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LIGHT UP LANCASTER

RPS CONTEMPORARY NW

8TH NOVEMBER 2024

LIGHT UP LANCASTER 2024

Light Up Lancaster is an annual event held each November for a number of years as part of a wider “Light Up the North Festival.” Three RPS members and two from Poulton le Fylde Photographic Society joined the event.

The festival consists of a number of installations across the city from the Canal Basin via Sun Square to the Castle, the Storey Building, the Priory Church and back to Dalton Square where we met that evening. Here is a selection of images from our favourite venues.

In the Canal Basin area we were captivated by Monad, a light and sound installation with ever changing images projected through a water spray. Pythagoras called the circle Monad stressing that it was continuous without beginning or end.

© Alan Cameron ARPS

MONAD

© Spencer Stephens

© Malcolm Birkett

© Geoﬀ Batchelor LRPS

© Spencer Stephens

© Alan Cameron ARPS

© Spencer Stephens

THE DANCING FOUNTAIN

Sun Square gave us Dancing Fountain, a brightly lit bowl with water sprayed to created the fountain in time with staccato music.

© Malcolm Birkett

© Geoﬀ Batchelor LRPS

© Alan Cameron ARPS

© Spencer Stephens

STREET FOOD

The market square had plenty of street food stalls

© Spencer Stephens

GARLAND THE CASTLE

At the top of the hill we faced the gatehouse of the forbidding Lancaster Castle, seat of the Duchy of Lancaster (King Charles is the current Duke). Until recently this was HM Prison Lancaster and was the scene of the famous Pendle Witch Trials back in 1612

Throughout the evening the light display Garland the Gate gave us constantly changing images to capture.

© Malcolm Birkett

SCIENCE IN THE STOREY BUILDING

In the Storey Building just across from the Castle our physicist and physiologist photographers were taken by the re-imagining of the synchrotron and by projections of stained cell specimens.

© Ray Wilson

© Alan Cameron ARPS

© Ray Wilson

IN THE CASTLE - LABYRINTH

The castle gardens featured Labyrinthmade by volunteers from St John’s Hospice and described as “A peaceful reflection in memory of lives shared and lives lost.”

© Ray Wilson

© Alan Cameron ARPS

IN THE CASTLE - SOMNIUS

In the castle courtyard we found “Somnius”, a light show that danced about viewers heads in reaction to their movements.

© Ray Wilson

DAYDREAMS

In the darkness of the Priory we found Daydreams - ever changing displays in a triangular display , the choir of the church illuminated in bold primary colours - see also back page.

© Ray Wilson