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title: "Leipzig Festival of Lights Programme Overview | All Light Projects"
url: "https://lichtfest.leipziger-freiheit.de/en/festival-of-lights-programme"
description: "Since 2009, the Leipzig Festival of Lights has celebrated the anniversary of the Peaceful Revolution every year on 9ᵗʰ of October. Here you will find an overview of all projects from 2009 to 2025."
language: "en"
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Festival of Lights programme
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2009 to 2026

 

197 artists

took part between 2009 and 2025

20 nations

involved as partners and participants

more than 100 projects

including projections, installations and performances

 

With the chants “We are the people” and “No violence”, 70,000 people gathered on the 9ᵗʰ of October 1989 to march around Leipzig’s inner city ring road, demonstrating for freedom and democracy and paving the way for the fall of the Berlin Wall and the unity of Germany and Europe. The dramatic events of autumn 1989 continue to resonate today. Every year on the 9ᵗʰ of October, the Leipzig Festival of Lights commemorates the events of the Peaceful Revolution in autumn 1989 with artistic light projects.

Projections, installations and performances – here you will find an overview of all light projects from 2009 to 2026.

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Leipzig Festival of Lights

Programme overview 2009 to 2025