Stuart Harratt
BBC Local Live

We hope you've enjoyed our coverage of this year's Freedom Festival. 

Live updates have now finished - but don't forget the event runs until Sunday evening.

You can get more details here, external.

Andy Train, one of the festival's compères, has posted a picture of the explosive end of the Over and Out performance in Hull Marina.

You can also watch video of the fireworks, external that ended the show.

Feedback from people attending this year's Freedom Festival has been "fantastic", says the event's executive director.

Jenny Coombes, external said there was a broader programme of events this year.  

Organisers hope that more than 100,000 people will have attended the three-day arts festival.

Saturday's festival events will be brought to an end with a performance by the band Public Service Broadcasting, external.

The London duo fuse old public information films with live music.

They're live on the Yellow Bus stage by the banks of the Humber at 21:45 until 23:00.

One of this year's performers, Walk the Plank, external theatre company, have tweeted their appreciation of the volunteers who are helping run the festival.

The festival's executive director Jenny Coombes, external says this year's event has "set a new benchmark".

"I'm feeling pretty happy," she said.

"We've got a fantastic programme. Such a mix, something for everyone and elements that people won't expect over the weekend."

Fireworks aplenty as Hull Marina plays host to theatre company Walk the Plank, external.

Image source, Richard Kenworthy / Walk the Plank

Its performance Over and Out tells the tale of a lonely lighthouse which is rejuvenated when its former keepers pay a visit.

Music, dance and pyrotechnics.

One of the festival's compères, Andy Train, says the event is bringing unused spaces to life in the city centre.

He said quiet locations like the Big Top on wasteland near the marina were full of activity.

"I think it's using all those venues we don't normally see in action and just seeing people enjoying themselves in the city centre," he said.

Billed as one of the highlights of the festival The Bell, external comes to Queens Gardens at 21:00.

Image source, Freedom Festival

The performance features actors flying through the air and on stilts as well as pyrotechnics with live music.

It is produced by outdoor theatre specialists Periplum, external who say The Bell "explores timeless themes of war and peace in a spectacle of fire, light and humanity reborn from the ashes".  

Hull Samba School, external kicked off Saturday's festival with a performance in the marina.

One of group, Little Mel, said the festival was a great way for Hull to get ready for its turn as UK City of Culture in 2017.

She said: “I think it is brilliant in the run-up to 2017 for all the local performers and people who do informal performance as well, like the samba school, to come out and have a go in front of a real-life audience.

“It builds your confidence.”

Chris Blacksell, Humberside Fire Service's deputy chief fire officer, has posted a picture of his nephew Harry's band performing at the festival.

Starting down at the Tidal Barrier at 20:00.

Image source, Sebastian Ballet

Southpaw Dance, external present a modern reworking of the German legend Faust where a man sells his soul to Satan.

Described by the Daily Telegraph as a “breath-taking display”.

Dave Lee has posted this panorama picture of the crowds in Humber Street in Hull's Marina.

The Hull Daily Mail's photographers have been out taking pictures, external of the Freedom Festival.

Visitors to the Freedom Festival got a chance to pose in front of colourful photoframes and post the pictures using the hashtag #wearehull, external.

The Tangle event in Queens Gardens proved popular - creating an extraordinary sight in the city centre.

Australia’s Polyglot Theatre handed out balls of coloured elastic to children who then weaved them together to form a giant artwork. 

A chance to get hands (and feet)-on with poetry in Trinity Square next to Hull's indoor market.

Verses get tossed about or used as stepping stones across the cobbles.

Radio Humberside, external has interviewed an artist behind one of the audio art installations in a phone box that are spread across the city centre.

A Yorkshire brass band will be teaming up with a renowned composer of Indian music.

Musician Shri Sriram, external will be performing with the 25-strong Skelmanthorpe brass band on the Yellow Bus stage by Victoria Pier at 17:30.

Shirma said he had the idea after hearing brass bands for the first time a few months ago.

Stuart Harratt
BBC Local Live

Many of the festival's art installations reflect Hull's maritime history.

This row of flag poles on Victoria Pier by the Humber is called Signal Intent.

It uses the international maritime signals flag language to broadcast a message which I'm told is linked to the theme of freedom.