The Spier Light Art opening ceremony will take place on Friday 6 and Saturday 7 December 2019, from 18:00. You’re invited to join a procession across a multi-sensory, cross-cultural wonderland featuring dancers, stilt walkers and other illuminating enchantments.
These performances celebrate the launch of the second edition of Spier Light Art – an array of 21 light and sound installations spread across the historic Stellenbosch farm, created by some of South Africa’s leading artists and designers.
Choreographer Jay Pather’s performance piece, From Before, will feature 22 Shembe, classical ballet and Bharatha Natyam dancers – all wearing light-infused costumes. Other performances include a new production by the spectacularly athletic Indoni Dance Company and a production with large puppets by Janni Younge.
Tickets for the opening ceremony can be purchased from www.webtickets.co.za, and cost:
- R200 per adult (includes a complimentary glass of wine)
- 75 per child under 12
- R650 per couple (includes two adult entry tickets, a picnic and bottle of Signature Spier wine)
The Spier Light Art exhibit will run from 8 December 2019 to 19 January 2020, and is free to attend. Visitors are encouraged to explore the installations at dusk, to catch the sunset and the switching on of the lights. Dinner or picnic bookings are available, but must be made in advance.
Some of the Spier Light Art installations include:
- Lyall Sprong’s Bergson’s Misting Circle – a 4 metre vertical circle of light and mist
- Goldendean’s Breathe Goldendean – an interactive inflatable sculpture that allows you to lie on it whilst it gently glows and breathes around you
- David Brits’s massive 70 metre glowing shape, suspended high in one of the oldest oaks living on the Spier Werf (farmyard)
- Themba Stewart and Qondiswa James’s astute and profound Keep the Lights On, which reminds us that light in the everyday is a sociopolitical issue that cannot be taken for granted
Spier Light Art is one of Spier’s Growing for Good initiatives, which empower communities to create positive social and environmental change.
Visit www.spier.co.za for more information.
