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This weekend in Lyon that hosts the traditional Festival of Lights. A celebration that lasts for 4 nights, where technological innovation is well with the popular tradition for one of the biggest events of Lyon.
The Festival of Lights is a free, fun and open to all, which every year ablaze Lyon and hosts many tourists during four consecutive nights.
The promise of 4 nights of strong emotions, poetry and spectacular magic several routes that take you through the city.
4 night, from 18 h, stroll in Lyon redesigned and reinterpreted by the light and the imagination of designers from around the world.
The Festival of Lights showcases the exceptional heritage of Lyon, monuments, parks and rivers in stage sets that use light as well as video, sound design and performing arts.
In the city center, where the set designs are the most spectacular, the programming is 4 the same night.
A solidarity party with “Candle lights Heart”
Since 2005, the heart Candle lights invite the public to support a charity by buying candles and thereby contributing to the creation of a large bright fresco evening of 8 December. This year, on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of its creation, it is the French Red Cross, which will be the beneficiary of this gesture of solidarity. The French Red Cross and its 53,000 volunteers support and accompany the projects supporting social cohesion. The association is committed for many years in the areas of health, aid to autonomy of the emergency and first aid, training and international solidarity.
Everyone is invited to support this collective solidarity operation by purchasing one or more of the heart Candle lights in a dedicated retail outlets opened during the 4 days of the Festival of Lights and the previous days.
The Festival of Lights in Lyon, the leading global event of setting ephemeral light
Each edition invites you to discover over 70 original creations through the City: monumental projections transform and give life to the facades of buildings, set designs give the streets, squares, gardens and parks of magical atmospheres. Street performances and parades take an enthusiastic audience in their wake, while the contemplation of bright objects arouses surprise or emotion. Proposed by artists from various disciplines, these works reveal the major trends in the art of many facets. To participate in the Festival of Lights, City of Lyon selects both recognized professionals that young teams that begin and thus benefit from exposure to a wide audience.
What ‘ they are or lighting designers, landscape or visual artists, video artists and architects, artists share a common point: to seize this impalpable material that is light and play with the myriad artistic possibilities it offers. The city is like a huge playground in which every creation, from the most intimate to the most grandiose, finds its place.
A model for cities around the world
In this huge show-room in the open, dozens of foreign delegations and light festival organizers spot creations and artists they host as part of their own events. They also come to observe the expertise of the city of Lyon in the implementation of an event of this magnitude.
Many cities are inspired by the example of the Festival of Lights to create turn a festival dedicated to creating ephemeral light.
While the detailed program and practical information on what to expect on www.fetedeslumieres.lyon.fr
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