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BSL Interpreted Tours of the Festival
Sat 8 Nov, 5pm or 7.30pm Starting at the Dukes Theatre, Moor Lane, LA1 1QELight Up Lancaster is delighted to welcome Martin Glover back 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 you on an illuminating tour of the festival, highlighting the artworks, their meanings and ...
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Still Waters Run Deep
5pm - 10pm Lancaster CastleBy: James Hooton Diego Moral Pombo – Senior research associate in ice-sheet geodes, Lancaster Environment Centre at Lancaster University. CREATIVE TEAM: Faith To (Illustration) and Amber Hooton (Music Composition) “Still Waters Run Deep” is a large-scale projection mapping artwork that transforms the historic façade of Lancaster Castle’s John O’Gaunt Gate, to tell the story of glacial change. Using ...
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Veil
5pm - 10pm Lancaster CastleBy: Flolux Lancaster Lore Using Seb Lee-Delisle Liberation Laser Software Veil is an immersive laser light and sound installation weaving Lancashire folklore, local stories, ancient songs, and the region’s deep history into an unfolding experience. Set within the courtyard of Lancaster Castle, beams of laser light drift and shimmer overhead, merging with an ethereal soundscape crafted by artist and ...
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Urban Wyld
5pm - 10pm Sun SquareBy: Laura Spark Music: Jonathan Hering In a dark city corner, life begins to burst through the cracks. Weeds and wildflowers scale the walls, their stems weaving the history and folklore of local flora together with an abundant display of the beauty of untamed plant life. This hand made stop-motion animation lets loose a feral bouquet of living organisms finding ...
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Shadowplay: Dark and Light
5pm - 10pm The Gallery, The StoreyBy: Joseph Lindley and Roger Whitham Unleash your creativity as your body becomes the brush on an AI-powered canvas. Using shadows and light, conjure mesmerising visuals, dance, play and lose yourself in a dreamlike visual world. Become a digital alchemist and puppet master of light and dark, Shadowplay blurs the line between human and machine creativity. No two moments will ...
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Peddie’s Chocolate Shop
By: Illuminos In 1950 Illuminos’s Grandfather, Bob Peddie, opened a chocolate shop at 191 Blackburn Road, Accrington. With secret recipes from his friend the Swiss Chocolatiers Marius Matti and Henry Clottu, the shop brought moments of delight and joy to Accrington through the many cardboard boxes of confectionary wonders to be discovered in the shop window. Now 75 years later, in ...
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Mycelium - Living Connections
5pm - 10pm The Storey GardensBy: Stevie Thompson Mycelium Network: Living Connections is an interactive light installation that mimics the ephemeral intelligence of fungal networks beneath our feet. Activated by touch or proximity, the fibre optic threads glow and pulse in response, creating fleeting traces of interaction. As visitors move through the space, they become part of a living system — one that remembers momentarily, then ...
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Monster!
5pm - 10pm Judges' LodgingsBy: Christopher Harrisson Composer: Jack Drewry Monster! is a mischievous, interactive projection-mapping adventure from award-winning artist Christopher Harrisson. Strange, brightly coloured creatures have taken over the Judges’ Lodgings, peering out from the windows. They might look mean and scary, but don’t be fooled; these monsters are all about fun, and they want you to join them! Audiences will have ...
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Molecular Clouds
5pm - 10pm Lancaster Castle WallBy: Daksha Patel Commissioned by: Light Up The North Illumine CREATIVE TEAM: George Harris – Producer Chris Ball – Creative Technologist James Hamilton – Sound Artist Andrew Crofts – Technical Consultant This interactive projection reveals invisible greenhouse gases as ephemeral and colourful molecular forms. It invites audiences to reach out and ‘touch’ them, thereby removing them from the atmosphere. Molecular Clouds aims to give ...
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Forged In Water
5pm - 10pm Lancaster CanalBy: Limbic Cinema Originally commissioned by We Shine, Portsmouth 2024 CREATIVE TEAM: Music by Phoebé Guillemot (aka RAMZi) Forged in Water is an audio-visual installation that explores the surreal world of artificial reefs. Holographic-style visuals depicting human-made structures beneath the ocean are revealed on transparent, airborne water particles, creating an ethereal and immersive display. Created by Limbic Cinema and music artist ...
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Fading
5pm - 10pm Williamson ParkBy: Sophie Laly Please note, this year’s theme for Light Up Lancaster is all about the fleeting/ephemeral, so great of you can bear this in mind when providing copy. FADING # is a video installation featuring the appearance of a house, projected on a scale of 1 in a landscape. The projection takes place at dusk, right in the landscape, ...
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Dear Joan…
5pm - 10pm Dalton SquareBy: imitating the dog CREATIVE TEAM: Video Design: Simon Wainwright Composer: James Hamilton As nighttime falls, and the clock tick-tocks inescapably on, an old man sits at his writing desk, penning a letter. It’s a reply to an avid fan, one of thousands of letters like this that he has written. He begins, ‘Dear Joan…’ But he is interrupted ...
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By The Light of Our Losses
5pm - 10pm The Dukes Moor Space, Moor LaneBy: idontloveyouanymore Commissioned by Light Up Lancaster and The Space CREATIVE TEAM: Created by idontloveyouanymore Sound Design by WeMakeAudio By The Light of Our Losses is a brand new art installation by award winning art studio idontloveyouanymore. The artwork collects real losses from real people, handwriting each individual loss on an individual lightbulb. The artwork acts as an evolving elegy, ...
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