Catch this light festival until April 14

Get ready to feed your soul and witness life coming to light as BGC unveils its light festival, Boni Viva Luci!.

Bonifacio Global City (BGC) is holding a light festival called “Boni Viva Luci!” (“wondrous life in light” in English) starting today until April 14. Themed “natural life echoed in light,” the festival will feature new and reimagined public artworks elevated with various light treatments, free for everyone to enjoy.

The event is curated and copresented by the Bonifacio Art Foundation Inc. with Bonifacio High Street and BGC and can be enjoyed all over BGC, with installations at Bonifacio High Street, Bonifacio High Street South, Terra 28th Park, The Mind Museum and the BGC Arts Center.

See Puppet Theater Manila’s indigenous wildlife puppets featuring 12 larger-than-life Philippine endemic species, witness “LumineSense: Our Place in the Cosmos” by Joyce Sahagun Garcia, Ohm David and Arvy Dimaculangan which utilizes interactive video mapping and be enthralled by Olivia D’Aboville’s monumental installation of dreamy dandelions. “The Abyss” by Winter David and Ohm David and “Reimagined Chandeliers” by Ohm David and Mark Choa highlight giant bioluminescent octopus and chandeliers with LED tentacles.

Mythical creatures will be brought to life through Cheska Cartativo’s “Entanglement: Adarna to Bakunawa” artwork at BGC’s Glass Bridge. Leeroy New portrays the goddess of fertility and death in an unconvential way with his “Mebuyan Cradle.”

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Featured on LED screens are the creations of Isaiah Cacnio and Joyce Sahagun Garcia and photos of Fred del Rosario, Chito Viñas and Mark Bautista, members of the Camera Club of the Philippines. Take a night stroll at Purple Terra where trees are covered in bright purple lights.

Tonight’s opening event will feature performances by Arman Ferrer, Bayang Barrios, OJ Mariano, Galaw.Co Dance Theater, violinist Liz Besana and a special parade of larger-than-life lighted puppets by Puppet Theatre Manila. The event will end with a parade featuring music exclusively composed for “Boni Viva Luci!” by National Artist for Music Ryan Cayabyab.