Jul 2, 2021 / 10:50 PM EDT
DAYTON, Ohio (WDTN) – A Fourth of July event that draws thousands of people to Downtown Dayton is back this year after the COVID-19 pandemic caused last year’s festival to be canceled.
Saturday is the City of Dayton’s Lights in Flight Festival at RiverScape MetroPark.
“It’s coming back with a bang, there’s something so celebratory about fireworks,” RiverScape Manager with Five Rivers MetroParks Meredith Adamisin said.
Lights in Flight will be the first big festival in RiverScape MetroPark since the pandemic.
“Riverscape is known for its events,” Adamisin said. “Riverscape holds big festivals, it was highlighted as a priority in our comprehensive master plan, community surveys, people love coming here.”
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This year s video mapping, projections, lights and artistic installations of the Flight Festival will be under the artistic direction of Sergio Risaliti (director of Museo Novecento). This edition is titled
Sight, From the Dark Wood to the Light, as Risaliti explains, We cannot deny that we all have need to see a light guiding us in this dark forest, when the straight path of progress seems lost. The annual F-Light Festival will embrace a Dante theme ahead of the 700th anniversary of the Supreme Poet s death in 2021. The video-mapping shows will travel through Dante s
Divine Comedy, finishing with
Paradiso, where Dante also encountered the lights of Christmas. Launched on December 8, the show will go on until January 6, 2021, helping us to commence the new year with a bit of brightness. The light installations will be visible on the Ponte Vecchio, at the Chamber of Commerce, Palazzo Medici Riccardi, in piazza Santissima Annunziata and at the Museo Novecento.
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