Lancaster Arts Autumn Season of LAND 2025

Lancaster Arts makes exciting contemporary performance, art, and music happen with cutting edge artists from across the world, and you! 

Hosted events at the Nuffield Theatre, the Great Hall and the Peter Scott Gallery at Lancaster University or out and about in Lancaster and Morecambe. 

The Autumn 2025 Programme of Events following the theme of LAND includes...

The first live show of the season is a return for pianist Nicolas Namoradze, with a fascinating concert that combines music with neuroscience on Thursday 25 September in the Great Hall. We have four further concerts from clarinettist Emma Johnson, violinist Braimah Kanneh-Mason with pianist Jâms Coleman, and Trio Bohémo, before closing with pinaist Jonathan Ferrucci.

Our first exhibition of the season, brings the Are You Lost? installation from artist Rob St John that we have toured to locations around the Forest of Bowland over the summer, and opens in the Peter Scott Gallery on 2 October. The gallery will then welcome Louise Ann Wilson's Becoming Rock, a deeply personal exhibition, exploring the artist’s landscape based responses to two recent major life-events. Our final exhibition is a collaboration between artists James Fox and Dave Shooter, combining sound, embroidery, print, and film, Could We Dream in Colour..., disrupting the idea that land is only something to be measured, owned, or enclosed.

The Nuffield Theatre welcomes the unconventional Atmospheric Forces, from Sue Palmer and Sheila Ghelani, for two limited capacity performances, as they turn over the interconnections between climate and geology, fuel and feelings, the strata and layers of atmospheres through performance and action. Ali Matthews returns with Mushroom Language: A Fungal Gothic, all about the cycles that shape us, before Poet Laureate Simon Armitage joins us in conversation on 18 November, in partnership with Lancaster Litfest.

Keep your eyes peeled for HereNowThis, from Canadian company Zuppa, coming to secret locations in Morecambe on 24-25 October, giving you the chance to folow a scavenger hunt using an app on your phone,

Join Lancaster Arts to explore compelling ideas and questions through the arts.

View the full Autumn 2025 programme line up here and book your tickets.