Final Weekend: Berwick’s Litany for the Border Light Show

Description

This is the second major commission for Berwick Shines—the cultural wing of the Living Barracks project—following Matthew Rosier’s Berwick Parade in 2025. It is an ambitious piece of work, exploring the past, present, and future of those who live along the Tweed, digging specifically into local ideas of spirituality and what gives their lives meaning.

Subject

Entering its final weekend before the lights go down for good this Sunday, 22 February, the project is the work of artists Gareth Hudson and Toby Thirling, with a score by composer Eleanor Cully Boehringer. For the next couple of nights, choreographed beams of light will continue to pierce the Northumbrian sky from three iconic landmarks: the historic Nicholas Hawksmoor-designed Berwick Barracks, Berwick Sports & Leisure Centre, and Berwick Infirmary.