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This year the festival will voyage ‘Into The Skies’ to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Moon Landing.
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LA11RQ AMarketgate relaxed and quieter viewing location just outside the city Register Shopping Office Centre with stunning views of the fireworks. Wristbands centre not LA11PU required. Limited parking available.
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This viewing area is situated in Lancaster City Football Club The Assembly and is very near to the railway station. Mostly grassed; someRooms hardstanding areas suitable for wheelchair users and limited accessible parking (please call 01524 582394 in advance).
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Lancaster City Centre Friday 1st and Saturday 2nd November 2019
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There will be plenty of opportunities to get involved, from interactive installations to craft workshops; live performances to family activities. So come and join in with this most magical of festivals!
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BROUGHT TO YOU BY SATURDAY DAYTIME - 02 NOVEMBER SPACE JARS from 10am - 12 noon FUNDERS AND SPONSORS
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Create your own magical glow-in-the-dark space jar with Shreya Ghodke. Fill your jar with stars, planets, moons, rockets and maybe an alien. When the lights go down your jar will glow! Just turn up. FREE
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Learn the ancient story and skills of papercutting with Maryam Golubeva by using manicure scissors and having fun creating intricate designs. Drawing skills not essential just a steady hand and patience! Age 7+. Just turn up. FREE
Friday 1 Nov 8:30am - 10pm Saturday 2 Nov 9am - 8pm
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INTO OUR SKIES 11am, 11.45am, 12.30pm, 2.15pm, 3pm ROBIN ZAHLER DESIGN + PHOTOGRAPHY
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Moonwalk, leap and voyage among the stars with Lucy Starkey in this active astro-fuelled dance and movement workshop for groups of families and friends. Maximum group size of 12. Age 6+. Under 12s must be accompanied by an adult. Booking Only. Call the Dukes on 01524 598500 or visit www.dukes-lancaster.org. FREE THE AUDITORIUM AT THE STOREY
MAGIC ISLANDS IN SPACE
Friday 1 Nov 10am - 10pm Saturday 2 Nov 10am - 8pm
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Making your own planets has never been so much fun. Led by Roisin Brennan, the session uses paint, paper card, eye droppers and... lots of imagination! Just turn up. FREE The Elizabeth & Richard Wilson Charitable Fund
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The Café & Bar in The Storey will be open for craft beer, good coffee and warming seasonal food so take the chance to stop and refuel during the festival.
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ORBIT from 10am - 12 noon
Call into Lancaster’s Visitor Information Centre in The Storey for festival maps and merchandise and to find out what’s going on across the city!
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Make your own colourful space shuttle with its own launch pad and make it fly with Joanna Cameron from Creation Station. This is a fun activity for all ages. Just turn up. FREE Lancaster Judges’ Lodgings Museum Trust
ADVOCATING AND PROMOTING GREAT ART AND CULTURE IN LANCASTER, MORECAMBE AND THE DISTRICT
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60min shows 10am, 11.30am, 2pm Special sessions for ages 0-3 and their families to set the pace and freely explore. Spot your reflection in sparkly craters, be mesmerised by modules on the rocket, ride the travellator! £5 per group. Booking Only. Visit www.moremusic.org.uk
Lightwaves 2019 Salford Quays 6-15 December 2019
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Roman Bath House (Ruins)
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LightPool Festival Blackpool 14-26 October 2019
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House (Ruins) This grassed viewing area is situated behind St George’s Quay and can be accessed by walking along the quay from the city centre (no parking available). LANCASTER PRIORY M6 J34
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Local, national and international artists will take you on a journey through space, exploring moons, stars and planets through art installations, video mapping, music and performance. And at 8pm on the Saturday the skies will be ablaze with the culmination of the festival – a stunning fireworks display launched from the grounds of Lancaster Castle.
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Durham Lumiere 14-17 November 2019
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Light Night Leeds 10-11 October 2019
Jake Quickenden
Switch On
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stageshow From 2pm free of charge
Mr Bloom From CBeebies
Cancercare Santa dash More acts to be announced
Join us in the Family Zone at the Library for interactive activities for all the family. www.visitlancaster.org.uk
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Light Up Lancaster is a member of Light up the North, a network of light festivals taking place across the North of England.
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Fireworks Spectacular
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LIGHTSCAPE by MammasONica (Italy)
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Lightscape is an immersive multi-layered experience, creating a luminous landscape evolving through time. With flowing colours and tone, MammasONica create a forest in a courtyard and the skies upon the earth. With a choral piece to celebrate the flow of time, the digital canvas renews itself, taking us on a narrative journey from dusk till dawn.
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CLOSE TO THE WIND by Dan Fox
Close To The Wind is a huge vibrating projection screen controlled by the wind. Made from hundreds of strips of white elastic stretched between two ex-military communications masts, the elastics vibrate as the wind blows creating sounds and visual patterns. Projected images synchronised to the wind by anemometers interact with the elastics.
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A SPACE INVASION by Ash Murphy and Aaron Kara
THE PROMENADE OF GALAXIES by Ludus Dance with Illuminos
A Space Invasion is an interactive experience taking you back to the nostalgic time of the 1980s. Revisit the classic game of space invaders and put yourself in the hot seat. Meet the space police, take control of the ship and fight the aliens on an 80 ft building! Be the conductor to a synth band soundtracking your gaming experience live whilst you join us in the skies and see the game revisited like never before in all its 8bit glory.
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The Promenade of Galaxies celebrates the 50th anniversary of the moon landing, questioning the meaning of the most optimistic event of the 20th Century. Devised and performed by their flagship youth company, Ludus Dance presents a participatory multi-cultural perspective on the race to the moon.
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MUSEUM OF THE MOON by Luke Jerram
A series of wormholes (theoretical short cuts in space/time through which we can reach far off places in the universe). Within each portal we hear voices from other times and places.
SPACEMAN by Blackpool Illuminations First designed by Alan Cockcroft in 1970 to celebrate the moon landings, this iconic 3 metre high structure is a replica of Neil Armstrong’s space suit and is a fun, vintage illumination.
A dynamic sculpture designed to absorb light, which is then projected outwards in organic patterns rotating like a lighthouse. Named after one the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World.
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THE HAPPINESS SUM by Gemma Wood
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The Happiness Sum is a playful, interactive installation that poses important questions about what activities make us happy... and by how much! Beautiful and intriguing, it encourages us to check if, in our fast-paced society, we are maximising our happiness potential.
HEADSPACE by City Museum The City Museum offers the perfect chill-out zone with its soft-focus light of ‘inner space’ guiding you peacefully to a different experience at the festival. Created specially to complement its current exhibition by artist, Andy Farr, the zone is a reflective, sheltered location where the inner journey of human life can be understood as the final frontier.
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Lift 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!
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INVISIBLE TRANSPARENT by Sumit Sarkar
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A multi-process sculpture, fusing two kinds of marble made at the Digital Stone Project in Italy with complex multi-material 3D printed parts, Invisible Transparent incorporates a lighting system and interactive AR bringing the sculpture to life with 3D animation, viewable and interactive on your smart phones.
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Singing, music, projections, texture, colour and shadow create a magical, multi-sensory experience ideal for young children and families. An immersive and interactive space-show allowing children to set the pace and explore. Spot your reflection in sparkly craters, be mesmerised by modules on the rocket, ride the travellator.
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LIFT OFF by BCL Lighting-Design (Brent Lees)
DISTANT VOICES by Mark Parry
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Measuring seven metres in diameter, the moon features 120dpi detailed NASA imagery of the lunar surface. At an approximate scale of 1:500,000, each centimetre of the City internally lit spherical sculptureLancaster represents 5km of the Football moon’s surface. Experience more ‘Moon’Club events at The Priory: 3 – 20 November www.lancasterpriory.org
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PHAROS by Joe Moran
FRIDAY 01Skate NOVEMBER 5.30PM – 10PM SATURDAYPark 02 NOVEMBER 5.30PMRetail – 7.30PM
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BIRDS OF A FEATHER by Sandy Gardner
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Step into an illuminated, picturesque skyscape and become part man, part bird. It’s a chance for a smile and a selfie style picture that you can share. Bring your camera, strike a pose and use your imagination to soar into the night sky and unite as a flock of illuminated birds. A photographer will be there and images will be available online for free download.
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Register Office
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Police Station
Lancaster Cathedral
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DIY FILM by GRAFT (Ellie Barrett and Saul Argent)
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Create a video artwork and feature in a pop-up gallery with GRAFT’s DIY film workshop! Using green screen technology, feature in your own short film set in the clouds or deep space. Look out for GRAFT’s trail of video artworks in shop windows to inspire your own.
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Some water birds have left the canal and waddled down Moor Lane to find themselves illuminated by Light Up Lancaster - now they are ready to soar.
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Lay back and journey into the skies of Lancaster in a film experience like no other. Heavens Above is a film by Jon Randall that offers a unique chance to watch the changing night skies of Lancaster. But you won’t be watching it sitting down – the film will be projected directly above you, with audiences watching while lying on the floor.
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VIDEO ART TRAIL
SUN by Alex Rinsler and Prof. Robert Walsh
Showcase of contemporary digital works by diverse emerging artists in unexpected locations around the Lancaster city centre.
A world premiere, experience the Sun in remarkable 360° using accurate data from NASA’s Solar Dynamic Observatory. SUN is a partnership between public artist Alex Rinsler and leading solar physicist Prof. Robert Walsh; co-commissioned by Light Up Lancaster, Lightpool Festival and support from Arts Council England and the Science and Technology Facilities Council.
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HEAVENS ABOVE by Jonny Randall and The Dukes
ASHTON MEMORIAL
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VARIOUS LOCATIONS
STOREY MUSIC ROOM
LANCASTER LIBRARY
FLIGHTS OF FANCY by Lancaster University
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HALO by illumaphonium
University of Royal HALO is a wondrous new participatory sonic and visual The Lancaster University Family Zone at the Library is back for Cumbria Lancaster Infirmary 2019! Come and explore the breath-taking Aurora, immerse
yourselves in planetary sounds and sights, learn about our atmosphere, discover just how important sea birds are, and get to grips with coral reefs through Minecraft. We can’t wait for you to join us as we go… Into the skies.
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kinetic experience. Made up of individual, digitally interlinked columns of ever evolving patterns of light and sound. Halo is an immersive, innovative and interactive installation bringing strangers together in a shared moment of spontaneous music making.
STOREY READING ROOM LA13EA PORTAL OF REFLECTON by Tom Lambert
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A kaleidoscopic experience of wonder through animated light and sound. Gaze through special glasses into a portal to a world of colour and allow yourself to be transported to a place of self reflection, taking a moment to feel nourished and to appreciate the wonder of life, the universe and everything.
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by imitating the dog and Phil Supple Wander through the rural heartlands to the magnificent coastline and across 100 years, to explore our changing world. Rare archive film footage and a stunning soundtrack by Hope & Social takes visitors on a journey through time across Lancashire. A partnership project with The Dukes.