THE first ever Light Up Poole event got under way yesterday.
The festival aims to transform the High Street after dark between Falkland Square and the Quay, with a host of interactive artworks and illuminations.
Sponsored by Poole BID and funded by Arts Council England, the event includes The Squirrel, a three-metre sculpture outside Quay Amusements highlighting threats to Brownsea Island’s famous colony of red squirrels.
Juxtaproject has been created specially for the event, located outside Barque in Weston’s Lane.
A series of images of facial features will be screened from projectors that viewers are invited to pick up and move around, assembling body parts in any way they see fit.
Meanwhile sound artist Jon Adams has worked with the SoundStorm music education agency and local schools to make a soundscape album of found sounds that will play in the Fish Shambles on the Quay.
The event runs each day to Saturday, inclusive, from 4pm to 9pm.
For more information visit lightuppoole.co.uk.
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