Humber Mouth 2012
2012 marks the 200th anniversary of the birth of Charles Dickens. Dickens is the great chronicler of the Victorian age who experienced poverty first hand as a child and used this to highlight issues of social injustice and economic deprivation, themes which are still relevant in today’s hard times.
So what’s it all about? These really are hard times … Just read the papers, watch the news, listen to your neighbour, we are definitely deep in the middle of hard times.
But we don’t have to lay down and take it. We don’t have to arrive home from our day stuff and pour our selves a glass of pity and push the on button.
If you are one of the hidden hungry then come and feed yourself at our banquet of literature. Make the effort - you won’t regret it! Put down that book, get your backside off that familiar chair, leave that indent behind and hear those words come to life.
By the way. As I am writing this on the train, just to the left of me, a woman with a broad Hull accent is reading to her son. He doesn’t look hungry. He’s taking it all in, devouring the words. For some reason it seems to make everything alright. There is still hope. Perhaps we still have reason for great expectations.
Shane Rhodes
Festival Co-Director
