Award-winning arts and technology collective MakeAmplify collaborated with family design company Hello Dodo to create ‘The Electric Grand Bug Hotel’, and interactive projection mapping installation. Outline drawings of the Grand Bug Hotel were projected across nine surfaces and the public were then invited to colour in the drawings on the provided iPads and see their creations light up on the walls.placeholder image
Award-winning arts and technology collective MakeAmplify collaborated with family design company Hello Dodo to create ‘The Electric Grand Bug Hotel’, and interactive projection mapping installation. Outline drawings of the Grand Bug Hotel were projected across nine surfaces and the public were then invited to colour in the drawings on the provided iPads and see their creations light up on the walls.

Light Up Crawley 2025: 34 photos from festival of light and sound

Light Up Crawley Festival 2025 ignited the town centre with free, family-friendly cultural experiences earlier this month.

Collaborating with some of the UK's leading digital creatives, the two-day festival of light and sound on February 28 and March 1 transformed familiar public spaces into vibrant hubs of interactive light art and performances.

Events taking place during the festival included: ‘Spring Forward’ by Same Sky; ‘An Obscure Camera’ by Flexer and Sandiland; ‘The Electric Grand Bug Hotel’ by Make Amplify; ‘Polaris’ by Seb Lee Productions; ‘Sparks!’ by LED Drummers; Digital Funfair by Gavin Morris with ‘Light-Hearted’, ‘The LED Curtain’ and ‘The Hexagons’; ‘Everyday Tacticity’ by Charlotte Spencer Projects; ‘Gaps In The Light’ by Lila Dance; and ‘Past Present Future’ by Project Female.

The festival was jointly funded by Crawley Borough Council and National Project Lottery Funding from Arts Council England. It was supported by Crawley Town Centre Business Improvement District.

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