Mural links past and present

This detail from the mural depicts a typical working day on the trawlers. The full-size mural is 20 metres long and two metres high

A mural has been unveiled at the entrance to St Andrew's Quay Retail Park, off Hessle Road, which shows how the area looked when it was a working fish dock.
It was designed and painted by artist Judy Musselle, who worked with pupils at Newington Primary School and local scout groups to create the fishy images around its border.
The first major preview of the mural will be at the Lost Trawlermens' Day service on January 19, when hundreds of people will drive past it en route to the Lockhead, St. Andrew's Quay.
The annual service, held in memory of more than 6,000 Hull trawlermen who have been lost at sea in the last 100 years, is this year being led by Archbishop of York, Dr John Sentamu.
"The mural is a link between the past and present," says Adam Fowler of STAND, Hull's fishing heritage association.
"Geographically, it's on a spot where we believe the telegraph offices were located, and these were a vital link for sending messages between families and their loved ones at sea."
Members of STAND, and volunteers at the Arctic Corsair trawler museum, worked with artist Judy to help her build an understanding of the history of St. Andrew's Quay before she started the mural.

The Lost Trawlermens' Day service traditionally takes place on a Sunday when the tide is going out so that wreaths and flowers will be carried out to sea. It's usually held in January or February which, historically, is the time of year when most trawlers were lost.

One new year after another

Kwok Keung Wan (standing) and Chi Hung Chan both own Chinese take-aways in Hull. They are also members of Hull's Chinese Cultural and Community Centre

Just as most of us have ended our New Year celebrations, more will begin!
Chinese New Year falls on January 26, when Hull's 2,000-strong Chinese community will celebrate by cooking traditional meals and exchanging gifts.
Another tradition is that Chinese people clean out their houses and children receive small red envelopes with money inside.
Hull's Chinese community is believed to date back to the 1920s when seamen from Hong Kong first settled in the city.
Today, people of Chinese heritage are contributing to all aspects of Hull's business, professional, cultural and social life.
Chinese New Year is a festival of the lunar cycle, which means it falls on the first day of the new moon, sometime between January 21 and February 19 each year.
The Chinese calendar follows a 12-year pattern, with each year named after an animal.
2009 is the year of the ox.

Young at art

Art ambassadors (left to right) Jamie Lundahl, Gisele Bone, Jemma Brown, Michael O'Reilly and Hannah Rogerson stand before a t-shirt display by artist Ross Sinclair

What does it mean to be young and how do questions of identity shape the lives of young people?
These are questions being raised in an exhibition at Ferens Art Gallery which has been put together by young people from across Hull.
Crazy, Damn Right I'm Crazy: A Sideways Look at 'Youth' includes paintings, drawings, sculpture and film by some of Britain's leading contemporary artists such as Tracey Emin, David Hockney, Joseph Beuys and other contributors.
The young people volunteer their time as 'art ambassadors' at the gallery to find ways of making the venue more appealing to young visitors.
The gallery now has 19 art ambassadors aged in their teens or twenties.
"Some young people think galleries are stuffy and don't contain anything of interest to them," says Claire Longrigg, the assistant keeper of art at the gallery.
"However, our art ambassadors are tackling this perception head on.
"This exhibition has been organised by six art ambassadors and they have each had the opportunity to act as a curator and select contemporary artworks from the Arts Council collection.
"We expect exhibitions such as this to help us attract more young visitors to the gallery."
One of the art ambassadors is Jamie Lundahl (28), from east Hull, who selected the t-shirt display shown in the picture above after reading about it in a catalogue of new artworks.
It fills a wall inside the gallery and the t-shirts are emblazoned with the kind of slogans worn by young people.
"I chose the display as it stands out and reminds me of my youth," says Jamie, who has been an art ambassador for two years.
"Being young is about making a statement and wearing slogan-bearing t-shirts from second-hand shops was something I was into at the time."
The exhibition is supported by the Arts Council, which is the national development agency for the arts in England.

The exhibition runs until February 15, 2009. For more information on museums and galleries visit www.hullcc.gov.uk/museumcollections