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Welcome to BIG CITY LIGHTS* – a new festival of light, design, installation and performance.
Over four nights you’re invited to choose your own adventure in Southport CBD to discover art that provokes, art that delights and art that celebrates our shared humanity.
Art and culture play an important role in shaping cities and defining places. Taking Southport CBD as an incredible canvas, BIG CITY LIGHTS* invites a reimagining and reinterpreting of landscape and place with large-scale projections, laneway activations and breathtaking installations.
BIG CITY LIGHTS* is a self-guided experience – you choose where you go, how long you stay and, best of all, it’s free and family friendly.
Complete your night out by visiting one of our favourite bars and restaurants and remember to share your experience on our socials #bigcitylightsfestival.
BIG CITY LIGHTS* is a first for South-East QLD. It’s been made possible via investment from the Federal Government’s RISE initiative which sought to reinvigorate cultural events following the impact COVID19 had on the arts in Australia, the QLD Government and City of Gold Coast.
Come once and come again and help make our first BIG CITY LIGHTS* something special!
Enjoy,
Rosie Dennis
Artistic Director
BIG CITY LIGHTS* is presented by Experience Gold Coast (EGC).
Operative from September 2023, Experience Gold Coast promotes, advocates, and collaborates with industry, government and the community to strengthen the Gold Coast’s position as Australia’s premier tourism destination, the home of major events, a preferred place to study and a city that values and celebrates arts and cultural experiences.
BIG CITY LIGHTS* is supported by the City of Gold Coast as a foundation partner and the Queensland Government through Arts Queensland, part of the Department of Communities, Housing, and Digital Economy.
We acknowledge the Traditional Owners of the Yugambeh Language Region and all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People of the Gold Coast.
We recognise their continuing connection and contributions to country and culture.
We pay respects to their Elders past, present and emerging.
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