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LightNight Liverpool, the city’s popular one-night arts festival, is back on Friday 17 May 2019 for its tenth year.
There are over 100 free events for people of all ages and interests; offering everything from street performances, concerts and light installations to hands-on workshops, exhibitions and talks at over 50 locations across the city centre from 5pm until late at night.
The full programme is released today, audiences can buy their festival guide from the following outlets for £3. Sale proceeds will go towards funding the festival helping to keep it free.
Festival Guide sales outlets:
Baltic Triangle: Baltic Bakehouse, Baltic Market, Baltic Roastery, Constellations, Tusk at Northern Lights. Waterfront: British Music Experience, Merseyside Maritime Museum, Museum of Liverpool, Open Eye Gallery, Tate Liverpool. City Centre: Merseyrail Loop Line Mtogo Stores at Moorfields Station, Central Station, Lime St Lower Level & James Street Stations, Bluecoat, dot-art, FACT, Liverpool ONE Info Centre, News from Nowhere, Playhouse Theatre. St George’s Quarter: Central Library, Walker Art Gallery, World Museum. Hope Street Quarter: Blackburne House, Everyman Theatre, Liverpool Cathedral, Unity Theatre, Victoria Gallery & Museum. Further afield: Atkinson Art Gallery (Southport), Baltic Bakehouse (Allerton Road), Lady Lever Art Gallery (Port Sunlight), Williamson Art Gallery (Birkenhead).
Guides can also be ordered online at www.lightnightliverpool.co.uk
LightNight 2019 celebrates the 10th year of the free independent festival, produced by Open Culture and is always a memorable night. Here we round up some of the special moment’s audiences can experience on their culture crawl around the city.
Rhythms of the Candomblé Orixás, Museum of Liverpool Steps, 21:00 — 22:00
A show-stopping dusk performance from samba reggae drumming band Batala Mersey. Performed by over 30 drummers in traditional costume as they pay homage to the spiritual significance of the band’s Afro-Brazilian roots and tell the story of three orixás.
Drag Queen Story Time with The Nightbus, FACT, 17:00 —19:00
Drop in with your family and enjoy a series of stories inspired by fairy tales, empowering characters and turning archetypes on their head. The Nightbus is a performer and theatre-maker based in London and the Northwest. The Nightbus interrogates society’s capacity to accept and champion queer identity, race and religion through the media of drag, storytelling and spoken word.
Pachamama, Liverpool Central Library, 20:00 — 21:30
A multi-disciplinary performance by LUMA Creations with street arts, circus, dance and music, Pachamama is a journey of redemption ending in a cleansing ritual that brings back the goodness of Mother Earth. Pachamama has been in hiding since the earth began to crumble. Now the four elements Earth, Fire, Air and Water, represented by four performance groups, must reconnect.
Permutations, RIBA North, 17:00 — 22:00
Permutations is an interactive artwork, bringing together architecture and music to reinvent the rituals of classical performance. Specially built in the Atrium, it invites listeners to participate in a new ritual as they explore a work of music by playing with the acoustics of six adjustable chambers. The space itself is a musical instrument: the listener performs their own experience.
Baltic Alight: Stories from the Fireside, Meet outside Baltic Creative, 19:00, 20:00 & 21:00
Journey through Baltic where the city’s creatives have reclaimed the streets for LightNight. A creative tour of Baltic Triangle with five of the city’s best storytellers. Meet outside Baltic Creative for a family family theatrical tour produced by Paperwork Theatre. Tours last 45min.
Rituals of the Mundane Northern Lights, 17:00 — 23:00
To celebrate relocating to Northern Lights, ROAD Studios present a new exhibition which pays homage to the imperceptible miracles of the everyday, providing a platform upon which we can appreciate the essentials of day to day life. The exhibition features works by resident artists and ROAD will open their studios and give audiences a chance to meet the artists and see their workspaces.
Antimicrobial Avengers, LJMU John Lennon Building of Art and Design, 17:00 — 22:00
Did you know that a shark’s skin can prevent bacteria from sticking to it? Or that the blood of a Komodo dragon is a natural antimicrobial compound? Join a team of artists and scientists from LJMU Liverpool School of Art and Design’s ‘Art in Science’ programme and University of Liverpool’s Arts-Lab to see their new comic superheroes ‘Shark Girl’ and ‘Komodo Dragon’ take on the world’s greatest threat – antimicrobial resistance!
Ancestral Voices: The Navagraha Ritual
A multi-sensory meditative journey into the ‘nine celestial bodies’, using pioneering harmonic scales and technology inspired by ancient civilisations this immersive event in the (rarely open to the public) LJMU John Foster Chapel invites audiences to bring blankets and cushions and experience the work lying down. (Free tickets must be booked in advance via lightnightliverpool.co.uk).
Mersey Hub Brass, St George’s Hall, 18.30 — 19.30
A huge collaboration of young brass players aged 11-18 from across the region’s Music Hubs (Liverpool, Sefton, Knowsley, Warrington, Halton and St Helens) come together to perform a spectacular concert. From traditional brass band music to songs from the shows in the magnificent setting of the Great Hall.
ClubTogether, SEVENSTORE, 17:00 — 22:00
An evolving digital installation by design studio Dorothy – in partnership with
SEVENSTORE – which invites clubbers to immerse themselves in the sights, sounds and rituals of electronic music & club culture, contributing their experiences to a generative interactive map. The soundtrack to the evening is provided by DJ Graeme Park (18:00-21:00).
Rite of Spring, Liverpool Cathedral 19:45 & 21:30
Pianists Maria Luc and Wyn Chan from the Royal Northern College of Music perform Stravinksy’s beautiful and stirring masterpiece on the piano (four hands) in the stunning surrounds of the cathedral.
Living Room, Liverpool Town Hall, 17:30 — 22:00
Liverpool Arab Arts Festival and Liverpool Arabic Centre invite visitors to drop into a traditional Arabic ‘Living Room’ situated within the splendour of the Town Hall. Celebrate the differences, and commonalities, of domestic life in Western and Middle Eastern cultures with traditional Arab hospitality including music, storytelling and Yemeni biscuits and tea (until 20:30).
Cakes & Ale, Ropewalks Square (Outside FACT), 18:30 — 19:00
Liverpool Chamber Choir treat you to music from the 16th – 20th century linked to the everyday rituals of eating and drinking. Listen to ladies who lunch elegantly; peasants who imbibe copiously; Christmas dinners that nearly got away; and teddy bears who picnic.
Constellations, World Museum, 18:00 & 19:00
Join Merseyside Dance Initiative (MDI), Merseyside Youth Dance Company, 50 Moves and Men!Dancing! for an immersive 15-minute dance performance. The dance is inspired by the rituals which different civilisations have created over time to honour the movement of the constellations and their effect on us.
LightNight 2019 participating venues include Waterfront: British Music Experience, Merseyside Maritime Museum, Museum of Liverpool, Open Eye Gallery, RIBA North, Tate Liverpool Baltic Triangle: The Baltic Roastery, Baltic Market, Constellations, Arena Studios & Gallery, Make Baltic, Northern Lights, Sevenstore City Centre: The Athenaeum, Bluecoat, Bombed Out Church, Exchange Flags, FACT, The Garden by LEAF, Kazimier Garden, OUTPUT, Kazimier Stockroom, Liverpool Town Hall, Moorfields, The Black-E St George’s Quarter: Liverpool Central Library, St George’s Hall, Walker Art Gallery, World Museum Hope Street Quarter: Blackburne House, Everyman Theatre, Liverpool Cathedral, LJMU John Lennon Art & Design Building, LJMU John Foster Chapel, Liverpool Philharmonic Music Room, Toxteth Library & Windsor Street, Liverpool Medical Institution, Victoria Gallery & Museum, Unity Theatre, Garstang Museum of Archaeology