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Melissa Hommel
In Programme 2024

Ocho the Octopus

Ocho the Octopus

Ocho the Octopus is huge – 4m high, 7m wide with digital LED lighting maximising the immediate wow-impact on spectators. At the same time, its delicate control mechanism enables the puppet to build spontaneous rapport with its audience. Lightweight and easy to manoeuvre by a single puppeteer, Ocho is nimble and responsive to those it meets with a soft skin, making it tactile and safe for close contact.

 

Tim Davies Design Ltd

Artistic Director Tim Davies is a sculptor and innovative engineer with a passion for large-scale, kinetic creations and high impact spectacles.
Tim has designed and built a stunning array of large-scale animated inflatables for prestigious outdoor events, catwalk shows, brand activations and major theatres including innovative Arachnobot and Ocho which are now globally renowned, having performed to crowds of hundreds of thousands of people in four different continents.

With a keen talent for marrying strength and structure with movement and fluidity, Tim has energetically embraced an eclectic range of commissions for leading theatre companies, advertising agencies and outdoor events creating bespoke large scale centrepieces and animated inflatables.

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@tim_davies_design

Melissa Hommel
In Programme 2024

Harbour Learning Trust – Trashion Show 2024

Harbour Learning Trust - Trashion Show 2024

Harbour Learning Trust – Trashion Show 2024

Lincolnshire education provider, Harbour Learning Trust is committed to raising awareness of sustainability and the impact of the waste we create on the world around us. Our location on the Lincolnshire coastline and our strong fishing heritage, highlights the need for positive change. We are in the privileged position of educating young people and creating consideration, and good conduct relating to sustainability, waste and recycling, as well as a sense of pride in the coastline and beaches of the North East.

Harbour Learning Trust

We inspire greatness in every child and equip them with the academic achievements, life skills and personal attributes to lead happy, safe, successful lives.

www.harbourlearningtrust.com

@HarbourLearningTrust

Melissa Hommel
In Programme 2024

NEL Music Centre presents – The Band & Youth Voices

NEL Music Centre presents - The Band & Youth Voices

NEL Music Centre presents – The Band & Youth Voices

NEL Music Centre ensembles, The Band & Youth Voices will perform a fun musical set for you all to enjoy!

NEL Music Centre provides a variety of free weekly music ensembles for young people in North East Lincolnshire.

www.nelmusichub.org.uk

@NELMusicHub

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22-28 June | Up In Smoke

Up In Smoke - Annabel McCourt

Interactive art installation – Meet the artist and discover the work.

Grimsby Docks heritage as you’ve never seen or heard it before! 4 original smokehouse cowls come to life via phonic art, contemporary painting and audience participation. With specialist vibration speakers & sound system, this is a bespoke installation created and developed for Festival of the Sea Grimsby 2024

Annabel McCourt is an international contemporary artist from Grimsby. Her work ranges from lens-based gritty social-realism, through to public & installation art, moving image and architectural interventions inspired by fact, folklore & legend. Whatever the medium, McCourt tends to work on a vast, almost carnivalesque scale, infusing dystopian concepts with mordant.

Book your slot in advance, as there is a very limited capacity!

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Saturday 22 June

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Monday 24 - Friday 28 June

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Melissa Hommel
In Programme 2024

Memories of the Sea

Memories of the Sea

In partnership with Linkage Community Trust, we are running sensory workshops focused on storytelling with a link to Grimsby’s maritime heritage. Alongside this, we encourage people to come and see us to share their memories of Grimsby docks and the future of Grimsby’s fishing heritage.

Heritage Lincolnshire & Linkage Community Trust

Heritage Lincolnshire is a local charity that conserves the rich history of the county for the benefit of people who live and work in the area.

Linkage Community Trust is a Lincolnshire based charity supporting people with learning disabilities, autism or both. Everything we do is about valuing and supporting individuals, their carers and families

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Melissa Hommel
In Programme 2024

History Walking Tour

Grimsby: Exploring the water connection

In this short walk we focus on Grimsby’s connection with the water. Exploring The Haven, and Alexandra Dock, and how these helped shape the economy of the town from the early settlers to present day. Learning about early medieval trades, ship building and the rise to the premier fishing port in the world.

LINGARD’S TOURS

Emma has been leading guided history walks around Lincolnshire for 12+ years. An author, historian and broadcaster she is often called upon for her historic knowledge on local history.

The author of Grimsby Streets, published in 2017 by Pen and Sword Books, Emma’s tours give an insight into the history of a location.

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Melissa Hommel
In Programme 2024

Something Fishy at the Nature Lab

Something Fishy at the Nature Lab

Something Fishy at the ‘Nature Lab.’
We will amaze you, as you learn about the variety of sea life found along our coastline, with hands on activities for children and adults, that will teach you about our fantastic sea life. So, when you next go for a walk on the beach you will be astounded at how much you will know about the sea life that you find washed up on the ‘strand line.’ We also have a sea themed craft activity that will keep adults and children entertained that you can take home to keep, as a memory of the day.
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We are Lincolnshire Outdoor Learning and we are pleased to present our Nature Lab. We delight and engage visitors with hands on activities and experiences of nature that is found in all parts of our beautiful countryside. We have a nature themed craft activity for you to create a memorable keepsake of the event.
Melissa Hommel
In Programme 2024

Message in a bottle – world record attempt

Message In A Bottle - World Record Attempt

It is with great excitement that turntable gallery is announcing their first world record attempt, and we need as many of you to be part of that as possible! Join us, in creating the largest display of messages in a bottle the world has ever recorded!

We’re looking for people from the area to send in their messages for us to bottle for you. To do this, email your message and name to messageinabottle@turntablegallery.uk – or click the button!

Alternatively, you can physically drop a completed message, either in or without a bottle, to turntable gallery! We’ll record your name and message, and add them to the list of participants! You too can be part of the towns newest record.

Ending with a display and a final count at this years Festival of the Sea Grimsby (22/06/2024). We know we can best the 1100 record held by the United Arab Emirates. Let’s bring this one home!

SEND US YOUR MESSAGE
turntable gallery is located in the heart of Grimsby’s historic fish dock, North East Lincolnshire. Founded and directed by two internationally renowned artists – Dale Wells and Darren Neave (RCA), who met whilst studying at the University of Lincoln. Their aim is to promote contemporary arts and through it, build a stronger, more inclusive community.

Also on at Turntable Gallery

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Turntable Gallery is very proud to present a photographic project by esteemed local photographer, Richard McClean: Better Than Watching TV.

In the 1960s a close-knit community to the east of Freeman Street in Grimsby was dispersed and their homes cleared for the construction of six fifteen storey tower blocks or ‘Houses’; Albion, Bevan, Garibaldi, Nelson, Tennyson and Thesiger. The last residents of the close knit community that developed were dispersed in 2017 and the towers demolished in 2018. In 2024 the site remains derelict.

This collection of documentary photographs by Richard McClean with research by Carla Linford and stories from local residents charts the history of the site from WWII bombings through utopian brutalism to the long decline and eventual demolition. The humour and poignancy of the memories shared contrasts with the photographs of the empty flats and their destruction and invites us to reflect on our own relationship with the towers which cast their shadow over Grimsby for over five decades.

Richard mentions:
“In terms of influence… there’s no one specific but the Café Royal series of books is. I kind of aim that my photos might be something they would publish in 20 years. A kind of future nostalgia, documenting today’s mundane in an artful way so it becomes more interesting as time passes.”

Whether our view was from the windows looking down on the daily comings and goings on Freeman Street or looking up as the cranes tore down a chapter of local history, it was better than watching TV.

Exhibition made possible by Create North East Lincolnshire, supported using public funding by Arts Council England.

Additional photographs by Andy McClean.

Opening Hours: 11am – 2pm Thursday, Friday and Saturday, with special opening hours for Festival of the Sea on 22 June 2024 (11am – 4pm).

Melissa Hommel
In Programme 2024

Upstream With The Canoe River Cleaner 

All Things Good And Nice Upstream With The Canoe River Cleaner 

Following the success form last year, attendees can enjoy guided walks along the River Freshney, engaging in a nature i-spy focused on wildlife and river history, with trivia questions for adults and a duck and swan feed at the end. In between walks, children can have their picture taken in a canoe used for river cleaning, whilst parents discuss environmental work with James, encouraging engagement in all available activities.