L19 - 2019 A Year In Videos

2019 saw the 50th anniversary of the apollo moon landings meaning many of my films had a space theme, from The Leicester City Festival in the summer with it’s out of this world theme to The Outer Space Bricklive trail and the Overview Effect projections, in 2019 Leicester looked to the Moon.

It was also the year exhibition MODS Shaping A Generation opened at Leicester`s New Walk Museum and Leicesters MODS turned out in large numbers on opening day to give it their seal of approval.

Street Art again featured heavily with Bring The Paint 2019 transforming many of the cities walls and the legal street art zone in St Margarets underpass opening.

Art of a historic type featured when a famous portrait of King Richard III visited New Walk museum on loan from the National Portrait Gallery in London as part of their homecoming project.

Beyond Leicester The Tour Of Yorkshire pro-cycling, The Great Exhibition Space: God, The Universe And Everything at Lichfield Cathedral, Wales Rally GB and Oulton Park all featured.

October saw the opening of the Khun Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha Memorial Garden at the site of the tragic helicopter crash that took his life, I visited the moving location on opening day.

The festive season kicked off in November with the Christmas light switch on in the city center and once again a Space theme featured with Highcross shopping center`s event Winter Galactical featuring dancing stormtroopers, Titan the robot and more.

My longest ever film was posted to the channel towards the end of November with the Great Central Railways Magical Winter Wonderlights illuminated train bringing comparisons to the much loved Polar Express film.

By December the channel was in full Christmas mode with Desford Tree Festival and a return to the Abbey Pumping Station (visited at the start of the year) for the Christmas Toys And Steam Day event.

There was also a return to the king power stadium for some festive fun and we joined John Finney and his stuber organ playing in a local Sainsburys store !.

All this and more is in the L19 playlist at
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLgAvTnisSYS7yPKg8cDTeBVr9fEcD1WRw