24-31 MAY 2025
WHAT'S ON

Over the late May half term The Culture House will be presenting its next programme of cultural activity with outdoor and indoor theatre shows, workshops and activities providing fun and engaging experiences for all the family.

Supported by Create North East Lincolnshire, Arts Council England and Without Walls, the programme promises to be thought-provoking while providing fun days out and experiences for all ages.

This year Our Future Starts Here links with a national festival called Beach of Dreams coordinated by national organisation Kinetica, as part of a North East Lincolnshire partnership which is hosting a wide range of activity in Cleethorpes on Monday 26 May.

The Culture House’s contribution includes free outdoor shows, a children’s theatre show and nature inspired creative sessions.

Other local partners include LaCuna, Outdoor Learning Schools, Our Big Picture and What if We Create, all hosting activity on Monday 26 May

Culture House Director, Charlotte Bowen, said:

“The aim of the Our Future Starts Here programme is to explore the world around us, through an innovative programme.

“This year we are joining forces with local partners to participate in Beach of Dreams, a national festival celebrating the UK’s coastlines. This means that all Our Future Starts Here activity on Monday 26 May will take place in Cleethorpes along with other partners’ events and activities.

“We will be hosting an amazing programme of highly skilled performance in a range of spaces. We’re hosting indoor and outdoor shows and workshops, all exploring nature and the environment in fun, educational and creative ways.”

“In addition to all of this, there will be two free theatre shows on different topics, on Saturday 24 May and Tuesday 26 May and Saturday 31 May in Grimsby, both highlighting issues of our time, in imaginative ways.”

A visual theatre show with original music and delightful puppetry. Suitable for everyone from 4 – 104.

Flotsam is soft, flexible, laid back. She slides and glides through life on the ice. Jetsam is the opposite, his insectile body is stiff and nervy, alert and watchful, suspicious of all in his forest home.

And then comes the weather… and they are both cast adrift in a world that is strange to them and full of a range of dangers.

Finally washed up on the same island beach they must discover the other and work out how they can work together.

A hopeful, adventure story about two very different creatures that must learn to work together.

“I loved it all. It was beautifully performed. The puppets were lovely and the music was enchanting.”

Come and witness world-class acrobats and circus artists as they create an installation from Bamboo and use impressive feats of strength and agility to bring the WOW factor by performing a show you will have never seen before!

Watch them build, move, navigate and inhabit the structure as they go – other than bamboo and a few natural rubber ties, there is no ‘circus equipment’!

The bamboo sculptures weave in and out, moving through space and within themselves, all in response to the actions of the artists who carry, climb, swing from, jump, balance, and tumble on and off as they navigate the web of interconnected layers.

This tension between the delicate nature of the bamboo and its ability to withstand pressure and strength creates a truly impressive and mesmerising audience experience – celebrating what is possible when humans and the natural world work in harmony, trusting each other.

The show lasts 45 minutes and is suitable for all ages. Accessible space.

Joli Vyann’s new show, ‘Life’s a Beach’ is a joyous view of a day at the beach. It is a fun and playful show, also touching on serious subjects such as sewage in our seas and antisocial behaviour.

Using their unique style of dance/ circus fusion Joli Vyann play a couple living by the sea from their 20s to old age, with the show featuring hilarious scenarios of selfie obsessions, obnoxious beach behavior and embarrassing swimwear!

Witness skilled acrobatic performance while seeing scenes of friendship, beach meditation, dog walking and the couple growing old together.

The sound-track will feature local people and visitors expressing what they love about Cleethorpes.

Catch Joli Vyann on Sunday 25 May at the Kingsway Kiosk when they will be out and about interviewing people about what they love about Cleethorpes! This will be made into a recording and played as part of the soundtrack for the show on Monday.

The show lasts 35 minutes and is suitable for all ages. Everywhere’s a Beach by Hikapee is on straight afterwards. Accessible space.

Join us for a day at the beach unlike any other in this high energy, outdoor circus theatre show!

Perfect for the whole family, Everywhere’s a Beach is a charmingly ridiculous performance, taking place on a giant revolving beach parasol!

You’ll be swept away as this show embraces everything we love about the beach. A spinning parasol creates the perfect setting for these eccentric beach loving characters. Watch as their world collides with yours, as sophistication turns to chaos in this aerial circus performance.

The show lasts 35 minutes and is suitable for all ages. Accessible space.

Come along and build an adventure playground from bamboo!

Two performers (“builders”) will work with you while weaving stories in.

2 hours (stay as little or as long as you like) and is aimed at children and families. Accessible space.

Go beachcombing and then develop images using the art of Cyanotype (a sustainable photography practice using water and sunlight to develop images)

We will make a series of eye-catching and thought-provoking artworks that incorporate the treasure that nature has provided and the trash that has been discarded/washed up to shore. These artworks will be exhibited to inspire a further public workshop to encourage conversations around the small everyday practices to protect the natural heritage of Cleethorpes coastline.

2 hours (stay as little or as long as you like) and is aimed at children and families.

Participate in a range of activities including:

Using eco-friendly resources, come and participate in gel plate shell mono-printing, create sand-based temporary collages, discover information about single use-plastics and benefit from free samples that encourage sustainable lifestyles.

Your chance to hear what young people from North East Lincolnshire want for their future, in this specially created sound-scape listened to through headphones, which was the result of our recent Voices of the Future project.

You will also have the chance to contribute to sound recordings on the day about Cleethorpes.

You’re invited to a unique theatrical experience celebrating men’s sheds and the communities around them.

Shed Stories is a new performance from Lincolnshire based creative company Casson & Friends, inspired by interviews with ‘Shedders’ of all ages. The show will bring to life human, humorous and heartwarming tales of making sawdust, friends, and cups of tea!

Men’s Sheds are community spaces where men can pursue practical skills including making and mending and also offer a social space for men with similar interests to be together – rather than alone. These spaces not only offer somewhere to develop and share skills, but build social connections and friendships that can improve mental health and reduce the potential for loneliness and isolation.

“Entertaining & informative, I didn’t know much about Men’s Sheds but I do now! And the dancing was amazing!”

It’s bin day and two refuse collectors are heroically cleaning the streets. But what’s this? A dustbin that refuses rubbish.

Delving into its depths, we discover that ‘one man’s trash is another man’s treasure’, as a wonderful myriad of stories and treats ensue from all that is rubbish and recycled.

Rhubarb Theatre bring a dustbin of fun, a black sack of eco messages and heaps of mime, physical theatre, comedy, puppetry and creativity into this entertaining storytelling piece.

Free – must be booked. Suitable for all ages. Accessible venue.