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Get ready to see Oldham in a whole new light!📍 Saturday 22 February, 6–9pm, across Oldham town centre venues
📍 Sunday 23 February, 6.30–9.30pm, Northern Roots, Kings Road
Join us for an unforgettable weekend as Illuminate Light Night returns for its eighth year with the theme, “Illuminating the Everyday.”
This free, family-friendly festival showcases stunning light installations, spectacular performances, and interactive activities by artists from Oldham and beyond.
Highlights include:
✨ The Illuminate Parade kicks off the festival with a community-led celebration featuring dazzling lanterns, dancers, drummers, and giant puppets.
✨ Take part in MAPP, an interactive video-mapping system, at Oldham Library, and Harmony Hall, a spectacular projection and live performance at the Old Town Hall.
✨ Explore Gallery Oldham’s Light Painting Workshops and exhibitions, and experience the immersive Reflect installation at Oldham Parish Church.
✨ Don’t miss Somnius, a mesmerising sound and light installation at Queen Elizabeth Hall.
✨ Take a guided tour of the Oldham Parish Church crypt, burial home of the famous Oldham Giant.
✨ Listen to whole host of great live musicians, in conjunction with Oldham Music Network and the Egyptian Room.
✨Walk through a collection of 100 real-time heartbeats from Oldham residents, symbolizing the collective power of the community in a dazzling display of light and rhythm
Then on the Sunday, you can end the weekend with 'Into the Future', an interactive journey through technology and nature at Northern Roots.
Join Global Grooves and intergalactic snail riders Sleepy Pete, Rosemary Ripple and Gastro Flash on a journey into the future at Northern Roots!
PLUS, much, much more fun activities taking place across the two events.
With something for everyone, this is a weekend not to be missed!
Don’t forget to use #LoveOldham and tag us in your pictures.
Keep an eye on this page for event updates and more
information.
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Oldham Civic Centre , OL1 1UT Oldham, United Kingdom, Civic Centre, Oldham, OL1 1, United Kingdom,Oldham, United Kingdom
