LightNight is an annual event which takes place every May and features music, events and art installations across Liverpool city centre and attracts thousands of people. Tony McDonough reports

Liverpool’s Bluecoat will again play a leading role in Liverpool’s LightNight cultural festival offering an evening of music, fun and contemporary dance.

LightNight is an annual event, taking place this year on Friday, May 18, which features events and arts installations across Liverpool city centre and attracts thousands of people.

Click here for the full LightNight 2018 programme

A feature of this year’s Bluecoat offering will be POP-UP Duets (fragments of love) is a series of five-minute, contemporary dance duets designed for a public spaces such as museums, galleries, cafes, libraries.

POP-UP Duets brings together the talents of award-winners Janis Claxton (choreographer) and Pippa Murphy (composer) with four world-class dancers, who between 6pm and 7.30pm perform a series of contemporary dance duets.

Bluecoat, in College Lane, will be embracing the 2018 LightNight theme of Transformation, by turning into a “truly immersive, engaging and interactive realm”.

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Each duet is accompanied by an original soundtrack specifically composed for Bluecoat. Janis Claxton said:  “POP-UP Duets (fragments of love) has been an exciting success with both audiences and critics. We are delighted to be touring it in 2018.”

During LightNight Bluecoat is inviting people to spend the evening in the garden with choirs, DJs, live musicians as well as an outdoor bar and barbecue.

The gallery will also stay open until late with visitors invited to spring exhibition, Euphonia by Emma Smith which transforms the gallery into a sonic chamber, turning the viewer into a participant who is invited to contribute to the sound installation by adding their own voice.