Thousands flock to city's eighth annual event
Festival 'sets new benchmark' says director
Event 'great way to prepare for City of Culture 2017'
Minute's silence held in honour of Syrian refugees
WWII Dakota takes to skies - but winds stop Spitfire flypast
Updates from Hull Freedom Festival on Saturday 5 September 2015
A World War Two Dakota aircraft flew over Hull, external as part of the Freedom Festival.
A planned fly-past by a Spitfire and a Hurricane fighter was cancelled because of high winds.
The University of Hull, external is offering people a chance to make DNA strands from sweets in their tent in Hull's Queens Gardens.
Perfect for budding scientists with a sweet tooth as you can eat your experiment.
Hull Libraries Service, external is supporting a story-telling event in a barge moored in Hull Marina.
Organisers of Hull's annual Freedom Festival have said they hope to beat last year's crowds of about 80,000.
The three-day arts festival, which runs until Sunday, is now in its eighth year.
Events began on Friday evening with the specially commissioned Voices of Freedom mass choral performance on the River Hull.
As part of the BBC Make it Digital event in Queens Gardens you can have a go at presenting a weather bulletin.
Look North's Keeley Donovan is on hand to show you the ropes.
This year’s Freedom Festival has its very own team of community correspondents.
The team of reporters will be taking photographs and uploading audio interviews to the festival’s website, external.
Hull's Maritime Museum is looking at the world of pirates and privateers.
Image source, Hull Museums ServiceBilled as a family-friendly exhibition which explores the city's links with piracy, it features a costume worn by Johnny Depp in the film Pirates of the Caribbean, as well as a number of the Aardman Animation models from the movie The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists.
The Maritime Museum is open until 17:00.
Among the fun and celebrations, a minute's silence was held , externalin a show of support for those affected by the ongoing migrant crisis on the European mainland.
Organiser Richard Wilson told BBC Look North he thought it was an important thing to do.
"I went on social media and I started this to gather people together who equally feel frustrated and want to do something," he said.
The Hull Daily Mail is highlighting the top 20 things, external to see and do at the festival.
If you want to find out where events are taking place there is a handy interactive map, external of the day’s activities.
Two scientists from the University of Hull will battle to win over the audience with a series of demonstrations, to avoid being gunged.
Image source, University of HullDr Mark Lorch and Phil Bell-Young will be demonstrating the science behind slime at the bandstand in Queen’s Gardens throughout the afternoon until 18:00..
The audience will vote on the best presentation, with the loser getting covered in slime.
'Tangle' allows children and adults to produce a giant artwork by weaving together balls of coloured elastic.
Image source, Freedom FestivalThe play space in Queens Gardens will be transformed into a giant web to the accompaniment of live music.
It started at 12:00 and there are sessions throughout the day.
As part of the BBC Make it Digital event in Queens Gardens you can grab a selfie with Dr Who's arch enemy.
BBC Travel
There's minor disruption westbound on the A63 at Mytongate in Hull city centre as crowds cross the road to get to the Freedom Festival events in Hull Marina.
Also reports of some delays on the A1079 Sutton Road in Hull due to roadworks.
It should be a pleasant day for festivalgoers out and about in Hull as it's expected to be mainly dry with some sunshine.
However, you might want to bring a brolly as a few isolated light showers are possible.
It's also a bit breezy.
Maximum temperature 14C (57F)
Stagecoach, external is providing an extended Park and Ride service for visitors to the Freedom Festival this year.
Buses will run every 15 minutes to and from Priory Park in west Hull, with the last bus back from the city centre leaving at 00:28.
The annual arts festival was established in 2007 as part of commemorations to mark the 200th anniversary of Hull MP William Wilberforce's change in the law to abolish the slave trade in the British Empire.
It takes place over three days in venues and parks across Hull city centre.
More than 80,000 people attended the event last year and organisers hope to top that figure this year.
Stuart Harratt
BBC Local Live
Hello and welcome to our live coverage of Hull’s annual Freedom Festival, external.
We’ll be here until 22:00 bringing you the best of the day’s events.
Please send us your pictures and comments at leeds.locallive@bbc.co.uk or tweet us at #FreedomHull, external
