Feast for the eyes: Dazzling shows during Sharjah Light Festival 2020 from February 5 to 15

World’s most-acclaimed light festival combines local, international talents

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LIGHT, SOUND, FIREWORKS SHOW: The opening night of “Sharjah Light Festival 2020” at the Sharjah Municipality Building. The festival runs from February 5-15, 2020. The world’s most acclaimed light festival combines local talent and internationally renowned artists.
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Sharjah Light Festival at Al Qasba. For the 10th consecutive year, the Sharjah Light Festival illuminates the Emirate. The colourful event kicked off on February 5, 2020 (Wednesday). It runs until February 15.
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The yearly festival attracts hundreds of thousands of visitors who come to be astonished by the specially composed music, artistic ingenuity and technical skills of the masters who curate the stunning illuminations onto the beautiful architecture of Sharjah.
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The Sharjah Light festival takes visitors on a tour of cultural heights, fusing all the components of beauty, art, culture, education, innovation and higher thinking into one glorious event.
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Visitors are treated to eye-popping displays of colour, images and lights are inspired by a variety of subjects such as beauty, science, creativity and knowledge.
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The Sharjah Light Festival is a highly anticipated event as each year it takes the advancements of technology and transforms them with an elegant touch into something awe-inspiring.
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The Sharjah Mosque illuminated in bright colours during the opening of Sharjah Light Festival on February 5. The event runs until February 15, during which rich programmes, grouped into clusters based on up to 20 locations, showcase the architectural splendour of Sharjah and the beauty of its buildings.
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Architectural splendour of Sharjah: The Sharjah Municipality building.
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A scene in Al Majaz waterfront, which forms part of the Sharjah Light Festival 2020. Many of the designs inspired by local culture, stories and traditions or incorporate nature and space, some are based on more modern art and design, all are beautiful and though provoking.
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Al Majaz waterfront, Sharjah Light Festival 2020: The Sharjah Light Festival extends to the east coast towns of Dibba, Khorfakkan and Kalba. 2019 saw well known artists and curators such as Larent Langlois and Cindy Lo as well as companies; Studio Halpeji and Group F take the buildings of the emirate and interpret them anew for the festival. Sharjah Light Festival 2020 is the next highly anticipated edition, from 5 to 15 February.

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