The Witching Way

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Two years ago Ali Matthews and Leo Burtin walked the 65 miles from Pendle Hill to Lancaster Castle, retracing the footsteps of the so-called Lancashire Witches who were hanged for seeming a little out of the ordinary. Reflecting on this pilgrimage led them to create the story of “The Witching Way”Read More →

Light Up Lancaster 2019 Fireworks. Photo: Robin Zahler

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Thousands descended upon Lancaster at the weekend to enjoy this year’s magical two night festival of light and art in the city. Delivered by Lancaster Arts City, Lancaster City Council and Lancaster BID, the city’s seventh Light Up Lancaster event drew inspiration from this year’s theme ‘Into the Skies’ to celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the moon landing. Lancaster’s heritage buildings, public spaces and community corners were transformed through art commissions, video mapping, music and performance as local and national talent rubbed shoulders with international artists. This year’s programme saw the artwork Museum of the Moon by Luke Jerram take centre stage. With a diameterRead More →

Dancer Seeta Patel

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Not Today’s Yesterday is the topical, critically acclaimed dance/theatre solo performed by Bharatanatyam (Classical Indian) dancer Seeta Patel who performed at Lancaster University’s Nuffield last year in Gandini Juggling’s SigmaRead More →

Pictured: Keith Tassart and Colin Ogden emerging from Hincaster Tunnel. Photo courtesy Frank Sanderson

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Frank Sanderson of the Friends of Lancaster Canal writes to note an “extremely delightful and interesting letter highlighted in Westmorland Gazette (17/10/20190, telling how three 14 year old boys went through Hincaster Tunnel on the Lancaster Canal at night in 1971, beating Colin Ogden, and the late Keith Tassart by many years. So the spirit of adventure is not dead. “Colin, a maverick, as everyone who meets him knows, was castigated for his part, nevertheless, one journalist put it at the time as ‘a public relations coupe of the first order’ and another ‘–these people are bundles of energy and should be encouraged, and notRead More →

Morecambe’s Promenade Concert Orchestra

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Morecambe’s Promenade Concert Orchestra celebrates its 50th concert this November by reviving musical memories of a classic radio programme. Those Were The Days takes its name from a programme on ‘the wireless’ which was so popular that it survived for almost 40 years. Although the Promenade Concert Orchestra is young in comparison, having been founded in 2007, it will relive a selection of dance music from the original programmes at The Platform in Morecambe on 24th November 2019. Those Were The Days was originally broadcast on the Forces Programme before moving to the Light Programme and then Radio 2. For 23 years, the music wasRead More →