Light Night Leeds
Large-scale citywide arts and light festival
We have supported Light Night Leeds across multiple years, working with artists and venues to provide lighting, sound and portable power for installations in both traditional venues and unconventional public spaces.
Light Night Leeds is the UK’s largest annual arts and light festival, transforming Leeds over two nights each October with installations, projections and performances across indoor and outdoor locations.
Production Light & Sound supports artists and venues taking part in the festival, providing lighting, sound and portable power for projects across the city.
Working with Light Night Leeds
Each Light Night project brings its own technical requirements. Many installations take place in public or temporary spaces, often without access to fixed power, and must be installed, tested and operated within tight timeframes.
Across the festival, our role is to support participating artists and venues with reliable technical delivery, so installations could be installed, tested and run reliably across both nights
The challenge
Delivering technical support at Light Night scale means managing:
- Multiple projects running simultaneously across the city
- Outdoor and public-space installations without mains power
- Short installation and de-rig windows
- High visitor numbers and live public environments
Each project needed a slightly different approach, depending on location, access and power availability.
How we have supported Light Night Leeds
We have supported Light Night Leeds across multiple years, working across different projects across the city, including working directly with artists as well as venues.
Our work has included:
- Supplying portable green power for installations without mains supply
- Providing lighting equipment, design and programming for indoor and outdoor works
- Delivering sound systems for spoken word and live performance
- On-site technical support during installation and live operation
Key projects have included Globoscope at The Junction Leeds – an immersive installation of over 200 illuminated spheres – powered using our 5k Green Voltage battery generator.
Technical support for the National Poetry Centre at Trinity St David’s, including sound, lighting design and programming for a spoken installation by poet Maura Dooley.
Technical approach & equipment
- Green Voltage 5k and 10k battery generators deployed across multiple sites
- Portable lighting systems suitable for architectural and outdoor use
- PA systems for spoken word and performance
- Pre-event testing and coordinated logistics between warehouse and site teams
