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Light Wave Power KIC 8462852 – Paul Friedlander Photographer: Joel Fildes

Enlighten Manchester 2016 programme coming soon!

Check back soon for a full list of what to expect from our next Enlighten Festival of Light and Sound Art due to take place in Manchester in November 2016.

In the meantime, we look back at Enlighten 2015.

Featuring an epic 22 installations throughout the Manchester Central Library and The Bridgewater Hall, this stunning festival lit up the dampened dark nights before Christmas, drawing large audiences in from the cold.

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The Chandelier of Lost Earrings, Sagar and Cambell
Architectural Lighting, LumenPulse
The Stories Beneath Our Feet, Elisa Artesero
Beyond The Silver Pit
Decorative Lighting
Immersion, Andrew Brooks
Lightbulb Portraits, Dr.Crocker
Sodley on Sea, Mark Page
1000 Birds, Kathy Hinde
Entropy, Carlos Bernal
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Library-of-the-Unwanted, Ulf Pedersen, Toby Heyes and Anke Echardt
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Credit: Joel Fildes

Visitors’ imaginations were sparked by birds soaring across piano strings to create musical scores; a chandelier of sparkling earrings and a cutting edge sound and light installation that is felt not seen.

Visitors also enjoyed the nightly concerts, which began with the world premiere of The Bremen Town Musicians, a music and live animation work inspired by bestselling author Philip Pullman’s new translation of the Brothers’ Grimm fairy tales. The concert included a specially commissioned score by celebrated film composer Enrica Sciandrone for new music ensemble Psappha.

On Friday evening Kathy Hinde and Matthew Olden presented a live performance of Piano Migrations, which transforms the inside of a recycled piano into a kinetic sound sculpture. We watched enthralled as dozens of small birds landing on telegraph lines appeared to flutter and settle on its strings. Nature appeared to control machines as they came together to create a delicate and ever-changing musical score.

For the Festival’s final performance Kay Duncan David performed to a packed room, his piece Relay in which sound and light are combined in a rhythmic, trance-inducing play of echoey clicks and dancing shadows.

Enlighten 2015 was featured in press throughout Manchester and nationally, including in Creative Tourist, The Skinny, That’s Manchester TV, Manchester Evening News and BBC News.

Creative Tourist: http://www.creativetourist.com/articles/art/manchester/enlighten-festival-2015-electrifying-manchester/

The Skinny: http://www.theskinny.co.uk/art/news/enlighten-festival-manchester-christmas

That’s Manchester TV: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HA8irMEwf7g

Thank you to everyone who made Enlighten 2015 such a success and we look forward to working again with you soon!


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