Perth’s free festival of light returns for the third annual Illuminate Yagan Square, lighting up the city with installations, live performance and immersive experiences from Friday, April 17, to Saturday, April 18, each evening from 6:30pm to 10:30pm.
This year’s theme is titled Shaped By Light, celebrating the power of light to transform, inspire, and bring people together in the city’s heart.
Yagan Square will become a living nocturnal landscape, with visitors invited to explore the different light works at their own pace, with live performances, music and movement all part of the festivities.
The centrepiece installation is Pulse, a looping light exhibition by artists Rachael Dease and Giorgia Schijf, displayed in the Yagan Square Amphitheatre. The sculptural installation features strands of light that translate sound into motion, creating a program loop that reacts to live music, dance and Japanese drums.
Beyond Pulse, event highlights include Where Country Holds Light, in which Spinifex Hill Studio artists bring Pilbara Voices to Yagan Square through the Digital Tower; Descent into the Yaragadee, a 30,000-year journey of water projected on the ECU City facade; and Guiding Creatures, a trio of roaming, larger-than-life lantern puppets inspired by underwater life.
Event-goers have their evenings cut out for them with Yagan Square’s eateries all open for the festivities and the Perth Underground train station an extremely short walk from Yagan Square!
Illuminate Yagan Square runs from Friday, April 17, to Saturday, April 18 – don’t miss out on this once-a-year experience.
