Closing of the 9th Guangzhou International Lighting Festival

On the evening of November 27, 2019, the Ninth Guangzhou International Lighting Festival was held at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Guangzhou. The member units, work designers, outstanding security personnel, volunteer representatives, and media representatives of the Organizing Committee of the Light Festival attended the closing ceremony.

At the closing ceremony, the lighting festival organizing committee praised the outstanding photo authors, outstanding security personnel, outstanding volunteers, etc., and announced the successful completion of the exhibition of lighting works at the main venue and major venues of this festival. This festival of lights lasted for 10 days, and for the first time adopted the "1 + 9 city-wide linkage model", which not only effectively controlled the flow of people at the main venue, Huacheng Square and Haixinsha, but also covered the city's influence through the 9 major venues. After the Festival of Lights closes, the bridge (Haiyin Bridge, Liede Bridge, Haizhu Bridge) and the gallery lighting works will continue to be displayed. Among them, the bridge works will be displayed until January 30, 2020, and the gallery works will be displayed until 2020. On the 17th.

Looking back at this year's Lighting Festival, in order to achieve a wonderful interpretation of the theme of "Auspicious Flower City Makes New Colors", the main team of Ruifeng Culture creatively applied the principle of the "Poems and Songs" of the Book of Songs to carry out the overall design of lighting works. The connotation of the traditional Yale culture of Haixinsha, together with the patriotic theme of Huacheng Plaza, has created a magnificent and magnificent city nightscape axis, showing the new vitality of the ancient Guangzhou city. The rich and diverse culture, wonderful and bright works, and extensive and in-depth exchange activities have left many unforgettable memories for this year's Guangzhou International Lighting Festival.

Haixinsha's immersive light and shadow space set off a wave of five-tone culture

The area of Haixinsha's works created with the traditional five-tone culture of "Gongshangjiao Zhengyu" is undoubtedly the key core and focus of Ruifeng Culture for this lighting festival. In the creation of Haixinsha's panoramic sound immersive light and shadow space, the Ruifeng culture's creative team not only used the principles of auditory and visual synesthesia, through the visual presentation of different colors of "golden wood, water, fire and earth", translating the five elements into five sounds, showing traditional culture. Connotation.

At the same time, in the creation of the music, Haixinsha's work area uses a variety of melody of "Gongshangjiao Zhengyu" to produce a variety of tunes. The style covers a variety of Chinese and Western music such as Chinese wind orchestral music, rock metal, antique electronic music, and symphony. 9 The group works are merged into one to create a multi-track parallel live acoustic effect. The popularity of Haixinsha's works has once again displayed the traditional five-tone culture in front of the public, arousing the enthusiasm of citizens and tourists to learn to spread this treasure of Chinese culture.

Huacheng Plaza China Red, showing patriotism in the new era

Shining in the city's landmark building, the Guangzhou Tower, a huge "eyes" lighting installation is erected in the south square of Huacheng Square. This window of Guangzhou's soul is exactly the main sculpture of this lighting festival, "Window-Open City, Connecting the World". The LED curved screen is integrated with laser and lighting equipment, and is programmed and controlled by the computer to interpret the urban development process of Guangzhou Unicom World. Along the north-south direction of Huacheng Square, a total of 4 groups of lighting works were exhibited. Ruifeng Culture revolved around the theme of “walking with the motherland” and made extensive use of Chinese red color elements to fully demonstrate the patriotism of Guangzhou citizens in the new era. At this Lighting Festival, the flow of people in Huacheng Square has been further effectively controlled, the order of the exhibition site is orderly, and the atmosphere is warm.

Practice the "light +" concept and open a new city-wide mode

The Guangzhou International Lighting Festival has always attached importance to practicing the "light +" concept. In the past, there have been many initiatives to set up a lighting festival branch venue. This year, the organizer boldly innovated again on the basis of summing up previous experiences, and covered the festival of lights throughout the city through the "1 + 9 city-wide linkage" model. Baiyun Mountain, Yuexiu District, Liwan District, Huangpu District, Conghua District, Zengcheng District, Panyu District, Huadu District, and Nansha District are divided into 9 major venues, which respectively focus on green ecology, red history, traditional culture, technological innovation, natural scenery, humanities and arts. , Urban style, cultural tourism brand, transportation hub and other district characteristics, added a colorful and unique gameplay to the Guangzhou International Lighting Festival.

Extensive and in-depth exchanges, the lighting festival has entered the era of "global interconnection"

As a highland for the display of modern new media art, Guangzhou International Lighting Festival is not only a pioneer in the interpretation of domestic city light shows, but also a bridge for cultural and artistic exchanges between China Unicom International. With the increasing influence of society, the Light Festival not only attracts domestic provinces and cities to come to inspect and exchange, but also has become a star project that frequently appears on major international stages. It has become the world's third world-renowned company with the Lyon Light Festival in France and the Sydney Light and Music Festival in Australia. One of the big light festivals, and won the UNESCO "International Light Year" event in 2015, which is particularly recommended to the world. In 2019, the Guangzhou International Lighting Festival exchanged with counterparts in major domestic cities such as Shanghai, Wuhan, Chengdu, Chongqing, Zhaoqing, Wuhai, etc., and also held a number of exchange activities in foreign cities such as Lyon, France, Montreal, Canada, and Seoul, South Korea. Guangzhou International Lighting Festival is entering the era of "global interconnection".

Building and sharing together, holding multiple experience events

For the general public, the Guangzhou International Lighting Festival is a rare urban cultural festival in China that can experience the trend of modern light and shadow art. The Festival of Lights has also been spreading cultural and aesthetic ideas to citizens and tourists in a free and open form. This year's Light Festival not only continues to follow this principle of public welfare, but also organizes multi-scene co-construction and sharing experience activities for different groups, including media camp days and media experience days with dozens of media participation. Lighting work photography contest, 24 small volunteer activities involving parent-child families, opening ceremony South China University of Technology, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts and other more than 800 college students and college teachers to watch the exhibition activities, more than 200 teachers and students of Xinghai Conservatory of Music The punching and lighting festival, the closing ceremony of "National Tide Hanfu Day", and more than 800 staff groups from the grassroots frontline such as "Yangcheng Construction Craftsmen", sanitation workers, construction workers, security guards, etc., visited the activity group in various forms. Make the festival of light warmer and more meaningful.