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Portland Winter Light (non)Festival features pop-up installations and video projections while minimizing crowds.
If you re looking for something bright to raise your spirits during these tumultuous times and winter nights, you can find it in the Portland area the next couple of weekends.
The Portland Winter Light Festival, which usually features creative light installations around the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry, Eastband Esplanade and elsewhere, had to evolve in its sixth year because of the COVID-19 pandemic and government safety restrictions. It s now being promoted as the Portland Winter Light (non)Festival and includes a series of installations, video projections and more.
Jan 31, 2021
Photo: Remaining Light Photography/Artist Tyler FuQua
Celebrating its 6th year, the Portland Winter Light Festival returns this Friday in a brand new way. Taking on an entirely new form to safely reflect our current pandemic reality, the festival has been re-imagined from a centrally located light festival to a series of smaller art installations throughout the entire city, expanded from three nights to two weekends. A map of all sites is available here on this website. Activities are being promoted as the 2021 Portland Winter Light (non)Festival.
Art installation sites range from a boat dock in St. Johns to a private residence in Milwaukie, with the largest concentration of installations located in downtown Portland, centered around Pioneer Courthouse Square. Installations will take the form of architectural lighting, pop-up window displays, projection mapping, and more. For the first time in the festival’s history there will be no installations at OMSI or at the