Summer in the City festival is set to go digital
The Summer in the City arts festival is going digital for 2020, organisers Durham UniversityandDurhamCounty Council have announced.
The Festival aims to celebrate Durham City’s theatre, music and art. The inaugural event, held throughout June 2019, attracted about 19,000 visitors.
For 2020 the Festival is moving online, with a programme of events throughout Juneincludingexhibitionsand performancestoenjoydigitally and do-it-yourself activities to encourageeveryonetogetcreative from home.
Highlights include ‘Lighting Up the Home’, a competition inspired by the Lumiere light festiva.
Therewillalsobeanexhibitionofartbyyoungpeopleaged
12 to 17 working on their Arts Award Bronze qualification and funded by Arts Council England, a sketchbook project with the Brooklyn Art Library, an online short film festival, interactive art walks, a brass band composition competition, family do-at-home theatre,artandcraftsworkshops,a micromusicfestivaltitled‘Performance In Lockdown’, opportunities to share artworks via a Community Art Club and a virtual affordable art market run by Thought Foundation.
Jeremy Cook, Pro-ViceChancellor (Colleges and Student Experience) at Durham University, said: “We have some fantastically talented student actors, musicians and artists at Durham University and we’re proud of the contribution they make to Durham’s cultural life.
“Though we can’t stage student shows and concerts right now, this year’s Summer in the City Festival will in its own way bejustasexciting,asweexperiment with what can be done online.”
For more information visit: www.sitcfestival.org