L i g h t f i r e s

25/09/2024

👀 Step into the historic and atmospheric Dublin Castle for a fiery festival highlight like no other: Frank & McStein's Monster Laboratory!

🧛‍♂️ Presented by: Bram Stoker Festival, Dublin

🤝 Co-created by Emergency Exit Arts & L i g h t f i r e s

🧙‍♂️ Over three spellbinding nights, witness science’s greatest and most terrible achievement of all time at this interactive fire show - if you dare!

🧟‍♂️ With the sole intention of waking the most frightening, horrific and disgraceful creature known to nature, Professors Frank and McStein have set up their dastardly M.O.N.S.T.E.R. LAB

Ministry

Of

Nonsensical

Science and

Terrifying

Experimental

Research

👨‍🏫👩‍🏫 Guided by diabolical professors Frank and McStein and their eminent colleagues and their team of Igors, work your way through the fire-powered and interactive stations, earn yourself power-up tokens and feed them into the MONSTER-O-METER.

🔋 The MONSTER-O-METER will grant the life force needed to awaken THE CREATURE!!!

😱 What will happen next?

👹 Will the creature wake??

☠️ Will it be as fearful and horrific as the professors’ hope???

🤯 Will it terrify everyone gathered as the professors have dreamed????

👀 Find out at this monstrously dazzling spectacle for families and adventurers alike!

🎟 This is a free but ticketed event. Tickets will be available from Tuesday 1 October via Dublin City Council Bram Stoker Festival.

01/03/2024

From May 2024, Periplum is launching a brand-new outdoor arts training programme for Tees Valley creatives, leading to paid employment, professional development, shadowing and participation opportunities.

Are you an artist from any discipline who is looking to make work for the outdoors for the first time? Are you already working in outdoor space but want to develop your skills with an internationally-renowned company? Are you interested in exploring imaginative ways of engaging with audiences, working collaboratively, sharing ideas and developing them across a focused week of training alongside 20 other Tees Valley artists?

If this sounds like you, we’d like to invite you to apply for a place on the Creating Outdoors programme.
Applications are now open. Deadline 25th March.

Click here to find out more: https://www.periplum.co.uk/content/outdoor_training/.

Creating Outdoors is funded by Tees Valley Combined Authority and Arts Council of England to support growth of the local cultural sector.

04/02/2024

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29/10/2023

23/10/2023

14/09/2023

Another great day, and wow it was hot!!! ☀️🔥🔥☀️
Happy to have provided

20/08/2023

What were you doing 2 weeks ago today?
We were ready and waiting to press the button for the firework finale of
Watch it again here https://www.lightfires.co.uk/show-gallery/sirf23 💥💥

12/08/2023

💥🔥 Firework Finale by l i g h t f i r e s🔥💥

A big thank you to all involved! See you next time!

G Allum, Pablo Cheekydj Stockton-on-Tees Borough Council Emergency Exit Arts Frank Earle-Whiffen Battendown Productions Phoenix Fireworks Shellscape Pyrotechnics Ltd Wells Fireworks Fire Moon Digital