This year’s edition features five art hubs and a wide range of interactive art installations to feed every culture vulture’s soul

Art and culture play a huge role in shaping Singapore’s creative fabric, and it can’t be denied that there’s plenty of art to enjoy here, be it travelling exhibits at local museums, signature art events like Singapore Art Week, and even signature art districts such as Gillman Barracks that house some of the region’s best galleries and art collections.

But art doesn’t have to be a stuffy affair, and this year’s edition of i Light Singapore shows just that. An anchor event to kick-start the Singapore Bicentennial commemoration in 2019 – which officially launches on 28 January – the festival will connect people across generations through shared experiences, delectable food, delightful music and immersive play, while promoting awareness about sustainability and the evolution of Singapore over the last two centuries.

The festival runs from 28 January to 24 February 2019. Admission is free, and you can sign up for guided tours of the sustainable light art installations by foot or boat, or go on a self-guided audio tour with the VoiceMap mobile application.

i Light Singapore 2019 - Camp Kilo — Camp Kilo will provide grilled platters and roast dinners in an al fresco setting at the Marina Bay Sands Event Plaza

i Light Singapore 2019 - Eco Lawn @ i Light Singapore — Eco Lawn will host upcycling workshops, pop-up booths with eco-friendly products, yoga and wellness activities as well as film screenings under the stars

i Light Singapore 2019 - City Gazing Singapore — City Gazing Singapore uses a special animation technique that lets visitors ‘time travel’ over the past 100 years to see how Singapore has grown from a couple of key arterial roads into the international hub

i Light Singapore 2019 - Festival at the Fort — Festival at the Fort will highlight the life and legacy of Sir Stamford Raffles, and will offer various activities, food and drinks for the whole family

i Light Singapore 2019 - Land-Pass Bird — The Land-pass Bird installation depicts a mythical bird with an azure body that glows at night – a sight that few have ever seen according to local legend

i Light Singapore 2019 - Keys of Light — Keys of Light is a modular interactive piano installation that encourages visitors to play the piano to reveal captivating graphic compositions on the Lighthouse at Raffles Terrace, Fort Canning Park

i Light Singapore 2019 - Reflecting Holons — Reflecting Holons resembles blown bubbles and reflects lights around the room

i Light Singapore 2019 — With 50 thrilling rides and games from Europe and around the world, Prudential Marina Bay Carnival transforms Marina Bay into a massive vibrant playground filled with performances, food, contests and more

i Light Singapore 2019 - Transporta @ i Light Singapore — Inspired by the Big Bang theory, Transporta @ i Light Singapore invites visitors to journey through space, light, matter and time by highlighting the ‘Quark’ – a fundamental particle of matter

Hubs To Explore

Camp Kilo
Flavourful grilled platters and sumptuous roast dinners await at the Marina Bay Sands Event Plaza, thanks to Camp Kilo. Groove to an eclectic soundtrack from resident DJs as you make new friends and bond with old ones.

Eco Lawn
This hub is taking centre stage at The Lawn @ Marina Bay, and will combine environmental sustainability, fitness and social good. Apart from viewing City Gazing Singapore, a light art installation that’s suspended mid-air, take part in upcycling workshops, yoga and wellness activities as well as film screenings under the stars.

Festival At The Fort
Held at Fort Canning, this hub highlights the life and legacy of Sir Stamford Raffles. Start with a pitstop at the Raffles Terrace, which hosts a replica of Sir Stamford Raffles’ residence in 1822, then join one of the many guided tours to explore the area and learn more about the district’s history. In addition to a plethora of family-friendly activities, you’ll get to see the Land-pass Bird, Reflecting Holons and Keys of Light art installations and savour a wide range of food and drink options for a delicious picnic under the stars.

Transporta
Inspired by the Big Bang theory (no, not the TV show) and the birth of the Universe, Transporta invites visitors to travel through the beginning of space, light, matter and time. It casts a spotlight on the Quark – a fundamental particle of matter – through gamification, multimedia, sound effects and projection mapping, which will interact with you as you move from one space to another.

i Light Singapore 2019 - Crystallisation of Thoughts — Crystallisation of Thoughts is an LED installation that visually imagines how ideas are generated and then combined into congruent thoughts

i Light Singapore 2019 - With a View — With a View is an artwork made of parallel mirrors in the shape of shophouse windows, creating a series of smaller and smaller reflections that appear to recede into the distance

i Light Singapore 2019 - Why Green — Inspired by the green streets and parks of Singapore, Why Green? presents various flora in our country that hint at who we are

i Light Singapore 2019 - Time Traveller — Inspired by bamboo fish traps, Time Traveller sits at between One Fullerton and Clifford Pier, bridging past and present

i Light Singapore 2019 - The Rainbow Connection — The Rainbow Connection is a display of suspended solar light modules that explore the dreamscape of the deep sea, the woods and clouds

i Light Singapore 2019 - The Floating Lighthouse — The Floating Lighthouse invites visitors to activate buttons that will play unique sounds, complemented by lights radiating from the top of the floats

i Light Singapore 2019 - The Cat in the Garden — The Cat in the Garden will use light waves to create scenes of nature and snippets of daily life in Singapore

i Light Singapore 2019 - Squiggle — The Squiggle installation allows visitors to interact with it by using joysticks to change the colours, speed and direction

i Light Singapore 2019 - Shadow Exposed — Shadow Exposed plays with the nature of projections and invites visitors to interact with the installation using their own shadows to reveal or conceal layered images

i Light Singapore 2019 - Shades of Temporality — Shades of Temporality combines video painting technology, electronic paint and custom rollers to let visitors virtually paint videos in real time onto walls

i Light Singapore 2019 - Sails Aloft — Sails Aloft is a holographic art installation that creates a snapshot of a 19th century sailboat race, and is inspired by an original ‘sampan panjang’ of the Orang Laut

i Light Singapore 2019 - Prospegtive Perspective — Prospegtive Perspective explores the expressive potential of everyday objects such as the humble clothes peg, which plays a big role in this installation

i Light Singapore 2019 - Lighthouse of Time — The Lighthouse of Time installation transforms the facade of the ArtScience Museum into a gigantic sculpture of dancing lights

i Light Singapore 2019 - Flower Clock — Flower Clock celebrates Singapore as a ‘Garden City’ while the rotating flowers represent how time leaves a tangible effect on nature

i Light Singapore 2019 - Good Fortune — Good Fortune is a visualisation of rain inspired by emotions it causes in different cultures

i Light Singapore 2019 - Constructive Interference — Constructive Interference features an ever-changing form that represents Singapore’s bustling cityscape

i Light Singapore 2019 - Cosmic Web — Inspired by a spider’s web, Cosmic Web is a converging tunnel-like structure that aims to highlight the resilience and self-determination of a communal living entity through hardship by creating a safe haven

i Light Singapore 2019 - Dune — DUNE interacts with human behaviour and brightens according to the motions and touch of passing visitors

i Light Singapore 2019 - Facey Thing — Facey Thing is a satirical celebration of the selfie culture. As passers-by come into range of the camera, facial tracking will identify their faces and blow them up onscreen as per spy television shows

i Light Singapore 2019 - Halo — Halo is a participatory sonic and visual kinetic environment that creates evolving patterns of sound and light with interaction from visitors

Art Installations Around The City

There are a total of 33 installations around Singapore throughout the festival – 32 sustainable light art installations and one multimedia show, including the ones situated within the programming hubs above. Most of the pieces were created by artists from 15 different countries and have a unique theme or story to tell; however, 17 installations out of the 33 were created by Singaporean artists or feature content that relates to Singapore’s history and progress, with the intent of creating a bridge between the country’s past and present. Download the festival map to complete a self-guided tour of each of these displays.

i Light Singapore 2019 - Student performers from Republic Polytechnic — Student performers from Republic Polytechnic will turn Marina Bay into an vibrant stage with their electric performances for an evening

i Light Singapore 2019 - Le Petit Chef — Witness the virtual Le Petit Chef prepare and serve an exquisite five-course meal directly to your plate

Other Notable Highlights

Student performers from Republic Polytechnic’s CREATE Republic will turn Marina Bay into a vibrant stage with acts by Beats Encore (percussion ensemble), Capoeira, RP Seni Silat, Wushu Warriors and Style Groovaz Crew. Additionally, the festival will see the Singapore debut of Le Petit Chef. Witness the ordinary dinner table come to life as the virtual Le Petit Chef busily prepares and serves an exquisite five-course meal directly onto your plate, made possible with 3D projection technology, storytelling and top-class cuisine and ingredients. The immersive dinner is available for a limited time at The Fullerton Bay Hotel Singapore, and sits five to eight diners.

i Light Singapore is also collaborating with Straw Free Singapore to encourage the reduction of single-use plastic straws during the festival. Look out for stickers and poster displays at supporting establishments that indicate each establishment’s straw-free support options. There will also be an education booth at Eco Lawn for you to pledge your support to minimising single-use plastic waste and learn more about Straw Free Singapore’s efforts.

The festival’s signature Switch Off, Turn Up campaign is also back and will rally corporate organisations around Marina Bay and beyond to reduce energy wastage by switching off non-essential lights and turning up air-conditioning temperature by one-degree. You can participate by increasing your air-conditioning temperature at home and switching off electrical appliances that aren’t in use.

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