BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//6.6.4.4//EN BEGIN:VEVENT UID:126@burnleywordsfestival.co.uk DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250516T120000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250601T160000 DTSTAMP:20250510T133247Z URL:https://burnleywordsfestival.co.uk/events/crossings-by-luke-jerram/ SUMMARY:Crossings by Luke Jerram DESCRIPTION:A Burnley Words Festival Event\, presented in partnership with Super Slow Way\n12 stories about boats\, birds\, sounds\, the sweet potato \, plastic and especially\, people.\n\nTake a rowboat on Thompson Park Boa ting Lake and lap up the amazing stories within artist Luke Jerram's thoug ht-provoking and immersive artwork\, Crossings.\n\nCrossings is an instal lation artwork by Luke Jerram in collaboration with BBC Radio 4 producer  Julian May\, which was commissioned by Compton Verney for its first pres entation during summer 2022.\n\nThe installation consists of 9 rowing boa ts on the water. Each of the boats plays audio of stories from around the world. In choosing a story and rowing out into the water for 30 minutes\, participants are taken on an audio journey\, transported to another life a nd circumstance. The action of rowing and the live sounds this action crea tes\, blends with the recorded audio\, to help create a truly engaging and immersive experience.\n£8 per Boat\, maximum of 4 per ship\nBoats set sa il at: 12.15 pm\, 1 pm\, 1.45pm\, 2.30pm\, 3.15pm\, &\; 4pm\, and can b e booked in advance via the Burnley Mechanics Website here: https://burnle ymechanics.ticketsolve.com/ticketbooth/shows/873672887\nPlease arrive 10 m inutes before your allocated time slot\; latecomers can not always be acco mmodated. \nRestrictions:\n\n Maximum of 4 people per boat\n Under 18s must be accompanied by an adult. \n Life jackets are to be worn by all u nder 16 and all non swimmers regardless of age\n Children under the age o f 12 months are not permitted on the boats.\n No dogs allowed in the park  \n\nBad Weather:\n\nIn the event of bad weather\, the boating lake will close\, and any tickets purchased for that day will be cancelled and refun ded. We will cancel by no later than 9.30am on the day of your booking\, b ased on the forecast for that day\, except in rare circumstances where the re is unexpected bad weather\, and we have to close partway through the af ternoon.\n\nWhere to find us and how to get here:\n\n Thompson Park is lo cated close to Burnley town centre\, and the bus station.\n The car park is accessed via Colne Road. SatNav postcode BB11 2AA\, Car Park costs £2. 50 and you can pay by phone\n There is no vehicle access via Ormerod Road \n\nCrossings was originally commissioned by Compton Verney Art Gallery &a mp\; Park ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://burnleywordsfestival.co.uk/wp-content/up loads/2025/04/Photo-by-Luke-Jerram-scaled.jpg CATEGORIES:Boats,Immersive Experience,Outdoors LOCATION:Thompson Park Boating Lake\, Thompson Park Boating Lake\, Ormerod Rd\, Burnley\, BB11 1JA\, United Kingdom X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Thompson Park Boating Lake\ , Ormerod Rd\, Burnley\, BB11 1JA\, United Kingdom;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TI TLE=Thompson Park Boating Lake:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/London X-LIC-LOCATION:Europe/London BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20250330T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR