Yellow Day 2024: All welcome at 8th annual gathering to celebrate Hull

COLOURFUL: People celebrating Yellow Day in Hepworth’s Arcade

By Simon Bristow, Co-Editor

Residents are being encouraged to make or wear something yellow for one day next month to celebrate Hull.

The 8th annual Yellow Day will take place on Saturday, June 22 and promises to be a colourful day of fun in the city centre.

Anyone wanting to take part is invited to assemble at 10am in Trinity Square to take part in a parade.

The theme for yellow things to make this year is butterflies, which follows on from knitted fish in 2017, ducks in 2018, yellow elephants in 2019 – known as “yellephants” – sheep in the Covid years of 2020 and 2021, flowers in 2022 and teddy bears last year.

These will be used to decorate Trinity Square, Trinity Market and Hepworth’s Arcade, as well as to give away.

The event, which celebrates Hull and its history, has no external funding and relies solely on organisers and participants. It has previously attracted hundreds of people to the city centre.

An organiser said: “We are celebrating the day on Saturday 22nd June. We all gather to have fun and who knows what might happen when you dress in yellow?

“Some people and groups like to be a part of it by making things before or just joining us on that day. All are welcome. Please follow our progress on Yellowdayhull Facebook page check it out, ask us, be involved.

“On the day we just dress in yellow have the themed parade and just have fun. It’s not funded, we all own it; it’s not scripted, we all make it. Why have a Yellow Day? Because we can.”