Faculty staff, researchers and students to illuminate campus for Light Night Leeds
Light Night Leeds takes place on 28 and 29 October.
Researchers, staff and students from the Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Cultures have developed an exciting range of interactive installations and performances for Light Night Leeds, which returns to the University campus later this month.
The free annual arts and light festival takes place across the city on 28 and 29 October from 6pm to 9.30pm. This year's campus programme highlights cross-disciplinary research spanning street puppetry, microscopic biology and digital projections.
The Faculty’s contributions reflect a broad range of creative research and practice.
- The School of Design’s Technical team have joined colleagues from the Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences for Astralis, a vibrant carnival dance performance inspired by Greek mythology and the stories written in the stars, performed by the Boyz group at RJC Dance.
- Dr Lynn Wray from the School of Media and Communication has collaborated with artist Rebecca Smith (Urban Projections) on The Heat Beneath Our Feet, an audiovisual projection outside the Edward Boyle Library that visualises geothermal energy research from the School of Earth and Environment
- PhD researcher Hannah Fox (School of English) has co-created The Clothworkers’ Yarn, a set of illuminated shadow carousels projecting folkloric imagery to accompany the Quite Shameless vampire exhibition at the Treasures of the Brotherton Gallery
- Visitors to Clothworkers Concert Hall can experience It’s About Time, an immersive projection-mapped dance performance coordinated by Paul Miller, formerly of the School of Music, featuring original student compositions alongside performers from the Northern School of Contemporary Dance
- PhD student Bev Adams (School of Performance and Cultural Industries) brings giant street puppets Gaia and Maia to life to explore climate change communication
- Poet and Lecturer in Creative Writing JR Carpenter (School of English) presents Scores for Walking, a constantly evolving text projection inspired by the Yorkshire Dales
- BA Fine Art graduate Livi Smith (School of Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies) presents Symbiosis at stage@leeds, using large-scale video projections to reveal the microscopic interactions of bacteria
- BA Fine Art graduates Melissa Nesbitt and Amy Jamieson (School of Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies) invite you to walk amongst dappled light and shifting shadows in an installation inspired by the idea of Komorebi, the Japanese term to describe shimmers of sunlight filtering through trees.
Full details of performance times and locations across campus are available on the University's Open Up website.
