The streets and canals of Amsterdam will once more host the tenth Amsterdam Light Festival this winter, from 28 November, 2024 to 19 January, 2025. The theme of the 2024 Light Festival will be Rituals.
Multiple artworks will be on display along the canals of Amsterdam Centre-East, from 5pm until 11pm. Details of what will be on display can be found at the organiser’s website (see below). The theme of this year’s festival will be Imagine Beyond.
Light Walk
Stroll through Amsterdam city centre, crossing famous squares and hidden gardens. Receive photos, videos and audio messages from the festival’s creative director Lucas De Man direct to your smartphone via WhatsApp. In this way you will discover about Amsterdam and nature, as well as light art.
The 6.5km interractive walk will allow you to decide whether you learn more about light art or the city of Amsterdam itself and its rich history. Organisers promise it to be both informative and humorous.
Timed tickets can be bought here. For more information on what is going on visit the Festival Blog.
Amsterdam Light Festival 2024 Dates
The festival starts on 28 November, 2024 and runs through to 19 January, 2025.
For another light festival of a different kind, check out Hanukkah Festival of Lights in December.
Getting to Amsterdam
Getting to Amsterdam by plane is simple. EasyJet have flights from both London Stansted and London Luton airports. Alternatively, you can take the train, with Eurostar running a direct service from London St Pancras to Amsterdam that takes 3 hours and 41 minutes, although most trains do go via Brussels.
Things To Do in Amsterdam
For an idea of things to do in Amsterdam, why not read Mark Bibby Jackson’s Amsterdam Things To Do: Festivals and Culture. Alternatively you can visit the I Amsterdam website.
Cover photo: Absorbed by Light, courtesy of Amsterdam Light Festival.
