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Light artworks at Lux Helsinki
4 to 8 january 2015
The Lux Helsinki light festival will offer an experience engaging all five senses. A varied programme will include the unveiling of two light artworks: OVO at the Hakasalmi Villa and Mandala in the Courtyard of the National Museum.
A route formed from light artworks will attract people to Helsinki City Centre and out towards Senate Square, as well as to the neighbourhood of the Kansalaistori Park. The artworks will be on display in a total of 13 places around the centre of Helsinki, from the courtyard of the Tori Quarters to Finlandia Hall. A total of 17 individual artworks will be included.
Lux Helsinki 2015 will celebrate the 20-year history of light events in Helsinki. The festival is part of the UN's International Year of Light 2015.
The festival will bring art out of the galleries and museums onto the streets. Impressive light artworks will be provided by the most exciting light and media artists and sound designers from Finland, Germany, France, Belgium and Japan. Some of the artworks will be interactive and allow audience participation. Seven of the works are being commissioned for the first time accompanied by a wide selection of the best of the international light festivals.
The installations can be viewed daily and continuously from 5 pm to 10 pm. Only the fire show by Fire Circus Walkea will have set performance times at 5 pm and 8 pm.
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