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| Inspired by the Parisian Nuit Blanche, which sees the city's major museums, galleries and other venues take part in a non-stop after-hours art-athon, the Museums at Night project has been running in the UK since 2006. | Inspired by the Parisian Nuit Blanche, which sees the city's major museums, galleries and other venues take part in a non-stop after-hours art-athon, the Museums at Night project has been running in the UK since 2006. |
| It has been particularly enthusiastically embraced in the north of England and this weekend there will be special after-hours events, projections, performances, sleep-overs and general conviviality at museums, galleries, theatres and other cultural venues across the North. | It has been particularly enthusiastically embraced in the north of England and this weekend there will be special after-hours events, projections, performances, sleep-overs and general conviviality at museums, galleries, theatres and other cultural venues across the North. |
| The line-up includes a candle-lit labyrinth in Liverpool Cathedral, a Doctor Who themed sleepover in Manchester's John Rylands Library, a torch-lit tour behind the scenes at Leeds Museum's Discovery Centre, a choral celebration of steel in Sheffield's Kelham Island Museum and a Mongolian yurt high up in the Pennines at Killlhope Lead Mining Museum. | The line-up includes a candle-lit labyrinth in Liverpool Cathedral, a Doctor Who themed sleepover in Manchester's John Rylands Library, a torch-lit tour behind the scenes at Leeds Museum's Discovery Centre, a choral celebration of steel in Sheffield's Kelham Island Museum and a Mongolian yurt high up in the Pennines at Killlhope Lead Mining Museum. |
| Liverpool's Light Night is this Friday and sees 50 organisations across the city taking part, although sadly will not include Anthony McCall's long-awaited Mersey Column, a proposed 6-mile high column of steam rising over the Mersey, which was originally intended to be part of the Cultural Olympiad last year, and which was finally abandoned last month. | Liverpool's Light Night is this Friday and sees 50 organisations across the city taking part, although sadly will not include Anthony McCall's long-awaited Mersey Column, a proposed 6-mile high column of steam rising over the Mersey, which was originally intended to be part of the Cultural Olympiad last year, and which was finally abandoned last month. |
| Newcastle and Gateshead have embraced the scheme more enthusiastically than anywhere else, with Friday and Saturday seeing over 60 venues on Tyneside taking part in the Late Shows - the largest collaborative Museums at Night event in the country. Last year there were over 35,000 visits to the Late Shows, with many being ferried between venues by a free bus service. | Newcastle and Gateshead have embraced the scheme more enthusiastically than anywhere else, with Friday and Saturday seeing over 60 venues on Tyneside taking part in the Late Shows - the largest collaborative Museums at Night event in the country. Last year there were over 35,000 visits to the Late Shows, with many being ferried between venues by a free bus service. |
| Bill Griffiths, project manager for the Late Shows, says: | Bill Griffiths, project manager for the Late Shows, says: |
| The Late Shows is now into its seventh year, and still the programme is as original and imaginative as when we first started, if not more so – the creativity and diversity of the events created by the cultural community on our doorstep is mind-blowing. Where else in the UK can you take tea in the oldest dining room in Britain, see a fire show and puppet makers, play an Enid Blyton quiz and traverse the old coal transport tunnels beneath Newcastle – all in the space of an evening? | The Late Shows is now into its seventh year, and still the programme is as original and imaginative as when we first started, if not more so – the creativity and diversity of the events created by the cultural community on our doorstep is mind-blowing. Where else in the UK can you take tea in the oldest dining room in Britain, see a fire show and puppet makers, play an Enid Blyton quiz and traverse the old coal transport tunnels beneath Newcastle – all in the space of an evening? |
| Part of this year's Late Shows will be the launch of Isis Arts' On the Precipice, a new exhibition of international video works that will be touring over the summer in The Big M, an inflatable, mobile exhibition venue cum cinema. The Big M can fold down to fit into a transit van and travel almost anywhere; once erected its triangular shape has room for three screens. On the Precipice has been curated by Kelly Richardson, and will include large-scale video installations by seven artists "exploring our relationship with contemporary landscape and the effect humans have had on the natural environment". | Part of this year's Late Shows will be the launch of Isis Arts' On the Precipice, a new exhibition of international video works that will be touring over the summer in The Big M, an inflatable, mobile exhibition venue cum cinema. The Big M can fold down to fit into a transit van and travel almost anywhere; once erected its triangular shape has room for three screens. On the Precipice has been curated by Kelly Richardson, and will include large-scale video installations by seven artists "exploring our relationship with contemporary landscape and the effect humans have had on the natural environment". |
| Other venues in Newcastle include the Norman Castle Keep – the "new" castle itself – Stephenson's Works, where the Rocket was made and the indoor tropical rainforest at Moorbank Botanical Gardens. Julia Vogl is the artist in residence at the city's Discovery Museum, and has invited members of the public to donate hand-coloured plastic bottles filled with messages. The artist will thread the bottles together to form a two-storey high polychromatic candelabra which will hang in the entrance foyer of the museum. | Other venues in Newcastle include the Norman Castle Keep – the "new" castle itself – Stephenson's Works, where the Rocket was made and the indoor tropical rainforest at Moorbank Botanical Gardens. Julia Vogl is the artist in residence at the city's Discovery Museum, and has invited members of the public to donate hand-coloured plastic bottles filled with messages. The artist will thread the bottles together to form a two-storey high polychromatic candelabra which will hang in the entrance foyer of the museum. |
| Details on Museums at Night are here, on Liverpool's Light Night here and Newcastle & Gateshead's Late Shows here | Details on Museums at Night are here, on Liverpool's Light Night here and Newcastle & Gateshead's Late Shows here |
| • Alan Sykes tweets here. | • Alan Sykes tweets here. |
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