For one night only students and staff from Leeds Met joined together with cultural organisations across the city to play host to performances, shows, artwork, music, storytelling, tours and game playing for Light Night Leeds.

The University, working with Leeds City Council,  brought together this year's event, which took its audience beyond boundaries to experience a host of creativity, produced by Leeds Met students, staff and friends in some world-class architectural and surprising spaces.

As the city of Leeds changes dramatically, Light Night offered its audience the chance to imagine its future shape, its cultural potential and to discover the role of Leeds Met within that.

Moving from the Pearson Windows Projections in the intimate surroundings of Northern Terrace, guests attending were transported to other events across the city, including City Dell, an event which saw 30 performers on bungee ropes in electric suits create spectacular performance installations fusing light, sound, video, live mixing and a touch of clowning. The act, held in Queen Square, celebrated the launch of the new Art, Event and Performance course at Leeds Met and showcased the talents of the students on the first year of this new degree. The next step in the journey, which moved on to a hive of activity in and around the Leeds Met Gallery & Studio Theatre, included Sixty Perfect Circles for a Brick Wall, a showcase of 60 new circular films at the Leslie Silver Building.

As part of the celebrations, Leeds Met Gallery & Studio Theatre hosted Lego®ville, a chance to re-imagine the city as a vision made entirely of Lego®. The University provided the building blocks and asked members of the public to bring their imagination and begin construction. 

The Light Night journey continued, via the Rose Bowl, to Sweetness and Light, in the Old School Board which, working in partnership with West Yorkshire Playhouse, animated an architectural curiosity. The expedition around the city concluded at the Electric Press with broadcasts of Leeds Met People's Light Night, personal favourites recorded by audience members, which were shown on the BBC Big Screen in Millennium Square.

For full details of the events and to view a map please visit the Faculty of Arts & Society website.