See the city lit up and take some beautiful photographs. Meet tomorrow at 8pm in The Golden Fleece on Pavement Street.
York Minster:
- This year’s main event returns to York Minster with a spectacular work forty metres tall, featuring music, poetry and images focused on the 15th century Rose window and the South Transept. Highly-acclaimed British projection artist Ross Ashton and sound artist Karen Monid will present ‘Rose’, a specially commissioned artwork, which will transform the Minster’s Rose window into a breathtaking vision of colour, light and shape.
Dean’s Park:
- Impossible Theatre present Lightweight’, their four metre high sphere, lit with intense translucent colours that cause the structure to glow and pulse. Video and animation cast shadowy figures that glide magically around the globe.
- Also from Impossible theatre, is ‘Chroma-Van’, a unique colour and light experience with a personalised colour reading housed in the comfort of a re-modelled caravan. Soak in pure colour and witness the curious perception effects that surprise and mesmerise, captivating all who enter.
- The Ice Book is a pop-up book that comes to life in front of an audience’s eyes as if by magic. Possibly the smallest show in the world made from sheets of paper and light. Each page unfolds an animated miniature world, telling the story of a princess luring a man into the woods to warm her heart of ice.
Treasurer’s House:
- Tagtool was a huge success last year and it’s back. OMA International and Big Draw participants build on the theme ‘unifying light’ to produce a vibrant, colourful display of live, animated drawings. Watch colourful drawings unfold before your eyes, and between 20.00 and 21.00 even have a go yourself!
British Heart Foundation photography competition
The British Heart Foundation (BHF) invites you to enter its second annual Red for Heart digital photo competition. There are lots of fantastic prizes to be won! The theme for the competition is Red for Heart and the only rule is the colour red must be incorporated into your photo. You don’t necessarily have to feature hearts, but think about heart as a theme and what that means to you. As we are celebrating our 50th birthday in 2011 the picture could capture an element of celebration. We will also ask people to include a supporting statement of what heart means to them (no more than 100 words). The winning images will be used to launch National Heart Month in February and published in the Independent on Sunday. The competition is open to photographers aged 16 and over, with fantastic prizes that include a once in a life-time opportunity to shadow an award winning Getty Images Photographer and a Canon EOS 60D DSLR camera kindly donated by Warehouse Express. Plus lots more!
How to enter: Each entrant can submit up to three digital photos. The fee is £10 for adults and £5 for students. All entry fees will go towards BHF’s life saving work. The competition closes on 9 January 2011. For full details of how to enter visit bhf.org.uk/redphotos
Best Wishes, PhotoSoc x
