Art in The Park in The Dark

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Shann Carr, who is producing Art in the Park in the Dark, with support from the City of Palm Springs. “When I got the grant, I wanted to make a fuss about revealing the artists’ painted tables by making a gallery reveal in the park, at night, staged artistically with my solar gadgets!

So now artists and neighbors keep tossing their hats into the ring to participate by looking at the art they already do and bringing in light, black light, and glow. Fun!”

ART IN THE PARK IN THE DARK activities from 6 to 10 p.m. will include:

LASER WONDERLANDThroughout the darkest hours, world-renowned Laseronics artist Kyle Garner will project a series of intimate laser shows that will excite the night.

LIGHTED BIKE PARADE

AND CONTEST - All ages are invited to join an illuminated bike parade through the park and get some help lighting their bikes at a “Maker Booth” hosted by valley cyclists.

‘Songs Of Surrender’

Since its formation in the late 1970s, Irish quartet U2 has created a legacy built on an incredible body of memorable songs, enthralling concerts and an otherworldly ability to remain relevant for 45 years. The band’s latest release (Songs Of Surrender [4 CD Super Deluxe Collector’s Box Set]) continues to challenge and reward discerning listeners via 40 new acoustic and reimagined recordings of songs from the band’s expansive catalog — all produced and compiled by guitarist/keyboardist The Edge.

Fans searching for Bono’s soaring vocals or The Edge’s shimmering atmospheric guitar lines won’t find much of that on Songs Of Surrender, nor will they hear the propulsive rhythm work of drummer Larry Mullen

NIGHT GALLERY ART

WALK - The park’s permanent artworks, the freshly painted tables and benches, local artists’ pop-up booths, light installations, creatively solar-lit booths, vendors, and live performances by flaggers spinning UV reactive fabrics will make up the Night Gallery Art Walk.

BE THE LIGHT - The events are at the remarkably dark end of the park between the pickleball courts and the playground, so we beckon guests to bring a blacklight flashlight for maximum fun and to see all the UV art. Wear a black or white T-shirt and become a canvas for artistic creations.

LIGHT INSTALLATIONS

- Artists, groups, neighbors, and galleries are invited to make light-based, temporary installations to add to the fun. Volunteers will help you hang your light art gently on the limbs of the trees around the grounds as long as you do no damage.

SEE IN THE DARK - 300 attendees will get a free, small, blacklight flashlight to see all the hidden treasures of art and nature in the park. Flashlights of all kinds are encouraged.

ALL DAY TUNES - DJ Galaxy will thread the daytime and night events with feelgood music from 3-10 p.m. as community groups fill the day stage with live performances. After all the music, the soundtrack of the night’s closing laser show will be a beautiful crystal bowls sound bath!

Jr. and bassist Adam Clayton. Rather, they will hear largely introspective acoustic readings reflecting more mature and contemporary takes on classics reflecting, as The Edge notes in the liner notes, “a 21st century reimagining.” Take “I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For,” delivered by Bono in a rootsy countrified soundscape that feels totally at home with his signature voice. Whereas there was a palpable anger when U2 recorded “Sunday Bloody Sunday” for 1983’s War, there is a more painful take on the new recording with the continued tragic violence of the modern world reflected in the moving performance. As a long-time follower of U2 — I first caught the band live at the US Festival on May 30, 1983 and have seen them dozens of times over the years in concert — I appreciate how the Rock and Roll Hall of Famers have never been satisfied to be a onetrick pony. Among my favorite versions on the four-disc set is the sweeping “Every Breaking Wave,” yearning piano-anchored “Electrical Storm,” sweeping “Invisible,” unsettling “Until The End of the World” and tender “Stay (Faraway, So Close).” Packaged in an eight-panel embossed digi-sleeve with 2 x 12-page booklets on mat art paper, this limited and numbered boxset includes new lyrics by Bono, exclusive photos by Anton Corbijn and liner notes from The Edge. Information: U2.com.

The first sponsors to jump up to support the event are Hot Purple Energy, Renova, and the Coachella Valley Independent, perfectly bringing together the art and solar themes of the occasion. April 15th is the day Californians buying solar will step into the “Net Metering 3” arrangement with the utility companies.

“I’m a fanatic for solar lights. However, I live by the airport, and I sometimes worry a plane might mistake my backyard as the landing strip,“ said Carr.

For information about participating and attending, check out the Facebook event page “Art In The Park In The Dark & World Art Day Festival.” We’d love some more sponsors and booths participating too!

Contact Shann Carr at theshanncarr@gmail.com

Or Krystalyn Pacquette at Demuth Community Center 760-320-6430