Spectra, Scotland’s Festival of Light, is looking for artists, producers and creatives to submit work for consideration for the 2025 event to be held in Aberdeen city centre. This open call is available to any artist working with light and can include projection, large-scale installations, interactive pieces, street activation, performance, video and other mediums suitable …
Spectra, Scotland’s Festival of Light, celebrated its 10th anniversary in style with over 100,000 thousand visits to festival sites throughout the heart of Aberdeen. Celebrating the theme of Connections, Scotland’s biggest and brightest light festival, brought artists from all over the world to the Granite City showcasing an exciting range of light installations and projections for …
By City Moves Dance Company SPECTRA festival favourites return with a newly choreographed dance performance created especially for this year’s 10th anniversary festival. Choreographed by Lynn Shaw the piece will be performed by contemporary performers aged 13-18. See them at Broad Street at 19:00 and 20:00 daily.
Take your chance to bring the artwork of Northeast artist and illustrator, Johanna Basford, alive with neon paint. This year visitors can become the artist and watch as a bespoke installation is created in front of their eyes and throughout the course of the festival.
Amongst a 10th anniversary programme of spectacular interactive light installations and live performance, this month’s Spectra festival will also see the premiere of a newly-commissioned artwork exploring the story of Aberdeen and its maritime industries in a time of energy transition. Created by leading visual artists Anna Henrich & Leon Palmer, Winds of Change is …
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Embark on a captivating journey through Aberdeen’s historic cityscape with the Northern Lights Programme as part of SPECTRA, Scotland’s Festival of Light 2024. Lead artist Craig Barrowman, along with an emerging line-up of commissioned artists, who all have a connection to the northeast invite you to explore the city like never before. Using your smartphone, …
Illuminating the granite-clad walls of His Majesty’s Theatre, this Spectra 2024 installation explores Aberdeen’s connection to the natural elements. Aberdeen’s unique geographical location strongly connects it to our planet’s four natural elements; Earth, Wind, Water and Fire. Escorted by The Keeper of the Elements, the viewer will venture on a fantastical journey through Aberdeen’s geological …
‘Flow’ is a series of explorations using dynamically controlled points of light within physicalspace to visualise the flow of energy, data and artefacts; real and imagined, as suggested bythe landscape itself. It is an attempt to represent the elemental feel and energy of a space,inspired by its topography and features, dynamically altering and accentuating facets …
2024 will see some of the North East’s brightest artistic talent take centre stage at Spectra, as part of a new programme marking the landmark 10th year of Scotland’s Festival of Light. Northern Lights is being produced by Look Again at Gray’s School of Art, Robert Gordon University, on behalf of Spectra, and will be …
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Submergence is a large, immersive, walkthrough experience. It can be installed indoors or outdoors and uses many thousands of individual points of suspended light to create feelings of presence and movement within physical space. The installation transforms space into a hybrid environment where virtual and physical worlds coincide. As you enter the piece, you are …