Programme details, highlights and updates for Lumiere Festival 2011.
When: 17th-20th November 2011
Where: Durham
How much: Free!
Lumiere is a bi-annual festival of light that each November sets Durham aglow with all manner of arty happenings. Organised by the brilliant Artichoke – the folks behind such concepts as the Telectroscope at London Bridge, Antony Gormley's One and Other on the Fourth Plinth and the amazing Dining With Alice – the festival sees a host of events, performances, installations and projections taking place across the delightful medieval city of Durham.
Launched in 2009, and commissioned by Durham County Council, with funds from Arts Council England and a range of other sponsors, Lumiere drew around 75,000 visitors to Durham in its inaugural year and apparently raised about £1.5million for the local economy.
For 2011, over 30 artworks are to be installed across the city, from a selection of international, national and local artists and designers, including big names like Cedric Le Borgne, Tracey Emin and David Batchelor. The festival kicks off the a lantern parade, and continues through a series of works themed around the relationship between science and art. These pieces – created through collaborations between European artists and scientists – are part of Lux Scientia, an imaginative tie-in similar festivals in Torun, Poland and Talinn, Estonia. In addition, the magical Crown of Light is back, to turn Durham Cathedral into a colossal animated screen.
Helen Marriage, co-director of Artichoke and programmer of the festival said: "The hardest part of this job is choosing what to include. There are so many wonderful ideas, from the simplest intervention to the most startling possibilities, and it is a privilege to be able to present the work of so many extraordinary artists who have responded to the beauty of the city and the landscape in which it sits.
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