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Try for yourself at the Light Workshop
On Epiphany Sunday, 6 January, you can participate in the Valopaja light workshop outside Lasipalatsi on from 4:45pm to 8pm. Using the latest IT technology and real-time video projections, light will be transformed into visible movements and figures. The public can also take part by creating minimalistic light installations before the performance, after which the light painting portraits will be projected onto the walls of Lasipalatsi.
4:45pm to 6:15 pm – Making light installations
6.30pm to 7:00pm – The light show
7:00pm to 8:00pm – Making light painting portraits -
Fire Troupe Etna wakes up all the senses
Outside Kiasma, you can experience performance Disk (Kehrä) by the Fire Troupe Etna that wakes up all the senses. At the performance, fire and light interact with each other: based on a series of short episodes, the performance captures the imagination with the fire’s movement, shapes and choreographic games. The fresh and visual music and lighting design adds a fascinating new dimension to the world of fire.
With its fire performances, Etna brings the urban warmth of the campfire to the modern world. Over the millennia man has been drawn to fire with its ability to warm, soothe, cleanse and heal.
Disk (Kehrä) can be enjoyed daily at 6:30pm and 7:30pm during the event on 4–8 January. The duration of the performance is around 20 minutes.
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Fairy-tale atmosphere at Hakasalmi Villa
At Hakasalmi Villa there will be installation Little Spirits, where LED lights create a fairy-tale atmosphere among the trees and stone walls that circle the villa and its courtyard. Little Spirits is the work of Twinsen Ho, an artist from Hong Kong who previously spent time in Finland as an exchange student. Little Spirits has been inspired by a Finnish book on elves that Twinsen found at a flea market in Tampere. The time he spent in the pale light of the Northern winter inspired him to add colour to Helsinki with his installation. Maybe you can see an elf sneaking in the garden?
Little Spirits will be created with wind power using LED technology. According to the artist, the character of the installation requires ecological solutions.
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Variant Spectrum back by popular demand
The landmark of Lux Helsinki 2012, “Variant Spectrum 2” by Jukka Huitila, will make an encore this year at the Olympic Stadium Tower. A laser beam projected from the top of the tower will connect the installations of Lux Helsinki and announce the event to the entire city.
“Variant” refers to the diversity of the “Spectrum”. The dramaturgy of the installation begins with the basic colours and moves towards a white light that eventually fragments into a colourful spectrum – a rainbow, the symbol of hope.
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Cosmogole creates a solar system outside the opera
The Amphitheatre at the Finnish National Opera will be the scene for “Cosmogole”, a breathtaking light and sound installation by French artist Philippe Morvan. A central sphere measuring 3 metres in height will be surrounded by 1200 light sources, resulting in a solar system with a 14 metre diameter. The installation was previously shown at the most famous festival of light in Europe, Fête des Lumières in Lyon.
