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LUMABILITY
A bright idea to make the LUMA Southern Light Project accessible to all is being sponsored by Queenstown Airport. LUMAbility will be run as a pilot project when the popular arts, performance and sensory event returns to the Queenstown Gardens at King’s Birthday...
LUMIFY
A huge thank you to everyone who took part in LUMIFY 2020 and helped illuminate the District over Queen's Birthday Weekend. Together we managed to bring some joy to our communities and welcomed everyone back into our neighborhoods after time apart. It was truly...
Drone By
LUMA is an award-winning arts and culture festival based in Queenstown. We use Queenstown’s unique alpine canvas, as a giant amphitheater for local, national and international talent to paint with light. Featuring artwork from: Angus Muir Design South Island Light...
Wrapped Up
That's a wrap for another year folks! Thanks to everyone who came down to share this experience with us.
Lite Moves
Performance pieces integrated with light and AV took LUMA to another level this year, this is "Nocturnal".
Parrot Party
Australian artist Zara Pasfield talks rainbow lorikeets and trans-Tasman bonding.
TomTom
Audio Visual and staging wizards TomTom Productions are long time contributors to the LUMA festival, and they always bring the goods. We really enjoyed this opportunity to shine a light on ( or hold an umbrella over! ) the great work they do and their awesome ethos of...
Echoknot
Local creative powerhouse Scott Kennedy ( along with Echoknot bandmate Joe Cowie ) created "Under A Mountain", a trippy audio visual glasshouse with a score to match.
AMD
Prolific and talented light sculptor Angus Muir speaks about his involvement with LUMA19.
Into The Shadows
Chloe Loftus (Aerial Artist) Abigail Rose (Aerial Artist) Rochell Brophy (Aerial Artist) Amber Stevens (Curator of Performance) Emma Vickers (Performance Director) Into the Shadows is an interactive performance space that combines our feature installation Hybycozo...