The Creative and Cultural Organisation

The Creative and Cultural Organisation The Creative & Cultural Organisation is a not-for-profit creative, sustainable community in Hull & East Riding. Part of the CEC Network

The Creative & Cultural Organisation is a not-for-profit creative, sustainable community in Hull UK. We use our creative skills to repurpose unloved spaces like empty high street shops, using found resources, and upcycled furniture, then make the space available to our creative community to run projects, record music, create art and show exhibitions. The spaces become galleries, studios, stages, r

ehearsal rooms and places to meet share and learn. We have delivered various exhibitions and events, such as the Hull International Photography Festival, and hosted over a hundred exhibitions in our pop-up galleries, the most famous of which is HIP Gallery. Our HQ is The Creative & Cultural Community Hub in Hull City Centre and it is also a Climate Emergency Centre where we have our sustainable art supplies shop, small community gallery, seed and book swap, plus a workshop space for Climate Fresk sessions etc. We take sustainability and climate action very seriously and have a piece of land in partnership with other like-minded organisations where we can practice permaculture, plant trees, grow organic food for the community and promote biodiversity.​​
The Creative & Cultural Organisation team started this work in 1993 under the name True Colour Arts and we have been responding to the changing needs of the community of the Hull area ever since.

So sorry to hear of the loss of our team mate Mike Hood. A truly wonderful, humble, talented, wise friend and colleague....
17/02/2026

So sorry to hear of the loss of our team mate Mike Hood. A truly wonderful, humble, talented, wise friend and colleague. RIP Mike, you will be missed ❤️

20/05/2025

I’m delighted to announce that my little novel, Salt & Seeds, is officially published by Grokkist Press! In a future where rising seas have transformed Yorkshire’s coastline, this solarpunk story blends rigorous science with ancient wisdom and community resilience. Amidst poisoned soil and hopeful discoveries, Rowan and Ash lead a journey aboard The Wild Margin, safeguarding knowledge for the people, not power.
To celebrate, I’m now embarking on my Solarpunk Book Trek – a 34 day, 4,000 mile literary journey across six countries, visiting independent bookshops, vibrant libraries, and community gems across Europe. My road trip takes me south along the East coast, across the Channel, through France, Monaco, Italy, Austria, Czech Republic, Germany and Belgium. I’ll be leaving special book drops along the way.
Follow the adventure here and on Instagram for stories from the road, book drop hints, and glimpses of hopeful futures.
 Find your copy here: books2read.com/saltandseeds?ref=grokk.ist.
My book page on the publisher’s site is: https://grokk.ist/books/salt-and-seeds/
Ready your bookmarks – let the journey begin! 🌱📚🌍

04/05/2025

I haven’t sketched for years but recently picked up a pencil again. When I left school I wanted to be an illustrator and I worked as one for a while at Daniel’s of Cottingham. As my friends know, I used to also do storyboarding and comic workshops in Hull Central Library and Kingston Youth Centre. I even ran a couple of illustration festivals, in 1994 at Aviator YC & 2014 in Princes Quay. I loved drawing. These days I have arthritis in my fingers, so it’s not so comfortable, but it’s still a great way to get ideas down quickly. So, I’ve been getting back into it.
I’ve been working on a creative project, extending some of the short stories I wrote for community sessions at C&C, so I’ve been enjoying developing the characters by drawing them. It helps me write about them if I can look at them.
I’m nowhere near as skilled at sketching as I was 4 decades ago, but it’s still fun and therapeutic.
Here’s Bramley enjoying life in Whitby, or least he will be when someone reads that bit of his story. I called him Bram because he has a stuck out fang (Bram as in Stoker), but Bramley is a more respectful name for him. I could have rubbed out his tooth and fixed it, but it kind of suits him and it gave me more to write about 🙂 I know it’s the wrong kind of paper for sketching and a cheap pencil ✏️ but it’s about the process not the gear. I’m recreating him in Procreate on my iPad for the actual story. It’s called Salt & Seeds and it’s about this East Coast of Yorkshire, which I love.

10/03/2025

Going to the Chippy for tea was such a great treat as a child all the yummy scraps wrapped in the local news paper 😍

Bored? Looking for something to do last minute for tonight? Fancy seeing some of Hull's graffiti art history? Well, pop ...
07/03/2025

Bored? Looking for something to do last minute for tonight? Fancy seeing some of Hull's graffiti art history? Well, pop along to the Lonsdale community centre, Lonsdale St, Anlaby road, now tonight and you can see lots of stuff. Including some by our Head of Graf Chris McKnight and lots from our early days running Vapour Festival 👍

13/12/2024

“On the Road Again!”
Just when we thought we could slowdown for Christmas, we have lost our home again, for the second time this year. Now we’re looking for a large storage space, somewhere in the Hull area. Big shed, disused shop, Barn, anything.
We were evicted from our Hull city centre shop spaces at short notice earlier this year, to make way for property developers. Those spaces have been closed since, with our sign still over the door of the now dead studio. We were lucky to be given a greenhouse space by the PATT Foundation charity. Now they have sadly ceased to exist due to financial issues, and the land owner wants us out now. A lot of what we are carrying is local artists work that they exhibited with us then never collected. The rest is everything we had to run Hull Climate Engagement Centre, Creative & Cultural Studios and Hull Independent Photography Gallery.
We only managed 2 community exhibitions this year because of the upheaval, but HIPclub has continued to meet as a community and as a group we have supported other organisations in their creative work, so we are not quite beaten yet. 34 spaces in 31 years and counting. If anyone knows where we could go please let us know. 🔭🚚🙏

5:30 - 7:30pm tomorrow, pop in to the Cafe of Hull Central Library to see 30 years of Hull Graffiti focused around Vapou...
20/08/2024

5:30 - 7:30pm tomorrow, pop in to the Cafe of Hull Central Library to see 30 years of Hull Graffiti focused around Vapour Festival 95 -2005 and the SNE Crew.

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Kingston Upon Hull
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Thursday 10am - 4pm
Friday 11am - 4pm
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