Joy. Hope. Community.
A free winter festival of light art in downtown Tacoma. Outdoor performances. Dragon Parades. Lumens concerts, Lighted Bike Ride and more.
***NOW HIRING***
Join the creative team behind Tacoma Light Trail (TLT), a celebration of light art weaving through Tacoma’s vibrant
downtown core and surrounding neighborhoods. We’re seeking a Guest Art Coordinator to curate and coordinate 5-7
captivating light art installations along The Trail. BIPOC and LGBTQIA+ are strongly encouraged to apply, as we strive
to reflect the diversity of our community.
Tacoma Light Trail is now closed, see you next year!
Take a look through the A-Z List or Map to see the previous light installations and music.
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LIGHT TRAIL LIVE
Live outdoor events will return next year!
New Year’s Eve Kick Off Celebration
Countdown to the New Year with Tacoma’s Sister City, Cienfuegos, Cuba on December 31, 2023 at Tollefson Plaza, downtown Tacoma!
Schedule:
5:30 – Parade led by Fire Dragon and Tacomarama Brass Band
6pm -10pm Performances include: DJ Summersoft, Tacoma Urban Performing Arts Center presenting Hilltop Holiday Revue, Asian Pacific Cultural Center presenting cultural and fire dance performances, Tacoma Dance Studios presenting illuminated Belly Dancers, a show from String and Shadow Puppet Theater, projection art from Ulysses Martin & Anthony Bassett, and yummy meals from Bajan Caribbean Station and Starvin Marvin Food Trucks.
Click the links below to explore the events from our last trail.
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WE ACKNOWLEDGE
We in downtown Tacoma acknowledge that we are standing on traditional lands of the Puyallup tribe, who live here and speak the Twulshootseed language.
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🌟 Exciting News Alert! 🌟 We`re on the lookout for passionate individuals to join us as Guest Art Coordinators for Tacoma Light Trail 2024/25!
Are you creative, community-minded, and ready to help us illuminate Tacoma with art and wonder? This could be your chance to be part of something truly special.
Apply now and let`s make magic happen together! ✨
Use the LINK IN OUR BIO to get all the details and APPLY! 🫵🏾
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❤️🔥 Thank you to all the wonderful artists, venues, and viewers that participated in the light trail this year. It was such a good time and we are so grateful to be apart of such a vibrant art community in Tacoma, it really is what makes this city so special. ❤️🔥
Though the light trail is over, you can still view the art online at tacomalighttrail.org
Art featured in the reel
1) @lenneereid at Horizon Pacific Center
2) @fireitforward at @zeeks_tacoma
3) @bellstreetcreative at @bubblesteashop
4) @effaulkner56 at @wwseymour
5) Linda Hallgren at @waterfromwine
6) Sunflowers at @washingtonhistory
7) Lydia Gerard at @johnsoncandyco
8) @jolineelhai at @leroyjewelers
9) @anxioustomato.gallery at @uwtacoma
10) @krisvermeer at @cremellocafe
11) @stars4peace at @fosswaterwayseaport
Thank you to everyone one who volunteered this year!! Tacoma Light Trail would be nothing without you! #communitybuilders #volunteerchampions #volunteer
💕 Thank you to everyone who made a piece of art, came to our events, or walked the trail, you made it so fun! We are so glad to be apart of such an amazing community in Tacoma.
The trail is over but you can still view the art online at at tacomalighttrail.org.
1)Hotel Olympus’s fabulous piece
2) By @fablabtacoma on Pac Ave
3) Line Break Press’s piece New Year Babies 2024
4) Happy Campers by @seaburyschool students
5) Cremello Cafe featuring art by Kris Vermeer
🦉 Love this owl by Linda Hallgren at @waterfromwine! Check it out during the last night of the Tacoma Light Trail 🦉
2) Find these cute bubbles from @bellstreetcreative at @bubblesteashop 🫧 🧋
3) See Darcy Anderson’s Window of Whimsy at Tinkertopia 🦝 💡
❤️🔥 Have you visited the Museum of Glass yet? Dani Kaes, Galen Turner, and Jacob Willcox founded the neon glass artist collective Gas Filling Tube Suckers (GFTS) @gasfillingtubesuckers in early 2022. They visited Museum of Glass for a Visiting Artist residency in the Hot Shop in May 2023. Their installation If one doesn’t work, we got two to spare: a GFTS mixtape (2023) is on view in the Museum’s front window through January 2024.
1) Gas Filling Tube Suckers (GFTS) Dani Kaes (American, born 1995)Galen Turner (American, born 1979)Jacob Willcox (American, born 1998)If one doesn’t work, we got two to spare: a GFTS mixtape, 2023Neon, blown glass, and found objects
144 × 96 in. (365.8 × 243.8 cm)Courtesy of the artists. Photo by Ruby Brownawell.
2) Foss Waterway Seaport is hosting this beautiful piece by @stars4peace 🌟🌟🌟
Thank you to everyone who came out to @tupactacoma for our final event of the Trail this year! Performances by @rubsounds and @lenneereid were awesome. And projections by Jasmine Iona Brown were fun!! That’s a wrap Tacoma. Tonight is the last night to walk, ride, or drive the Trail!
@rubsounds doing their sound check for @tacomalighttrail final Lumens event 2024! @tupactacoma 🔥🔥🔥
