Light City Baltimore by Widewalls

Lead Founding Partner

Festival Producer

Monday–Thursday, 7–11pm • Friday & Saturday, 7pm–12am • Sunday, 7–11pm

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Government Partners

Leadership Partners

Major Sponsors Constellation, An Exelon Company Continental Realty Corporation Economic Alliance of Greater Baltimore Greater Baltimore Committee Harbor East Management Group Loyola University Maryland M&T Bank Maryland Institute College of Art Joseph & Harvey Meyerhoff Family Charitable Funds Royal Sonesta Harbor Court Baltimore Transamerica UMBC Under Armour Official Sponsors Ayers Saint Gross Baltimore Ravens Bithenergy Caves Valley Partners Ellin & Tucker Generosity, Inc. Goucher College ICF International Johns Hopkins University (President’s Office & Technology Ventures) Lifebridge Health Waterfront Partnership of Baltimore

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Light City transforms Baltimore’s waterfront

into an amazing spectacle of light, music and innovation. From the Inner Harbor’s south shore to Harbor East, festival-goers can explore 1.5 miles of world-class art installations — all free, accessible and open to the public. This week-long event kicks off in grand fashion on Monday, March 28 with the not-to-be-missed Creative Alliance Light City Lantern Parade at 7pm starting from the Big Wheel. For the festival’s complete concert and entertainment schedule, along with an official calendar of special events and promotions happening all around town, download the free Light City app or go to lightcity.org.

11. Community Beacons: Making Waves Kinetic Frenetic: Jenn Figg, Matthew McCormack and David Fakunle (Baltimore, MD) A union of light and sound, ancestry and modernity, skill and imagination. Throughout this week-long piece, participants will listen to the traditional percussive rhythms of West Africa and sounds unique to the culture of Baltimore, while gazing upon patterns of light directly generated from the sound onto instruments and the canvas of the Baltimore Visitor Center. This is not just a piece to be seen and heard, but a piece that calls for the collective creativity of the community to emit the beacons of light and hope that Baltimore desperately needs (special thanks to Visit Baltimore).

12. Glacier Riki K (Baltimore, MD)

Steel, Plexiglas and projection installation, creating the illusion of a melting glacier suspended in air, large enough for festival-goers to walk under and contemplate their role in global warming.

13. William Donald Schaefer Sculpture Rodney Carroll (Baltimore, MD)

1. The Big Wheel

Ride high above Light City on a LED Ferris wheel.

2. Ekiben

Japanese-themed food and beverage destination, offering bento boxes, warm sake and other delights.

3. Inner Harbor Carousel

Special illumination on the existing old-fashioned amusement ride.

4. Take To Ro – Bridge of Lights Baltimore Kawasaki Sister City Committee with Jessica Searfino (Baltimore, MD) Highlights two unique forms of traditional Japanese bamboo lanterns, anchored by the existing Japanese Stone Lantern visible in the Inner Harbor. The bamboo lanterns “Take To-Ro” will form the installation, using varying sizes of bamboo stalks illuminated from within using LED lights. Along with several small “Andon” lanterns, it will highlight the green space next to the Maryland Science Center to focus the installation as both a past and present interpretation of the BaltimoreKawasaki Sister City relationship.

5. Water Will Be Here Eric Corriel (New York, NY)

Site-specific, immersive video installation that imagines what it might feel like if sea levels rose to the point where Baltimore found itself underwater (special thanks to Maryland Science Center).

6. Easy Landing Kenneth Snelson (New York, NY) This 1978 stainless steel sculpture is a landmark of Baltimore’s Inner Harbor.

7. Digital Skin Live Interactive Station & Live Performances by Atelier Mateo M. (Canada) Will give the Light City visitors not only the chance to both witness the international artist Mateo M perform live using his Digital Skin software every night of the festival, but also make an attempt at it themselves! The Digital Skin Public Version will allow participants to paint on their friends, seeing them digitally come alive by mapping their faces and bodies with colorful projected light and animated visuals. Each portrait and experience will be recorded and projected at the installation and posted online.

8. Club Light City

Free headline performances by THOMAS DOLBY, DAN DEACON, ROBERT DELONG, ROBERT GARZA (of Thievery Corporation – DJ Set), DJ JAZZY JEFF, and TT THE ARTIST. Also on the bill: DJ Who, ELM, Brooks Long & Mad Dog No Good, DJ Kenny D, DJ Face, DJ Dhundee, DJ Tanz, DJ Quicksilva, Subtle Hustle, DJ Janko, DJ Deltanine, DL Lil Mic and 9 Mile Roots.

9. Lumin Kristin McWharter and Steven Lyman (Baltimore, MD) 100’ long illuminated “chalk art” community drawing, participation facilitated by different street artists nightly.

10. Sondheim Fountain

A tribute to an original Baltimore visionary and namesake of the $25,000 Artscape Sondheim Prize — Walter Sondheim, Jr. (special thanks to Waterfront Partnership).

Depicts one of Baltimore’s most innovative Mayors, the legendary William Donald Schaefer (1921–1911).

14. Parts & Labor

One of Baltimore’s most renowned farm-to-table restaurants, owned by James Beard award-winner Spike Gjerde (Best Chef: Mid-Atlantic 2015), serving the best of Maryland food, beer and wine.

15. Stad Amsterdam

Majestic three-masted clipper ship, visiting Light City from Holland (special thanks to Sail Baltimore and the City of Amsterdam).

16. Pipelines Luminous Intervention (Baltimore, MD)

Projections that explore issues critical to Baltimore, such as death in police custody and struggling youth services like education and recreation.

17. UP Pilobolus (New York, NY)

150 festival-goers are invited to participate in a choreographed dance with LED umbrellas, filmed by overhead camera and shown on The Beacon.

18. The Beacon The Barnycz Group (Baltimore, MD)

A landmark multi-story cube built from hundreds of LED panels. The Beacon will engage, inform, and entertain festival goers with Light City images.

19. Light Up the Night! Stage

Performances featuring fire, illuminated puppets, projections, stilt walkers, drumming, spoken word, DJs, roving bicycle anagrams and more; confirmed talent includes Fluid Movement, Katherine Fahey & Annie Howe, Lynn Tomlinson and Colette Searls, Big Whimsy, Olu Butterfly and the Dew More Collective, Revolutionary Motion, Pyrophilia, Schroeder Cherry, Single Carrot Theatre, Creative Alliance and Thick Air Studios.

20. Diorama Michael Owen, Tony Byrd and Jay Herzog (Baltimore, MD) Artistic inspiration derives from the human interactions, natural surroundings and an endless array of cues in the city around us. Throughout an original, live 30-minute performance, light, dance, sound and paint cohabitate a life-size diorama, conversing with each other about city life.

21. Blue Hour Bar

Food and beverage destination showcasing lite bites, beer, wine and the winning drink from the LCB Blue Hour Cocktail Competition (special thanks to the Baltimore Bartender’s Guild).

22. Blue Hour New American Public Art (Philadelphia, PA) Liquid shipping containers transformed into 16’ tall light towers that respond in light to the movements of festival-goers.

23. Gateway Baltimore: Tic, Pratt, Go Quentin Moseley (Baltimore, MD) Neon sculptures on the pedestrian footbridge (special thanks to The Gallery/General Growth Properties, Harborplace/Ashkenazy and the Renaissance Baltimore Harborplace Hotel).

24. Human Effect Yandell Walton (Australia)

Projection speaking to environmental issues that is responsive to interactive touch by festival-goers (special thanks to the World Trade Center).

25. World Trade Center & Sondheim Plaza,

Waterside sideshow featuring carnival, burlesque and aerial artists, along with a neon-colored menu of cocktails, beer and wine.

40. Lightwave: Baltimore’s Beacon

401 East Pratt Street

Design Collective, Inc. (Baltimore, MD)

In recognition of the existing 9/11 memorial (special thanks to PRG).

Projection of light and sounds on the historic Seven Foot Knoll Lighthouse (special thanks to Historic Ships).

26. Guest Services

The World Trade Center lobby is the one-stop shop for Light City attendees: accessibility services, lost and found, official programs, docent tours and other key information (special thanks to Accessible Festivals).

27. When Worlds Collide Curated by Lynne Parks (Baltimore, MD) Visit Top of the World Observation Level Gallery for an amazing birds-eye view of Light City, and this exhibition featuring artists Rose Anderson, Bonnie Crawford Kotula, Elisabeth Pellathy, Nicole Shiflet and Chris Siron; Top of the World, 27th floor of the World Trade Center (Admission to Top of the World is $6 for adults, $5 for seniors and military, and $4 for children 3 to 12 years old).

28. Under Sky/One Family Mark di Suvero (New York, NY) Iconic steel sculpture, circa 1980.

29. Plaza Scott Pennington (Baltimore, MD)

Several large and illuminated, colorful structures reminiscent of a psychedelic playground.

30. Laser Lotus Nisha Ramnath and Brian Gonzalez (Baltimore, MD) Festival-goers work together to manipulate the flower’s petals with touch pad controls.

31. Into the Zone (Anthology of Accounts and Findings) Rachel Guardiola (New York, NY)

16mm footage, appropriated from natural history film, that places the viewer into the first person perspective of an explorer, the universal onlooker navigating through the constructed narrative of a future past landscape (special thanks to the National Aquarium).

32. Sound Off Live!

Local bands compete for the opportunity to perform at the 2016 Artscape (July 15–17), America’s largest free arts festival, and Baltimore Book Festival (September 23–25) (Monday & Tuesday, 3/28 & 3/29, 5–10pm, special thanks to performance venue Hard Rock Cafe).

33. 1,001 Lux Symmes Gardner (Baltimore, MD)

A custom built, multi-story tower featuring a three channel video and audio installation with images of different light sources looping every ten minutes.

34. Natural Lighting Emulator V Lisa Dillin (Baltimore, MD) A fabricated overhead canopy that simulates natural dapples of sunlight, as they would be experienced by festival-goers from beneath the tree tops.

35. Pixel Promenade Radiance — Erin Barry Dutro and Kyle Steely (Baltimore, MD) Colorful LED canopy, projecting words sent to the installation by festival-goers via Twitter.

36. Projected Aquaculture Kelley Bell and Corrie Parks (Baltimore, MD) A large-scale projection mapping of aquatic species unique to the Chesapeake Bay, the largest estuary in America (special thanks to the IMET Columbus Center).

37. Mini Light City at Pierce’s Park

Young people’s makers tent and family-friendly entertainment, free play at the sound garden designed by artist David Hess (Baltimore, MD), and fanciful refreshments like LED cotton candy by Spin-Spun and El Loco Taco’s Mexican crepes; open 7–9pm nightly; open until 10pm on Friday and Saturday (special thanks to Waterfront Partnership and activity partner, SeaMuse).

38. Peacock Tim Scofield and Kyle Miller (Baltimore, MD) 20’ tall animatronic bird, floating in the harbor, whose illuminated plume opens to 40’ across.

operas, Murdercastle and Valhella; War Memorial Building, 101 North Gay Street (special thanks to the War Memorial Commission and PNC Bank).

39. Circus of Wonders (Baltimore, MD)

54. Big Hope for Baltimore at AVAM

Medellin, Columbia, went from a cartel-dominated city with an annual murder rate averaging 3,600 people to being named an “International City of Peace.” This conference explores that inspiring transformation with speakers who include Kevin Briggs, Lily Yeh, Neal Peirce, Jackie Sumell, Terry Love and other global urban activists; March 28, 3–6pm; American Visionary Art Museum, 800 Key HIghway (admission is free; to secure the required registration, email Abby@avam.org ).

41. Voyage Aether & Hemera (United Kingdom)

300 “paper boats” with rainbow-colored lights that are manipulated by festival-goers.

42. Pyrrha Robby Rackleff (Baltimore, MD)

Projection and sound installation that is a fantasy re-imagining of the Baltimore harbor as an industrial fortress of unrestrained growth — a riot of motion and color, an endless machine of unknowable production.

43. Diamonds Light Baltimore Cheon and Kroiz, Artist and Architect Collaborative (Baltimore, MD) 15 fabulous large-scale diamond sculptures constructed with white LED lights.

44. Dark Was the Night Justin Randolph Thompson (Baltimore, MD) Bicycles power this kinetic monument, a tower of light centered on a reclaimed 1912 bronze chandelier (special thanks to the Baltimore Marriott Waterfront Hotel).

45. Water Wall Greg St. Pierre (Baltimore, MD)

A series of animated images projected onto a large-scale water screen that is installed in the harbor and uses the Patapsco River as its water source.

46. Labyrinth Ian Brill (Pittsburgh, PA)

Immersive, large-scale inflatable maze, pulsing with sound and light. Designed specifically for this site.

47. The Pool Jen Lewin (Boulder, CO)

Colorful concentric circles that respond to the movements of festival-goers.

48. Lancaster Street

Special lighting installation on Lancaster Street between President Street and Central Avenue.

49. Harbor East Eats!

Food and beverage destination celebrating the eclectic restaurants, bars and eateries of the Harbor East neighborhood.

50. The Concert Stage at Harbor East

Local and regional bands in a variety of genres including hip-hop, jazz, pop, R&B, rock, ska, classical, contemporary choral, world and electronic; featuring free performances by Clear for Takeoff, Dunson, Makina Project, Red Sammy, Symphony Number One, Telesma, The Bridge Ensemble, MC Booze Band, The Palovations, To The Moon, Todd Marcus Jazz Orchestra, Wordsmith, Bosley, Jocelyn Faro & The Ragazzi, John Somers, Marc Miller, Moss of Aura, The Players, Tom Principato, Saving Apollo and Speakers of the House.

Just Steps Away from the BGE Light Art Walk… 51. In Light of History Paul Rucker in collaboration with The Reginald F. Lewis Museum (Baltimore, MD) Artworks on Pratt Street from Paca Street to the Reginald F. Lewis Museum (800 East Pratt Street), siting 11 historical sites relevant to the business of the slave trade in Baltimore.

52. Waiting Time Nick Metzler (Baltimore, MD)

Light City Also Features… Light City U Thought leaders and change-makers from across four key industries explore one question: How do we become a more responsible and equitable society? The diverse line-up of speakers includes Jad Abumrad, Vivienne Ming, Amita Shukla, Amy Webb, Shawn Dove, Freeman A. Hrabowski III, Dr. Leana Wen, Steve Case, Aaron Hurst, Robert Egger, Debbie Millman, Alex Laskey, Gaia, Wes Moore, D Watkins and dozens more. To buy tickets and for scholarship information: lightcity.org. • Social Innovation Conference at Light City Baltimore: March 28 & 29, IMET Columbus Center at the Inner Harbor, 701 East Pratt Street • Health Innovation Conference at Light City Baltimore presented by Kaiser Permanente: March 30 & 31, IMET Columbus Center • Sustainability Innovation Conference at Light City Baltimore presented by BGE: March 30 & 31, IMET Columbus Center • Creative Innovation Conference at Light City Baltimore: April 1 & 2, City Garage, 101 West Dickman Street (hosted by Under Armour) Neighborhood Lights Pilot artist-in-residency program that extends Light City beyond the Inner Harbor by engaging local artists to work directly with five participating communities to develop temporary public art projects during the week of March 28–April 3: • Coldstream Homestead Montebello — Isaac Ewart, Jose Rosero, Emmanual Williams-DDM (Baltimore, MD) • Greater Mondawmin — Llamadon Collective (Baltimore, MD) presented by BGE • Hampden — Diana Reichenbach (Baltimore, MD) • Little Italy — Joe Reinsel (Baltimore, MD) presented by Kaiser Permanente • Station North Arts & Entertainment District — LabBodies (Baltimore, MD)

The universal image of “loading/waiting” projected on the clock face of this historic Charm City landmark, which now houses studios rented by local Baltimore artists; Bromo Seltzer Arts Tower, 21 South Eutaw Street.

53. Convergence Maximus Concert Artists of Baltimore and Baltimore Rock Opera Society – BROS (Baltimore, MD) The colossal worlds of rock and classical music collide in an epic musical fusion that features excerpts from Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9, Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto and selections from original BROS rock

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ANNUAL LIGHT CITY BALTIMORE March 30–April 9, 2017