Light Up Wakefield

This year’s Light Up Wakefield weekend invites you to see a spectacular trail of installations and experience the city in a whole new light!

From 15-17 November, Light Up Wakefield will delight visitors with 3 days of light installations, craft activities, Christmas Market, street entertainment, fringe activity and much more!

• Get ready to celebrate the variety of heritage, culture and arts that can be discovered across the Wakefield region with Illuminos‘ The Timekeepers  - a unique piece giving visitors an immersive experience with projection mapping.
• Prepare to be in awe of  The Ice is Melting at the Pøules II by Båll & Brand. This light projection, made by light shining through rotating and enclosed glass discs, highlights the ongoing issue of global warming. An organic ever changing light projection through actual meltwater from the ice sheet in Greenland, Crude Oil from Texas and extract of endangered Blue Cornflour.
• Experience analogue art with Fusion Layers, a vibrant projection piece by Fényszóró Visual who are strongly influenced by contemporary street art, steam punk and sci-fi.
• Drawing on Wakefield’s coal mining heritage, Sentinel by Studio Vertigo is a large scale artwork with sweeping curves inspired by the wings of a canary.

Expect the above (and more!) in this spectacular trail of light.

Light Up Wakefield is sponsored by YPO.

This year’s Light Up is part of Our Year Wakefield District 2024, a year-long programme of breath-taking spectacles, unique festivals and community-led activities that celebrate all the Wakefield district has to offer.

The Light Up Conference is also taking place on 15 November 2024. Find out more here.

Visit the website here