Explore Lancaster in a new light
While Lancaster BID encourages residents and visitors to follow its shop windows trail launched at the festival, Lancaster University promises a warm welcome to its Exploration Zone at The Storey.
Last year, when Light Up Lancaster couldn’t go ahead owing to lockdown restrictions, Lancaster BID piloted Keep The Light On where various city centre shops hosted light art.
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The artists involved are Hannah Fox and her Midnight Feast; Ludus Dance’s Imagination Dancing; More Music’s Free Your Mind; Kira Zhigalina with Nebulae and Rose Atherton’s A Bird in the Hand.
Their work can be discovered at Ethel & Em and Analogue in New Street; an empty pharmacy in Dalton Square, the former William Hill bookmakers in Common Garden Street and a unit in Marketgate.
Over at The Storey, Lancaster University’s new Exploration Zone invites explorers of all ages to try a range of interactive and hands-on activities including a tour of the night sky, creating a light show, learning about light festivals worldwide and getting to grips with quantum physics through the cube and wall of randomness.
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Professor Dame Sue Black, Lancaster University’s Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Social Engagement, said: “Light Up Lancaster allows the university to bring our world-changing research to life and showcase the work of our amazing academics.”
“We’re very proud to be participating and sponsoring Light Up Lancaster which is just one of the ways that the university engages with the local community.”
All Exploration Zone events will be Covid-safe. For more information please visit www.lightuplancaster.co.uk/whats-on
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Hide AdThe shop windows trail and Exploration Zone are just two of the amazing free events at this year’s Light Up Lancaster festival.
To discover the Light Up Lancaster Trail, download the free LoyalFree app via the App Store and a printed map will be available soon from Lancaster Visitor Information Centre, also the information hub for any festival queries (01524 582394).
Light Up Lancaster is organised by Lancaster City Council, Lancaster BID and The Dukes. It is funded by Arts Council England, Lancaster City Council and Lancaster BID.
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