{"id":161,"date":"2017-11-09T20:37:13","date_gmt":"2017-11-09T20:37:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/subtext\/?p=161"},"modified":"2017-11-22T11:42:23","modified_gmt":"2017-11-22T11:42:23","slug":"lancaster-lit-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/subtext\/2017\/11\/09\/lancaster-lit-up\/","title":{"rendered":"LANCASTER LIT UP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: 'courier new', courier\">Phantasmagorical. Brilliant. Captivating. Light Up Lancaster was a delight \u2013 two evenings of illumination, art, music, projection and performance in the city centre. Beg, borrow or hire a small child and witness the look of wonder on their faces. This year the theme was the natural world and the city was packed with lots of smiling faces thoroughly enjoying the winking, blinking light and colour accompanied by a cacophony of sound. The city was alive with rivers of people snaking their way around the street and lanes to find their favoured spot to ooh and aah at the whizzes and bangs. Friday night ended with a glass of mulled cider in the Printroom caf\u00e9 and bar in the Storey. A truly memorable event topped by a splendid firework spectacular launched from the grounds of the castle on Saturday night. We were too late to get our wristbands to allow access to St George&#8217;s Quay Meadow or Giant Axe so we walked up from town to join hundreds of folk enjoying the stunning view from Williamson Park. Magical stuff.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Phantasmagorical. Brilliant. Captivating. Light Up Lancaster was a delight \u2013 two evenings of illumination, art, music, projection and performance in the city centre. Beg, borrow or hire a small child and witness the look of wonder on their faces. This &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/subtext\/2017\/11\/09\/lancaster-lit-up\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":568,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[8],"tags":[67,119,101],"class_list":["post-161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-review","tag-festival","tag-issue-168","tag-light-up-lancaster"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p99sHo-2B","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":933,"url":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/subtext\/2019\/03\/01\/lancaster-goes-to-leipzig\/","url_meta":{"origin":161,"position":0},"title":"LANCASTER GOES TO LEIPZIG","author":"Johnny Unger","date":"March 1 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"A campus in Leipzig, then! 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