The Staro Rīga (Beaming Riga) light festival is a multi-day exhibition of urban objects that uses modern light and video technologies to transform Riga's landscape through illumination, at a time when Latvia celebrates its statehood.
The festival theme A Time of Light encompasses a unique experience. Combining the concepts of light and time, light art objects will lead festival visitors into a labyrinth of time and space exploration. Each light installation will be a newly discovered time-space, capable of change, evolution and the creation of a future message in the language of light art.
Interactive and experimental objects and multimedia performances in the urban environment will mark the international trend of light art away from screen-scale video projections. They will be replaced by site-specific spatial projections, 3D mappings of different scales according to the urban objects of the site and projections on the ground.
The light objects will cover the route Freedom Square - Latvian Riflemen Square - National Library of Latvia - Arcadia Park (Brīvības laukums – Latviešu strēlnieku laukums – Latvijas Nacionālā bibliotēka – Arkādijas parks).