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DURHAM’S NEW VOYAGE LUMIERE, the festival of light in Durham that began in 2009, is returning to the city. Over four nights, 17-20 November 2011, Durham residents and visitors will rediscover a city transformed into a magical nocturnal landscape. Artichoke has been commissioned to deliver the festival by Durham County Council, with funds from Arts Council Eng- land and a panoply of other funding bodies and sponsors. LUMIERE is the largest festival of light in the UK focusing on works created by artists.


In 2009, the inaugural LUMIERE festival drew an estimated 75,000 people into the city, and generated some £1.5million for the local economy. For LUMIERE 2011, festival produc- ers Artichoke will bring together a beguiling mix of international, national and local art- ists and designers, all using the medium of light to create artworks to delight, surprise, and stop people in their tracks. Over 30 artworks will be situated all over the city,


and the Festival will include a programme of talks, lectures and lighting demonstrations. Participating artists include Cedric Le Bourgne (whose proposed work, Les Voya- geurs pictured, is a series of sculptures in human form that will appear to float through the air and be seated on rooftops and walls along one of the main routes through the town), Tracey Emin and David Batchelor. French artist Le Bourgne creates eerily-lit sculptures in human form that will be seated on top of buildings and hang suspended in the air as if in flight. The Festival will open with a lantern parade through the streets of the medieval city created by Jo Pocock and her Liverpool Lantern Company in collabora- tion with 200 schoolchildren from all over County Durham.


Back by popular demand will be Ross Ashton’s Crown of Light, originally com- missioned as the centrepiece for LUMIERE 2009. The piece, a huge projection that transformed the entire 120m span of Durham


Cathedral into a vast animated screen, brings together the illuminated manuscripts of the Lindisfarne Gospels with ancient stained glass and artifacts from inside the Cathedral itself. The 12-minute animation is accompanied by a sound installation by Robert Ziegler and John Del’ Nero. The festival includes four pieces created by artists from the North East as part of Bril- liant, an initiative funded by the Newcastle Gateshead Initiative and Northern Rock. The successful four projects were chosen from over sixty proposals and include a piece by local artists Bethan Maddocks and Verity Quinn that will be created in collaboration with mining communities to recreate tradi- tional pit banners using fibre-optic thread; local builder Mick Stephenson; Dan Ziglam and Elliot Brook of product design agency Deadgood; and The Global Curiosity Group, a collective led by lecturer Paul Goodfellow, based at Northumbria University. www.lumieredurham.co.uk


(c) Cédric Le Borgne, Les Voyageurs, Durham 2011


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