Premiering in 2016, Light City Baltimore is the first large-scale, international light festival in the United States. Light City will provide a backdrop for the celebration of ideas, ingenuity and creativity through art, music and innovation.

Light City will shine a light on Baltimore’s abundance of creative, cutting-edge, multi-disciplinary talent, and at Aether & Hemera we are delighted that our installation Voyage has been selected for the festival.

Light City’s innovation programming will generate an ecosystem of ideas and learning during the day – while lights, performances and live music reimagine the Inner Harbor at night.

The BGE Light Art Walk features 28 lighted art installations on the Inner Harbor Promenade, floating in the harbor waters and projected on area buildings including our artwork Voyage, a rainbow colored flotilla  of lighted "paper" boats in the harbor.

Here’s a list of what you can see and hear at Light City. And check out this video that showcases some of those involved with the festival.

LIGHT CITY MUSIC

• Baltimore Rock Opera Society and Concert Artists of Baltimore, Classical Music & Rock Opera
• Clear For Takeoff, Pop Rock
• Dunson, Hip-Hop
• Makina Project, Electronic
• Red Sammy, Rock
• Symphony Number One, Classical
• Telesma, World
• The Bridge Ensemble, Contemporary Choral Music
• The MC Booze Band, R&B
• The Palovations, Motown/R&B
• To The Moon, Instrumental Rock
• Todd Marcus Jazz Orchestra, Jazz
• Wordsmith, Hip Hop

LIGHT CITY PERFORMANCES

• Atelier Mateo M - Digital Skin Portraits
• Fluid Movement - HydroPrismEcho
• Jenn Figg, Matthew McCormack and David Fakunle – Making Waves: Kinetic Frenetic – Percussion Project
• Katherine Fahey & Annie Howe – Crankie Box Shadow Puppets
• Lynne Tomlinson and Colette Searls – Kendra’s Bay Digital Images
• Michael Owen – Diorama – Interactive Dance
• Nina Rutledge – City Lights Stilts
• Olu Butterfly and the Dew More Collective – What was in Darkness Must be Revealed in Light – Multi-media Poetry
• Revolutionary Motion, Pyrophilia and Luminescent Street Brigade – Theatre of Fire
• Sarah Tooley – 901 Arts Drumline
• Schroeder Cherry – Baltimore Street Lights Puppet Show
• Single Carrot Theatre – Ballet Ballistique

 LIGHT CITY VISUAL ARTISTS

• Radiance, Pixel Promenade
• Kelley Bell & Corrie Parks, Projected Aquaculture
• Baltimore Kawasaki Sister City Committee(Artist: Jessica Searfino), Take To-Ro Ripples
• Ian Brill, Labrynith
• Cheon Kroiz, Artist and Architect Collaborative, Diamonds
• Eric Corriel, Water Will Be Here
• Lisa Dillin, Natural Lighting Emulator V
• Annette Elliot, Constellation
• Symmes Gardner, 1,001 Lux
• Rachel Guardiola, Into the Zone (Anthology of Accounts and Findings)
• Riki Kim, Glacier
• Jen Lewin Studio, The Pool
• Dashboard, Drone Laser Light Party
• Luminous Intervention, TBD
• McWharter Lynam, fluorWall
• Nick Metzler, TBD
• Tim Scofield & Kyle Miller, Peacock
• Quentin Mosley, Gateway Baltimore
• Design Collective, Inc., Lightwave: Baltimore’s Beacon
• Thick Air Studios, Dear Baltimore
• Scott Pennington, Plaza
• Paul Rucker, Walking in the Light of a History
• New American Public Art, Blue Hour
• Robby Rackleff, TBD
• Brian Gonzalez and Nisha Ramnath, Laser Lotus
• Aether & Hemera, Voyage
• Greg St. Pierre, TBD
• Justin Thompson, Dark was the Night
• Yandell Walton, Human Effect