“Keep them coming please!”

Our ✨Light Up Winter✨ series continued last week on Tuesday 3 and Wednesday 4 February with Light Up Hanley in the city centre.

The centrepiece was a huge projection onto The Town Hall called Message in a Bottle Kiln, which celebrated the first 100 years of Stoke-on-Trent and imagined what the future might be. Created by Illuminos, it featured iconic imagery and artwork by local young people.

And there was hands-on fun with a multi-sensory musical sculpture made up of more than 200 illuminated chime bars brought by Illumaphonium, and a five-metre-high fortune-telling fruit machine called Positive Spin from the collective minds of artistic experience creators The Kazimier and illustrator Liz Harry presented by Invisible Wind Factory.

Were you there? If so we’d really appreciate your feedback via this survey, which you can fill out for all three of the Light Up Winter events.

The final event in the series is Newcastle Under Light on 4 March. The event is free to attend with no booking required. There will be a British Sign Language tour on the evening that you can join by contacting us on askus@appetite.org.uk ahead of the event.

To find out what you can expect on the night, visit the Newcastle Under Light event page, and the Access & FAQ page to plan your trip.

We hope to see you there! In the meantime, enjoy some stunning photos from Andrew Billington and soak up the atmosphere with these reels.

Thank you to our event partners Stoke-on-Trent City Centre BID and and Stoke Creates, and to the production team at PH Production Services Ltd for their continued support and expertise.