Durham lumiere festival

This year, Spanish artist Pablo Valbuena decided to make the whole Cathedral an artwork in its own right, inside and out. Check out the FAQs about the festival before planning your trip. Plan your perfect break in Durham choose from City, coast and countryside holidays. Durham is packed full of award winning attractions and activities.

The installations extend throughout the city with prime sites being Durham Cathedral, Durham Market Place, the bridges, Durham Castle and riverside.

More than half of the installations are outside the area.

Tickets are only necessary to access the central area .

Lumiere London is supported by the Mayor of London. The festival , which is backed by Durham County Council, is hoping to attract in the region of 200people over the four days it runs. Heron, by Jon Voss, courtesy of Artichoke. A free ticketing system will be in operation during peak times between 4. Breathtaking photos from Durham light festival. Trees are lit up with blue and purple light against the night sky.

This is the fifth such occasion to happen in the town - full of artwork, installations and events - and it runs from Thursday, November until Sunday, November 19. It is the largest festival of its kind in the UK. Produced by Artichoke and commissioned by Durham County Council with additional support from Arts . Free to atten the festival will light up the city of Durham with artworks and installations by artists from around . Funding from trusts and foundations helps to keep the festival free for everyone to attend and supports our learning and participation programme, which aims to inspire and engage people from . Instead of relying solely on generators, mains power is used when possible and many . They are interested in the environment and our impact on our surroundings. They have also shown work throughout Europe, Asia and South America.

Beginning today, Thursday November, and running through till Sunday, the annual festival sees the northern city come alive at night . The four day festival is expected to attract tens of thousands of people in November and producers have released the info they need. The Norman cathedral has been illuminated with scenes from the story of modern cosmology from its birth in the 12th . While Artichoke understands that this is disappointing news, there are still .