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UPDATE: There will be FREE Dessert & Hot Chocolate with Coolhaus truck at 6PM today at 59th-60th Street by Bloomingdales! Enjoy! ;)
Bloomingdale’s will unwrap their highly anticipated holiday windows with Tony Award winning singer and actress, Idina Menzel. Menzel will be performing selections from her new album “Holiday Wishes”, and other favorites. She will be introduced with a special opening performance by iLuminate, the hit off-Broadway show everyone’s raving about that combines music, technology, and electrifying entertainers performing in light suits.
It all takes place on Monday, November 24, The Bloomingdale’s 59th & Lexington NYC flagship will be kicking off the party early at 3:00PM with the opportunity for shoppers to meet Idina and pick up a copy of her new album to be signed before her 5:00PM. Performances at 6:15PM and window unveiling at Beacon Court at the Bloomberg Building 151 East 58th Street
This year’s windows invite onlookers to get in on the holiday fun with an entirely interactive experience. The high-tech windows include such features as games inspired by the Bloomingdale’s holiday GIFT A BOW mascot powered by The Science Project (you could receive a sweet surprise!), the opportunity to interact with the retailer’s social media channels, and more.
Enjoy,
Terresa =)
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The New York Festival of Light (NYFOL)) announces New York City’s first annual New York Festival of Light, a three-night event - Thursday through Saturday, November 6 - 8, 2014 - that celebrates light, in all of its extraordinary incarnations. New York now joins the ranks of major cities such as Berlin, London, Lyon, Montreal, and Sydney that have festivals of light. The festival is free and open to the public.
The festival, which is held in partnership with the DUMBO Improvement District, features a curated collection of lighting installations created by local and internationally renowned lighting designers, visual and performing artists, and technologists who work within the medium of light. The spectacle takes place in the Archway under the Manhattan Bridge and in the surrounding plaza space.
Approximately ten interactive, projection, and static lighting installations, will take part in NYFOL 2014.
Highlights include:
Sounds of Nature - Tupac Martir, visual artist and production designer, and lighting director for Elton John, Beyoncé, Sting, Alexander McQueen, Stella McCartney, to name a few, has created an installation for the plaza that is composed of umbrellas that and LEDs that are triggered by sensors sensitive to the weather, and the movement of the people to create different patterns of sound and light.
Laser Light Show – Howard Ungerleider, whose amazing architectural lighting, stage lighting, and set design presents a high-powered laser light show, complete with smoke, in the Archway.
Initiations - 3_Search a creative collective is curating a projection mapped video series that explores the transitory place where endings and beginnings overlap in perpetual evolution, and incorporates works by international projections mappers including from Glowing Bulbs, Integrated Visions, dandelion & burdock and others on the facade of the Manhattan Bridge Anchorage.
In addition NYFOL 2014 will feature illuminated ice sculptures, performances by iLuminate, a DJ, food trucks and much much more!
Schedule:
Thursday - 7:00PM to 11:00PM
Friday - 5:00PM to 11:00PM
Saturday - 5:00PM to 11:00PM
Have a blast,
Terresa =)
