Be a Part of Lumiere London — An Incomparable Display of Lights

City Booker
2 min readJan 19, 2018

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The whole of London seems to be talking about the largest and most enthralling festival of light that will soon take place in London. Make sure to get one of the holiday apartments Islington if you want to be part of this wonderful unique experience.

The Lumiere London is a dazzling and exceptional light festival scheduled to take place in London from the 18th to the 21st of January this year. It will showcase some of London’s most iconic and stunning streets and architecture. It will feature works that are a result of the vision and collaboration of some of the United Kingdom’s foremost world-class artists.

The Lumiere London showcased its first edition of this spectacular light festival in January 2016. The festival spent four nights in King’s Cross, Mayfair, and London’s West End, attracting around 1.3 million visits.

Some of the highlights of the 2016 Lumiere festival at King’s Cross included graffiti that zigzagged across the ground, a wall of light that ran across the tunnel at King’s Cross Station for a hundred metres, and the German Gymnasium bedazzling with an extravagant projection of dotted shapes.

People were amazed when an illumined figure seemed to leap right into King’s Cross Pond Square. They were similarly astounded by the brilliant projection of a circus of jugglers and acrobats on the walls of the Granary Building. The Oxford Circus was filled with brilliant floating jellyfish-like shapes. The sky by Piccadilly looked like an aquarium filled with swimming giant fish. Children had the time of their lives playing in what seemed to be a garden of light right at the heart of Leicester Square.

This year’s festival promises to be larger, more luminous, and more audacious. More than 40 artists have been commissioned to create amazing displays of light resulting in a dramatic and breath-taking re-imaging of London’s foremost streets and structures.

This year’s edition is expanding its reach to extend north to south. Aside from King’s Cross, Mayfair, and the city’s West End, it expands its footprint to include Fitzrovia, Trafalgar Square, Victoria, Westminster, Waterloo, and South Bank.

Both local and international artists will work on magical light installations designed to transform public spaces and buildings into spectacular works of art.

British designers, architects, technicians, and artists have created an unbelievably powerful and creative blend of light and sound installations. Glittering lights are expected to roll, splinter, and grow to beautiful soundscape created and produced by the brilliant Max Cooper. The fascinating artwork is designed to connect with the audience’s emotions as music, form, and colour fill the place in a wonderful interactive design.

Take one of the short term apartments London so you can be part of this singularly amazing production.

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