A popular public art festival returns to Worcester next month.
Light Night is coming back to the city for a fifth time on Wednesday, February 14 and Thursday, February 15 between 6pm and 9pm each evening.
The event, run by Severn Arts, sees giant light-based and interactive artworks popping up around the city centre.
Evanescent, a large-scale piece capturing the magic of bubbles, by Atelier Sisu will take over Cornmarket car park and Juan Fuentes’s Kinetic Perspective, a 20m long installation creating illusions that will “thrill and captivate”, will fill Cathedral Square.
What's happening at Light Night 2024?
Also included in the 2024 programme and highlighting this year’s theme of connectivity is:
• Network by Gemma Wood, taking us on a spellbinding exploration inside the mind.
• Paul Alty’s Black Hole - End of Time immersive multimedia experience.
• The Nectary by Alison Smith and Dr Chris Hassall, inviting the audience to mimic a pollinating insect.
• New Worlds by Halina Rice, an indoor installation bringing a blend of emotive music, lights and visual.
• Aura dance performance, merging music and visuals, commissioned by Dancefest.
• Stained Glass Window at St Andrew’s Church illuminated and shining brightly in the night.
Artists Dom Breadmore and Anne Forgan will be working with community groups to design illuminated banners which will form part of their Light Night Pop-up People’s Pavilion in Cornmarket.
The Artery Studios are creating an immersive walk-through light experience, giving insight into a neurodivergent mind.
And in the week leading up to the festival artists Lou Baker and Oly Bliss will be inviting you to join them as they make sculptures to add to their immersive, glow-in-the-dark installation.
The event remains free to access, thanks to a one-year project grant from Arts Council England secured by the festival organisers Severn Arts.
Additional support has come from funders Worcester City Council, Worcestershire County Council, University of Worcester, The Elmley Foundation and Worcester BID; and supporters and sponsors including Startin Group, BeFibre, Sound & Art at St. Swithun’s, Guthrie Roberts Ltd, The Kiln, Crowngate Shopping Centre, PB Signs Ltd and All Saints Worcester.
Severn Arts is appealing for donations to enhance the event and has a target to raise £5,000 to help bring the Black Hole - End of Time installation by Paul Alty to Light Night this year and create another spectacular programme for Worcester.
Laura Worsfold, Severn Arts CEO, said: “We hope you will join us again and thank everyone for your support.
“We are looking for donations to help us continue to offer this amazing free festival, now a mainstay of the cultural offer in Worcester, so please do dig deep if you can and donate to https://www.severnarts.org.uk/Appeal/light-night-worcester.”
Organisers Severn Arts also want to hear from anyone interested in volunteering at Light Night.
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