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London Road’s chance to Shine

Besi Besemar December 5, 2013

A series of art installations are appearing in London Road in the run up to Christmas.

London Road Portas Scheme

Shine on London Road launches on Saturday, December 7 at 6pm and will highlight the businesses, restaurants and shopping in the area.

Shine on London RoadIt is part of the national Portas Pilot project and Small Business Saturday which aims to boost the areas economy in the run up to Christmas.

Five new art-works will be installed in London Road and be in place from December 7 to January 5. These works celebrate London Road as a sustainable vibrant community and shopping area and provide a unique alternative to Christmas lights.

During the afternoon between 2pm and 6pm there will be small scale musical and choral performances and events up and down the high street highlighting that London Road has changed and is changing.

This will include Meet the Artists events with Lucid Design who are designing the archways for the Open Market and Jon Mills who designed and made the Ghost Train.

The installations include:

reCyculture – Night Bikes

Five glowing bicycles appear from a rooftop on London Rd, frozen in mid-leap.  A large and bold, sculptural installation, which will be seen along the length of the street.  High impact and highly visual, the installation will put the bicycle at the heart of the new London Rd and will be presented by the creative team behind Bicycle Ballet (and a London Road resident)

Exploring Senses – Hidden Toys

Exploring Senses CIC (ES) helps to inspire children and young people to engage in education, sustainable materials practice, digital making, and to become active citizens.  They will run two sessions of ‘toy-hacking’ workshops in the Fusebox for local young people.  Images of the toys created will be projected onto a wall in London Road, but the images will only be revealed when a passer by walks past.  This project fuses community arts practise and digital arts.

Digital Funfair – Light Hearted

A heart shaped chain of led lights is mounted high in the trees on Circus Parade. At street level, under the kissing statue, there are two hand rails placed a few metres apart – far enough so that one person is unable to hold both rails at the same time. When two or more people connect the two hand rails the heart lights up and the longer they hold the more sequences the heart goes through.

Paul Matosic – Trees

Paul Matosic creates stunning installations out of reclaimed polystyrene packaging, animating them with LED lights to create magical sculptural installations that also illustrate how much unrecyclable waste our white goods generate.

Karen Tilley and Esther Springett – The London Road Jingle

Local artists Karen and Esther will create a unique soundscape for London Road using found sound, words and song from local people and community groups. This will be mixed into a festive soundscape which will be installed in a variety of listening stations along the London Road.

Shine on London Road, Brighton

What: Shine on London Road

Where: London Road

When: Saturday, December 7

Time: 6pm

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