Since 2020 the Light Festival Working Group gathers LUCI members who host and/or organise or produce light festivals in their public spaces. Through online discussions, in-person meetings and using the LUCI Hub, this group is a place to share best practices, challenges, and ideas on light festivals around the world. It is also the place to start collaborations and co-creation initiatives.
Objectives and activities
The main goal is to open the field of creative lighting to new artistic forms in both permanent and festival lighting. The activities are built around the sharing of knowledge, building capacity, and exploring potential collaborations. The working group especially explores how a co-creation approach can be implemented among the members of the network.
LUCI members involved
The participating LUCI members are:
- Amsterdam Light Festival (NL)
- Artichoke (UK), Christmas Garden (DE)
- Crossed Lab (FR)
- Gent (BE)
- GLOW Eindhoven (NL)
- Jyväskylä (FI), Leipzig (DE)
- LUMA8 Chicago (US), Lyon (FR)
- Madrid (ES)
- Mons (BE)
- Oulu (FI)
- Seoul Metropolitan Government (KR)
- Signify (NL)
- Stavanger (NO)
- Tartu (EE)
- Visit Brussels (BE)
- Walk the Plank (UK)
- Yala (TH)
Meetings
Light festivals: next steps in co-creation and sustainability – Online, 14 June 2023
The Light Festival Working Group met in June 2023 to share updates and discuss current main challenges.
Key discussion topics: co-creation and sustainability in Light festivals.
The Future of light festivals – Lyon, December 2022
The Future of light festivals – Online co-creation meeting, May 2022
In 2022, the Light festival Working group met twice to work on the position paper that led to the Chapter 4 of the LUCI Declaration for the Future of Urban Lighting.
Light festivals: imagining and re-imagining light festivals – Online, 30 June 2021
The Light Festival Working Group met in June 2021 to discuss challenges and opportunities from the perspectives of established and emerging light festivals.
Light festivals: adapting to the “new normal” – Online, 9 July 2020
The Light Festival Working Group met for the first time on 9 July 2020 to discuss how light festivals are adapting to the “new normal” in relation to the Covid situation.
Key discussion topics: strategies for transforming or postponing festivals for this year and next.
Oher activities & news
Lyon Light Festival Forum (annual event)
