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Light Night Leeds will take place over two To stay up to date, visit our website In association with As darkness falls, come and see nights this year. Please read our programme lightnightleeds.co.uk or follow 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 Graffiti – 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, film, 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 24 / Giant Dandelions – 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 Graffiti – Antonin Fourneau 6 –11pm 29 / Light Water, Dark Sky – Squid Soup 6 – 11pm including ’s fully accessible, mobile, Changing 20 / The Indestructible Reef – Alison Smith 6 –11pm 30 / Light Night at the Tetley 6 –11pm Places Toilet (HDU) on Millennium Square. 31 / The Ringing Forest – Juan delGado 6 –11pm 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. Theatre, Northern School of Contemporary 32 / Alchemy – Leeds Beckett University 6 –10.30pm 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 Northern School of Contemporary Dance, 4 / Giving Voice Choir 7pm Participatory Visual Arts Leeds College of Art School 6.30 –11pm 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 / Fireflies – 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. 8:20pm to watch the conclusion of this If you’d like to make your own lantern and Afterwards, you’ll be able to leave your bike celebration of light and Leeds. join the parade, workshops will be taking at the secure and free CityConnect bike park place on Sunday 25 September and so you can enjoy other Light Night events. Sunday 2 October. Find out more at Places are strictly limited. Register now at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/light- http://cityconnectlightnightcycleride. night-lantern-making-workshops- eventbrite.co.uk tickets-27430953721 cyclecityconnect.co.uk © Handmade Parade and Craig Shaw Photography

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

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5 / The Phoenix in the Stone 1 / Today Come and see light installations, Illuminos BREAD Art & Eve Harrison breathtaking Civic Hall, Millennium Square, LS1 1UR C Central Atrium, Trinity Leeds, projections, and try some

M Thursday and Friday 7.30pm –11pm Albion Street, LS1 5ER delicious street food. Y Thursday and Friday 7.30 – 10.30pm Returning after the epic Momentous (2013), Illuminos present CM Festival brochures and MY (please check website for showtimes) helpful staff are located at The Phoenix in the Stone, a beautiful fable for the four quarters CY of Yorkshire, weaved from shadow and light. Join us for the CMY Immerse yourself in this groundbreaking our Information Point. K new work that relives the day just gone. metamorphosis as the firebird soars. 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 magnificent, In association with gleaming bird”

3 / Love Arts 2 / Ethereal Freeze Love Arts Festival Glacial Art Ice Sculptors , 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 fleeting party under the Earth! Presented by Love Arts beauty of fire, 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

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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 Friday 6 –11pm 2 September – 6 November www.blackpool-illuminations.net Afterglow is a cubic frame audio-visual installation. A series of geometric animations Illuminating York are projected through six semi-transparent 26 – 29 October screens. With an unusual usage of light, the www.illuminatingyork.org.uk audience are surrounded by an audio-visual Light Night Leeds journey where time and space is bent upon Light Night Leeds is 6 – 7 October itself, creating a new dimension inside the a member of Light up www.illuminatingyork.org.uk the North, a network structure and guiding the viewers through the Light up Lancaster four basic natural elements. of seven light festivals taking place in seven 4 – 5 November www.lightuplancaster.co.uk cities across the 7 / City College 8 / Laiki#4 North of Enchanted Parks, Gateshead 6 – 11 December Leeds City College Edyta Ma¸ sior www.enchantedparks.com Leeds City College Technology Campus, Broderick Hall, , Cookridge Street, LS2 8BL Millennium Square, LS2 8BH Quays Culture, Salford Friday 7.30 –11pm Friday 6 –11pm 9 – 18 December 2015 www.quaysculture.com The college will be showcasing an eclectic Laiki#4 is an installation which allows the assortment of student work, encapsulating audience to interact with the artwork. The sonic Durham Lumiere 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 Town Hall Zone 14 / Spark! 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 This installation them and captivate their audience. Combining shows the fusion high impact drumming, dynamic choreography, and obstruction of playful characters and colourful lighting design. geometric patterns that grow in and through one another. The 15 / Flame Oz structure symbolizes Flame Oz the instinctive flow Victoria Square, The Headrow, LS1 3AD and growth of a plant, Friday 7.30pm, 8.45pm, 10.15pm taking over the city in search of light. The Back by popular demand! Beautifully work questions the choreographed fire dancing, stunning balance between the pyrotechnics and a liberal dose of Aussie human adaptation and exuberance, the Flame Oz Fire Shows are a hot

digitalisation of our © Dave Charnley spectacular for an autumn night! 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 / Fireflies 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 ‘fireflies’ 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.

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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 flow 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, 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. York based call centre, open 7 days a week Why not pop into these iconic buildings during Call: 01904 754533 the night. For further information go to lightnightleeds.co.uk

Price Bookingcorrect as at 17 AugustEssential 2016, Subject to availability. Child Based Friendly on standard Installation Participatory Film Performance Music Literature Dance Visual Arts return rail, 3* Hotel and saver theatre ticket for Matilda Victoria Gardens Zone

19 / Waterlight Graffiti Antonin Fourneau Victoria Gardens, The Headrow, LS1 3AA Thursday and Friday 6 –11pm Waterlight Graffiti 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 graffiti 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 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, films 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 floating 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 The Headrow Zone 27 / Footsteps 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 flowers. 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 28 / Entranced our consumerist society that is polluting our Artist Programme in partnership with environment. She creates work that is sensitive Opera North to light, fluidity 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 Sufi devotionals to JS Bach, for kora and oud, violin and cello, Entranced threads together transformative music that comes to life all around you. © Jigs Tenorio

26 / Elemental Hannah Stained Glass St John the Evangelist Church Gardens, Mark Lane, LS2 8JA Friday 6 – 11pm Four hand-crafted stained glass windows will INSPIRING AND cast their magic and transport you on a journey through the elements. Travel from earth, through INVENTIVE INSTALLATIONS the air, out of the fire and into the cooling water ACROSS THE CITY 25 / [in]visible created by colour and light. Si ieng Fung St John the Evangelist Church, 28 until 31 October from 6pm – 10pm 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.

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29 / Light Water, Dark Sky Squid Soup Leeds Dock, LS10 1PZ Thursday and Friday 6 – 11pm Immerse yourself in this huge, 3D installation, by digital artists Squidsoup, as it floats in the middle of Leeds Dock. This incredible piece, set to a water inspired soundscape, is made up of 6,000 lights that pulsate and change colour, giving an overwhelming impression of movement.

with the natural physical environment to form its 30 / Light Night at the Tetley cultural landscape. The Ringing Forest explores the forest environment through the lens of the The Tetley artist’s auditory experience, investigating the The Tetley, Hunslet Road, LS10 1JQ perception of sound and movement, producing a Friday 6 – 11pm main programme, Family pool of light that challenges viewers to shift their Art Workshop 6–10pm, DJ Set 7 –11pm perspective on nature. For Light Night The Tetley will be hosting a range of activities including a special multi- media installation, a drop-in film screening of The Way Things Go by Fischli and Weiss and a Family Art Workshop. Our exhibitions of work by Jonathan Trayte and Stass Paraskos will also be open late, and there’s a DJ set by Ed Vector in the Bar and Kitchen.

31 / The Ringing Forest Juan delGado The Tetley, Hunslet Road, LS10 1JQ Friday 6 – 11pm The forest has a unique character. Its sense of place is a function of its history that combines

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32 / Alchemy 34 / Light Show Leeds Beckett University First Direct Arena Queen Square, LS2 8AJ Clay Pit Lane, LS2 8BY Thursday 6 – 10.30pm Friday 7 – 11pm Alchemy experiments with the elements Leeds’ flagship event space, where explorations of attraction and First Direct Arena, hosts exciting repulsion are played out through an live music, comedy, spectacular ‘Alchemist’s Battle’ in Queen Square entertainment and sporting Garden. The event includes spoken word, events. For Light Night, media and ensemble performances that they are putting on re-consider how nature evolves into an extra special more and more complex structures. light display. Audience members are invited to intervene and influence the performance action according to the rules of the performance game.

33 / Fire Balls Aragorn Dick-Read Queen Square, LS2 8AJ Friday 6 – 11pm Great forms of fire! Large cut out steel shapes by Caribbean artist, Aragorn Dick-Read, will be set alight as night sets in. These provocative sculptures evoke primal energy and use the vitality of fire to bring life to his intricately cut designs. Dancing figures embracing nature, or profound symbolic patterns that embody the oppositions faced by culture and the elements. © Mark Pickthall

Booking Essential Child Friendly Installation Participatory Film Performance Music Literature Dance Visual Arts 40 / We are Quarry Hill Zone Universe Leeds College of Music, Northern School of Contemporary Dance, Leeds College 36 / Bish Bash Bosh of Art, Oscar Barany, Nicolas Dixon, Motiv Yorkshire Dance Productions. Supported by Leeds BID 3 St Peter’s Square, LS9 8AH Kirkgate Market Event Space, Friday 6 – 11pm 28-34 George St, LS2 7HY Yorkshire Dance opens its doors to the public Friday 6.30 –11pm for its annual scratch night showcasing some This collaborative installation of improvised of the fieriest choreographers from Yorkshire music, dance, digital visual art and animation, and beyond. As always, Bish Bash Bosh explores the relationship between the elements promises to be a wonderful and wacky night in the universe and the human interactions featuring Clouds, a new work in development which make up our communities. © Sara Teresa by Leeds-based contemporary dance Internationally renowned artist Nicolas Dixon company, the Middleton Corpus. has been commissioned to paint the 100ft wall inside the iconic Kirkgate Market. To mark the unveiling of this stunning new 37 / Manic Chord’s Elemental Takeover work on Light Night, award winning Leeds based video production company Motiv West Yorkshire Playhouse Productions will be augmenting the piece with Playhouse Square, Quarry Hill, LS2 7UP brand new animations. Friday 6 – 9pm Drop in for an evening of elemental interventions hosted by Leeds theatre-makers, Manic Chord. Featuring performances by First Floor, live music, 38 / Patrick Interventions games and a playful look at the themes behind their new show, The Economy of Ecology, before East Street Arts, Claire Tomas its world premiere at West Yorkshire Playhouse Patrick Studios, Saint Mary’s Lane, 35 / Compound on Saturday 8 October. You’ll be blown away at Mabgate, LS9 7EH Friday 6 – 11pm A partnership project between Northern Quarry Hill on Light Night. Ballet, Phoenix Dance Theatre, Northern A one-woman multimedia sketch show. A School of Contemporary Dance & series of site responsive works, taking place Yorkshire Dance throughout Patrick Studios. An entity, which Stanley & Audrey Burton Theatre, associates various elements of corporate Northern Ballet, 2 St Cecilia Street, working life. This piece encompasses video, Quarry Hill, LS2 7PA installation, performance and sculpture, Friday 6.45pm, 7.30pm, 8.15pm, 9pm creating dialogue between mediums. Limited capacity, free tickets on the night Submerge yourself in a visually arresting 39 / The Ultiverse environment, defined and sculpted by light designed by Charles Webber (Faulty Optic, Akeelah Bertram Sadlers Wells) where striking choreography Patrick Studios, Saint Mary’s Lane, by award winning choreographer Gary Mabgate, LS9 7EH Clarke and Phoenix Dance Theatre’s Friday 6 – 11pm Antonio Borriello, utilises the 4 elements Enter The Ultiverse, a light and sound installation of life as a springboard for this energetic transporting you to another dimension. Refracted creation that unfolds right in front of you. light and vibrating audio fuse the four elements together, in this multi-sensory environment.

Booking Essential Child Friendly Installation Participatory Film Performance Music Literature Dance Visual Arts University Zone 45 / A Warm Welcome Emma Bimpson in collaboration with David Oluwale Memorial Association (DOMA) Parkinson Building, LS2 9JT Friday 6 – 10pm 41 / YAA DEVI DOMA and local refugees explore relationships Devika Dance Theatre between Leeds and its new citizens. Discover stage@leeds, , LS2 9JT oral and written stories of displacement and Workshop: Friday 6:30pm re-rooting to the earth and Leeds’ history of Performance: Friday 7:30pm welcoming newcomers. A meeting of the 46 / Colonise Night traditional and the modern, YAA DEVI Jane Scott and Elizabeth Gaston 49/ Thread is a powerful and Parkinson Building, LS2 9JT SAA-uk passionate new dance Friday 6 – 10pm Clothworkers Centenary Concert Hall work that uses traditional You are invited to walk through a patterned, Foyer, School of Music, University of Leeds, Indian dance styles, knitted tunnel, hung in the campus pergola. Using Cavendish Road, LS2 9JT animation and visual the UV and coloured light torches, experience Friday 8pm, 8.50pm, 9.30pm effects. Whether you perceptual changes to the patterns in the fabric, Thread is a synthesis of music, dance and have experienced the magic inspired by Earth and the natural environment. light that responds to and brings to life the of South Indian Classical dance ‘Dreamer’ a sculpture by Quentin Bell on view before, or are new to the artform, 47 / For All Time in Clothworkers Courtyard. This work aims you will find much to love in this to capture the movement, richness, fluidity, exciting and entertaining show. Laura Wilson Treasures of Brotherton Gallery, Parkinson strength as well as our innate relationship with Building, University of Leeds, LS2 9JT textiles, its history and the workforce. Friday 6.30 – 9.30pm 43 / Up and Up and Up Towards “The other two, slight air and purging fire, Are Brad McCormick (Cap-a-Pie) both with thee, wherever I abide”. Shakespeare’s Parkinson Building, Woodhouse Lane, LS2 9JT own works and later adaptations. Join us as Friday 6pm, 7pm, 8pm live performances bring words to life from the exhibition For All Time: Shakespeare in Yorkshire. Up and Up and Up Towards is a piece of performance art about communication, based on research by Dr Lou Harvey (School of Education). It is a ten-minute interactive performance of two stories linked by movement through air and light, © India Pearce followed by brief audience discussion. 42 / Behind the Illusion 50 / Beauty in Harmony 44 / Elements of Love: India Pearce Cupid and Psyche Nankai University Student Choir The Stanley and Audrey Burton Gallery, Clothworkers Centenary Concert Hall Foyer, Parkinson Building, Woodhouse Lane, University of Leeds Cavendish Road, LS2 9JT University of Leeds, LS2 9JT Parkinson Building, LS2 9JT 48 / World of Ice and Fire Friday 6.30pm Friday 6 –10pm Friday 6 –10pm Parkinson Court, University of Leeds, LS2 9JT Immerse yourself in the beautiful sound of the Visitors are offered a unique and one-off Step into a North African Roman tale of the Soul’s Friday 6 – 10pm Nankai University Student Choir, who will be experience to step behind the illusion and journey to fulfilment. Let Zephyr transport you We often imagine the world as being made up touring the UK performing an exquisite repetoire become the star in a colourful display which through the air to Cupid’s palace; follow beautiful of just four elements: earth, water, fire and air. of Chinese folk songs. Let their soaring voices explores the materiality of film. Behind the Psyche (Soul) as she uses fire to discover if her Medieval people thought the same. Come and introduce you to another side of Chinese culture Illusion is an interactive extension of India unseen husband is a monster; complete three explore a space inspired by elemental imagery while uniting us through music; a language we Pearce’s FUAM Prize nominated visual art piece. tasks to gain his trust and her immortality. from medieval maps. all understand.

Booking Essential Child Friendly Installation Participatory Film Performance Music Literature Dance Visual Arts 51 / Sculpture for Peace Descend the stairs into the dark printing chambers. Hear the sounds of Victorian Melvyn Kelly printing presses clattering into action for the Emmanuel Centre, University of Leeds, first time in 200 years. Meet the mad printer. Woodhouse Lane, LS2 9JT See the books illuminated by flickering Friday 6 – 10pm candlelight. Join us to help create a beautiful illuminated peace sculpture and to reflect on what peace 53 / Dimensions means to you. Make an origami crane, a traditional symbol of peace, accompanied Katherine Lacey by some live acoustic music. Each crane will School of Fine Art, University of Leeds, be incorporated into an illuminated sculpture University Road, LS2 9JT suspended above our unique glass floor. Friday 6 – 10pm 3D effects are projection mapped onto the new fine art building. Focusing on a space 52 / Books that go Bump in the Night theme with music that links to the video, the aim is to transport the viewer through time Rebecca Bowd and spacial dimensions. The piece is an Print Room, School of English, University of audio visual sensory experience. Leeds, Woodhouse Lane, LS2 9JT Friday 6 –10pm (not accessible to wheelchairs or pushchairs)

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On the Street Street Entertainment Spark! Light Triathlon parade Stumble upon the weird, wonderful and wacky Share your photos on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram starts on Briggate as you experience Leeds on Light Night. With Thursday 7.30pm – 8.20pm music, dance, fire, drumming and puppetry. # lightnightleeds Victoria Gardens Thursday 9.30pm Spectacular Fire Show Victoria Square Flame Oz Friday 7pm, 9.30pm, Victoria Square Friday 7.30pm, 8.45pm, 10.15pm Victoria Gardens Friday 7.45pm, 9pm, 10pm © Dan Brady © Suzanne ’09

Local Artisans’ Market

Briggate, LS1 6LX Friday 3pm – 10.30pm Following the success of last year, a market displaying the work of local artisans will be returning to Briggate. Explore the wide range of handmade gifts and enjoy the lively atmosphere on one of Leeds’ most famous streets. There will be a variety of art, ceramics, print and silversmithing at this delightful market.

Light Night Bites

Cookridge Street, Millennium Square, Leeds Festival Chorus Victoria Gardens Thursday and Friday 5pm – 11pm Briggate Friday 6.30pm Light Night is bringing a whole host of cuisine Victoria Gardens Friday 8pm into the city with dishes to suit everyone. City Museum Steps Friday 9pm An exciting food market will spread across Leeds Festival Chorus has 160 performing Cookridge Street, Millennium Square and members singing to professional standards Victoria Gardens. Whether you desire a Spanish based on this year’s theme of the elements. They churro, an Indian curry or a simple warm cup of present classical choral music and for Light Night tea, there will be something delicious for you. Booking Essential Child Friendly will be wearingInstallation light scarves and Participatory head torches! Film Performance Music Literature Dance Visual Arts Light Night Self-Guided Trails

Light Night Leeds has a whole range of Participatory Events amazing activities and events across the city Thursday’s Light Triathlon Victoria Gardens centre ready for you to explore. Too many Laiki#4 Leeds City Museum events to choose from? If you need a little help here are some suggestions of routes you Owl’s Shadow on the Moonlit Earth Leeds may want to follow depending on your area Central Library of interest. All trails and routes are accessible Waterlight Graffiti Victoria Gardens unless stated in the listing. Fireflies Town Hall

Family Friendly Trail SHINE Projects – encounter the work of new Giant Dandelions Merrion Gardens and emerging artists. The Phoenix in the Stone Civic Hall Thursday’s Light Triathlon Victoria Gardens Owl’s Shadow on the Moonlit Earth Fireflies Town Hall Central Library Laiki#4 Leeds City Museum Waterlight GraffitiVictoria Gardens Footsteps St John the Evangelist Church Apparatus Florius Park Square Gardens Flame Oz Victoria Square A unique mix of Fireflies Town Hall

Light Trail – see some of Leeds’ landmark buildings and spaces in a new light. vibrant restaurants, Light Water, Dark Sky South Bank The Falls Queens Hotel Intersection Central Square Phase Revival Town Hall bars and street food The Phoenix in the Stone Civic Hall [in]visible St John the Evangelist Church Light Art Cities Entranced Howard Assembly Room Symposium vans at Trinity Leeds Performance Trail – encounter a range of Symposium live shows across the city centre* The Carriageworks, Get Compound ‘ticket’ first from Yorkshire Dance Millennium Sq, LS2 3AD 6pm Bish Bash Bosh St Peter’s Square Friday 10am –5pm 6.15pm Manic Chord’s Elemental (Booking essential) Takeover West Yorkshire Playhouse 6.45pm Compound Stanley and Audrey Hear from light artists, festival producers Burton Theatre and the commercial sector who will 7.20pm We Are Universe Kirkgate Market discuss four themes: place, artist, Event Space audience and sustainability. This event is 7.50pm Entranced Howard Assembly Room the opportunity to harness and develop what is already being delivered across 8.20pm Owl’s Shadow on the Moonlit the globe and how we can enhance Earth Leeds Central Library the experience for artist, audience and Find Trinity Kitchen on 8.45pm Flame Oz Town Hall their city. Tickets from £20. For further 9pm Spark! Victoria Square information and to book go to 9.30pm Alchemy Queen Square, Leeds First Floor, above Boots Beckett University www.leeds.gov.uk/lightartcities *other times are available CS16-012LDPM w

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