LightNight Liverpool invites audiences to stay up late, as our museums, galleries and studios throw open their doors to stage a free trail of special events for all ages, exploring the theme of Play. This year we’ll be presenting a hybrid programme with both ‘in-person’ and online events, exhibitions, talks and activities for all ages.
This year’s festival explores how Play can offer a space to create, re-imagine and find novel solutions to global problems.
Playfulness is not just essential to life, but to the creation of art. It is the medium in which great discoveries and advances in human achievement can be made. It is the method of the maker, the artist and the tinkerer. It is the tool of the scientist, the inner child, and the ‘fool’. Through play, we can test our ideas, expend surplus energy, exercise our faculties and compensate for unfulfilled desires.
In the restructuring of our lives, we must make time for play. In a world rife with social, ecological and political inequalities, can play offer us a fun and inventive realm, where we have the space to re-shape the world around us for the better?
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