16 December 2014
The festival's varied additional programme will include light-themed exhibitions, guided walking tours, a festival opening club and special offers tailored for festival-goers by restaurants. More side programme features will be published until the festival week.
From 10 pm to 12 midnight on Sunday 4 January a festival opening club will be arranged at Cafe Vanha, featuring soft, earthy pop music with a twinkle in the eye by the band JonesAndYou. Entry will be free of charge.
The side programme includes two light-themed exhibitions. On 4 January, the Design Forum Finland Showroom (Erottajankatu 9 B) will see the opening of Timo Ripatti and Kai van der Puij's exhibition 299 792 458 m/s, which will explore light from a variety of perspectives. Kustaa Saksi's Muna/Egg, a huge inflatable and illuminated egg with a surface that is decorated and patterned like a Fabergé egg, will take the stage in the Esplanadi Park.
Using the OpenLight Spots app. you can add Helsinki's permanent illuminated attractions to your Lux route. Guided walking tours will be arranged on each day of the festival in Finnish, Swedish, English and Russian. Special offers tailored for festival-goers will be available in 18 restaurants located close to the artworks.
Restaurant Story at Old Market Hall offers borscht soup.
