Leigh984, The creative portfolio of Leigh Spencer

In the second of my films from Light Up Leicester I take a look at the various performances that accompanied the Installations around the city. We start with Aquanauts Adrift on Jubilee Square complementing the bubble like structures of Evanescent by Atelier Sisu, this performance piece by  @enteredem5879  features two Aquanauts on a mission to bring the wonders of the underwater world to the audience, with lots of fun bubbles and characters along for the ride. Next we arrive at the Clock Tower where  @NupurArtsDance  bring us the bight colours, dance and spectacle of the Holi Experience, ending with a blast of colour from bright powder thrown into the air. To the  @LeicesterMuseums  on New Walk next for the surreal but magical spectacle of FIERS À CHEVAL, Featuring imposing illuminated ivory horses, light and flamboyant. What follows is a magical experience along the New Walk led by performers from Compagnie Des Quidams, as they journey to The Circl...

As part of the National Gallery`s programme of events to celebrate their Bicentenary, 12 of the nation’s most iconic and well-loved paintings from the collection are being lent to 12 venues across the UK. Leicester Museum and Art Gallery on New Walk has been lent The Umbrellas by Pierre-Auguste Renoir, the much loved painting is on display until September 1st and has free entry. The displays opened simultaneously on 10 May 2024, the 200th anniversary of the Gallery’s opening in London, enabling people from all over the country to see, up close, some of the greatest works in the history of Western art. www.nationalgallery.org.uk

On the opening weekend of the exhibition, Punk, Rage and Revolution at Leicester`s New Walk Museum members of two local scooter clubs (Leicestershire Alliance Scooter Club and Treakle Town Scooter Club) brought their scooters to a meet up outside the museum. On display where scooters of many types and designs with artwork depicting various themes from Punk itself through to sports and brands such as Vans. in my film we see the scooters lined up and being viewed by visitors before they start their engines and ride away to further adventures.

Travel back to possibly the brightest most colorful decade that ever there was, see the items that made the 80s so memorable. For those growing up in this decade it was a neverending story of great films, tv, music, toys and the first true home and portable gaming systems, we truly felt like masters of our own little universes. In the I Grew Up 80s Exhibition curator Matt Fox takes us through his personal collection of 80s objects triggering memories of our own 80s Childhoods. How many objects do you remember ?.

Once upon a time in a galaxy far far... wait a second lets start that again, Once upon a time in Leicester a collection of vintage toy figures, spacecraft and artwork from a popular science fiction film franchise where brought together by collector Matt Fox at the cities New Walk museum. Fans both young and old jumped into their transport craft (cars) eager to relive countless childhood hours spent recreating scenes from that adventure among the stars. May The Toys Be With You brings together the UK`s finest collection of Action Figures, Spacecraft and Artwork from the popular generation spanning Star Wars films, toys from which where created at nearby Palitoy based in Coalville (Leicestershire). Being the main UK distributors of the films toy line Palitoy where behind the unprecedented demand for the iconic toys that went on to sell more than the films that inspired them from 1977 - 1985 an estimated 300 million figures where sold. My film aims to bring a flavor of the exh...