Marina Bay, Millenia Walk, and South Beach will once again shine bright for i Light Singapore 2024 from May 31 to June 23. The annual festival brings a host of captivating eco-friendly outdoor experiences and light exhibitions for its 10th edition. Wonderfully, the festival will arrive in Tanjong Pagar for the first time in history.
i Light Singapore 2024
Presented URA, expect 17 beautiful installations and exciting programmes, using sustainable materials for the festival’s 2024 theme Cyclical Nature focusing on the colour green from the visible light spectrum. Each design invites visitors to immerse themselves in interactive artworks that explore the potential of everyday objects for re-design, restoration, and repurposing.
The creative art installations are a series of projects by 25 artists from 11 countries including Singapore. From ig-worthy immersive walks to large lanterns…you’ll be mesmerised as art, technology and sustainability merge. These designs encourage visitors to re-evaluate things, provoke conversations among festival attendees, and adapt sustainable habits.
Here’s the 2024 festival highlights you can’t miss:
1. Notably art installations
Be inspired by fresh artworks at four different locations for i Light Singapore 2024. Highlights include Spin Me a Yarn by United Kingdom’s Studio Vertigo at Mist Walk. It features huge yarn balls intertwined with its surroundings, highlighting how fashion contributes to global pollution. Additionally, The extraordinary Liminal; Minimal is in front of Red Dot Design Museum exposing the waste of urban construction.
The most iconic installations include ZERO: Nimbus by Studio James Tapscott which encircles the floating pontoon near the Red Dot Design Museum. It features a light ring of mist that leads to the bay inspired by Japanese art form.
Meanwhile, you can encounter majestic rocks at a favourite larger-than-life urban garden named Iwagumi Air Scape or be fascinated by bright fish at lower boardwalk for Fish are Jumping by Studio Toer.
Plus, there are extraordinary installations in Tanjong Pagar for the first time. Delve into the beauty of installations such as BottleBlooms, a display of solar-powered plastic blossoms in a green space, made from around 1,000 upcycled PER bottles. Likewise, the interactive light art game named Kickit Team Tennis is perfect to play with friends.
Additionally, the radiant Hidden Garden by Hungary’s Koros Design Studio and Lumi resembling an meandering river path at South Beach are unmissable. While Marina Bay Sands’ Dandelion by Amigo & Amigo offers a playful symphony of light and music.
Passerbys with be charmed by the glowing Pure Ring which depicts a friendship ring made of light chairs. Similarly, the Fountain of Happiness features seven sets of swings which generate energy by movement, and Kinetic Perspective forms optical illusions. Certainly, some of the most ig-worthy installations if you ask us!
Plus, there’ll be a new ticketed event each weekend this year where visitors can hop on the i Light River Cruise Shuttle Service to meander down the Singapore River and admire the water-based installations.
2. The Conscious Festival
The Conscious Festival is a new sustainable lifestyle event part of i Light Singapore 2024. The wellness event invites visitors to reflect on mindfulness and rediscover connections to the world around us. Be inspired by wellness workshops, bootcamps, music performances and concerts, transformative talks like TED Talks, markets, and much more.
📍Marina Bay, Singapore
3. GastroBeats 2024
GastroBeats merges music, food and entertainment at Bayfront Event Space from May 31, between 4pm and 11pm, as part of i Light Singapore 2024. Visitors can indulge from more than 200 food options and hawker stalls, selling global eats from Asian street food classics to Mexican tacos, brands like The Curry Club, as well sustainable foods, and a carnival.
📍Bayfront Event Space, Marina Bay, Singapore
4. i Quest 2024
i Quest 2024 is new gamified initiative where visitors scan QR codes at designated checkpoints to light up a virtual mangrove forest in their current zone and ultimately win prizes. Wonderfully, there are more than 400 prizes up for grabs throughout the festival including vouchers for GastroBeats and the Marketplace.
Here’s the festival maps for your reference:
The festival opens from 7.30am to 11pm daily. But on Friday and Saturday, hours are extended to 12am. Certainly, i Light Singapore 2024 offers an instagrammable experience. See the i Light website for more information.
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