Morningside Lights returns in person with "The Reimagined Monument"
MORNINGSIDE LIGHTS:
"The Reimagined Monument"
Saturday, September 24, 2022, 8 p.m.
The 11th annual MORNINGSIDE LIGHTS, presented by the Arts Initiative and Miller Theatre at Columbia University, returns with The Reimagined Monument, a luminous, moving sculpture garden comprised of 40+ community-built lanterns, each one a unique, personal reflection on how we memorialize, creating newly inspired monuments that speak to the current moment, shared past, and hopes for the future. In a community procession through Morningside Park, the glowing monuments will set forth through the darkness—a shared, collective reimagining of public statuary.
Free lantern-building workshops will be hosted daily at Miller Theatre from September 17-23. Workshops are geared toward teens and adults, but children ages 10 and up are welcome if working with a participating adult.
The workshops culminate in an illuminated procession of community creations that will light up Morningside Park on Saturday, September 24. Information and registration are available at morningside-lights.com.
Morningside Lights concept and direction by Processional Arts Workshop. Co-produced by the Arts Initiative and Miller Theatre at Columbia University School of the Arts.
All events are free and open to the public.
“The workshops and culminating procession in Morningside Park are an opportunity to be part of something joyful and literally full of light.”