Lightwaves: Lincolnshire’s East Coast Light Night Returns for 2025
A street art performer at Sutton-On-Sea for Lightwaves 2024.
Get ready to embrace your inner explorer. Lightwaves 2025 is set to light up the Lincolnshire Coast this October, bringing together art, community and heritage for a magical two night celebration of light and culture. Bringing together residents and visitors alike, Lightwaves is an event not to be missed.
When and Where is Lightwaves 2025?
Chapel St Leonards - Friday 24th October | 6-8pm
At Chapel St Leonards, you can experience a fire garden in the town centre. Visitors are then invited to take part in the Light Walk to the North Sea Observatory. Illuminate yourself, pets and pushchairs and enjoy the 15-minute stroll along the coast.
Sutton on Sea - Saturday 25th October | 6-9pm
Join the lantern parade, explore light installations and marvel at illuminated performances and stalls. A stunning colonnade projection will give the impression of a building moving at sea with inflatable tentacles adding a playful performance element.
What can I expect?
Lightwaves 2025 promises to offer an evening to enjoy with the whole family. With light installations and creative displays that showcases Lincolnshire’s heritage, this free to attend event is full of opportunity to celebrate and soak up the atmosphere along the coast.
This year’s theme: Adventure & Exploration
The theme for Lightwaves 2025 is Adventure and Exploration. Inspired by the voyages of Lincolnshire’s own Sir Joseph Banks, the famous botanist and explorer. Sir Joseph Banks was a naturalist, botanist and patron of the natural sciences and raised on the edge of the Lincolnshire Fens.
Lightwaves celebrates the spectacle of discovery, inviting families and visitors to embark on imaginative journeys through Lincolnshire’s history, told through light displays and coastal parades.
Lincolnshire has a rich heritage of exploration, from maritime voyages to scientific expeditions.
Community Lantern Workshops
In the weeks leading up to the event, local schools and community groups are taking part in lantern making workshops. Lanterns will be designed around the themes of exploration and scientific curiosity - bringing the spirit of Sir Joseph Banks’ adventures to life in creative ways. These workshops will allow families and young people to get hands on with the arts and creativity.
Sutton on Sea town crier parade ceremony at Lightwaves 2024.
Plan your visit
Sutton on Sea Programme
The parade starts at 6:30pm at the bottom of Sutton on Sea high street, the performance will then make its way up the high street towards the seafront where it will end at the Colonnade at 7:00pm.
Stay tuned for more updates.