A CELEBRATION OF ART, PERFORMANCE, LIGHT and FIRE

FREE

Blackpool Town Centre

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LIGHT ODYSSEY

AN EPIC JOURNEY OF LIGHT, SPACE, AND SOUND

7pm, 18 October Winter Gardens

90 musicians – 15 international animators - a one-o , spectacular, live experience to transform the ballroom’s magnicent interior in jaw-dropping 3D.

Debussy | Barber | Saint-Saëns | Bernstein | Copland | Tickets from Vaughan Williams | Britten £20 http://www.ticketmaster.co.uk/light-odyssey

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http://www.ticketmaster.co.uk/light-odysseyNOW CARNIVAL OF THE LIGHTS & THURS 25 OCT ILLUMINATED TRAM PARADE 6pm

The Carnival of the Lights returns for its 2nd year, featuring Blackpool’s illuminated trams parading in convoy, and led by the illuminated drummers from Worldbeaters Music - Spark! – Lightpool favourites. Local dance company Skool of Street present a new performance at the Comedy Carpet to top o the proceedings.

And the much-loved Lumidogs returns. Light up your pooch and join us for a mass-illuminated dog walk as part of the Carnival of the Lights, where the best dressed canine takes home a box of doggy goodies. RUSH will be a dance, light and projection-mapping masterpiece in Blackpool on the iconic site of the old police station, scheduled for demolition. Inspired by the post-2008 global cultural phenomenon of protest and riot, RUSH tells the stories that matter to Blackpool and Wyre residents in a huge release of energy and creativity. It develops into a celebration of the power within community – Blackpool always keeping the lights on.

Free to attend but ticket essential: register for http://www.leftcoast.org.uk yours at leftcoast.org.uk http://www.leftcoast.org.uk Fri 26 Oct | 7.30pm | 45mins Bonny Street Police Station & Carpark DANCING IN THE MOONLIGHT celebrating Luke Jerram’s Museum of the Moon

For one night only, dance in the UKs most feted ballroom under the moonlight of Luke Jerram’s spectacular installation, a 7m pixel-perfect replica of our closest astral neighbour. The Tower esident organist will play an appropriate selection of night-themed classics.

Fri 26 Oct | 5-7pm | FREE | Ballroom IGNiPOTENS PYRONIX For its UK premier, Belgian performance troupe Pyronix invite you to immerse yourself in a fantastic universe where re is at the heart of an endless struggle. Ignipotens presents the ruthless competition that binds the most powerful re masters. With precise choreography and intense music, you’ll be taken on an intense and explosive visual journey.

Sat 27 Oct | St. John’s Square | 7pm | 30mins The Lightpool Festival Art Trail

A self-guided tour over 3 nights. Recognisable indoor and outdoor spaces will be transformed by spectacular artworks and captivating performances by local, national and international artists.

Nightly, 25 – 27 October. 6.30pm to 10pm.

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Blackpool Town Centre

http://www.visitblackpool.com/lightpoolfestival http://www.visitblackpool.com/lightpoolfestivalVisitblackpool.com/lightpool festival http://www.visitblackpool.com/lightpoolfestival Through the Illuminations season we have been working with communities across Fylde and Wyre.

New for 2018, Fit2Glow, in partnership with Blackpool FC Community Trust, has seen hundreds of primary school kids take part in glow-in-the dark football tournaments.

The Grand Final will take place in the Winter Garden’s Olympia on 25th October

The much-loved Lumidogs returns, o ering you the chance to make light-up costumes for your pooch, culminating in a mass-illuminated dog walk as part of the Carnival of the Lights.

Join us at Houndshill Shopping Centre on Saturday 20th October for our town centre workshop

LIGHT AND THE CREATIVE ECONOMY: LUTN in GRAYSON PERRY: THE VANITY OF partnership with Nesta SMALL DIFFERENCES

Conference | 18-19 Oct | Winter Gardens | Free Exhibition | until 15 Dec ’18 | Grundy Art Gallery | Free http://www.grundyartgallery.com/ The 7 leading northern light festivals of the Light Up the North (LUTN) network, and Blackpool is the last stop for this innovation agency Nesta are inviting artists, touring exhibition from Turner producers, funders, and cultural businesses Prize winner Grayson Perry, together to explore and debate the creative exploring his fascination with economy, alternative forms of nance in the taste and the visual story it tells sector and the social and environmental of our interior lives. sustainability of our cities. Attendance is free, register at www.nesta.org.uk/events https://www.nesta.org.uk/event/ The Lightpool festival began The Lightpool Festival 2018 is a in 2016, to celebrate the festival of light and re that will Illuminations by bringing take place between October 18 contemporary light and re and 27 in Blackpool as the climax artists to Blackpool to be to the world-famous Blackpool inspired by the town’s unique Illuminations. relationship with light. The festival has been made The festival won the Large possible with signicant public Tourism Event at the funding from Arts Council Lancashire Tourism awards in England (ACE). VisitBlackpool, 2017. LeftCoast, BBC Philharmonic and ACE are Lead Partners.

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