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Leeds City Museum's exhibitions curator Laura Irwin with a violin used by The Legendary Len Liggins, a member of Leeds band The Ukrainians.

For the installation called The Matter of the Heart, created by idontloveyouanymore, a collection of local residents will be wearing a heart monitor for the duration of Light Night Leeds. Each person has a corresponding lightbox in the artwork that will flash in time with their beat, and wherever the participants are during this time their hearts will be seen flashing together.

This year, Light Night Leeds is working with four local primary schools inspiring the next generation of light artists. Guided by artist Gemma Wood, children are asked to design the most imaginative artwork using light, without being hampered by practical restrictions.

Guided by artist Gemma Wood, children are asked to design the most imaginative artwork using light, without being hampered by practical restrictions.

For this year's Light Night, artist Gemma Wood is working with primary schools to help children design the most imaginative artwork using light.

For the piece Motus Mori PERPETUUM, Katja Heitmann has created an immersive and deeply moving video installation, where the movements of 12 people from Leeds are projected on a monumental scale.

1,890 pieces of sport kit were donated at an event held at John Charles Centre for Sport, to tackle inequality in sports.

One Second Lovestory by Dirk Rauscher is set in a busy station in the morning.

The installation will be projected onto The Queens Hotel during Light Night Leeds, which takes place on October 22 and 23.

The artwork by Dirk Rauscher tells the story of two people whose daily routine is interrupted as their eyes meet at a train station.

As well as the books on display, the exhibition features The Speaking Garden a multimedia installation inspired by the library’s collection and the gardeners of Leeds. Filled with colourful projected visuals and a soothing soundscape from Buffalo Sound Design, the installation seeks to create a ‘garden of voices’ by inviting local growers to submit their own audio clips about what gardening means to them.

On display as part of the free exhibition is a fascinating collection of beautifully illustrated manuals, compiled by some of history’s most esteemed horticulturalists. Between their antique covers can be found centuries of accumulated wisdom about the best ways to grow fabulous fruit and vibrant veg as well as colourful flowers and fragrant herb patches. Among the treasured tomes on display, pictured here with Antony Ramm, is a copy of The Herball or Generall Historie of Plantes, written by famed Elizabethan herbalist John Gerard.