Frequency International Festival of Digital Culture will wow audiences with four packed days of digital, culture and tech starting on Thursday.
Streets, screens and public spaces across the city will be bursting with exciting exhibitions, talks, workshops and live performances by artists. It will take place in Lincoln city centre from October 24-27 (10am-5pm daily, but until 9pm on Friday).
The festival as a whole is free, but there are some ticketed events at a cost.
The theme of the 2019 festival is ‘Disruption = Cultural Reinvention’ and the festival programme will aim to challenge perceptions, capture imaginations and inspire change.
The fifth edition of the festival features over 30 events. The Lincolnite has compiled a list of ten highlights to give a full flavour of this year’s festival.
Frequency Festival 2019 highlights
The Fabratory
Driverless Car Challenge. Photo: Siemens
When: Thursday, October 24 until Sunday, October 27 (11am-4pm) Where: Cornhill, High Street, Lincoln
A family-friendly space with workshops and activities for young curious minds, suitable for ages 5 and up. Build fantastic Lego WeDo models with JuniorStem, then learn to program sensors, motors and lights to bring them to life. It also includes playing interactive games and competing with friends in a Driverless Car Challenge by Siemens.
When: Friday, October 25 (5pm-9pm) Where: Starts at Lincoln Castle
See the city and festival in a different light with exhibitions, installations, events and happenings until 9pm. Take a twilight stroll and revel in cutting-edge international art and performances. Dancers from Lincoln and North Hykeham will be travelling from uphill to downhill Lincoln for a Digital Light Box Parade.
When: Friday, October 25 (4pm-9pm) Where: Lincoln Castle
Illumaphonium:Halo is a sculpture, an instrument, an environment. Using sound, light, algorithms and digital sensors, inventor Michael Davis has created an immensely satisfying, creative and magical experience to immerse yourself in.
When: Thursday, October 24 until Sunday, October 27 (10am-5pm, suitable for ages 13+) Where: St Benedict’s Centre (off High Street)
The VR Storyroom, created by MBD, is home to a series of Virtual Reality installations and experiences. Travel through time and space to meet a long extinct dinosaur, or be transported back to the trenches of World War One. Put a headset on, close the door and explore.
When: Friday, October 25 (7.30pm) Where: Lincoln Performing Arts Centre (LPAC) Cost: Tickets available to book on LPAC website priced at £12.50 (Full) and £5 (LIVE pass – students & Under 26s)
Three dancers unite in an amplified environment. Shotgun microphones, custom-made instruments, plate reverbs and amplified boxes capture the rhythms and sounds. Sampled and processed live by composer Jo Willis, the dancers become the band, creating a new type of dance music/music dance.
When: Thursday, October 24 to Sunday, October 27 (10am-5pm) Where: Cobb Hall, The Castle
Care(less) is a new 360 degree film work by artist Lindsay Seers. It uses Virtual Reality technology to give you the opportunity to feel what it might be like to be in the body of an older person facing a gradual reduction in capacity.
When: Thursday, October 24 (7.30pm) Where: Lincoln Drill Hall Cost: This is a Pay What You Decide event – click here for more details
Meet David. From the safety of your seat, through a custom-built app, your every tap, swipe and swirl will inform who David becomes. A live performance and gaming experience where your choices become data, uploaded to shape a human being.
When: Saturday, October 26 and Sunday, October 27 (10am-5pm) Where: Lincoln Drill Hall
Layers of projections and screens create an invisible cube of images, with light spilling onto the walls, ceiling and floor. Your movement triggers sensors and reveals more visual information. Surround sound will immerse you and your body will become part of the projection.
When: Thursday, October 24 until Sunday, October 27 (10am-5pm) Where: Mr Dryclean, Silver Street
Play a traditional seaside arcade game with a political twist. In a direct response to Donald Trump’s infamous brag that he just grabs women by a certain part of their anatomy, this claw grabber machine replaces cuddly toys with ‘Make America Great Again’ merchandise.
When: Friday, October 25 and Saturday, October 26 (Friday 3.30pm & 6pm, Saturday 10.30am, 2pm & 5pm) Where: Lincoln Drill Hall (starting in The Room Upstairs) Cost: £40 (cover one car load of participants – four people) – click here to buy tickets
Thrust into the heart of a spy thriller, you’ll navigate the political scandal of the decade. Staking out a multi-storey car park you must use every mode of surveillance to hunt down facts and intercept evidence.
*This is suitable for 16+ and under 18s should be accompanied by a responsible adult
Frequency Festival is presented by creative producers Threshold Studios, with the support of Arts Council England, University of Lincoln and a select range of city wide partners and businesses.
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The Botanist reopened in Lincoln’s Cornhill this week with a brand new food and cocktail menu and The Lincolnite went to check it out.
The nibbles and starters range from pea hummus with mint and almond pesto and crisp flatbread, to Cumberland scotch egg with crispy onions and baked camembert in a bread bowl with chilli jam. The cheesy garlic bread baked with cheddar and mozzarella, served in a basket was a particular highlight.
There are also a range of hot boards and vegan boards, including patatas bravas, chicken skewers, bang bang cauliflower and heritage tomato salad.
Bang bang cauliflower, Cumberland scotch egg, patatas bravas and garlic prawns. | Photo: Steve Smailes for The Lincolnite
Baked Camembert in a bread bowl with chilli jam. | Photo: Steve Smailes for The Lincolnite
The Botanist’s famous hanging kebabs remain a part of the new menu. | Photo: Steve Smailes for The Lincolnite
The new main dishes include pan fried seabass, lamb and mint pie, coconut sweet potato pie, and a variety of burgers, while The Botantist’s famous hanging kebabs remain on the menu too.
Desserts include cookie dough with Oreos, sticky toffee pudding, and dark chocolate and peanut butter pot.
Cookie dough with Oreos and vanilla ice cream. | Photo: Steve Smailes for The Lincolnite
Dark chocolate and peanut butter pot. | Photo: Steve Smailes for The Lincolnite
And then there’s the cocktails! The Yuzu and peach Cosmo was a particular favourite for some, while pinky poppy pounch, elderflower and jasmine mojito, Lily pad sour with beefeater gin, smokey pineapple negroni and rhubarb sage martini are among the long list of other new cocktails to try.
A selection from The Botanist’s new cocktail menu. | Photo: Steve Smailes for The Lincolnite
A wide variety of new cocktails to choose from, including the elderflower and jasmine mojito. | Photo: Steve Smailes for The Lincolnite
Rich Pearson, General Manager at The Botanist, told The Lincolnite: “While we have been hibernating in lockdown we’ve developed a new menu, which is a rebrand of our amazing dishes, as well as some exciting new additions, for a modern crowd in a modern pub.
“We have also launched new cocktails and can’t wait for more people to try them.”
A 46-year-old man has been jailed for over three years after causing the death of a woman in her 70s on the A17 while driving twice over the alcohol limit.
Just after 10.20am on Sunday, November 15, Norbert Tarasinski lost control of his black Audi A6 as he was driving along the A17 towards the Holdingham roundabout.
He crossed from the main carriageway into a lay-by and crashed into the parked grey Toyota Aygo, which belonged to 79-year-old Iris Mellor.
Iris Elizabeth Mellor sadly died after a crash in Sleaford. | Photo: Lincolnshire Police
Iris, from Helpringham near Sleaford, had pulled her car over into the lay-by after noticing a crack in her windscreen, and was waiting for assistance when the Audi crashed into her.
She tragically died of her injuries the day after being taken to Queen’s Medical Centre in Nottingham, while her granddaughter, in her 20s, suffered minor physical injuries from the passenger seat.
Tarasinski, of no fixed abode, provided a positive breath test at the scene of the collision, as well as giving a blood sample while he was at the hospital.
His blood sample found him to be over double the legal limit, showing 181 milligrams of alcohol in 100 millilitres of blood.
The 46-year-old appeared before Lincoln Crown Court on April 12, where he pleading guilty to causing death by undue care while over the legal prescribed alcohol limit.
On Tuesday, May 18 he was sentenced to three years and four months in prison, as well as being disqualified from driving for three years and must pass an extended driving test.
Tarasinski will also have to pay a victim surcharge of £190.
Detective Sergeant Luke Wells of Lincolnshire Police said: “Tarasinski was significantly over the drink drive limit and his actions have led to the death of Iris, a lady in her 70s.
“Tarasinski had been drinking the previous evening and into the early hours of the morning, having then had very little sleep. He will have time in prison to think about his actions.
“Our thoughts our with the family of Iris and we send our condolences to them.
“I have a very clear message, don’t drive if you have consumed alcohol or taken any form of illegal substance; it’s that simple. Don’t be responsible for someone else death.”
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