Every year York's autumn nights are transformed by a lights display on some of our city's biggest attractions and monuments. The main illuminations take place this year on Clifford's tower as well as the museum gardens and aim to tell stories of York's ancient past such as the Viking tales that surround the city's culture and tradition.
Triquetra, new artwork by Ross Ashton and sound by Karen Monid, is being projected on to Clifford’s Tower and the mound on which it stands, telling the tale of the three Viking kings of Denmark who had a great influence on York and England, in particular Sweyn Forkbeard and his son Cnut the Great.
With Clifford's tower being such an iconic piece of York's history it seems fitting for such a story to be told here. So if you want to go get there from 6pm to 10pm. Last admissions are at 9.45pm and of course it is free.
Likewise at the museum gardens there will be another show depicting The Storyteller, where film and animation are combined to tell the tale of Viking warlord Eric Bloodaxe, all this will be done by Immersive and Gaia Nova.
There will also be shows at the treasurers house with a slightly ghoulish theme, as well as an array of displays at the national railway museum.
If you can get along you really must, it will be a show to remember.
