Aqualumina

Aqualumina is a riverside lantern festival involving music, dance, and illumination along the river’s edge. This year is a celebration of water itself — as a vulnerable resource, necessity, bellwether, thing of beauty, and mirror of the sky.

The second Aqualumina Festival features a site-specific dance performance by Brian Sanders’ JUNK. Parasol jellyfish lanterns, glow-in-the-dark fish, colorful coral hats, and illuminated cardboard boat creations guided and created by community members and artists Em Rea, Nicole Strafaci, and Laura Bernstein will join the festivities, as well.

Aqualumina was designed to bring the community together around the dreamy charms of a riverbank at dark. It launched in 2021 with a performance by JUNK in Ancestral Lights, an outdoor dance performance illuminating refugee narratives and kindling light in a time of darkness and displacement, culminating in a joyous communal dance featuring community members carrying illuminated paper lanterns at ArtYard’s Courtyard.

The raindate for this event is Sunday, May 19.