(Communicated by the Jerusalem Municipality Spokesperson)
The sixth Jerusalem Festival of Light, a major international light art event, will be held in Jerusalem's Old City from June 11-19, 2014, between the hours of 20:00-23:00 (excluding Friday night; Saturday night until 24:00).
The Festival is a magical, compelling, multisensory celebration of artistic ingenuity. Visitors will be entranced by the interplay of light and color within the familiar Old City setting.
This year's Festival will feature exceptionally striking and impressive displays: a "house of cards" with Biblical figures, an interactive "cloud" installation, a 17 meter high tower of light, an enchanting three-dimensional "cuckoo clock" video-mapping, daisies, an illuminated elephant caravan, giant weathervanes, and more.
The Festival will host seventeen renowned international artists, among the world's most accomplished practitioners of light art. Outstanding works will be presented by OCUBO, Theoriz Studio, Jacques Rival, Luminarie De Cagna, and others.
Israeli artists featured: Martin Adin, Mystorin Theatre Group, Hagar Elezri and Liat Segal, Nissan Gelbard, Nitzan Refaeli, AVS Creative, and many others presenting breathtaking light sculptures and other works.
This year, for the first time, the Festival will be collaborating with the Industrial Design Department of the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design; students will exhibit light fixtures that reflect their own personal vision.
Festival-goers are invited to participate in and enjoy dozens of spectacular light displays along four different trails – white, red, blue and green – that will extend across the four quarters of the Old City and lead visitors from one artwork to the next.
Nir Barkat, Mayor of Jerusalem: "The Festival of Light in the Old City has become a strong international brand that is attracting hundreds of thousands of visitors to Jerusalem from within Israel and outside it. In this year's Festival – the sixth to be mounted – spectacular lighting will reveal the Old City alleys in all their glory, with impressive displays by acclaimed Israeli and international artists and by students of art and design. Jerusalem is reclaiming her proper status as an international cultural center and magnet for large numbers of young people, tourists and visitors, who are coming to enjoy the intermingling of a glorious past history and heritage with a lively and colorful present."