Every day for a year, at sunrise and sunset, a vigil kept watch over Hull from a bespoke structure located on top of the Hull College building.
Over the course of one year, 730 people contributed to the collective vigil - a 365 day silent and peaceful performance - to watch over the city.
Freedom Festival, an organisation known for creating the unexpected, produced The Hull Vigil, bringing the performance to Hull - the first UK city to host this timely, thought-provoking, large-scale monumental work by Australian-Belgian choreographer Joanne Leighton from Paris-based WLDN.
Each vigil stands for us all. Over the past eight years, The Vigil has been running continuously in France, Germany, Netherlands and Austria in Belfort, Laval, Rennes, Haguenau, Freiburg, Évreux, Dordrecht and Graz. Now it comes to Hull.
Every day for a year, at sunrise and sunset, a vigil will look out over Hull from a bespoke glass structure located on top of the Hull College building which overlooks Queen’s Gardens and the William Wilberforce statue.
Anyone over the age of 18 is invited to take part in The Hull Vigil. Each participant will have their own unique experience, an opportunity to stand back from the world for an instant.
