We are a group of performers and circus enthusiasts who meet regularly to practice and share our skills in like-minded company. We run weekly skill-shares on Tuesdays 6pm-9pm at Open Source Arts, Leeds, focusing on learning new skills together in supportive company.

Worldbeaters Music (UK)

Back by popular demand, Spark! return with their signature high-impact drumming, stunning costumes and kaleidoscopic lighting design. These other worldly, playful characters communicate with dramatic, choreographed music, interacting with the crowd.

Sponsored by Trinity Leeds.

Leeds Hackspace (UK)

Find a moment of peace away from Leeds’ bustling streets. Pulsing lights
will guide your breaths, with a calming atmosphere to rest your mind. Once
refreshed, you can continue your Light Night Leeds adventure or stay a little
longer to design your own mindfulness pattern.
 

And, whilst there, don’t miss the Carpet pages from the Book of Lindisfarne by Andy Sloss

Emma Gasson (UK)

When shafts of light dance and bounce off moving water, the effect is hypnotic and meditative. Guided by an ambient soundtrack, trail your hand through water to generate ripples which are reflected at scale inside an atmospheric brick archway.

SHINE Emerging Artist Programme, commissioned by Light Up The North.

Collectif Coin (France)

Globoscope is an immersive installationmade up of over 200 luminous spheres, each one representing a pixel. Light and sound pulse through in a changing sequence, transforming and expanding the gardens of The Junction. Co-production: Insight Outside.
 

Originally created at Lyon for the Fête des Lumières 2014.
 

Sponsored by The Junction

Rhian Cooke (UK)

Join Leeds-based artist Rhian Cooke and Yorkshire Contemporary for a family friendly workshop exploring the different kinds of lights that we see at night. These could be shooting stars, streetlights, a shiny slug, car headlights zooming past, a spaceship hovering in the sky or the moonlight glistening on a shimmery lake.

Heather Peak & Ivan Morison (UK)

Moon Palace is an artwork and working mobile observatory. Inspired by civil engineer and astronomer John Smeaton and the observatory he built in East Leeds, Moon Palace brings together creativity and art, engineering and science, collaboration and public good.

Co-produced by East Leeds Project and LEEDS 2023 and commissioned by Foxglove and LEEDS 2023 for Smeaton300. Developed in partnership with the School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Leeds.

Pif-Paf (UK)

Celestial Sound Cloud is an interactive digital sound and light sculpture inspired by cosmic clouds and nebulas – the clouds of dust and gases in which stars are formed. Underneath the suspended sculpture, you can sing, move or dance to create your own visual and sound experience.
 

Sponsored by Wellington Place