Lancaster Arts at Lancaster University have announced their autumn 2025 season of live events including a visit from UK Poet Laureate Simon Armitage.

The season continues their current annual theme of ‘Land’, featuring concerts, exhibitions, a scavenger hunt and theatre performances.

The first live show of the season, a return for pianist Nicolas Namoradze, with the UK premiere of a fascinating concert that uses video projection to illustrate what is happening in the pianist’s brain as he plays, will go ahead on Thursday 25 September in the Great Hall.

There are four further concerts: clarinettist Emma Johnson accompanied on piano by John Lenehan, violinist Braimah Kanneh-Mason with pianist Jâms Coleman, Czechia’s Trio Bohémo, blending contemporary classical and folk, before pianist Jonathan Ferrucci, who presents an evening of JS Bach, closes the season.

The first exhibition ‘Are You Lost?’ is an installation from artists Rob St John and Kate O’Farrell that has toured locations around the Forest of Bowland over the summer and opens in the Peter Scott Gallery on campus 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.

The final exhibition, Could We Dream in Colour..., is a collaboration between artists James Fox and Dave Shooter, combining sound, embroidery, print, and film, which challenges 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 discuss the interconnections between climate and geology, through performance and conversation.

And UK Poet Laureate Simon Armitage will be in conversation with poet Kim Moore, on 18 November, in partnership with Lancaster Litfest, before Ali Matthews returns to the Nuffield with her latest show, Mushroom Language: A Fungal Gothic, about the cycles that shape us.

HereNowThis, from Canadian company Zuppa, will arrive at secret locations in Morecambe on 24-25 October, giving people the chance to follow a scavenger hunt using an app on their phone, with more details released soon.

There will be a host of additional free activity taking place, including Artists in Conversation on Tuesday afternoons, and the opportunity to create an Exhibition in a Day on 3-4 October, by selecting works from the Lancaster University Art Collection to go on display in the Peter Scott Gallery during the season.

For more information about Lancaster Arts, the latest ticket offers, and to purchase tickets for upcoming events, please visit www.lancasterarts.org or contact the box office at boxoffice@lancasterarts.org or 01524 59415.

Lancaster Arts is part of the National Portfolio with Arts Council England, specialising in Combined Arts and is a part of Lancaster University.