Light To Night
If you’re like me and you’re not sure what to do this CNY especially in the night, head down to the central area of Singapore to enjoy the pretty light installations at Light To Night.
Light The Night is an annual festival where creative light installations will be displayed around the CBD area. It is also during this festival that most museums in Singapore extend their opening hours. If you don’t already know, entry to most museums in Singapore is free for Singaporeans.
It’s my fifth or sixth time attending this festival. I must say this year’s event is watered down compared to the previous years largely due to the pandemic. Gone are the days where uplifting music would beckon crowds to the event. Pre-covid, I used to look forward to attending the festival with an empty stomach as there would be stalls with unique food offerings that can’t be found on normal days.
The number of light installations on display are also reduced as compared to the past. Some light displays are pretty similar to past year’s like those where there are light shows being displayed on buildings like the National Gallery Singapore and Victoria Concert Hall.
There is one particular display I thought was interesting which was ‘Fragment Of A Shoreline’. This particular display is at the end of the field of The Padang. It’s not easy to miss this exhibition as throngs of children will be there with their parents playing with the sand. This particular art is meant to signify the white sand seen by Sang Nila Utama (founder of Singapura before it was named Singapore) when he first set his sights on Singapura. The lights shining on the sand is meant to represent the waves on the ‘beach’.
Another light installation that caught my eye was ‘Flight’ and this artwork is an interactive one where people could use their phones, connect via Bluetooth to receivers at this art installation to have different types and colors of light shone on the artwork. This artwork is meant to resemble a flight of birds from afar. Personally, I do not really particularly find this artwork as interactive or amazing as it is said to be although a lot of people do take images here for the gram.
I know this is a pretty late post about the current light installations at CBD area but I was really busy tending to funerals. You know there’s a saying that more deaths tend to happen nearer to major festivals like Chinese New Year, Hungry Ghost Festival, etc. as many believe that those aged or ill won’t be able to pass through the next milestone of life which is usually marked by these major festivals. Although as a Christian I do not subscribe to this belief but somehow statistics seem to back this theory up. So please pardon my late post. Well, at least you have a few more days you can parade through the light installations if you want to ( till the 3rd day of Chinese New Year).
Till then,
Harmony Tee