The Night Sky Show: A Sky Full of Hope

The Night Sky Show comes to Hull City Hall on Sunday 14 November 2027, with astronomer, presenter and author Adrian West taking the lead. If you know him from social media, he goes by VirtualAstro, where he runs one of the largest independent astronomy and space accounts on Twitter. He's spent years writing about the stars and the cosmos for the BBC, the Met Office, the National Trust, and various online science magazines, and more recently published The Secret World of Stargazing.

One of the things that sets this apart from a typical talk is how it's put together. It's billed as a theatrical experience rather than a dry academic lecture, and it earns that description by blending science fiction and science fact with big-screen visual effects. The visuals carry a lot of the weight, taking the audience on a journey across the constellations, stars and planets. It's described as fun, entertaining and accessible, with no heavy scientific jargon to trip you up, so you don't need a degree in astrophysics to get your head around it.

It's one of the longest-running and most successful shows of its kind, and it's built around West's background as both a communicator and a writer. Between the social media presence, the articles for the BBC and Met Office, and his book, he's spent a long time translating the scale of the universe into something that works on a stage. The show leans into that, mixing the factual side of astronomy with the imaginative side of science fiction, all held together by the visuals on the big screen.

Tickets start from £32.50, and the show runs at Hull City Hall on Sunday 14 November 2027.