Fourth Zagreb Light Festival at more than 30 locations

Od March 16-20, the Zagreb Light Festival will be held in Zagreb for the fourth time. Thus, after a two-year break due to the pandemic, with the support of the City of Zagreb, organized by the Tourist Board of the City of Zagreb and partners, imagination, art and light technology will reunite, sending messages of hope, togetherness and peace. In addition to the Upper Town, the locations of the Lower Town will also be illuminated for the first time, and visitors will be able to visit a total of five days 32 attractions in 31 locations.

"This year's edition of the Zagreb Light Festival, along with creative and inspiring art of light, sends messages of unity, tolerance and, above all, peace. We included 16 locations in the Upper Town and, for the first time, 15 locations in the Lower Town, and the novelty is also represented by two international collaborations with artists from Berlin and Sarajevo", announced the director of the Zagreb Tourist Board, Martina Bienenfeld.

Thus, guests from Sarajevo will symbolically set up an interactive light sculpture on the European Square - Heart of Europe. She, along 3D mapping, monitors the rhythm of heartbeats and allows all visitors to write or read wishes for a better future in augmented reality. The organizers of the world-famous event come from Berlin Berlin Festival of Lights, and they will pour light on the facades of the building Croatian National Theater, Museum of Arts and Crafts, while the facade will Mimara Museum become a canvas on which to through 3D mapping depicts the impression of Croatian and Zagreb's historical and cultural heritage. Also, Berlin artists are the authors of two installations of Earth and Mars, over four meters high, on Petar Preradović Square i Tkalčićeva Street.

In addition, the Festival was joined for the first time by the theater, and that is GDK Gavella with a play at the Observatory. Then there is UNICEF Reality Museum in the Zagreb Dance Center, and even theme race Glow run which is scheduled for Saturday, March 19 at 22 pm, starting at Marulić Square.

Two sites are dedicated to women that have marked Croatian history, so it will be in the large courtyard Museum of the City of Zagreb be able to see and listen to a light and music attraction with celebrated Croatian opera divas. In the Lower Town, on the walls Strossmayer schools in Varšavska Street, the faces of certain important women who left their mark in Croatian cultural history will be remembered. For the youngest they are ready three light playgrounds and on Dubravka road and Trg Mažuranića and near the eastern side of the HAZU building.

"Artists and the art of light help us to get through the realities of life, so I would like to thank all partners for participating in this very demanding and comprehensive implementation. I would especially like to highlight our institutions that recognized TZGZ with the Light Festival Zagreb project as a creative and cultural the platform in which they participate, namely: the Zagreb Academy of Music, which celebrates its 100th anniversary and participates in the opening program of the Festival, then the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts, HNK, Galerija Klovićevi dvori, MGZ, MUO, the National Museum of Modern Art and the Association of Croatian Architects", points out Bienenfeld.

As always, in addition to Croatia, the Tourist Board of the City of Zagreb conducts integrated online and offline campaigns on the markets of Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Italy, Hungary, Germany, Slovenia and Serbia. Promotional cooperation with Croatia Airlines was also achieved, and flower installations were also installed at two locations in Zagreb's Franjo Tuđman Airport, along with promotion on promotional screens and check-in counter screens. Zagreb Light Festival is included in the international organization Festival of Lights International, since its first edition in 2017, bringing it into focus around the world with cities such as Berlin, New York and many more.

The opening program is scheduled for Wednesday, March 16th, at 18:18 at the Croatian National Theatre, and as in previous years, the light shows will be held from 23:XNUMX to XNUMX:XNUMX. When setting up the Festival, light pollution is also taken into account, which is reduced to a minimum and time-limited, which additionally guarantees the smallest possible impact on humans and the natural environment as a whole. Admission to all programs is free, and more information about individual programs, as well as a location map, is available at the Visitor Centers and at links.