First Steps in a New Collaboration
4th August 2026
Light Up Lancaster returns this autumn, transforming the heritage buildings of Lancaster City Centre under the theme of ‘No Boundaries’. Taking place from 5-7 November, visitors can expect three nights of creative light art, memorable immersive experiences and joyful discovery and wonder.
As well as helping to produce the festival, we’re delighted to again be producing a brand new artwork: Dear Earthling…
In 1997 Jerry Linenger left earth for a 5 month stay on the Mir space station, leaving behind his baby son. Throughout his stay he wrote a series of letters to be sent back home. Funny, moving, thoughtful and filled with longing, these letters offer a small insight into an extraordinary experience.
Produced with composer James Howard, Dear Earthling… combines live music, spectacular projection-mapping visuals and live performance, which we’re delighted to showcase in the spectacular surroundings of the Priory Church.
Visitors can expect an elegiac reflection on what it is to leave life behind and explore beyond human boundaries, in a piece that is. both a hymn to absence and loss and a celebration of what it is to be alive. We look forward to sharing it with you all.
Keep up to date with the festival at Light Up Lancaster’s website or social media.
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