Otherham: is a winter light festival, commissioned by FLUX Rotherham, in partnership with RMBC events, Grimm & Co and Imitating The Dog.

Imagine a place… a town where things aren’t quite as they seem, where the imaginations of our brilliant young people have taken over, giving everything a sideways tilt.

It’s a magical place where anything seems possible, where a stone wall becomes a portal to new worlds, where the weather can be ordered from a menu with your coffee, where kindness is delivered by a swarm of bees, or where you can catch a train to the distant future, or to visit your great, great Granny on her market stall 100 years ago.

It’s this place and, at the same time, it’s an ‘other’ place. Welcome to Otherham.

With a nod to the town’s industrial past but a keen eye to the bright future, inspired by the incredible Grimm & Co, and the delightful hodge-podge of architecture developed over time, around the stunning Minster, our idea re-imagines Rotherham as a town existing slightly out of step with reality.

A magical, “other” town created from the imaginations of the young people of Rotherham and brought to life over 3 nights through projection and sound. All installations would be clustered around the Minster on a walkable route.

The project will re-purpose and re-design the function, form and reality of five town-centre buildings to create a whole new world; a world in which a High Street hairdressers becomes the “Cinema of Future Films”, Rotherham Minster becomes the “The Ministry for Weather and Good Will”, Rise House becomes the entrance to the “Soul Smelting Factory”, Holy Ghost Tattoo is the “Otherham Chronicle” and The Town Hall becomes the “Centre for Comings and Goings”.

We're also looking for artists to test their idea during Rotherham's Christmas Light Switch On, so let us know if you're up for that too!

Deadline to apply is 5pm Monday 11th November.

Apply by completing the jotform here: https://form.jotform.com/242664614352052