The Lux Helsinki light festival is being arranged for the seventh time, from Sunday 4 to Thursday 8 January 2015. 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.
The Finnish-German troupe of the hugely popular Fire Circus Walkea, already an attraction at Lux Helsinki for three years, will present a combination of dance and fire circus in Senate Square. In honour of the University of Helsinki's 375th anniversary, the Lantern Park will relocate its more than one hundred lanterns from Hesperia Park to the Topelia yard on the university grounds.
Lux Helsinki is suitable for the whole family and entry is free of charge. The festival is organised by the City of Helsinki. 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. The works will be provided by the most exciting light and media artists and sound designers from Finland, Germany, France, Belgium and Japan. Seven of the works are being commissioned for the first time accompanied by a wide selection of the best of the international light festivals. Forming one of the locations of the event for the first time, the courtyard of the Tori Quarters will feature works familiar from the 2014 Lux IN exhibition in new surroundings.
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. There will also be a programme of related events, which will be published later.
