Some of Leeds’ most recognisable buildings are set to be celebrated during the city’s annual Light Night event. <\/p>\n
Under the theme of “landmarks”, the festival aims to draw attention to some of the city’s historic civic buildings, modern architecture and public spaces.<\/p>\n
The Queens Hotel will provide a backdrop for a projection marking 200 years of the modern railway, with Leeds Civic Hall hosting an installation created using books from the British Library’s collection.<\/p>\n
The event, which includes projections, light artworks, performances and interactive pieces, will take place on 23 and 24 October between 18:00 and 22:00 BST. <\/p>\n
The Queens Hotel projection, called One Second Lovestory, is by German artist Dirk Rauscher and captures the moment when “two people’s eyes meet at a busy train station”. <\/p>\n
An estimated 210,400 people attended the 2024 edition over two days, an increase of 5% from 2023 numbers.<\/p>\n
Leeds City Council called the festival a “collective experience which celebrates artistic ingenuity and the power of the arts to unite”.<\/p>\n
“Light Night Leeds is an event which truly exemplifies the very best of culture and life in the city, bringing thousands of people together,” a spokesperson said. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Some of Leeds’ most recognisable buildings are set to be celebrated during the city’s annual Light Night event.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":331889,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8814],"tags":[748,393,4884,1860,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-331888","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-leeds","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-leeds","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115001776360302605","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=331888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331888\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/331889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=331888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=331888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=331888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}