Mega Lightshow Will Be Held In Odessa

During 16-18 of October, Odessa will host a unique festival of light and media art named Svitlo/OdessaLightFestival. During these two days, Ukrainian artists, animators, and designers will create light and multimedia objects to demonstrate all the innovation and technical potential of Ukraine.

The festival will become the platform providing the possibility for new Ukrainian talent to express their creativeness, and our country is truly rich in those. For this case, the organizing committee has chosen the most popular architectural features that are so popular Odessa. The places, which will get the new look during the festival are: the ensemble of Primorskyi Boulevard, Potemkin Stairs, Opera House, Colonnade, Odessa Sea Port, Karantynna Arch with Gunpowder Powder Tower, and City Hall. The facades of these buildings will be the places where all participants of the festival will be able to demonstrate their talents.

The works of media art will last from 5 seconds to 10 minutes. There will be also an exhibition of works of lighting design.

The competition program with the general topic on Civilizations Crossing is scheduled during these days, too. It will include such competition categories as young designers, companies, brands from different directions, and others.

The competition of design works selected for the festival took place on 16-18th of August.

The organizers and city authorities believe that these measures will attract even more tourists and contribute to the development and popularity of Odessa on the national and international levels.

Everything offered by the festival organizers will make us love Odessa even more, admire it, and will attract tourists and investors as well. Therefore, the city authorities responded to the proposal to hold Odessa such an unusual and colorful festival in Odesa, as the Secretary of Odessa City Council Oleg Bryndak admits.

During the festival Svitlo / OdessaLightFestival, the latest global trends and innovative technologies will be used, 500 thousand lumens of projection light, more than 5 thousand of illumination of architectural facades, and more than 1.5 thousand light and laser devices. Svitlo / OdessaLightFestival is a massive and bright event, which will become the new hallmark of Odessa.

The festival of light is unusual in its beauty, interactive Lightshow. With the latest 2D and 3D graphics technologies, special illumination, multimedia technology, architectural lighting, and art installations – the artists will arrange original art show using the famous architectural sites. Similar festivals are held in such cities as Amsterdam (Netherlands), Berlin (Germany), Sydney (Australia), and many others.