Get your LightNight Liverpool events programme on here and on the event's official site
ARE you ready for 100 events across
Liverpool City Centre on just 1 night? LightNight, Liverpool's a 1 night Arts
Festival, that returns again to illuminate the City for a 6th consecutive year.
The event takes place on Friday, 15 May 2015, from 4pm to late, when thousands
of visitors will explore and celebrate the City's world class cultural offer
late into the night.
On Monday, 30 March 2015, the full events line up has been released
online
and on here, plus so has a printed festival guide, which is available to order
by post, or from participating venues in the lead up to the festival.
Using the theme Looking to the New World, over 100 organisations are joining
forces to offer special free events for all ages from mass dance workshops,
exhibitions and walking tours, to light installations, science demos, dress up
photo booths and concerts.
For the 1st time a festival hub will be setup at:- LJMU Rodney House on Mount
Pleasant where audiences can go to pick up the programme, learn more about the
events and purchase tote bags and badges to support the festival.
As well as openings at major venues including:- Tate Liverpool, Liverpool
Cathedral and St George's Hall, many independent galleries and spaces will also
open up to the public, including one-off open studios at 104 Duke Street, Fünf
Studio and Road Studios. Liverpool Small Cinema will be open with screenings of
short films (60 seconds or less) to show off the new space and The Well (a new
non-profit creative community space) will open with a hands-on interactive light
projection working with Between the Borders.
Just some of the festival highlights include:-
Liverpool Philharmonic open for the very 1st time on LightNight to celebrate
their 175th Anniversary. An ensemble of members of the RLPO will perform
compositions which might have been heard by concertgoers in the 1840's, back when
the organisation was founded.
LOOK/15 - Exchange, the Liverpool International Photography Festival, launches
with special exhibition previews and parties on LightNight; including Anna Fox
party at Tate Liverpool and after show at Constellations.
Merseyside Maritime Museum open late with music, dance and poetry surrounding
major new exhibition Lusitania: Life, Loss, Legacy commemorating the sinking of
the passenger ship Lusitania during the 1st World War on 7 May 1915.
Merseyside Dance Initiative (MDI) takeover Liverpool Town Hall with the Big
Dance Pledge where people of all ages and abilities can take part in a dance
workshop and watch performances through the evening.
LIPA is also involved for the 1st time this year, with a showcase of student
work entitled:- 'Follow the Moths' a trail of light installations
including a glowing giant glowing cocoon suspended from above, a 3D moth eye
light box, and light shows on the side of the building.
FACT will present a light projection by artist Erica Scourti in Ropewalks Square
until midnight, which explores ideas of memory and erasure in relation to
technology and our mental health.
Everyman Theatre open late with a collaborative event with LJMU. 'Life on the
Ocean Wave' sees the 'top deck' theatre bar and balcony brought to
life with music, deck games and high class cocktails celebrating the glamour and
elegance of travel on board the liners.
Deep Hedonia takeover St George's Hall Concert Room with an eclectic programme
of AV performances that seek to challenge our perception of the past, present
and future.
Dominic Beaumont from Everyman Theatre said:- "Light Night is always a
highlight of the City's Cultural Calendar and we're excited to be part of it
once again. The new Everyman gives us a platform to be able to put on a number
of different events for people to explore, watch and be part of and we hope
people will come and enjoy the games, music, debates, performances and cocktails
that will be part of Light Night at the Everyman. We're lucky to have a City
with so much to offer culturally and Light Night is a great way to share your
favourite places with people as well as a chance to discover new ones for the
first time."
Lucy Cattell from National Museums Liverpool said:- "We're really excited
to be taking part in LightNight 2015, not least because we've just opened a
brand new exhibition at Merseyside Maritime Museum about the Lusitania. We're
sure that LightNight visitors will enjoy this exhibition along with many other
activities taking place at the Maritime on 15 May 2015. People can also pop up
to William Brown Street, where The Walker Art Gallery will be open late too. The
Gallery's new Only in England exhibition; which has already received nearly
20,000 visitors since opening in February; features more than 100 humorous yet
melancholic images documenting ordinary English life by British photographer
Tony Ray-Jones, including new prints selected by esteemed photographer Martin
Parr."
A LightNight audience member from 2014 described LightNight as:- "By far
the most exciting, original and magical event in the City's Cultural Calendar"
Click on
here to download the guide from us or go to:-
LightNightLiverpool.Co.UK . Also you can get a printed festival guide,
that should be is
available to order by post, or from participating venues in the lead up to the
festival.
