Essential Info Getting there Don’t get stuck in a jam. Leave the car at home, there are lots of ways to get to Lumiere hassle-free: Public transport Translink will provide special train and coach services to take people to and from the festival. Why not take one of the Lumiere family trains from Belfast on Saturday 30 November? Enjoy on-board entertainment including a visit from Santa Claus.
Welcome Derry~Londonderry is a wonderful place; its ancient walls, fine architecture and hidden corners providing a spectacular backdrop for Lumiere, a four-day celebration of light. As the sensational City of Culture year draws to a close, we’re proud to bring this magical free event to the city.
Right across the city, artworks made from light will appear, ranging from spectacular projections to a magical fire garden, from unearthly flying figures to the brightest neons.
Lumiere is best experienced on foot, so please leave your car in one of the Park & Ride car parks provided for For four nights only, artists and lighting the event, or use public transport, and then explore at your leisure. designers will turn the city into a huge outdoor gallery, transforming once Wrap up warm, and prepare to be familiar buildings, walls and outdoor spaces with a nocturnal trail that will dazzled... delight residents and visitors alike. Helen Marriage and Nicky Webb Directors, Artichoke
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• Follow @artichoketrust and @lumierederry – use #lumierederry for live event, travel and traffic updates • Post us a message on facebook.com/artichoketrust • Check the website at lumiere-festival.com • Ask a Festival Maker on the street or in the Lumiere Hub
Tickets can be pre-purchased from Belfast Central, Great Victoria Street and Coleraine stations.
Park & Ride Visitors to the festival are encouraged to follow traffic information and directional signage on the approaches to the city. Please leave your car at one of the well signposted Park & Ride sites. Courtesy of Translink, free Park & Ride buses will run at 15 minute intervals from 5.15pm–10.15pm each night and routes will run on a loop. Find them at: Limavady Road Site 58 Limavady Road, Derry, BT47 6LT. Bus stops at Ebrington.
Fort George Site lumiere-festival.com The Quay Trail, Derry, BT48 7QH. Bus stops at Coaches On 29 and Queen’s Quay Lumiere online The information in this guide is anRoundabout. introduction to each of the 30 November, special beautiful light works, but the website is packed with much more in-depth info, Lumiere return coach services Traffic and Travel including: (pre-book online) will depart Although there are no from Belfast, Enniskillen, Omagh, planned road closures, there may information about the event Strabane, Dungannon, Cookstown, be some disruption to normal Magherafelt andinformation Dungiven. about planning your visit practical traffic movement during the festival and drivers are asked to exercise videos, additional artist interviews and audio tracks For full travel information, including caution in city centre areas. For live enhanced scheduled services, behind the scenes stories ontraffi the cfestival and travel updates, please visit translink.co.uk/lumiere tune into Q102 and Radio Foyle or search #lumierederry on twitter.
Digital Lumiere
Pocket Lumiere: take the festival with you!
Lumiere Hub
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Photos from Lumiere 2009/2011 © Matthew Andrews