What's On?

This stunning large-scale touring artwork Helios (the Sun) by British artist Luke Jerram, features detailed imagery of the Sun’s surface and is free to access.

Young people are welcome to join in this free all-day drop-in session with Freestyle Academy when visiting Helios on this date.

Express and capture thoughts and feelings about our world and environment through music production with the input captured on the day going on to feature in a creative soundscape.

Can be accessed by booking a Helios visit for this date.

What we care for today shapes tomorrow…

Join the Green Influencers VANEL team at the Helios exhibition for a hands-on experience where visitors of all ages can explore what they care about most with regard to our shared future.

Discover the Our Caring Sun, Care Cloud & Nourishing Rain installation created by the Little Green Influencers and Garden Influencers from local Family Hubs and Littlecoates Primary.

Share your voice and add your ideas to the Care Cloud, create sun-ray sculptures, vote for environmental actions and take part in the Our Caring Sun Discovery Book Trail designed by Littlecoates Primary Academy with a free book on completion.

Also featuring student artwork, poetry, renewable-energy and a wildlife campaign from Franklin Sixth Form College.

Can be accessed by booking a Helios visit for this date.

A night of live music from some of the best young talent coming out of Grimsby right now.

Come along and support up-and-coming artists in a relaxed, welcoming setting — whether you’re into indie, rock, or something a bit different, there’s something for everyone.

The night will also feature Helios (The Sun) — a stunning illuminated artwork by Luke Jerram — creating a unique backdrop for the performances.

Line-up:

Rothko 
Opening the night with a solo set of experimental jazz and funk guitar, bringing something a little different to kick things off.

Foolish Resolutions
Well known faces on the local scene, Sophie & Tom (Silver Bullet) will perform an acoustic set of popular covers spanning pop, rock and punk.

Grungy Bill
Grungy Bill is an eccentric musician and singer-songwriter. A post-punk troubadour with lyrics characterised by surreal imagery, dry humour and philosophical ramblings.

The Shortround
After a sell-out show at Wilton Fields, Shortround are already building a strong following. Expect a mix of indie classics from The Stone Roses and Arctic Monkeys, alongside their own original tracks.

A great chance to discover new bands and check out Grimsby’s ever-growing music scene.

Please note: Under 16s must be accompanied by an adult (18+). This will be a dry bar event.

Tickets: £5

What we care for today shapes tomorrow…

Join the Green Influencers VANEL team at the Helios exhibition for a hands-on experience where visitors of all ages can explore what they care about most with regard to our shared future.

Discover the Our Caring Sun, Care Cloud & Nourishing Rain installation created by the Little Green Influencers and Garden Influencers from local Family Hubs and Littlecoates Primary.

Share your voice and add your ideas to the Care Cloud, create sun-ray sculptures, vote for environmental actions and take part in the Our Caring Sun Discovery Book Trail designed by Littlecoates Primary Academy with a free book on completion.

Also featuring student artwork, poetry, renewable-energy and a wildlife campaign from Franklin Sixth Form College.

3pm – 4pm
Hammond House has been hosting poetry sessions with young people from local schools on the subject of climate change, environment and nature and we are joined by some of these young poets who will be reading their creative work under the Sun.

3pm – 5pm
Same Green Influencers drop in activity offered from 3pm – 5pm as part of Helios exhibition

Can be accessed by booking a Helios visit for this date.

Join Claire Roach as she leads relaxing and mindful sunset yoga sessions with live guitar accompaniment under the Helios

Mats provided – but feel free to bring your own.

Tickets: £8

What we care for today shapes tomorrow…

Join the Green Influencers VANEL team at the Helios exhibition for a hands-on experience where visitors of all ages can explore what they care about most with regard to our shared future.

Discover the Our Caring Sun, Care Cloud & Nourishing Rain installation created by the Little Green Influencers and Garden Influencers from local Family Hubs and Littlecoates Primary.

Share your voice and add your ideas to the Care Cloud, create sun-ray sculptures, vote for environmental actions and take part in the Our Caring Sun Discovery Book Trail designed by Littlecoates Primary Academy with a free book on completion.

Also featuring student artwork, poetry, renewable-energy and a wildlife campaign from Franklin Sixth Form College.

Can be accessed by booking a Helios visit for this date.

More than Human by Tom Dale promises an immersive, ‘soft-cinema lounge experience’ combining visuals and electronic sound across dual screens to create a sensory environment.

The installation invites visitors to lie-back beneath a suspended screen and look up, to explore intelligence as something shared and distributed across living systems (plants, animals, fungi, ecosystems, and technologies) rather than as something that belongs only to humans or machines.

More than Human is an evolving new concept by Tom Dale Company with The Light Surgeons and Chronic Insanity Theatre.

Come and see this one-off, breathtaking dance performance with projections and live vocals

An electrifying solo performance draws audiences thrillingly close to the action. Surrounded by sound and light, a living digital landscape is created, where dance, projection, and music collide.

This groundbreaking work fuses live vocals, mesmerising movement, and cutting-edge projection resulting in an unforgettable performance outdoors. Audiences feel totally immersed and often leave the show feeling like they have ‘never seen anything like it before’.

Created by Tom Dale, Ital Tek, Jemima Brown and Vent Media.

A beautiful and emotional sound and light sculpture that audiences can walk in and around. Made from Sheffield-sourced Ash trees which have been felled due to Ash dieback [when a tree begins to die due to disease or an unfavourable environment], visitors are invited to walk through its branches and be seated while bathing in its light, as Eleanor Hooper and Kate Griffin’s sound composition takes you through ‘sonic memories’ of the tree.

The original accompanying sound composition can be heard and if you like bought on bandcamp.

Sunshine On the Fallen Tree was commissioned for Wentworth Woodhouse’s Chapel for We Wonder Noir in Winter 21/22 and has toured extensively both indoors and outdoors since then.

Located in the arches under The Business Hive in St James’ Square.

LIGHT / LEAVES by Grimsby-based Let There be Light Studio comes in the form of three, captivating, large-scale leaf sculptures – Oak, Alder and Ash.

The work is designed to draw attention to common British tree species that we often take for granted but that have over time become endangered largely due to human impact.

Chris McClean’s Migratory Light (to be hosted inside the Minster) is an original walk-through artwork that transforms bird migration into moving light.

Migratory Light traces the seasonal movements of birds that pass through our region, translating flight and rhythm into coloured streams that flow around and above visitors.

Audiences can choose to view or interact with the behaviour of the light.

The bird sounds heard as part of this installation are field recordings of the Eurasian curlew by Merlyn Driver. Merlyn’s multi-artist album Simmerdim: Curlew Sounds was released in 2022 in partnership with the RSPB to raise funds for curlew conservation.

This commission was made possible through funding from Arts Council England’s Place Partnership Fund and Create North East Lincolnshire as part of the Exploring Digital programme produced by Threshold.

Resonant Pulse by Lucy Mager is a multi-channel sonic installation that brings to life the sounds of Cleethorpes beach to create an interactive and meditative experience.

Sound speakers will be arranged in a circle, facing inward, inviting the audience to stand or move within.

This commission was made possible through funding from Arts Council England’s Place Partnership Fund and Create North East Lincolnshire as part of the Exploring Digital programme produced by Threshold.

We’re inviting young people and their families / carers to special interactive story-times under the Sun, with a chance to take in the spectacular sculpture, away from the crowds.

Many years ago, Sun and Moon lived together on the Earth… that is until they invited their friend Sea to come for tea! What a washout! This traditional story with Kirsty from Rhubarb Theatre is packed with movement, acting and making. Come and join in the fun and don’t forget your sunglasses!

The Culture House is proud to present Shop Local Live Music, plus Q&A part of the HELIOS programme.

Dedicated to supporting grassroots music, the Shop Local music festival gives local artists a quality platform to perform to local audiences. This year’s Shop Local lineup is packed with incredible talent and we’ll be ‘shining the sunlight’ on some of the artists ahead of the festival in August.

The Culture House is excited to host a special Q&A with featured acts as part of the event and our wider, regular, local Music Meet Up.

Line-up:

Ashton Smith
Ashton is a young singer and guitarist from Grimsby who creates his own style of covers

Brad Arliss
Brad Arliss is a Grimsby-based singer-songwriter known for his socially conscious lyrics and engaging live performances. Combining punk and folk influences, his signature song ‘Streets of Grimsby” serves as a heartfelt homage to his hometown.

Jaz Beeson
Indie/folk gal Jaz Beeson teeters on the edge of soft-girl nostalgia and messy band bangers. She’s carving out her space in both the London scene and her hometown of Grimsby, building a community of older sisters and young queer folk figuring themselves out.

Sandra’s Wedding
Sandra’s Wedding celebrate their tenth year as a band in 2026. Six albums, several EPs and singles have seen them cement their place as honest, reliable workhorses in the local music scene. Their latest record, Arturus Rex, was an ambitious project which saw the band expand out into ‘chamber-pop’ and a more grandiose, orchestral sound. Often compared to The Beautiful South, The Smiths, REM, Trashcan Sinatras and WILCO Sandra’s Wedding have a myriad of influences which present themselves as an accessible, familiar yet unique sound of their own.

Tickets: £5  (Pay on the door possible.)

Come and (re)discover the joy of reading – bring your own book!

This World Book Night we invite you to experience the sun’s hidden beauty and power, while offering a space for relaxation, quiet reading and reflection.

Bring your own book or pick up one offered for free (including audiobooks) and enjoy the Minster’s beautiful environment at this no stress, full chill event, when the Minster’s cafe will be open.

In a world increasingly dominated by noise, screens, and constant distraction, the simple act of opening a book in a quiet space offers something deeply grounding and powerful for people of all ages and reading abilities.

All are welcome, let’s Go All In together.

As part of the children’s session, local author Katie Hopper will be offering short readings from her books The Lady who Came from the Sun and The Trees Within Us All.

Back in 2021, In Good Hands hosted their very first EVER market beneath Luke Jerram’s giant Moon sculpture at Grimsby Minster. It was meant to be a one-off… but it ended up sparking what is now In Good Hands Makers Markets.

In 2022, they returned under the incredible Earth sculpture and held the whole world in makers hands.

Now, after three trips round the sun, wthey’re coming full orbit back to where it all began, this time under the SUNSHINE!!

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.

Blending circus, music, acrobatics and a mischievous water-spurting set, FLOOD plunges audiences into a playful, emotional adventure where they meet and converse with the Ocean itself, discovering why they have become “seasick”.

Audiences watch the show beneath their own personalised sound umbrellas, which whisk them from their doorstep straight into the heart of a climate storm. FLOOD is a family-friendly, joyfully messy, fully immersive outdoor spectacle… and yes, it really does make a splash.

The show is fully British Sign Language integrated and explores the health of the world’s oceans through stories drawn from communities across Britain.

You are invited to an evening of glitz, glamour and talent!

The Culture House is proud to sponsor the Acting Lincs Silver Sphere Awards, taking place under Helios in the wonderful surroundings of Grimsby Minster.

The 2026 Silver Sphere Awards celebrate Lincolnshire-based acting talent – this is a red-carpet event hosting celebrity guests – come along, enjoy a special night out and join in the fun!

Full bar available.

STORIES FOR SEND CHILDREN / FAMILIES
We’re inviting young SEND people and their families / carers to special interactive story-times under the Sun, with a chance to take in the spectacular sculpture, away from the crowds.

An event bringing together business, culture and civic leadership to explore how culture is helping to shape the future of Humber.

A spotlight on culture’s role in gradually shaping growth, identity and opportunity on the South Bank.

Combining business insight, cultural perspective and live performance to demonstrate the role arts and culture play in driving economic growth, strengthening identity and connecting communities.

Come and enjoy the beautiful sounds of the All For One Choir at this tea-time special under Helios – early enough to follow with your Fish & Chips! Option to come back later for the Philharmonic concert, starting at 7pm, subject to availability.

From £4+booking fees / pay on the door available

A special sun-filled concert by Grimsby Philharmonic Society, to celebrate Helios at Grimsby Minster
The Philharmonic look forward to sharing this special one-off concert with you, where you can gaze on this spectacular installation while enjoying sun-filled songs. One not to be missed!

£5 / pay on the door available.

Free drop-in session with artist Sarah Allen for all ages as part of HELIOS exhibition on this date.

You are invited to create your own ‘sun circles’ reflecting on your personal connection to the sun – through drawing, painting, collage or writing.

The creative pieces will be collected and combined into a final artwork called You are OUR Sunshine.

Can be accessed by booking a Helios visit for this date.

Rhythm Speaks Truth (RST Collective) is a 15-piece Afrobeat orchestra from the Midlands, inspired by the energy and music of Fela Kuti. Built on deep rhythms, driving basslines and a powerful horn section, RST’s celebratory sound is guaranteed to bring the sun!

Coming at a time when common ground can feel harder to find, the band draws on Afrobeat’s roots in unity – using rhythm as a tool to bring people together. There’s power in the rhythm, but also joy: a shared musical space that reminds us we are more connected than we are different.

Expect a 1.5hr set that is bold, uplifting – and impossible to stand still to.

Joined by Grimsby and Cleethorpes’ DJs Jon Cox and Jim Jazz bringing global, good time grooves.

Tickets: £5. Cafe bar available.