Projects
Projects
Projects
Light + Flight is unfolding across Barnet through a growing programme of creative projects, partnerships, and community collaborations.
These projects explore the themes of light and flight in ways that are rooted in place, history, and imagination.
Together, they form a year-long cultural journey leading to a multi-day celebratory finale in November 2026.
Explore what’s happening near you – and see how you can get involved.
Light + Flight is unfolding across Barnet through a growing programme of creative projects, partnerships, and community collaborations.
These projects explore the themes of light and flight in ways that are rooted in place, history, and imagination.
Together, they form a year-long cultural journey leading to a multi-day celebratory finale in November 2026.
Explore what’s happening near you – and see how you can get involved.
Light + Flight is unfolding across Barnet through a growing programme of creative projects, partnerships, and community collaborations.
These projects explore the themes of light and flight in ways that are rooted in place, history, and imagination.
Together, they form a year-long cultural journey leading to a multi-day celebratory finale in November 2026.
Explore what’s happening near you – and see how you can get involved.
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Spring 2026
Category
Light & Flight
Festival
A large-scale, participatory artwork co-created with Barnet communities — the visual and emotional centrepiece of Light & Flight.
Dance
heritage
live music
workshop
performance
screening
Spring 2026
Category
Heritage
multi-arts
The Lightwork
A large-scale, participatory artwork co-created with Barnet communities — the visual and emotional centrepiece of Light & Flight.
Spring 2026
Category
10 Stops to
Take-Off
A creative journey connecting Barnet through art and imagination. Workshops, pop-ups and performances across ten neighbourhoods feeding into the major artistic commission.
Installation
workshop
Spring 2026
Category
Heritage
multi-arts
NLHF Heritage
Project
Four heritage commissions — The Postcard Project, Spotlights: Pioneering Stories, Narrative Threads and Grown-Up Barnet × Museum of Youth Culture — will engage communities across the borough, with all outputs feeding into the final festival and creating a lasting legacy for Barnet.
Spring 2026
Category
Community
Heritage Grant
Supporting local people and groups to reveal and celebrate Barnet’s rich heritage.
Heritage
multi-arts
Spring 2026
Category
Beacons
of Barnet
A symbolic borough-wide light event to launch the programme — connecting high points, communities and creativity.
Installation
Check out the Light + Flight projects:
Ascendance
The creative centerpiece of the Light + Flight programme, this major artwork and touring programme embodies the programme's themes both literally and metaphorically.
From Barnet with Love
A participatory heritage project inspired by Barnet's early airmail history, participants create and exchange postcards celebrating local stories.
Pioneering Stories
Co-created with residents, this animation project highlights stories of sanctuary while celebrating Barnet's film heritage.
Check out the Light + Flight projects:
Check out the
Light + Flight projects:
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