artworks
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Lift Off
Lancaster CastleLift Off is Lancaster’s entry into the space race! It’s July 1969. The stage is set, the launch pad is ready, Engines are primed, The Space craft points to the sky, The Astronauts are strapped into their seats & mission control is counting down…. Take your place at the viewing area to witness the Launch! BCL Lighting design is ...
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Preston Mela passes the light from Diwali to Light Up Lancaster
Horseshoe Corner, LancasterAs Diwali, the Hindi festival of light, draws to a close, the Preston City Mela performers will ‘pass the light’ on as our own creative celebrations get under way on Friday, November 5. Horseshoe Corner, just in front of St Nics in the centre of the city, will be a riot of vibrant, colourful music and dance. For two hours ...
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Shop Windows Trail
Look out for five magical new light art installations sited in empty shops around the city centre. Light Up Lancaster, with support from Lancaster BID, has commissioned 5 artists to create a wonderful light art trail that will keep the city centre twinkling until the Christmas Lights Switch-On later in the year.
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Art Fair
St Nics Arcade, LA1 1NBThe Art Fair will bring the city centre alive with a wonderland of arts activities for families to experience, including paper lantern-making, Islamic paper art, henna art, rangoli, ebru marbling, terracotta diya decoration, plus other inspirational ideas. It will all be free for anyone taking part so come and join in and discover a new creative skill or traditional craft! ...
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Lancaster University Exploration Zone
The Storey, LA1 1THLancaster University take over The Storey to create a ‘safe’ activity zone for engineers of the imagination, of all ages. Presenting the world-changing research of Lancaster’s academics, The Storey will be packed with intriguing light-based activities. This collaboration builds on the huge success of the partnership between Lancaster University and the festival and will see the university take up ...
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Luminous Gardens
Location: Dalton Square, LA1 1PNLantern Company bring some illuminated magic to Lancaster’s Park Square with their enchanting Luminous Gardens. Come and be transported in a larger than life world of beautifully painted giant butterflies, neon cyclamen and colour-changing lunar flowers set to lift your spirits and light up the darkest of nights. Location: Dalton Square, LA1 1PN By: Liverpool Lantern Company &...
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Luma
Sun Square, LA1 1EWLuma is a huge, beguiling interactive robot, a 9m long, inflatable snail who loves an audience. She looms above visitors with a presence which is gentle, welcoming and otherworldly. Meeting her is a magical experience and a window into a fantastical world; come and revel at the spectacular sight and meet a wondrous being. Location: Sun Square, LA1 1...
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The Wyrm of Trowbarrow
St Nics ArcadeMyth, legend and the wild imaginations of children make for an eyecatching lantern parade! A brilliantly conceived project, the Wyrm of Trowbarrow is a fantastical and colourful giant serpent, created by 4 local schools. Created by 120 children working with artists Shane Johnstone & Anna Read, the Wyrm will parade through the city centre, starting from St Nics and then parading through ...
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Zomotion
Storey GardensZomotion zoetropes are light-based animated sculptures. Sequences of individual models rotate above head-height to create live 3D animations for the viewer. The models are mounted on individual spokes, rotating from the top of a three metre high central pole. Unlike other 3D zoetropes, the Zomotions light source moves independently and illuminates only one model at a time, in precision-controlled ...
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Lasertonic
Lancaster CastleHow can colour and sound affect our mood and emotions? Studies have shown that colours with shorter wavelengths such as blue and green evoke feelings of calmness. This immersive laser projection uses sound and colour to transforms its surroundings into a meditative environment. The colourful, undulating laser light dances in time with the surround sound, creating a serene environment to ...
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Imagined Insect #9
Lancaster City MuseumImagined Insect #9 is a reaction to issues of waste and pollution within our urban environments. The twisted, broken forms of umbrellas abandoned by their owners is a common sight when traversing our urban environments. Unlike other common items that are important to our daily lives, the humble umbrella, is often seen as replaceable and abandoned at the first sign of ...
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Gateway
Gateway is a magical, moving animated journey following a young Afghan refugee as she searches for fellow creative spirits amongst the darkened streets of Lancaster. Audiences are invited to follow Sound Intervention’s innovative Projector Bikes from Kanteena on a short tour around the old buildings of the Heritage Action Zone as animations on the architecture reveal the young girls ...
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Entwined Light
The Storey GalleryEntwined Light tells the story of the ever-evolving relationship between the artificial and the natural through the transitional interplay of form and light. The exoskeleton is a symbol of the man-made, while the photo-luminescent thread, powered by the sun, is an expression of the natural. The artwork provides the visitors with a path through this system in transition from natural ...
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Digital Playground
Judges' Lodgings GardenA walk-through forest installation of oversized, robotic flowers. As visitors move around the sculpture forest, it becomes apparent that the flowers’ appearance subtly changes according to the audiences’ movements. Simply walking, stepping, swaying, spinning or even dancing within the space will influence the robotic forest to change in appearance. This oasis aims to passively remind us all to take it ...
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And Then I Slipped
Lancaster PrioryBy award winning digital art and performance company, idontloveyouanymore, commissioned by Light Up Lancaster and Lightpool, And Then I Slipped is a waterfall of light. Inspired by the waterfalls of classic children’s films, such as Jungle Book and the Lion King, And Then I Slipped focuses on the representation of waterfalls as passages of transformation, and plays with the ...
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Leap
Lancaster CastleIn a series of phone calls, across landscape and time, LEAP takes a joyful look at human endeavour and the greatest journeys we might hope to go on. An animated patchwork of scenes unfolds across the courtyard wall of Lancaster’s historic castle, transforming it with stunning projection mapping and a lush soundscape. LEAP uniquely combines beautiful projection mapping, ...
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The Hourglass
Market SquareLook! You’re flying in a storm, traipsing through the desert, swimming across the oceans, on journeys filled with excitement and danger. You are a young boy on an epic quest for safety, a wandering crane, a whale dashing across the ocean, all migrating to find new hope. Migration is the most natural thing in the world. Animals and ...
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