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w In association with Light Installations Music Storytelling Dance Street Theatre Film Performance UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF PARKINSON Getting Around Light Night Leeds FINE ART BUILDING 52 53 42-48 There are lots of ways to enjoy Light Night. Create your own route or follow one of our trails, jump on the free Light Night Rider, hop on a bike or even grab a water taxi! STAGE @ LEEDS 51 CLOTHWORKERS EMMANUEL KEY Information Point 35 Event Location Street Performers CENTENARY CENTRE (numbered as listed 41 HALL 32-33 Toilets on following pages) Car Parks 49-50 QUEEN SQ UARE Water Taxi Stop Food Stalls Bike Park Travel by bike Light Night Rider 6pm – 11pm Thursday/Friday Bus Stops 7 mThoen CitoitryeCdo bninkec pt asrekcinugre w ailnl db e CIVIC HALL TECHNOLOGY 34 Light Night’s very own free Leeds Train Station S8 CAMPUS FIRST DIRECT hop-on hop-off bus service. Leeds Town Hall Temp Stop available to look after your bike 9 ARENA Stops are available in all the different Millennium Square Y11 whilst you explore the city. 8 MERRION CENTRE zones, making your journey around Leeds Beckett University L7 Please note that all bikes must be 5 I Light Night easier and quicker. Parkinson Building 11387 collected from the CityConnect MILLENNIUM Buses stop approximately Merrion Centre L5 Sbiukpep poarrtke db yb y1 0 .30pm SQUARE 6 M CUISTEYU M LEEDS MERR O N S T every 15 mins. WThees tH Yeoardkrsohwir e Playhouse HF31 CityConnect.co.uk/events THE CATHEDRAL Leeds Dock A1 CARRIAGEWORKS MERRION 24 Crown Po 4inRt Road E A2 GARDENS 25 Leeds TAr6ain Station N S8 26-27 ST JOHN’S ST JOHN’S 28 A Y ’ S LA GARDENS M 11 13 DEORATDMRUNODWCHURCH ASSEHMOBWLAY RRDO OM PATRICK 12 21-23 ART GALLERY MHEONORRYE 29 SQUARE STUDIOS CENTRAL THE 38-39 14-15 LIBRARY 19-20 LIGHT W E S T G A T E TOWN HALL VICTORIA GARDENS A L BTHI EO CNO R E P L A C E VICTORIA KMIRAKRGKAETE 37 WEST YORKSHIRE COLLEMLGEUEE SODICSF T QUARTER PLAYHOUSE S BUS & L 2 COACH YORKSHIRE 10 A STATION DANCE PARK SQUARE MILL HILL 40 CHAPEL 36 No 1 CITY 18 SQUARE CITY C 3-4 NORBTAHLELRENT 35 SQUARE TRINITY 1 LEEDS W E L L I N G T O N S T CORN EXCHANGE S 17 16 O CENTRAL SQUARE QUEENS HOTEL LEEDS STATION Water Taxi Take a boat ride along the canal on one of our free ROYAL ARMOURIES water taxis (limited places available) from Leeds Train 30-31 Station’s Southern Entrance and d r o p into Leeds Do c k . THE TETLEY 29 LEEDS DOCK E R K O BN D S K I RKGAT K I N G N EW YO TS T E D W A R D S T A W T H E W I LL O W E CTAERR R I V E R S O L L O S L R E AT W MER N T A KIRKG DR A I R E E T L S N U H I R O WAY H O U S E 5 M I N L N W A L K E E DUEK S T (A6 W O O D HSOEU L A N E T 5 M I N W A L K ) 1 D R E ED B R I D G E N W O O D H L S E A S T CHADWICK S T O U S E L A N E W O O D P A R A D E BLACK BULL ST LA ND L A N E S O X F O R D P L W O X F O R D R O W C A L V E R L E Y S T C O O K R I D G E S T L I B L A L O W E R P A R K S Q E C A L V E R L E Y S T O N E IV E S T E E T L R T S N O B R I G G A T E C A R A R K R P W N E N E A VI L H R D T B R I G G A T E O N W C R O T N I D R P I S A N E L E D A W S C A V E N D P O R T L A N D W A Y N E A C L A L Y P T I S T L L C A N L N H T E T A L A N D U N C T N W H I T E H A L L R O A D S G R E A T G E O R G E S T S T H G E T T H E H E A D R O W E A S I C O M M E R C T A TBI O A R E A Y O R K Welcome to Light Night Leeds 2016 Welcome to Light Night Leeds 2016 In association with Light Night Leeds will take place over two To stay up to date, visit our website As darkness falls, come and see nights this year. Please read our programme lightnight leeds.co.u k or folow us on the city in a new light… inside for full details of all events. # lightnightleeds Join us to explore The Elements at Light Night Leeds 2016, with two Thursday nights of events, installations and performances across the city. Light Triathlon 7.30-8.30pm 19 / Waterlight Graffti – Antonin Fourneau 6 –11pm Leeds will be host to more than 50 events including spectacular • Lantern Parade – Handmade Parade 7.30pm 20 / The Indestructible Reef – Alison Smith 6 –11pm light installations, flm, dance, music and street performances. • Light Night Ride – CityConnect 7pm 21 / Owl’s Shadow on the Moonlit Earth – Many of the events take place on both nights but not all, so tear • Art Runs – Veggie Runners & Space2 6pm Douglas Thompson 6 – 10pm off your map and check the schedule to guide you as you enjoy 22 / H2Us – Artlink W Yorkshire & Love Arts 6 –10pm an evening of spectacle, wonder and elemental experiences. 1 / Today – BREAD Art & Eve Harrison 7.30 – 10.30pm 23 / Explore the Elements – Central Library 5 – 10pm 5 / The Phoenix in the Stone – Illuminos 7.30 –11pm 2 4 / G i a n t D a n delions – Olivia d’Aboville 6 – 11pm Planning your night 25 / [in]visible – Si ieng Fung 6 – 11pm All events are family friendly and accessible unless otherwise 10 / Apparatus Florius – Tom Dekyvere 6 –11pm 26 / Elemental – Hannah Stained Glass 6 – 11pm stated. All events are free and do not require booking, however 27 / Footsteps – Sam Sebbage 6 – 11pm some may have limited capacity. Light Night Rider bus stops are 16 / The Falls – Dave Lynch 7.30 – 11pm 28 / Entranced – Opera North 6 –11pm situated in each zone to help you get around more easily – please see the map for more details. Most venues have toilet facilities, 19 / Waterlight Graffti – Antonin Fourneau 6 –11pm 29 / Light Water, Dark Sky – Squid Soup 6 – 11pm including Leeds City Council’s fully accessible, mobile, Changing 20 / The Indestructible Reef – Alison Smith 6 –11pm 30 / Light Night at the Tetley 6 –11pm 31 / The Ringing Forest – Juan delGado 6 –11pm Places Toilet (HDU) on Millennium Square. 24 / Giant Dandelions – Olivia d’Aboville 6 – 11pm 27 / Footsteps – Sam Sebbage 6 – 11pm 33 / Fire Balls – Aragorn Dick-Read 6 –11pm Key of Symbols 34 / Light Show – First Direct Arena 7 –11pm 29 / Light Water, Dark Sky – Squid Soup 6 – 11pm Check symbols on each listing so you know what to expect 35 / Compound – Northern Ballet, Phoenix Dance from the event. 32 / Alchemy – Leeds Beckett University 6 –10.30pm Theatre, Northern School of Contemporary Dance & Yorkshire Dance 6.45, 7.30, 8.15, 9pm Booking Essential Performance 36 / Bish Bash Bosh – Yorkshire Dance 6 – 11pm Friday 37 / Manic Chord’s Elemental Takeover – Child Friendly Music West Yorkshire Playhouse 6 – 9pm 1 / Today – BREAD Art & Eve Harrison 7.30 – 10.30pm 38 / Patrick Interventions – Claire Tomas 6 – 11pm Film Literature 2 / Ethereal Freeze – Glacial Art Ice Sculptors 6–11pm 39 / The Ultiverse – Akeelah Bertram 6 – 11pm 3 / Love Arts – Love Art Festival 6–11pm 40 / We are Universe – Leeds College of Music, Installation Dance 4 / Giving Voice Choir 7pm NLeoertdhse Crno Sllecgheo olf oAf rCt oSnctheomopl 6o.r3a0r –y1 1Dpamnce, Participatory Visual Arts 5 / The Phoenix in the Stone – Illuminos 7.30–11pm 41 / YAA DEVI – Devika Dance Theatre 6.30pm, 7.30pm 6 / Afterglow – Atipyka-Visualab 6 –11pm 42 / Behind the Illusion – India Pearce 6-10pm Stay up to date! 7 / City College – Leeds City College 7.30–11pm 43 / Up and Up and Up Towards 8 / Laiki#4 – Edyta Ma¸ sior 6 –11pm – Brad McCormick (Cap-a-Pie) 6pm, 7pm, 8pm All information is correct at the time of going to print. 9 / Building Dreams – Graham Tansley 7.30 –11pm 44 / Elements of Love: Cupid & Psyche 6 –10pm For up to date information please visit 45 / A Warm Welcome – Emma Bimpson 6 –10pm 10 / Apparatus Florius – Tom Dekyvere 6 –11pm www.lightnightleeds.co.uk 46 / Colonise Night – J Scott & E Gaston 6 –10pm 11 / Cycle Cinema – Reaction 7.30 –11pm 47 / For All Time – Laura Wilson 6.30 –9.30pm 12 / Firefies – Fixedgrinn Collective 6 –11pm Or follow us on social media 48 / World of Ice and Fire 6 –10pm 13 / Phase Revival – Superposition 6 –11pm 49 / Thread – SAA-uk 8.00pm, 8.50pm, 9.30pm 14 / Spark! – Spark! 7pm, 9.30pm 50 / Beauty in Harmony – Nankai University #lightnightleeds 15 / Flame Oz – Flame Oz 7.30, 8.45, 10.15pm Student Choir 6.30pm 51 / Sculpture for Peace – Melvyn Kelly 6 –10pm 16 / The Falls – Dave Lynch 7.30 – 11pm 52 / Books that go Bump in the Night This brochure is available in large print. 17 / Intersection – DLA Design & Jo Fairfax 6 – 11pm – Rebecca Bowd 6 –10pm Please contact 0113 378 6989. 18 / Open Doors – Mill Hill 6 – 11pm 53 / Dimensions – Katherine Lacey 6 –10pm Light Night Lantern Parade Light Triathlon Thursday 6 October, 7.30pm– 8.30pm Light Night Ride Handmade Parade Starts on Briggate, LS1 6LX CityConnect Thursday 7.30pm See website for start details Thursday evening is host to a fantastic Lantern Parade, joining Thursday 7pm forces with CityConnect Cycling and the Veggie Runners to Handmade Parade will lead the festivities mark the start of this year’s Light Night event with a triathlon- with their beautiful water themed lanterns Be part of a glistening trail of cyclists in themed procession. Watch people from all over Leeds and stilt walkers. Spark! street theatre will the Light Night Ride. Ride down the Cycle walking, running and cycling along The Headrow in be on hand with their magical live music, Superhighway into Leeds City Centre Leeds city centre. Join us at Victoria Gardens at movement and lighting spectacular. adorned with glow sticks and coloured lights. Afterwards, you’ll be able to leave your bike 8:20pm to watch the conclusion of this If you’d like to make your own lantern and at the secure and free CityConnect bike park celebration of light and Leeds. join the parade, workshops will be taking so you can enjoy other Light Night events. place on Sunday 25 September and Places are strictly limited. Register now at Sunday 2 October. Find out more at http://cityconnectlightnightcycleride. https://www.eventbrite.com/e/light- eventbrite.co.uk night-lantern-making-workshops- tickets-27430953721 cyclecityconnect.co.uk This event is sponsored by Light Night Art Runs Veggie Runners and Space2 See website for start details Thursday 6pm Join Light Night Art Runs for an amazing free, fun, active and arty experience! Grab your brightest trainers and take part in a 5km run (16 years and over) or 2.5km family run/walk. Find out more or book your place at leeds-light-night-art-runs-2016. eventbrite.co.uk Booking Essential Child Friendly Installation Participatory Film Performance Music Literature Dance Visual Arts © Handmade Parade and Craig Shaw Photography trinity.pdf 1 11/07/2016 04:08 Briggate Zone Millennium Square Zone 1 / Today Come and see 5 / The Phoenix in the Stone light installations, Illuminos BREAD Art & Eve Harrison breathtaking Civic Hall, Millennium Square, LS1 1UR C Central Atrium, Trinity Leeds, projections, and try some M Albion Street, LS1 5ER delicious street food. Thursday and Friday 7.30pm –11pm Y CM Thursday and Friday 7.30 – 10.30pm Festival brochures and Returning after the epic Momentous (2013), Illuminos present MY (please check website for showtimes) helpful staff are located at The Phoenix in the Stone, a beautiful fable for the four quarters CY CMY Immerse yourself in this groundbreaking our Information Point. of Yorkshire, weaved from shadow and light. Join us for the K metamorphosis as the frebird soars. new work that relives the day just gone. Musicians will use environmental data collected through the day to interpret a piece of music accompanied by a “a great boulder was skyscape created with thousands of cracked in two, and lights embedded within Trinity’s vast roof. out rose a magnifcent, In association with gleaming bird” 3 / Love Arts 2 / Ethereal Freeze Love Arts Festival Glacial Art Ice Sculptors Leeds Corn Exchange, Call Lane, LS1 7BR Briggate, LS1 6LX Friday 6 – 11pm Friday 6 – 11pm Pop up exhibitions, performances, DJs, live Ethereal Freeze is a music and workshops that promote the idea that transient installation, being creative is good for your mental health. using the medium Events will take place underground on the Piazza of ice and light to level of Leeds Corn Exchange. Join in the arts capture the feeting party under the Earth! Presented by Love Arts beauty of fre, wind, Festival and the Art of Recovery. earth and water. 4 / Giving Voice Choir Giving Voice Choir Leeds Corn Exchange, Call Lane, LS1 7BR Friday 7pm Come and sing along with Giving Voice Choir, an inclusive choir for adults with neurological conditions and their carers, funded by Leeds Community Healthcare charity. They sing songs from across the decades, including Here Comes the Sun, You are my Sunshine, Skyfall and more! The choir members are an inspiration... and they hope to inspire you! Booking Essential Child Friendly Installation Participatory Film Performance Music Literature Dance Visual Arts © Bridget Davey 9 / Building Dreams Graham Tansley Civic Hall (rear), Millennium Square, LS1 1UR Friday 7.30 –11pm A cleansing and moving multi-tiered projection that will delight. 6 / Afterglow Atipyka-Visualab Auditorium, The Carriageworks, Millennium Square, LS2 3AD Blackpool 2 September – 6 November Friday 6 –11pm www.blackpool-illuminations.net Afterglow is a cubic frame audio-visual installation. A series of geometric animations Illuminating York 26 – 29 October are projected through six semi-transparent www.illuminatingyork.org.uk screens. With an unusual usage of light, the audience are surrounded by an audio-visual Light Night Leeds Light Night Leeds is journey where time and space is bent upon 6 – 7 October a member of Light up itself, creating a new dimension inside the www.illuminatingyork.org.uk the North, a network structure and guiding the viewers through the Light up Lancaster of seven light festivals four basic natural elements. 4 – 5 November taking place in seven www.lightuplancaster.co.uk cities across the 7 / City College 8 / Laiki#4 North of England Enchanted Parks, Gateshead 6 – 11 December Leeds City College Edyta Ma¸ sior www.enchantedparks.com Leeds City College Technology Campus, Broderick Hall, Leeds City Museum, Quays Culture, Salford Cookridge Street, LS2 8BL Millennium Square, LS2 8BH 9 – 18 December 2015 Friday 7.30 –11pm Friday 6 –11pm www.quaysculture.com The college will be showcasing an eclectic Laiki#4 is an installation which allows the Durham Lumiere assortment of student work, encapsulating audience to interact with the artwork. The sonic 2017 the symbiotic spirit of the elements. Through and visual character of the artwork, together with www.lumiere-festival.com projections of creative arts, games, animation technological components, enable the participant and videos, spectators can revel in the delights to witness transient changes in light and sound. www.lightupthenorth.com of the achievements of college students and This project is part of the Shine Emerging enjoy the diversity of talent and creativity. Artist Programme in partnership with Booking Essential Child Friendly Installation Participatory Film Performance Music Literature Dance Visual Arts 14 / Spark! Town Hall Zone Spark! Victoria Square, The Headrow, LS1 3AD Friday 7pm, 9.30pm 10 / Apparatus Florius Spark! street theatre show is a magical live Tom Dekyvere music, movement and lighting spectacular in Park Square, LS1 2NU which mysterious characters composed of light Thursday and Friday 6 –11pm and sound transform the landscape around them and captivate their audience. Combining This installation high impact drumming, dynamic choreography, shows the fusion playful characters and colourful lighting design. and obstruction of geometric patterns that grow in and through one another. The 15 / Flame Oz structure symbolizes Flame Oz the instinctive fow Victoria Square, The Headrow, LS1 3AD and growth of a plant, Friday 7.30pm, 8.45pm, 10.15pm taking over the city in Back by popular demand! Beautifully search of light. The choreographed fre dancing, stunning work questions the pyrotechnics and a liberal dose of Aussie balance between the exuberance, the Flame Oz Fire Shows are a hot human adaptation and spectacular for an autumn night! digitalisation of our natural environment. 11 / Cycle Cinema Reaction Oxford Row, LS1 3BE Friday 7.30 –11pm Bike generators are a simple, fun, and practical innovation, allowing people to generate electricity through exercise. Come along and hop on a bike generator to power a cinema in the centre of Leeds. 13 / Phase Revival 12 / Firefies Superposition Rob Harrington & Tom Skinn Victoria Hall, Leeds Town Hall, Fixedgrinn Collective The Headrow, LS1 3AD The Crypt, Leeds Town Hall, LS1 3AD Friday 6 –11pm (last entry 10.30pm) Friday 6 –11pm (last entry 10.30pm) Superposition presents a hypnotic installation Set in a magical and mysterious underground based on the principles of quantum mechanics. wood, swarms of ‘frefies’ await to interact with Using swinging pendulums, lenses and light, visitors. This participatory artwork is devised by the project explores the effects of phase and Fixedgrinn.com and uses innovative technology oscillation through a kinetic sculpture, tuned to a in this unique installation. score created from the same mathematics which This project is part of the Shine Emerging drives the pendulums. Dedicated to the memory Artist Programme in partnership with of Becs Andrews. Booking Essential Child Friendly Installation Participatory Film Performance Music Literature Dance Visual Arts © Dave Charnley London Theatre Break Station Zone Including Rail from Leeds 16 / The Falls Dave Lynch Queens Hotel, City Square, pp LS1 1PJ Thursday and Friday from £119 7.30 – 11pm The Falls is a creative exploration of the fow and form of water. A 100ft digital waterfall will take us on a journey from the abstract to the hyper real, driven in perfect synchronization by a musical score inspired by the chaotic forces of nature’s white noise. 17 / Intersection DLA Design & Jo Fairfax Central Square, 29 Wellington Street, LS1 4DL Friday 6 – 11pm Join architects DLA Design and artist Jo Fairfax at the new Central Square building to experience a pre-programmed lighting artwork located in the centre of the building. Stretching up through the main atrium space, the sculpture changes colour and pattern in relation to local historical events + + + and the weather. Select your Choose a Add Rail from Leeds, Attractions, 18 / Open Doors Theatre Show nearby Hotel at the checkout Oyster & more! Mill Hill Chapel Mill Hill Chapel, 6 Mill Hill, LS1 5DQ Friday 6 – 11pm Visit: www.superbreak.com A number of venues including Mill Hill Chapel will open their doors to celebrate Light Night Leeds. Call: 01904 754533 York based call centre, open 7 days a week Why not pop into these iconic buildings during the night. For further information go to lightnightleeds.co.uk Pric e Bcoorreoctk asi natg 17 AEugsuste 20n1t6i, aSulb je c t t o availa bCilithy. iBladse dF onr isetanddardly Installation Participatory Film Performance Music Literature Dance Visual Arts return rail, 3* Hotel and saver theatre ticket for Matilda Victoria Gardens Zone 19 / Waterlight Graffti Antonin Fourneau Victoria Gardens, The Headrow, LS1 3AA Thursday and Friday 6 –11pm Waterlight Graffti is an interactive installation made of a wall embedded with thousands of LEDs which light up if their surface is touched by water. Anything damp becomes a tool to drive or write: a sponge, a brush, a water gun, or even a water atomizer to act as an eco-friendly graffti artist. Developed by French artist, Antonin Fourneau, the project was research led and explores water-sensitive materials. 20 / The 23 / Explore the Indestructible Reef Elements Alison M Smith Leeds Central Library Victoria Gardens, The Headrow, LS1 3AA Central Library, Calverley Street, LS1 3AB Thursday and Friday 6 – 11pm Friday 5 – 10pm The Indestructible Reef is a series of glowing Encounter the unexpected throughout Leeds sculptures created from recycled plastic, crafted Central Library. Experience the elements through to mimic organic forms. Alison Smith transforms art and crafts, flms and displays created waste materials into beautiful objects. She especially for the night. Discover stories of lost aims to illustrate the effects waste plastics have voyages and daring expeditions through our rare on our oceans, with plastic particles already 21 / Owl’s Shadow 22 / H2Us books and historic maps. Join us in our beautiful outweighing plankton by 26:1 in some areas. on the Moonlit Earth Grade II* listed building after dark. Artlink West Yorkshire & Love Arts Douglas Thompson Central Library, Calverley Street, LS1 3AB Central Library, Calverley Street, LS1 3AB Friday 6 –10pm Friday 6 – 10pm We are over 50% water. H2Us is a sculpture Owl’s Shadow on the Moonlit Earth is a 3D with droplets foating in the frame representing shadow show inspired by Robert Plack’s our connection with water. The constantly elemental poem “The Snowy Owl”. Meet your moving droplets will glimmer and glitter as they shadow on the screen and make magical images turn in the rising air currents. Participants will that leap out into space as you participate in be invited, alongside artists Jim Bond and Rozi this original performance by artist Douglas Fuller, to create their own lanterns inspired by Thompson with live music by Max Trewhitt. the sculpture. Booking Essential Child Friendly Installation Participatory Film Performance Music Literature Dance Visual Arts 27 / Footsteps The Headrow Zone Sam Sebbage St John the Evangelist Church Gardens, Mark Lane, LS2 8JA 24 / Giant Dandelions Thursday and Friday 6 – 11pm “Come walk the path, step by step. Let the Olivia d’Aboville footprints take you, where they may. See the Merrion Gardens, Merrion Street, LS2 8JG light, amongst the grass, it will show you, Thursday and Friday 6 – 11pm where they lay.” Footsteps is an interactive The Giant Dandelions installation is a forest installation of grass and light, representing the of 90 giant lit fowers. Through manipulating print each of us leave on our Earth. over 9,000 recycled bottles, the artist refers to This project is part of the Shine Emerging our consumerist society that is polluting our Artist Programme in partnership with 28 / Entranced environment. She creates work that is sensitive Opera North to light, fuidity and movement, allowing you to Howard Assembly Room, 46 New Briggate, walk through the forest with a more sensitive LS1 6NU connection to the environment. Friday 6 – 11pm (drop in anytime) A sea of tiny lights, music on all sides. At this year’s Light Night, enter a world in which music has the power to bewitch, enthral and soothe your spirit. From Suf devotionals to JS Bach, for kora and oud, violin and cello, Entranced threads together transformative music that comes to life all around you. 26 / Elemental Hannah Stained Glass St John the Evangelist Church Gardens, Mark Lane, LS2 8JA Friday 6 – 11pm INSPIRING AND Four hand-crafted stained glass windows will cast their magic and transport you on a journey INVENTIVE INSTALLATIONS through the elements. Travel from earth, through the air, out of the fre and into the cooling water ACROSS THE CITY 25 / [in]visible created by colour and light. Si ieng Fung 28 until 31 October from 6pm – 10pm St John the Evangelist Church, Mark Lane, LS2 8JA Friday 6 – 11pm Artist, Si ieng Fung, uses transparent materials to shed light upon the marvellous architectural detail of historical buildings in Leeds. [in]visible reveals all that has faded into the background of this modern illuminatingyork.org metropolitan city. Visitors are invited to share which buildings have played parts in their lives. Booking Essential Child Friendly Installation Participatory Film Performance Music Literature Dance Visual Arts © Jigs Tenorio

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