death.
During the 2021 Freedom Festival, we partnered with Digital Democracies to commission Ithaca to exhibit 5000 Miles - a 360-degree audio experience.
Freedom Festival Arts Trust worked alongside Nova and KCOM with Freetown Media Centre and the British Council to commission the project, ‘Freetown Film Labs - Imagine a Perfect World’, a series of short films which strengthened Hull’s links with our partner city Freetown, in Sierra Leone.
In partnership with Back to Ours, we teamed up to bring the Dean Wilson Cinema Shack and DeanWorld Premiere Gala to Freedom Festival 2021.
Freedom Festival Arts Trust commissioned Broken Orchestra to create an audio podcast with Westcott Primary School which was shared for the first time at Hull Minster under the Gaia installation.
For Freedom Festival 2021, we commissioned Joe Hakim to create two podcasts as part of our online provision.
De Relaxerette will take you away for just a moment from this overflowing world.
Freedom Festival Arts Trust were proud to commission Scarborough based artists Wintercroft to create a bespoke paper craft mask for the Awakening.
'Breathing new life into old film'
A collaboration between Stewart Baxter (composer & visual artist) and Samatar Elmi (multi-awarded winning poet)
An exploration of humans and materials, revealing the beauty and flaws of the global systems we imagine, build, and come to rely on.
An unforgettable spectacle of audio-visual wonder which features the voices of female survivors of modern slavery
A hip hop, dance and theatre musical providing an inspiring outlook on the world of being oneself
An audio journey which takes audiences around the city in pursuit of Mo – a fast food delivery driver who has become lost and trapped in an alternate universe.
Freedom Festival Arts Trust commissioned Mohammed Khaled to create a series of films which represented the experience of asylum seekers in Hull.
A kinetic sound sculpture driven by air quality data generated by the World Air Quality Index.
For Freedom Festival 2020 Play-Along Plink and Boo is a circus theatre performance made specifically for camera
Spoken word performers from the UK and the Netherlands collaborate around urgent themes in a post-COVID-19 world.
At a time when we were distanced from each other, A Portrait Without Borders brought us together.
In the midst of lockdown, an exploration began to discover how local performers could be given their sound back.
In the following zoom conversation recorded during lockdown three generations of Hiroshima women reflect on the 75th Anniversary of the first atomic bombings on people and why their call for a world without nuclear weapons is more urgent than ever.
The third in Luke Wright’s trilogy of political verse plays looks at division, trust and privilege in the Brexit age.
A new commission for Freedom Festival 2019, in partnership with Hull Yorkshire’s Maritime City and with support from ACE project funds and BBC Blue Room.
Pig poses a playful dilemma in public space from the moment it is unveiled.
Foreign Tongues puts the act of speaking at the centre of a choreographic process and reflects the experience of contemporary urban life, its polyphony and multilingualism.
In Studio Cité, Benjamin Vandewalle combines a series of installations, performances and interventions in a public place, square or venue in a city, transforming the urban location into an artistic fun fair, a playground for the human gaze and a space where social encounters, discussions and the exchange of ideas can take place.
Twenty-Eight is a site-specific installation representing the EU group of twenty-eight member states. Individual states are represented by translations of their national anthems, which are a central theme of the entire installation.
In this new project, Lucas De Man works together with local partners to make an investigation of current democracy and its challenges for the future. With a travelling visual and musical show, full of stories and dialogue, he shows how a young generation shapes tomorrow’s democracies.
A certain value is a multi-disciplinary format conceived by Italian artist Anna Rispoli and curator Martina Angelotti. A series of workshops will be held in six European cities until the end of 2019 with a reading-performance tour in 2020.
As a partner we're working with Without Walls to support 18 companies to bring new outdoor work to fruition this year - touring to nine leading outdoor arts festivals across the country, including Freedom Festival 2019.
We are proud to be commissioning a brand new piece about Hull, which will be performed in both Hull and London as part of this year’s PRS Foundation New Music Biennial and have commissioned award-winning clarinettist and composer Arun Ghosh to create a brand-new piece of music, inspired by water and journeys to the city from across the sea.