Festivals
Lightpool Festival
Location
- Blackpool, UK
Date
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20-28 October 2023
18:00 - 22:00
About
The Lightpool festival began in 2016, to celebrate the Illuminations by bringing contemporary light and fire artists to Blackpool to be inspired by the town’s unique relationship with light. The festival won the Large Tourism Event at the Lancashire Tourism awards in 2017.
Lightpool Festival 2022 is a festival of light, projection and performance that will take place between October 14 and 29 in Blackpool as the climax to the world-famous Blackpool Illuminations.
The world-famous Illuminations need little introduction. There are six miles of traditional festoons and tableaux along Blackpool Promenade – no wonder it’s commonly known as the greatest free light show on Earth!
The Blackpool Illuminations now attract more than three million visitors to the resort each year, with many travelling across the UK to see ‘the lights’. In 2022, Blackpool Illuminations will be shining from 2 September – 2 January 2023.
2022 Programme Highlights
Tower Projections
The Blackpool Tower Projections transform The Blackpool Tower into a sea of light, colour and sound, as a stunning, digitally mapped multi-media show is projected onto this iconic building. There are five individual projection shows, including the three headline shows.
Flux
Flux is composed of 48 dynamic light lines, 1.5 m long, spaced 40 cm apart, motorised and controlled in real time. The formal multiplication of these lines coupled with micro variations of phases, temporal delays, speeds and amplitudes allows us to sculpt a 20m long object, alive and evolving with a cyclic back and forth movement.
Aqualux
An 8m by 3m creative lighting installation composed of 48 unfilled water containers, which typically hold 1,000 litres of water each, specially adapted to create a stunning, transportable and eco-friendly light feature to raise the importance of water.
Illuminated Tram Parade
To celebrate Blackpool’s unique tramway history, this Parade is a tribute to the rich heritage of our Illuminated Trams. Back by popular demand, are Spark! the original and best LED drummers.
100 Stories Hight
As a man leaves his house for the final time, a flood of memories unfolds. Personal moments collide with world events as the old building shows its history and bares its soul. imitating the dog mix beautiful animation with live performance in this musical installation about memory and time.
Carnival Magic
An exhilarating menagerie of illuminated Carnival will hit the Tower Ballroom for an electrifying static showcase of music, puppetry and dance. Internationally recognised Carnival performers will present a showstopper over 30 minutes, bringing a diverse melting pot of Carnival magic.
Symphony of Light
Symphony of Light fuses music, lasers, artwork, and immersive lighting effects to create an unforgettable live experience.
Ant Dickinson
Vines, flowers, fruit, fungus and creatures take over St.Johns Church as it is reclaimed by nature as a large scale, playful, rhythmic projection.
Blackpool Light of my Life
Announcing a new light art installation by the internationally recognised artist, Chila Kumari Singh Burman. After high profile projects for Tate Britain and Covent Garden in London, the artist has now turned her sights to Blackpool and the town’s Grade II listed Grundy Art Gallery.
