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title: "Leipzig Festival of Lights 2022 | All Projects"
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Leipzig Festival of Lights 2022
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Programme Leipzig Festival of Lights 2022
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Festival of Lights throughout the entire city centre

Lichtfest Leipzig 2022: digitales Graffiti und Performance "Demokratie braucht Farbe – Sprüh mit!" von Cart‘1 und Matthieu Tercieux auf dem Richard-Wagner-Platz

In 2022, the Leipzig Festival of Lights presented itself for the second time with a decentralised concept. On three squares within the inner city ring – **Augustusplatz**, **Burgplatz** and **Richard-Wagner-Platz** – **light installations** by international artist teams were on display from 7 p.m. to 11 p.m. On the **St Nicolas Church Yard**, visitors were welcomed by the **candles' podium '89**. This was also the venue for the opening of the Festival of Lights, featuring short welcoming speeches and musical accompaniment. As in previous years, all Festival of Lights projects were supported by local cooperation partners.

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Opening of the Festival of Lights 2022 on St Nicolas Church Yard

Welcoming speeches, music, candles' podium '89

 

Lichtfest Leipzig 2022: Eröffnung auf dem Nikolaikirchhof

The evening began at St Nicolas Church Yard with brief **welcoming addresses** by Mayor Burkhard Jung and other distinguished guests, including Irina Scherbakowa, co-founder of Memorial (awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2022), Carsten Schneider, Minister of State and Federal Government Commissioner for Eastern Germany, and Liubov Lysenko, lecturer at the Kyiv Conservatory of Music. The welcoming addresses were broadcast onto a screen at the market square. The opening was accompanied **musically** by the “Ensemble Flautissimo” of the “Johann Sebastian Bach” Music School. The musicians were Lisa Marie Klein, Amalia Schlesier and Marius Hipper (all playing the flute).

At St Nicolas Church Yard stood the traditional **candles' podium '89,** which was illuminated over the course of the evening by visitors with thousands of tealights. At all information stands in the city centre, visitors received candles free of charge. Anyone who wished could make a symbolic candle sponsorship there via cash donation or PayPal. In 2022, the proceeds from the campaign went to the **Journalists-in-Residence Programme** of the Leipzig-based **European Centre for Press and** **Media Freedom (ECPMF)**. Media professionals and activists for press freedom find refuge and support here.

 

 

Light projects Leipzig Festival of Lights 2022
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