Above is the first part of light night which we had a look at. The lit windows were part of a Leeds Met building just across the road from my halls, The Plaza. We were directed through a building into a courtyard, which was covered in fairy lights and had eerie sounds emanating from hidden speakers. The overall effect of the area was quite unnerving, as there were people walking round in facemasks and boiler suits who would follow you and hold your gaze for a little too long. 
The buildings surrounding the green in the centre were also lit up purple, I think this made it look more eerie, but i couldn't get a crisp enough picture as I don't have a tripod. Despite this, I quite like the blurryness.
This is the lit up path leading around the green. In the centre, around 10 students dressed in suits with glowing piping were fastened to separate trees by elastic tied around their waists, and were slowly building and destroying a city made of lit up paper houses. 
Part of the lit up scene in the green. The other side of this tree were people in boiler suits rolling in the mud and shouting at the spectators. They made me feel a little uneasy so I didn't stay there very long...
On Briggate, there was a small tent in the middle of the street playing reggae music. We had a look inside "Black Dogs Dose of Summer", and this is what was inside: on one side there were tables selling ice cream and smoothies, the other a stand with people painting faces either red (for sunburn) or orange (for suntan). The tent was heated and extremely warm, and there were few chairs to sit on, but I loved the umbrellas hung from the ceiling with painted clouds on.
Up in the Civic Quarter at Leeds Met there was a Legoville, in which thousands of pieces of Lego were spread across the floor for participants to make their interpretation of Leeds. I thought that this was a very good idea, but looking at the table of finished models it was apparent that people hadn't really taken it seriously and had made models of anything. The room also smelt very strongly of sick so we didn't stay very long..
There was a large psychedelic projection on the tower of the Parkinson Building which we went to have a look at, but at this point we had been walking round Leeds for several hours looking for events and were a bit tired of Light Night. We had a look around the Leeds University campus for any other Light Night events and came to the conclusion that it wasn't as well organised as it could have been, seen as we spent most of the night looking round the city for the next event as the previous was either full of finished. Despite this, my favourite part of Light Night was definitely the Leeds Met show of lights in the green next to the Plaza, as I thought this was the most interactive and interesting.
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