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The city’s streets will be buzzing with a colourful array of lights, music and performances on Liverpool Light Night.
May 15th will see the return of 130 (mostly free) events placed across the city from 4pm till late.
Everything from dress up photo booths, exhibitions, mass dance workshops and walking tours, to light installations, science demos and concerts.
One of the long anticipated attractions on the night is the newly commissioned Hex// Light DiVision. Which will see eight musicians preform a ‘sci-fi ritual’ whilst wearing illuminated two-sided masks and costumes, representing two dimensions of the future: technology and nature.
Performances of Hex// Light DiVision takes place at Liverpool Cathedral Plateau at 8.35pm, at University Square on Brownlow Hill at 9.20pm, at the Pier Head at 10/20pm, and on William Brown Street at 11.20pm.
Laura Sparks, co-director and production manager says:
“Hex// Light DiVision pulls together a number of components from composers Joel Murray, Simon Knighton and Rory Ballantyne, resonating and euphoric beats, geometric choreography, and most importantly, the intention to blow the audience away!
“Hex// Light DiVision is a science fiction ritual conducted by a dynasty of dualistic ManMachines called Dyads.
“These prophetic ‘Future Gazers’ show us two opposing perspectives on the New World, and deliver an illuminated interpretation of their foresights to determine whether or not there can be a harmonious balance between the two.”
Other events will include:
Liverpool Samba School, which presents a Samba Showcase in Exchange Flags at 7.30pm and St Peter’s Square at 9pm.
Earth, Sound & Fire, from 10-10.30pm at Wellington’s Column. It comes from the people behind Batala Liverpool and who have now reformed into Liverpool’s largest, loudest, most vibrant drum ensemble Katumba Bloco.
They will be joined by BrazUKa, fire artists from Bring The Fire Project & Capoeira For All CIC acrobats.
Eggmen & Boom Boom’s Waggle Dance, brought to LightNight by Physical Fest.
Waggle Dance is a swarm of super friendly giant bees searching for a new home, exploring the public’s relationship with nature and the environment through physical theatre, clowning, improvisation and live music.
Two outdoor light projections at FACT and LJMU John Lennon Art & Design Building, and one indoors at Liverpool Cathedral.
FACT presents a new large-scale light projection commission in Ropewalks Square by artist Erica Scourti that explores ideas of memory and erasure in relation to technology and our mental health.
LJMU’s John Lennon Art & Design Building will see 10-minute mapped light projections every half-an-hour from 9.30-11pm.
And a début for Light Night, a large-scale light projection will take place indoors, on the ceiling inside Liverpool Cathedral by artist Andy McKeown.
From 9.30-11.30pm, visitors can see fragments of cathedral stained glass forming and reforming live, in kaleidoscopic motion.