With activities running until 19 February, Sharjah Light Festival 2023 marks another edition of a prominent yearly event on the emirate’s agenda, offering audiences a dose of creativity, innovation, and imagination.

The festival combines the beauty of light, music, and architecture, with light shows cast onto various landmarks of cultural, religious, and historical significance, such as AlHamriya Municipality Building, AlRafisah Dam in Khorfakkan and the Kalba Clock Tower.

The light shows on the Al Hamriya Municipality Building, held under the title ‘Growing together in Harmony, hopeandpeace’, reflect the UAE’s values to embrace its people, support their dreams, and provide them with every opportunity for development and prosperity, while remaining committed to uniting its people under one umbrella governed by coexistence, love and safety, to tell a story of joy and ambition for future generations.

Meanwhile, the show at Al Rafisah Dam in Khorfakkan depicts an innovative, futuristic idea,asking the audience a question: Where will your journey take you? The show revolves around a lone traveller who worked diligently to build a landmark that would last for decades and contribute to the prosperity and development of everyone around him. It is a unique story centred around the values of sharing, altruism, and working hard for the benefit of others.

The show at the Kalba Clock Tower, ‘The Blue Hour’, takes visitors on a contemplative experience with an immersive audio-visual scene that celebrates a specific moment in the day. The show highlights the aesthetics of blue shades, brought by an exceptional natural phenomenon that occurs during the transition between light and darkness at the moment when day meets night.

All light shows of the Sharjah Light Festival are held daily until February 19, from 6:00 p.m. to 11:00 p.m. on weekdays, and from 6:00 p.m. to midnight on weekends.