Jerusalem will host its second annual Jerusalem Light Festival from June 15 to 22, transforming the Old City into a light-art display with illuminated images projected onto ancient sites and attractions.
The festival will feature artistic light exhibits designed by local and international light artists throughout the Old City, as well as street events and performances, a lighting fair in the Davidson Center Archeological Garden and four routes around the Old City
following the illuminated sites and installations. The former Jerusalem Municipality Building will replicate the lighting display created in honor of the coronation of King George VI in 1937.
Also planned are a futuristic garden of light in an exhibit at the Jaffa Gate, and illuminated African masks alongside a soundtrack of Mongolic music accompanied by a Bulgarian chorale group at Zedekiah’s Cave.
The festival “showcases some of the world’s most creative artists transforming the Old City of Jerusalem into a living work of art,” said Haim Gutin, Israel commissioner for tourism, North and South America.
For more information, visit www.lightinjerusalem.org.il