What’s On At The Festival
Browse below to find out what’s on at the main Light Up Lancaster Festival, 7-9 November! Each of the artworks and installations takes place 5pm – 10pm on the Thursday, Friday and Saturday evenings. There are no set times and no need to book for anything except the BSL tours, so just turn up whenever you want!
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DoodleBug; The Animation
5pm - 10pm The Storey CourtyardDoodleBug; the animation, is part of a larger inclusive collaboration led by LPM Dance, in partnership with North Lancashire Downs Syndrome Group. The project initially involved DoodleBug dance workshops with young children at Morecambe Road School, The Loyne Specialist School and Lune Park Children’s Centre. The child-led sessions brought together children and their grown-ups to explore creative movement, mark-making ...
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British Sign Language (BSL) Guided Tours
With Martin Glover Saturday 9 November at 5pm and 7.30pm (each tour will last 1-2 hours) Light Up Lancaster is delighted to welcome Martin Glover to the festival, who will be offering British Sign Language (BSL) guided tours of the artworks and installations. Specialist facilitator Martin, who is himself deaf and a BSL user, and also a light artist, will take ...
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Monad
5pm - 10pm Lancaster Canal Basin, near to the Water WitchBy: Anastasia Isachsen (Norway) anastasiaisachsen.com Co-presented by Light Up Lancaster, Light Night Leeds and Lightwaves, Salford. Music: Arve Henriksen 3D: Andrey Permyakov Producer: Fjord Studio Technical: Artistic LV Monad unites the elements of life: fire, air, water, and earth and presents a circle as a symbol of time, the perpetual motion of the universe. For aeons, the circle ...
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Somnius
5pm - 10pm Lancaster CastleBy: Illumaphonium www.illumaphonium.co.uk Co-commissioned by Illuminate Light Night-Oldham, Light Night Wigan, Light Up Lancaster, Lightpool, Quays Culture and Light Up The North. A mesmerising sky of light and sound dances above us in response to our every movement. Reminding us of our ongoing relationship with the cosmos, nature and each other. An unrestricted reimagining of the world… ...
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Another LEAP
5pm - 10pm Judges' LodgingsIn a series of phone calls across space and time, LEAP takes a joyful look at human communication and the science of the impossible.
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Labyrinth
5pm - 10pm Rear of CastleBy: Shane Johnstone Supporting the work of St John’s Hospice Created by artist Shane Johnstone, along with participants at Explore Week and volunteers from St John’s Hospice, this beautiful installation is designed to encourage peaceful reflection in memory of lives shared and lives lost. A labyrinth is a single path leading to a centre point and out again, ...
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Daydream
5pm - 10pm Priory ChurchBy: Nick Rawcliffe nickrawcliffe.com Rebekah Okpoti The Girly Organist Jonathan Hogg Jonathan Hogg : Artist and technologist An audio-visual, kaleidoscopic journey into a parallel plane beyond the bounds of architectural space, exploring the essence of matter, the universe and everything… The piece features an original score written by the Priory’s resident director of music, Rebekah Okpoti, who will be ...
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The Matter of the Heart
5pm - 10pm Storey GardensBy: idontloveyouanymore idontloveyouanymore on Instagram idontloveyouanymore.co.uk Co-commissioned with: Light Up Lancaster, Barnsley Bright Nights, Salford Lightwaves, Illuminate Oldham A collection of Lancaster hearts: 100 people and their real-time heart beats. Wherever they are now, together or apart, far away or near the artwork, their hearts will remain in this space, flashing together, in perfect time with their real ...
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In Microns
5pm - 10pm Storey Galleryidontloveyouanymore & Lancaster University Biomedical & Life Sciences Department idontloveyouanymore (@idont_love_you) / X idontloveyouanymore • Instagram photos and videos idontloveyouanymore.co.uk Supported by the Lancaster University Impact Acceleration Account and the UK Research Council’s for the Arts and Humanities, and Engineering and Physical Sciences. A new interactive artwork made in collaboration with Lancaster University’s Biomedical & Life ...
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Shadowplay
5pm - 10pm The Storey Music RoomBy: Joe Lindley & Roger Whitham Play with an AI-powered canvas to create video and music using the movement of your body. Start by casting a shadow, then AI takes over to produce an experience filled with surprises. Expect ad hoc performances from members of the public and the Shadowplay team.
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The Storage Ring: Illuminating Science
5pm - 10pm The Storey AuditoriumBy: Simon Fletcher & James Sewell Supported by Diamond Light Source Did you know the UK is home to a huge particle accelerator? Diamond Light Source is the UK’s national synchrotron, a type of particle accelerator. Working like a giant microscope, Diamond harnesses the power of particles called electrons to produce bright light that scientists can use to study ...
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Broken Records - The Phantom’s Playlist
5pm - 10pm The Storey Reading RoomBy: Matt Tully matthewtully.co.uk Matthew Michael John Tully • Instagram photos and videos A Mirador commission, in partnership with Lancaster University Library, supported by NHLF, ACE, Garfield Weston Foundation, Granada Foundation A darkly funny ‘choose your own adventure’ game where you must help a spectre trapped within a jukebox uncover the truth about his demise in the hope of ...
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Insect Architecture
5pm - 10pm The Storey Music RoomBy: Dr Philip Donkersley (aka Dr Bees), Elliot Walker (Blowfish Glass), Simon Fletcher The Guilty Anthropomorphologist (@bees_n_nozzles) / X Bumblebees lead a secret life, their nests hidden from view. At Lancaster University, bumblebee nests are studied for conservation, evolution and bio-inspired engineering. This sculpture of a bumblebee nest in glass, made by award-winning artist Elliot Walker (Blowfish Glass) sheds ...
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Market Square Food Hub
5pm - 10pm Market SquareHosted By: FoodFutures: North Lancashire’s Sustainable Food Network foodfutures.org.uk Visit the beautifully lit Market Square and enjoy the wide range of hot food, cakes and drinks on offer from a local street food market. Grab something to eat and drink from the stalls or surrounding shops, sit in our outdoor dining space and enjoy live music from ...
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Solar Eclipse
5pm - 10pm New Street SquareBy: Ludus ludusdance.org Ludus Dance (@ludusdance) • Instagram photos and videos Noel Jones: Light Art/technical support An immersive installation which engages solar powered light art and movement. A visually stunning, durational live performance which includes film, multi projection and light, exploring light and dark, movement and stillness and digital projections and torch light. This staged durational performance also acts ...
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Dancing Fountain
5pm - 10pm Sun SquareBy: Alexis Richter & SuperMassive dancingfountain.co.uk Conceived by engineer and kinetic artist, Alexis Richter, The Dancing Fountain visualises sound in liquid form. Using proprietary algorithms, a high-frequency pump and a hand-machined turbine, the fountain transforms music in real-time into a self-choreographed water dance. Technology and creativity are breathtakingly brought together for a fully automated interpretation of recorded ...
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Big Yellow Blobs and the Box that Buzzes
5pm - 10pm Aalborg SquareMatt Tully matthewtully.co.uk Matthew Michael John Tully • Instagram photos and videos A Light Up the North SHINE commission An interactive, immersive artwork designed to transport viewers into an alternate, whimsical reality. This surreal playground is filled with spectacle, illusion, and a hearty dose of silliness, encouraging a communal sense of playfulness among its audience. By engaging with the ...
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Imprint
5pm - 10pm Dalton SquareBy: Novak novak.uk NOVAK (@novakcollective) • Instagram photos and videos Supported by Standfast&Barracks With thanks to all the staff at Standfast&Barracks To celebrate Standfast&Barracks’ centenary year, NOVAK creates a vibrant canvas, revealing the hidden world of the renowned local company. This distinguished local factory, often concealed behind their green doors, is a hub ...
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Welcome to Lunashire
5pm - 10pm The Dukes GalleryBy: You’re Most Welcome Tom Diffenthal & Lauren Paige Dowling youremostwelcome.co.uk A Mirador commission, in partnership with Lancaster University Library, supported by NHLF, ACE, Garfield Weston Foundation, Granada Foundation Step into a VR experience and be transported to a futuristic moon settlement. Explore the vibrant youth culture of the 60s – reimagined on the moon, but with a ...
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A Kind of Magic
5pm - 10pm Lancaster LibraryBy: Severi Haapala (Finland) Co-presented by Light Up Lancaster and Lightpool Blackpool A Kind of Magic is a modern version of the 19th-century Pepper’s Ghost illusion. It forces us to ask if we can believe our eyes as the magic trick is done and revealed at the same time. What can we create with bottled air? Will the glow ...
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Garland the Gate
5pm - 10pm Lancaster Castle GatehouseBy: Laura Spark Laura Spark on Instagram www.lauraspark.co.uk Enter into Lancaster Castle and meet this year’s festival theme – The Art of Science. Experience a pageant of scientific endeavours about the natural world. From the micro to the macro, cells to stars, our universe is made of wonder.
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JukeBike
5pm - 10pm RoamingBy: Sound Intervention Dan Fox, Bob Fisher Simon Hanson danfox.net Dan Fox • Instagram photos and videos www.facebook.com/soundinterventn A Mirador Commission. In partnership with Lancaster University Library, supported by NHLF, ACE, Garfield Weston Foundation, Granada Foundation A mobile battery-powered sound system with pixel mapped responsive lighting and digital projections. Evoking music, imagery and memories from the 1950...
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Wanderings with Plover Scar & Flashes of Illuminations
Friday 8th November, 5-10pm, plus Madzine Project on Saturday 2pm at The Gregson RoamingFriday 8th November, 5-10pm only. A collaboration from Morecambe & Lancaster Zine Library Costumes designed & made by Wendy @ Revamp Racoon Project facilitators: Jill Anderson, Sarah Hymas & Charlotte Done @revampraccoon @mlzinelibrary @shymass @jiclan @madzineresearch @charlottedone @morecamberisopress @goodthingscic @uclanuni @beinghumanfest Supported by UCLAN & Madzines Research How can we respond creatively to the challenges of being human? Neurological research ...
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