A free public festival which features a nine-metre-long squid and a large rotating moon is stopping in Blackburn later today.
The convoy lands in Cathedral Square at 6pm and is also taking in 13 towns and cities across the UK.
It features huge floats and interactive elements such as a rotating moon that appears and disappears at night.
The festival is also accompanied by music and DJ sets, a full size replica of nine metre-long ‘Archie The Squid’ who resides at The Natural History Museum, talks, film screenings and an inflatable game designed with the help of scientists at NASA and the SETI Institute.
Tour de Moon’s creator is the creative director, artist, and filmmaker Dr. Nelly Ben Hayoun, of Nelly Ben Hayoun Studios.
Dr Nelly Ben Hayoun said: “Our main objective of Tour de Moon is to prompt radical imagination, support pluralistic thinking so to offer alternative futures developed by and with youths.
"With this festival we decided to redistribute our funding and to use our platform to celebrate the nightlife sector and young adults - demographics which have been hit especially hard by the impacts of Covid and funding cuts over the last few years.”
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