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 by DBS and 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 eight 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 Yard by United Kingdom’s Studio Vertigo at Mist Walk. It features huge yarn balls intertwined with its surroundings, highlighting how yarning contributes to global pollution. Additionally, The Liminal; Minimal installation which will be in front of Red Dot Design Museum exposes the waste of urban construction.
Meanwhile, there will be 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 polyethylene terephthalate (PET). 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. Certainly, one of the most ig-worthy installations if you ask us!
2. The Conscious Festival
The Conscious Festival is a new sustainable lifestyle event part of i Light Singapore 2024. The event invites visitors to reflect on mindfulness and rediscover connections to the world around us. Be inspired by wellness workshops, bootcamps, music performances, transformative 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 2024. Visitors can indulge from 50 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
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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