Food Light Festival
The Essen Light Festival is an annual, contemporary light art festival in downtown Essen .
History and character
The festival always takes place on ten consecutive evenings before the start of the traditional Essen Light Weeks at the end of October / beginning of November. In 2016 it started with six venues, in 2017 there were eleven and in 2018 there were 18 venues.
In 2019 the Essen Light Festival offered 21 light installations, video mappings and light shows on a two-kilometer long, signposted tour through the city center. The organizer is EMG - Essen Marketing GmbH , whose managing director Richard Röhrhoff initiated and produced the festival privately in 2016, until he switched permanently to EMG in 2018. The Essen Light Festival is a member of the International Light Festival Organization (ILO), which brings together global light festivals. It is the only major German festival there. The Festival of Lights was visited by around 370,000 people in 2019, making it the second most visited light art festival of the year after the Festival of Lights in Berlin . The Zombie Walk of 2019 in Essen on Halloween was originally supposed to be banned because of an overlap with the Festival of Lights, but was then carried out as a demonstration for more citizen participation outside the light art area in the city center.
Remondis Light Award
The Essen Light Festival has been awarding a prize for sustainable light art since 2019. Together with the company Remondis , a German company in the circular economy, artists are invited to submit light art on the topics of sustainability, environmental protection, recycling and upcycling as well as water management. In 2019, five works from four nations were awarded.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Essen Light Festival ends with 370,000 visitors ; In: Press release of the city of Essen from November 4, 2019
- ↑ Essen Light Festival closes with a record number of visitors. November 4, 2019, accessed on November 6, 2019 (German).
- ↑ Radio Essen: Agreement at the Essen Zombie Walk. Retrieved November 6, 2019 .