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
Illumaphonium (UK)
A series of interactive musical towers contain circular ‘halos’ which detect and respond to you; the closer you are, the brighter and louder they become. Using the notes from a pentatonic scale (the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 5th and 6th notes of a major scale), all the sounds work in harmony together.
Sponsored by Wellington Place
Outpoint Studio with sound design by Henry Howe (UK).
Rever, meaning to dream, invites us into the realm of the subconscious mind.
Light pulses and dances across vertical parallel battens, creating a captivating symphony of illumination and sound. It evokes a sense of wonder and a dream-state of consciousness.
Sponsored by WSP.
Step into the fantastical world of The BookBinder. This spellbinding fairytale figure conjures magic from the remarkable British Library collection. Watch as bird, beast, boat and balloon are brought to life with an inky flick of needle and thread. This large-scale, inventive projection of animation and sound will surely be a highlight of Light Night Leeds 2024.
Co-produced by the British Library
Kindly supported by Markel UK, The Queens Hotel and Schroders Personal Wealth
Join us for the launch of 'Fleeting Seasons' an exhibition of botanical art by Poppy-Lee Jennings celebrating the nature of swift seasonal changes.
This exhibition features pieces exploring the botanical and mycological species spotted in green spaces across Leeds. It includes watercolour paintings, pencil sketches, block prints, ink drawings, collages, and mixed-media art.
Join us for the official launch of this very special exhibition, the first of its kind outside the Middle East and North Africa.
In partnership with the Lakes International Comic Art Festival and the British Council, in the exquisite surrounds of Left Bank Leeds, we are so proud to host this original installation which focuses on the work of twelve Palestinian comic artists.