{"id":13341,"date":"2016-12-31T00:31:24","date_gmt":"2016-12-31T00:31:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.freeinuk.co.uk\/blog\/?p=13341"},"modified":"2016-12-31T04:36:52","modified_gmt":"2016-12-31T04:36:52","slug":"aberdeen-festival-of-lights-adds-after-hours-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.freeinuk.co.uk\/blog\/aberdeen-festival-of-lights-adds-after-hours-event","title":{"rendered":"Aberdeen Festival of Lights adds after-hours event"},"content":{"rendered":"<p lang=\"en-GB\">Aberdeen Festival of Lights gets a new additional after-hours event in the new year 2017! Organisers have announced an after-hours music programme with a stage at the rooftop of the St. Nicholas Centre, featuring local bands and performers, to entertain crowds at the bandstand. Music and light will be combined, in a new show by DJs and Vjs, that will take the festival into the after-hours of the night.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-GB\">True North is collaborating with SPECTRA to create Aberdeen&#8217;s festival of music and song arranged by Aberdeen Performing Arts. The festival will run from 9<sup>th<\/sup> to 12<sup>th<\/sup> February, celebrates with this year&#8217;s theme of &#8216;A New Light &#8216;, as part of the Scottish Year of History and Archaeology that explores Aberdeen&#8217;s past on this theme. The kirk of St. Nicholas, Marisch College and the Union Terrace Gardens will be illuminated for the festival.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-GB\">The internationally known CLOUD sculpture by Caitlind r.c. Browne and Wayne Garrett, is induced in this year&#8217;s highlights, which is to celebrate Scotland&#8217;s invention of the incandescent light bulb. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eveningexpress.co.uk\/fp\/news\/local\/music-and-video-event-added-to-festival-of-light\/\">free event<\/a> encourages the audience to engage with the spaces by accessing playful, high quality performances, the works of light &amp; sound and other interactive experiences. The deputy leader of the city council, Councillor Marie Boulton, said this excellent example of collaboration is why SPECTRA is a highlight on the Aberdeen calendar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aberdeen Festival of Lights gets a new additional after-hours event in the new year 2017! Organisers have announced an after-hours music programme with a stage at the rooftop of the St. Nicholas Centre, featuring local bands and performers, to entertain crowds at the bandstand. Music and light will be combined, in a new show by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[121],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-freebies"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.freeinuk.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.freeinuk.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.freeinuk.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.freeinuk.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.freeinuk.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13341"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.freeinuk.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13341\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13344,"href":"http:\/\/www.freeinuk.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13341\/revisions\/13344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.freeinuk.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.freeinuk.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.freeinuk.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}