Lancaster University campus has exciting and unexpected events popping up all over the place from Tuesday through to May 12. Live at LICA's second annual Curate the Campus arts project features a host of local and international artists putting unusual projects to unusual locations.
The festival opens with adventurous musicians from the Lancashire Sinfonietta attempting a "cliff-face concert" at Lancaster University's brand new Sports Centre.
Five professional musicians will take to the climbing wall, with harnesses, to perform excerpts from their Spirit of Adventure programme whilst suspended from the wall!
Music will include Indiana Jones, Those Magnificent Men in their Flying Machines, Spirit of Adventure and The Dambusters.
Other local performance artists include Leentje Van de Cruys & Tine Feys who'll be playing the brides in Going to the Chapel on May 3 whilst Lancaster's Ludus Dance will be presenting a new dance for dancers on office chairs.
Major artists involved in this fortnight of activity include: Tim Etchells and Ant Hampton, with whispered text The Quite Volume (May 8-12) taking place in the hush of Lancaster University's reading room, and the world premiere of internally acclaimed visual artist Franko B's new performance Because of Love on Friday May 11 in the Nuffield Theatre.
As part of the festival Live at LICA are running a Family Activity Day on Saturday May 12.
Theatre company Talking Birds will bring their unique whale to the campus for a charming, funny performance with submariner Jonah. The whale will ‘beach' outside the LICA building between 11.30am and 4.30pm on Saturday. Entry is free, taking place inside the whale and last three minutes.
Whilst inside the LICA building there will be a range of drop in art workshops led by the Lancaster University students who played a key role in the current Conversations with the Collection exhibition. The art workshops are free and suitable for the entire family. Earlier in the day within the ‘Making Time' garden, composer and performer Maja Bugge will lead a music workshop for 8-12 year-olds on the piano located in the garden's shed. The children will then go on to compose their own short pieces in relation to the piano and the shed. These pieces will be performed at the end of the workshop.
Entry to the majority of events is free and tickets for Franko B's Because of Love and The Quiet Volume are available via www.liveatlica.org.