Updates

Finally some updates on the the next venues.
Continuing on from the great start of 2011 with Gaborone we have some really nice upcoming cities!

The next one is Frankfurt in August for Playing the city 3.
Then Limelight will be heading to Istanbul for the Biennial and Contemporary Istanbul,
Toronto for the Nuit Blanche,
Berlin for the Festival of Lights,
Prague for Tina B
and Miami for Sleepless Night.

review

A nice wee article of Limelight in Frame magazine Online.

Websites

Two new recent sightings of Limelight on the web:

In Public Space We Trust,
The tumblr site of Public Design Festival: "We toured the world's public spaces looking for ideas and projects to present - interventions, installations, and services that will transform the way we experience and live the city.
This is Public Design Festival's challenge: when professionals' aware and sustainable design meets the active participation of citizens, students, travellers and tourists - that's when cities can change."


And in Lightcommunity
a forum on light in its different guises.

Gaborone

After an initially shy start the people of Gaborone shone in the limelight, the project will be in place again tonight at River walk next to Linga Longa.
A few first snaps from last night:

Limelight in Botswana

We arrived in Gaborone, Botswana, Thursday morning at the invitation of the Maitisong festival and the British Council. Limelight will be installed tomorrow at Riverwalk from 7pm. We are very much looking forward to exploring the city and meeting some of its residents over the next six days.
Photo taken during an interview at Duma FM this afternoon.

Limelight, in Africa

Botswana's Capital City, Gaborone will be hosting Limelight for two nights on the 8th and 9th of April 2011.
We are delighted and endebted to the Maitisong Festival and the British Council for bringing the project to Africa for the first time.

Limelight: Saturday night, projection

Last week was the first projection of the film of the first three cities in a cinema.
A great night organised by Northern Architecture, Newcastle City Council and Side Cinema.
Side Cinema is a great little independent cinema in the heart of Newcastle with old fashion velvety seat, a perfect venue for the first showing of the film outside of Artisphere.
The projection was followed by a discussion with the public about the role and nature of public art and our relationship with shared space in cities. Some really interesting questions came up and it was a shame we had to rush of to catch the last train to Glasgow.

There is a short description of the night on the Northern Architecture website with a link to a forum discussion at the bottom.

You can see a trailer here