A group of us went down to see the sights and take some photos - mine are very amateur! The display involved illuminating the Cathedral every half an hour with projections telling the story of St. Cuthbert and his community coming to Durham. There were also amazing projections of medieval manuscripts including the Lindisfarne Gospels which I had been studying earlier that day...though dropping in that I knew that it was, I retrained myself from giving my friends the details.
By far the best feature was the 't-shirt lanterns' in the cathedral itself. There were more than a few whispers of Harry Potter between people looking up at the display...
In the cloisters was a fire garden which was extremely atmospheric and looked quite apocalyptic.
Out the back of the cathedral was a further fire garden where one could just walk between various object on fire - we couldn't quite work out how they'd got this past health and safety but we didn't see anyone on fire so it must have been safe enough!
Walking back down the Bailey we came across some floating wire men (and women!) which were really cleverly done. There was one little boy that shouted: "Daddy, it's spiderman!", looking at one of the figures flying through the air...I'm sure that was exactly the symbolism that the Lumiere production teams were going for...
It was a great evening followed by a very restrained coke back at the bar in college. I would definitely recommend Lumiere for anyone wanting to experience such an amazing medieval city at its best...
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