LIGHTPOOL FESTIVAL • 21-31 OCTOBER 2026

LIGHTPOOL FESTIVAL
21-31 OCTOBER 2026

Lightpool Festival 2022

14-29 October 2022

Lightpool Festival 2022

Blackpool’s award-winning Lightpool Festival is back with extraordinary free-to-see entertainment from the 14-29 October 2022.

This year’s amazing light festival comprises of 16 nights of pure exhilarating spectacle, providing an intoxicating mix of light-based art installations, stunning live performances, family-friendly activities, and 3D projection shows.

Showcasing a spectacular array of international works from France and Netherlands and exclusively premiering new artwork never seen before in the UK, this year’s event promises to be the most visually spectacular light festival ever!

Lightpool Festival 2022 Art Trail

Brilliance

This light and sound show was the first of its kind in the UK. Based on a continuous ribbon spiralling in and out of the ground, its six metal arches criss-cross Birley Street with custom-designed luminaires.

UK

The Nature Takeover

Vines, flowers, fruit, fungus and creatures take over St.Johns Church as it is reclaimed by nature as a large scale, playful, rhythmic projection.

UK

Butterflies

Butterflies have different meanings to different people. ‘Butterfly Cluster’ by Anne Bennett is inspired by an open cluster of stars in Scorpius.

UK

Aqualux Tour

Driven by an illuminated one-of-a-kind Peterbilt owned by Fox Bros., the artwork will be touring the streets of Blackpool, bringing Lightpool Festival up close and personal to residents and visitors alike

UK

We Are Blackpool

Representing Blackpool’s vibrant local community, with a bespoke soundtrack, We Are Blackpool is a once in a lifetime snapshot of soulful reflections and poignant, personal perspectives. Honest, raw, real.

UK

Lumination

In this exhibition, get up close and personal with some favourites from the Blackpool Illuminations collection.

UK

Illuminate 2022

Blackpool Grand Theatre present ILLUMINATE, a short film, soundscape and accompanying artworks co-created with Blackpool’s children during a year of creative activity exploring and celebrating their brilliance & resilience.

UK

Moon Flowers

Experience the mesmeric Moon Flowers and be gently hypnotised by their colour changing transformations.

UK

Norman

Meet the interactive light and sound installation NORMAN - an old-school ‘smart’ screen but with attitude. Its questionable antics might be understood as the response of an ‘intelligent’ machine in crisis.

UK

100 Stories High

As a man leaves his house for the final time, a flood of memories unfolds. Personal moments collide with world events as the old building shows its history and bares its soul. imitating the dog mix beautiful animation with live performance in this musical installation about memory and time.

UK

Aqualux

Aqualux - An 8m by 3m creative lighting installation composed of 48 unfilled water containers, which typically hold 1,000 litres of water each, specially adapted to create a stunning light feature.

UK

Tower Projections

Step into a magical world and experience the delightful charm of the Blackpool Tower Projections! Let yourself be captivated by the mesmerising display of lights, colours, and music that will transport you to a whimsical era full of vintage allure and soothing tunes.

UK

Flux

Flux is composed of 48 dynamic light lines, 1.5 m long, spaced 40 cm apart, motorised and controlled in real time. The formal multiplication of these lines coupled with micro variations of phases, temporal delays, speeds and amplitudes allows us to sculpt a 20m long object, alive and evolving with a cyclic back and forth movement.

France

Seeing In The Dark

Peer into a cinema from the past in Seeing In The Dark, an evocative new digital installation from imitating the dog.

UK

Tower and Golden Mile Lightshow

Blackpool Tower is emblazoned with a glowing heart, and 25,000 lights on the structure. Join us for this sensational light show, as we bring the Tower and promenade to life with a sound and light spectacular.

UK

Drop Of Light

Just another day in the life of a drop of light: it dances, sways, twirls, flutters, hides, jolts and plays. This magical installation combines displays of fluorescent liquid and ultra-violet laser lights to breathe life into a drop of light, drawing the viewer in through all the senses.

Netherlands

One Way Or Another

A set of revised road signs giving humanity a shared direction for the future.

Netherlands

Crystallized

CRYSTALLIZED is an audio-visual sculpture inspired by the bismuth crystal. Inside it, we use the principle of volumetric projection and video to illuminate its loins.

France

Power the Tower

Can you pedal hard enough on our specially adapted light up bike, to generate enough power to light up our Blackpool Tower model?

UK

Neon

Neon - a riotous display of multi-coloured new light works

UK

Big Bird

What’s 3.5 metres high and made out of ten London taxis? Big Bird of course!

UK

Spiro

Spiro is a family friendly immersive walk-through sculptural tunnel of light experience. This 26m long magical experience is made of individually mapped LEDs that allow complex patterns to dance around the audience. Get your camera ready and remember the moment.

UK

The Blackpool Way

During lockdown, LeftCoast and Showtown and House of Wingz invited the public to submit original dance moves for a new social dance called ‘The Blackpool Way’. This dance was captured in iconic locations across the Town, filmed by WASH studios with music by Callum Harvie

UK

Odyssey

Introducing Odyssey, the largest installation ever seen in the Blackpool Illuminations display, co-created by international designer Jack Irving in collaboration with a talented team of computer scientists from Lancaster University and the experts at Lightworks.

UK

Lightpool Festival 2022 Events

Carnival Magic 2022

An exhilarating menagerie of illuminated Carnival will hit the Tower Ballroom for an electrifying static showcase of music, puppetry and dance. Internationally recognised Carnival performers will present a showstopper over 30 minutes, bringing a diverse melting pot of Carnival magic.

Illuminated Tram Parade 2022

The Illuminated Tram Parade 2022 will celebrate Blackpool’s unique illuminated tramway history and presents a wonderful opportunity to witness and enjoy Blackpool’s dazzling, historic collection of illuminated tramcars.

100 Stories High

As a man leaves his house for the final time, a flood of memories unfolds. Personal moments collide with world events as the old building shows its history and bares its soul. imitating the dog mix beautiful animation with live performance in this musical installation about memory and time.

UK

Engagement

Fit2Glow

Lightpool Festival in partnership with Blackpool Football Club Community Trust are to hold UV Football events for Blackpool Year 2 Primary Schools and Blackpool Academy, during September.

Lumidogs

Lumidogs at Lightpool - We are hosting a series of make & create workshops across Blackpool and inviting dog owners and their pooches to get involved.

We Are Blackpool

Representing Blackpool’s vibrant local community, with a bespoke soundtrack, We Are Blackpool is a once in a lifetime snapshot of soulful reflections and poignant, personal perspectives. Honest, raw, real.

UK

Illuminate 2022

Blackpool Grand Theatre present ILLUMINATE, a short film, soundscape and accompanying artworks co-created with Blackpool’s children during a year of creative activity exploring and celebrating their brilliance & resilience.

UK

100 Stories High

As a man leaves his house for the final time, a flood of memories unfolds. Personal moments collide with world events as the old building shows its history and bares its soul. imitating the dog mix beautiful animation with live performance in this musical installation about memory and time.

UK

The Blackpool Way

During lockdown, LeftCoast and Showtown and House of Wingz invited the public to submit original dance moves for a new social dance called ‘The Blackpool Way’. This dance was captured in iconic locations across the Town, filmed by WASH studios with music by Callum Harvie

UK

Light Gallery