The Queens Hotel, next to the station, will provide a backdrop for a projection marking 200 years of the modern railway.
The projection, called One Second Lovestory, is by German artist Dirk Rauscher and is described as capturing the moment “when two people’s eyes meet at a busy train station”.
Meanwhile, Leeds Civic Hall will host an installation created using imagery from books from the British Library’s collection. Visitors will be invited to explore the “universes of science, illusion and discovery”, according to organisers.
Another major feature being heavily trailed in advance is a tribute to the invention of the spirograph, which was created by Leeds’ very own Denys Fisher 60 years ago.
Located in the Brodrick Hall at Leeds Museum and accompanied by a specially composed soundscape, the exhibition will bring a series of drawings by the artist Lesley Haliwell to life through a series of colourful spirograph patterns.
