West End Lights 2025 will take place on
5/12/2025, 6 pm – 9 pm

If you want to become an active member in 2025, read our Illuminators page to put your contribution on the map or join our mailing list.

See our map for West End Lights.

Also check our instagram or facebook.

  • Almost 20 and Counting – Add Your Light to Our Growing Map!

    Great News! We have already almost 20 illuminations and contributions are already shining on our West End Lights 2025 map – and we’d love to see many more join them! With less than three weeks to go until Friday, 5th December (6-9pm), now is the perfect time to make sure your display or contribution is……

  • A Big Thank You to The Sycamore for Making West End Lights 2025 Shine Brighter!

    A Big Thank You to The Sycamore who have generously sponsored our West End Lights 2025 posters and postcards! Thanks to their support, we’ve been able to print and distribute beautiful materials across the West End, featuring the winning design by Hazelpreet Kaur from St Faith & St Martin Junior School. These postcards are now……

  • Your West End Lights 2025 Postcards – Coming to many letterboxes soon!

    We’re delighted to share that our beautiful West End Lights 2025 poster and postcards are hot off the press. Postcards will be landing in many letterboxes across the West End very soon! We are distributing many postcards already, but please accept apologies if you don’t get one. You can still print your own (read on)!……

What is West End Lights?

Lincoln West End Lights is one night in the year when we turn the front of our houses into film screens and light up the streets with images, moving shadows and short films to delight and enchant residents and surprised passersby.

It started on a cold winter’s night in December 2010. The West End of Lincoln was unusually quiet. Its streets closed to traffic because of a deep covering of snow but from nine houses lights shone out into the winter’s night. Those who braved the ice and cold saw an angel flying in York Avenue and a Lincolnshire Boggart hiding his treasures in Moor Street.

In 2011 films, shadow plays, lanterns and words glowed from 26 houses. Families collected on corners to watch shoals of fish dancing, stories unfolding before them and fleeting images from Lincoln’s past appear and melt away.

If you want to join as one of our illuminators in 2024, join as an illuminator, read our tips and tricks, or check our gallery for inspiration.

A brief introduction of Lincoln West End Lights, recorded in 2017 by the University of Lincoln’s Student Life Team.

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