A leisure boat trip across an East Lancs water feature should prove to be educational for the adventurous.
Artist Luke Jerram is bringing Crossings, his latest art initiative, to Burnley's Thompson Park, later this month, in an offering from Burnley Words Festival in partnership with The Super Slow Way project.
Nine colourful rowing boats will be fitted with speakers to tell people stories from around the world as they paddle across the lake, from May 16 to June 1.
A Super Slow Way spokesman said: "Take a rowing boat on Thompson Park boating lake and lap up the amazing stories about boats, birds, sounds, the sweet potato, plastic and especially, people.
"Crossings is a new installation created by multi-disciplinary artist Jerram and BBC Radio 4 producer Julian May, which was originally commissioned by Compton Verney Art Gallery & Park for its first presentation during summer 2022."
People can book at spot on one of the boats beforehand online via the Burnley Mechanics website, at £8 per craft, but organisers say there will be some boats available to book on the day.
The park and lake date back to 1930 and originally boasted 20 rowing skiffs and 10 Canadian canoes for pleasure seekers.
Some of Jerram's other works will be familiar to East Lancashire audiences - he was behind the popular Museum of the Moon exhibition at Blackburn Cathedral last year. It brought audience of more than 40,000 people to the town.
And he will be returning to the same venue in October and November with 'Gaia', which has used NASA imagery to create a scale replica of the Earth.
