Light Up Lancaster, the free family festival of light and art, will showcase an exciting array of Lancaster University's inspiring and illuminating research projects and activities.
Running from November 2 to 4, this year's Light Up Lancaster (LUL) theme is 'The Art of Words'.
Activities will include BabyLab's research on how eye-tracking technology can shed light on shared book reading and a team from the Department of Linguistics will use ultrasound to demonstrate how the tongue moves as we speak with a beatboxer doing live demonstrations.
Other University activities taking place during Light Up Lancaster will include:
· Through collaboration with the University's Regional Heritage Centre and the Duchy of Lancaster, Lancaster Castle's walls will be illuminated with an innovative and unique display based on the Duchy of Lancaster's Great Cowcher Book, produced by order of King Henry IV around 1402 to record the possessions of the Duchy of Lancaster. The extraordinary, illuminated manuscripts are brought to life by projection artists IIIuminos.
· Supported by the Confucius Institute at Lancaster University, art forms of early Chinese cosmic images will transform The Storey Music Gallery.
· Lancaster Institute of Contemporary Arts (LICA) linked 'imitating the dog' will light up Dalton Square with their project 'Dear Einstein', combining video design, an original score by James Hamilton and live performance with local singers.
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