An illuminated planet Earth sculpture displayed in a theatre to mark its 15th birthday is about to move to the next location on its world tour.<\/p>\n
The Core at Corby Cube has been celebrating its milestone with a 7m (23ft) installation of Earth, which will hang in the Northamptonshire town’s auditorium until Sunday.<\/p>\n
The GAIA installation features high resolution NASA imagery and is accompanied by a soundtrack composed by award-winning composer Dan Jones.<\/p>\n
It is the brainchild of artist Luke Jerram who says it aims to show the “fragility and strength” of the planet.<\/p>\n
“It’s only been 60 years that humanity has been able to see the Earth like this, as a blue planet floating in the blackness of space,” he said.<\/p>\n
“The idea of creating this artwork was hopefully to give people a sense of what it might be like to be floating in space looking down at the planet.<\/p>\n
“Just to see how beautiful and fragile it is, and for people to care about it.”<\/p>\n
It has been seen by about 20 million people before it arrived in Corby as part of its world tour.<\/p>\n
Joe Flavin, the theatre’s director, said there had been some “beautiful and unique” moments under GAIA during its week of celebrations \u2013 which included a series of workshops and events.<\/p>\n
“It’s been a crazy few days. We had Northants Sings Out choir having just a joyful explosion of energy underneath it. It was absolutely such a unique moment,” he said.<\/p>\n
“It’s projects like this, where we’re able to kind of animate the town centre, [that] bring more people in and show off Corby for how great it is.”<\/p>\n
The sculpture will remain in the Core until 20:00 BST on Sunday for public viewings. <\/p>\n
This will be the last chance to see GAIA in Northamptonshire before it heads to Germany as part of its tour. <\/p>\n
Mr Jerram will also launch his Tipping Point presentation in Corby this weekend. <\/p>\n
It has been organised with education charity Fermynwoods Contemporary Art and will offer visitors an immersive experience which “simulates the drama of a forest fire”. <\/p>\n
The display will take place from 20:00 BST between 19 and 21 September at Hazel and Thoroughsale Woods. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An illuminated planet Earth sculpture displayed in a theatre to mark its 15th birthday is about to move…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":159676,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[76,354,355,49,48,356,75],"class_list":{"0":"post-159675","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-artsanddesign","11":"tag-ca","12":"tag-canada","13":"tag-design","14":"tag-entertainment"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=159675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159675\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/159676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}