The regular Spoken Word Open Mic Afternoon presented by Wotlarx, which takes place at Wrecking Ball Arts Centre on the first Tuesday of every month. Everyone is welcome. Take part, or just grab a coffee, sit back, relax and enjoy! It's free! Enquiries 07517 874632.
Wrecking Ball Music Quiz. Weekly, every Thursday at 7pm. FREE. Know your Art of Noise from your Elbow? Your Malcom McLaren from your Metallica? Your Beatles from your Stones? Your Durutti Column from your ZZ Top? Even if the answer's "um, I'm not sure, mate," it's time to get quizzical down at Wrecking Ball Music […]
The most brilliant mind at America's top university isn't a student, he's the kid who cleans the floors. Will Hunting is a headstrong, working-class genius who is failing the lessons of life. After one too many run-ins with the law, Will's last chance is a psychology professor, who might be the only man who can […]
A wickedly dark, extremely funny, adult comedy drama! As part of their autumn tour, on Friday 5th November 2021, starting at 7.30 pm, Cortona Productions will be performing the sensational sell-out, smash-hit, wickedly dark, extremely funny, fast moving adult comedy drama, The Dark Place WithThe Lift, at the Wrecking Ball Arts Centre, Whitefriargate. Wannabe playwright, […]
Join us at the Wrecking Ball Arts Centre for an evening of poetry from Carcanet Press published poets. Katherine Horrex, Charlotte Eichler and Maryam Hessavi will all read their work at this event. Charlotte Eichler is a poet based in West Yorkshire. Her work has recently appeared in Carcanet’s New Poetries VIII anthology, and magazines including PN […]
Wrecking Ball Music Quiz. Weekly, every Thursday at 7pm. FREE. Know your Art of Noise from your Elbow? Your Malcom McLaren from your Metallica? Your Beatles from your Stones? Your Durutti Column from your ZZ Top? Even if the answer's "um, I'm not sure, mate," it's time to get quizzical down at Wrecking Ball Music […]
Bicycle Thieves tells the story of Antonio, a long unemployed man who finally finds employment putting up cinema posters for which he needs a bicycle. His wife pawns all the family linen to redeem the already pawned bicycle and for Antonio salvation has come, until the bicycle is stolen. Antonio and his son take to […]
"He is the archetypal bluff Yorkshireman, a figure seemingly created in its own image by the land which bore him" - Harpers & Queen Born in 1946, the son of a fishworker, Rutter grew up in a two-up two-down on the Hessle Road, the fish dock area of Hull. His acting career began colourfully, invited by an […]
This multi award-winning homage to the love of cinema tells the story of Salvatore, now a successful film director, returning home for the funeral of Alfredo, his old friend who was the projectionist at the local cinema throughout his childhood. Soon memories of his first love affair with the beautiful Elena and all the highs […]
FREE EVENT - RESERVE TICKETS AT THE LINK BELOW On the night of 21st October 1904, out in the Dogger Bank area of the North Sea, Russian warships mistook a fleet of British fishing trawlers for enemy Japanese warships and opened fire. One of the fishermen killed that night was George Henry Smith, great-grandfather of Gareth Smith, the lyricist & artist behind Vanishing. ‘55°N, […]
Boo Hewerdine Wrecking Ball Arts Centre Saturday, 20th November, 2021 Time: 8pm (doors 7pm) Tickets: £12.50 (includes booking fee) For over 30 years Boo Hewerdine has been considered one of the UK's finest singer-songwriters. As lead singer of seminal band, The Bible through to his subsequent solo work and long-time collaboration with the incredible […]
Frida chronicles the life Frida Kahlo shared unflinchingly and openly with Diego Rivera as the young couple took the art world by storm. From her complex and enduring relationship with her mentor and husband to her illicit and controversial affair with Leon Trotsky, to her provocative and romantic entanglements with women, Frida Kahlo lived a […]
Keith James in concert: The Songs of Leonard Cohen Wrecking Ball Arts Centre Friday 26th November, 2021 Time: 8pm (doors 7pm) Tickets: £14 (includes booking fee) These remarkable songs - stripped back to their bare honesty and courage. ‘There is a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in’ - Cohen’s most memorable and visionary line […]
Wrecking Ball Blues Night: The Nicol Band plus guests Mike Greaves' Lonesome Too Wrecking Ball Arts Centre Saturday 4th December, 2021 Time: 7.30pm (doors 7pm) Tickets: £7 The Nicol Band was formed to play the kind of music that they love playing, from blues to rock and beyond. Les Nicol's influences are mostly from the […]
Robin Ince is many things. A comedian, an author, a broadcaster and a populariser of scientific ideas. The Guardian once declared him a ‘becardiganed polymath’ which seems about right. New book The Importance of Being Interested – Adventures in Scientific Curiosity is published in October 2021 and Robin heads to Hull and the Wrecking Ball […]