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!

North East Lincolnshire musicians are invited to a special music industry talk under Helios designed to support our local creative talent.

The Culture House is teaming up with Shop Local – the brilliant grassroots local music festival launched in 2025 and coming back with a major two-day event in August 2026 – for a chilled night of live music, putting some of the best local talent centre-stage.

Set against the glow of Helios, this stripped-back session will keep things simple — just quality artists, authentic sound, and a proper good atmosphere. Come and hang out, see your favourites while discovering something new, and enjoy a night that’s all about our music.

Tickets: £5

Bring your own book!

In partnership with the National Literacy Trust and the National Year of Reading, we invite you to come along with your own book and just chill and read under the Sun!

We’ll have beanbags available and the cafe will be open. There’ll also be free books available for children thanks to the National Year of Reading.

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.

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.

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.

Come and feel the Minster come to life with a 15-piece Afrobeat orchestra, made up of leading Northern musicians playing music from Afrobeat legend Fela Kuti and more, for a one and half hour set.

Grimsby and Cleethorpes’ DJs Jon Cox and Jim Jazz will bring global, sunny sounds and grooves.

Tickets £5.