Durham's Lumiere light festival concludes final edition after 15-year run due to funding cuts
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Summary
The Lumiere light festival in Durham, UK, is concluding its final edition after a successful 15-year run since 2009. The festival, which showcased over two dozen light art pieces by international artists across the urban centre, is ending due to depleted public funding coffers — a situation mirrored across the country for public art projects. The article reflects on the bittersweet end of this biennial cultural event that had become a beloved institution in the North East city.
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· 3 pulledIt was the best of times, it was the worst of times – so starts Charles Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities.
The coffers are empty, and everything is going up in pri...
The small North East city of Durham, home to the popular and innovative Lumiere light festival, is also, half-unbelievably to many involved, coming to the end of a hugely successful public art exhibition
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