Swindon’s Wyvern Theatre and Arts Centre will this evening join theatres and entertainment venues all across the UK to take part in the ‘Light It In Red’ campaign, an initiative to promote support for the creative and entertainment industry.
Despite the easing of the lockdown, corporate events, conferences, concerts, festivals, weddings, trade shows and theatrical performances are no longer able to go ahead, leaving the entire arts and culture industry dormant with no date set for audiences being allowed back in affecting over twenty-five thousand businesses and over half a million workers.
Light It In Red is a joint project created and managed by Clearsound Productions Ltd and the Backstage Theatre Jobs online forum.
Organisers are inviting all locations that hold events, theatres, convention centres, conference hotels, theatres, concert halls, playhouses and nightclubs throughout the UK to join together by lighting their buildings red in order to draw attention to the dramatic situation the events industry is in, commenting ‘we can make a statement that can’t be ignored.
‘We were the first ones out, and will be the last ones back in.’
More than 500 venues around the UK and in London’s West End and the Jersey Opera House will join the Swindon venues, with everyone being encouraged to share photos of the lit-up venues across social media with the hashtag #LightItInRed
