Lumiere festival
lumiere uk largest light festival festival produced londonbased creative company artichoke debuted durham festival part inspired fête de lumières lyon hosted winter time free attend festival typically comprises number light artinstallations well illuminating iconic building location festival take place biennially november durham since occasionally toured location reusing popular illumination durham creating new bespoke installation first lumiere festival took place durham recommissioned durham county council every two year since people attended fourday event central exhibit durham cathedral illuminated projected image lindisfarne gospel festival returned durham significantly larger size attracting visitor generating £ million local economy event held crowd highlight including projection walking elephant installed elvet bridge festival returned durham fifth time november returned year anniversary november sixth festival first time history artwork spread across durham county rather concentrated durham city centre light show taken derry northern ireland almost people visited separate art installation around city including illuminated sculpture placed around peace bridge projection austin department store four night festival fire garden held st columbs park january festival brought london first time light installation sited around piccadilly grosvenor square king cross front westminster abbey illuminated coloured light projected onto statue artist patrice warrener metrehigh ft neon letter top centre point building temporarily set trafalgar square leicester square garden light created french artist tilt centred around statue william shakespeare saturday installation temporarily switched king cross station evacuated due overcrowding caused festival january festival returned second london edition four day work art public display king cross fitzrovia mayfair west end westminster victoria south bank waterloo durham durham derry durham durham london durham london durham durham durham official website