LIGHTSCAPES has been working with Suzanne Christine, famous for her Great Jack O’Lantern Blaze oil paintings, and will be offering many special gifts featuring her two new LIGHTSCAPES paintings. If you’re looking for a good way to remember the event or are just looking for an excuse to pull out your wallet, there is an exciting new selection of LIGHTSCAPES gift items. Spring-themed sweets and baked goods are available from Geordane’s of Irvington and Blue Pig of Croton offers organic sorbet and ice cream sandwiches. There are even local vendors selling food for satiating those hunger pangs. The interactive landscape is handicap accessible and fun for all. LIGHTSCAPES is appropriate for people of all ages and abilities. In addition, the event is sponsored by their founding sponsor Entergy, presenting sponsor Westchester Medical Center, seasonal partner Green Mountain Energy and LIGHTSCAPES’s media sponsor WHUD 100.7 FM. To create all new music and sound effects that you’ll hear throughout the experience. This year, the Historic Hudson Valley special events team teamed up with Phish collaborator Steve Pollak, also known as The Dude of Life, and Charlie de Saint Phalle.
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Creative Director Michael Natiello led a small team of Historic Hudson Valley staff and local artists to create the pieces of art on display and the lighting was designed by professional lighting designer Jay Woods.Īs you walk through the display, you are accompanied by music created specially for the event. There is also an interactive silhouette wall that allows you to dance with your own shadow. Throughout the display, you encounter over 7,500 tulips, hundreds of butterflies, about 100 giant ladybugs and a giant turtle, to cite a few. After you make your way through Caterpillar Cavern, you will discover a colossal praying mantis and a massive mayfly. If you want to enter the Colorwheel Castle, you must first navigate a drawbridge to cross the River of Light. Next, you walk through a newly created Bubble Tunnel that surrounds you in the rainbow. Before you even get to the historic landscape of the Cortlandt Manor where the show takes place, you encounter an entirely transformed Manor overgrown with giant luminous flowering vines and teeming with glowing ladybugs the size of dogs. The entire show takes about 45 minutes to walk through and every second is a fully immersive experience.
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The event is held over the course of 20 evenings in total: Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays in May, plus April 29-30 and Memorial Day Monday. The illuminated intergalactic flora and fauna are created entirely by hand and made of recycled elements. LIGHTSCAPES was conceived by the same team that presents the annual Great Jack O’Lantern Blaze as a nighttime display of sculpture, light, sound and special effects. If you’re looking for the first signs of spring, LIGHTSCAPES has created them in a larger-than-life fashion. Why is it called LIGHTSCAPES in all capital letters you may ask? According to the event page: “Because it’s JUST…THAT…BIG.” The Van Cortlandt Manor in Croton-on-Hudson, about an hour from campus, was transformed into a prehistoric, Pandora-esque landscape, more aptly named LIGHTSCAPES, filled with 15-foot-tall “live” Luna Moth creations and a centipede large enough to walk under. You’ve just stepped through a rainbow of light and emerged in another world entirely. Imagine yourself surrounded by thousands of glowing orbs in every color imaginable. It features hundreds of flowers and insects. LIGHTSCAPES is an over-sized light exhibit created by a team at Historic Hudson Valley to celebrate the coming of spring.