With thanks to Salford’s Culture and Place Partnership.
Festivals
Lightwaves
Location
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Salford Quays, home to Media City
FREE event - no booking required
Date
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7-10 December 2023
4pm - 10pm
About
Lightwaves 2023 invites you to explore a trail of dramatic light art installations that animate and transform the urban waterside environment around Salford Quays and MediaCity each winter.
Taking place from Thursday 7th to Sunday 10th December, visitors of all ages can enjoy illuminated works from established as well as emerging artists, local and national, bringing a variety of different pieces; thought-provoking, surprising and playful.
And as always Lightwaves is FREE – just turn up and enjoy!
Lightwaves Festival is part of the Quays Culture Programme, a partnership initiative with a mission to animate public spaces, bringing extraordinary art into the heart of the community for everyone to experience free of charge.
2022 Programme Highlights
Navvies
By Matthew Rosier
This new audio-visual installation explores the role of the workers who built the Manchester Ship Canal .
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Image © National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Once We Were Water
By idontloveyouanymore
A digitally recreated river appears to flow over a bridge, reacting to the movement of people
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Our Beating Heart
By Studio Vertigo
Dancing lights are conjured by this heart-shaped mirror ball transforming the surrounding spaces
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End Over End
By Studio Vertigo
A giant illuminated toy slinky tumbles into the shadows
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Garden of the Deep
By Diane Watson
An unnatural garden of 1000 flowers created from discarded plastic bottles
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Lightstream
By FloLux (Flora Litchfield)
Watch laser beams dance above one of Salford Quays’ waterways bring it to life with light and sound.
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NORMAN
By Monomatic
Meet the interactive light and sound installation NORMAN - an old school ‘smart’ screen but with attitude
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Butterfly Cluster
By Anne Bennett
Gaze at hundreds of handmade illuminated butterflies high in the night sky
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Kin
By Backstage Academy (Jason Phillips, Josh Warnes, Blake Brown)
Discover the kin you never knew you had, a point of connection between us all.
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MicroCosmic
By Paul Miller in collaboration with The University of Salford
Taking us from the microscopic to the infinite vastness of the universe: an immersive installation of video, sound and projection-mapped sculpture.
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Connections
By Emma Denby and Gemma Wood
Connections playfully explores how we connect to each other and the world around us on social media
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Through No.4
By Liz West
Through No.4 is a permanent artwork at MediaCity consisting of a six-metre long triangular corridor of light and colour
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Roost
By Walk The Plank
Outdoor art pioneers, Walk The Plank will be creating a series of spectacular light sculptures called Roost, in a dedicated area of the MediaCity garden.
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Lightwaves Trailer 2022