This Media Pack for the Oxford Christmas Lights Festival / Glow Your Own is for events contributors, communications professionals and anyone with an interest in promoting the Oxford Christmas Lights Festival / Glow Your Own is as part of the IF Oxford 2021 programme. Please help maximise awareness of the Festival joining in the social media buzz throughout November.
Glow Your Own project (six sessions online, free)On this page, there are:
- Posters (PDF)
- Square and 3:2 graphics (with link to PNG files)
Event plan for Leys on 19 Nov:
Glow Your LED switch on event (6.30pm Fri 19 Nov)The LED art installation is present Friday 19 — Sunday 21 November: switch-on at 6.30pm on Friday, and then at the fall of darkness on Saturday and Sunday.
The Leys CDI, Blackbird Leys Community Centre, Blackbird Leys Rd, Oxford OX4 6HW
Young people and families across Oxford and the UK have been developing small LED lanterns that respond to light. Their LEDs flash in a whole range of sequences and colours, controlled by computer code developed during a free 6-week course. You can join in with Glow Your Own by visiting: https://if-oxford.com and search GLOW YOUR OWN.
The artist working on Glow Your Own has created a new site-specific LED artwork taking their lead from youth members of the Leys CDI summer programme and after-school clubs. Young people created a design reminiscent of Keith Haring, incorporating emojis, real-life social connections and the reimagined skyline of Blackbird Leys.
Cj, the Glow Your Own artist, has blended imagery of computer circuitry, interactivity in the form of a retro computer game, and the design themes from teenagers to create a new splash of light in Leys that responds to your presence using QR codes.
A free public, open-air event for families, teenagers, adults interested in Leys, art, technology or neighbourhood
- Friday 19 November
– Preparation for public events from 10am
– Installation final test and weather assessed for early evening (stewards to arrive by 4pm)
– 18:30 – Switch on (public event starts)
– 22:00 – public event ends (lights remain turned on until midnight), tidy up
Ox Light Fest 2021 A5 flyer
