Tacoma Light Trail is over for another year, and we'd love your feedback! Plus important news and ways to support. | | | | | View this email in your browser | | | | | | | | | | | | | BEST TRAIL EVER! | | | | | | | | | | | | | And that's a wrap for another incredibly successful Tacoma Light Trail! 🤩 We spent 7 weeks bringing joy to dark times, bringing our community together and lighting up our city with: 🐉 3 neighborhood Dragon Parades & Satellights, 4 library Lantern Workshops, 50 downtown light art displays, 50 songs or poems on the Sound Trail, 4 outdoor light events (including the most fabulous New Year's Eve!!), 3 indoor Lumens concerts and a ton of livestreaming and online art. 🎉 Around 4,000 of you came in person to be the light, and many thousands more visited online. 🌟 44 of you lit up bikes to join us on the Lighted Bike Ride. 💃🏽 We supported 100+ artists and performers from a huge range of backgrounds - most of them local. 💜 And we encouraged everyone to explore downtown and support businesses there. Tacoma - we're so proud. Let's keep this going. Bring the light! BE THE LIGHT! 💛💛 | | | | | | | | | | | WHAT DID YOU THINK? Did you go to the Light Trail? We want to know what you thought of it! Live events, light art, bike ride - whatever you did, tell us what went well or could be improved. Help us bring the light even better! | | | | | GIVE FEEDBACK | | | | | | | SUPPORT THE TRAIL Love our light art festival? Then please support us with a donation! Your gift helps us pay artists and our team, buy lighting equipment and all the good things.  We need you to be the light! | | | | | DONATE | | | | | | | SOME LIGHT IS STILL UP! Good news - some of our 50 light art displays are still up through the weekend! "Sea Dragon" at the Foss Waterway Seaport, "Neural Nebulous" at Unique Bakery, "Neon Roses" in the Woolworth Window - find all info on the A-Z page. | | | | | ART LIST | | | | | | | | So grateful - to all of you. We're incredibly grateful. 🫶 To our grantors: Tacoma Creates, Tacoma Arts, Tacoma Special Events and Greater Tacoma Community Foundation. 🙏 To our sponsors: Alma Tacoma, Stadium Golf, Zeeks Pizza, Stocklist Goods, Second Use Recycle, Shunpike and Camp Colvos. 🙏 To our partners: Spaceworks, Downtown on the Go, Tacoma Public Library, Tacoma Art Museum, Permaculture Lifestyle Institute, Tacoma City Ballet, Northwest Sinfonietta, Courthouse Square, Seymour Conservatory, Mad Hat Tea. 🙏 To our 50 light art hosts, our artists, our team and our amazing volunteers. 🙏 Thank you all. And of course, we're grateful to all of you who followed us, joined us and brought your light to make our city shine. ✨ | | | | | | | | BE THE LIGHT. | | | | | The Tacoma Light Trail is a winter festival of light art and sound in downtown Tacoma. Using light to symbolize hope, truth and understanding, it unites the community, lifts up diverse voices and brings joy and healing to dark times. It also creates a vibrant downtown, supporting businesses and artists. | | | | | | | | | FOLLOW US! | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Copyright © Tacoma Light Trail 2021, All rights reserved. Want to change how you receive these emails? You can update your preferences or unsubscribe from this list. | | | | | | | This email was sent to info@tacomalighttrail.org why did I get this?    unsubscribe from this list    update subscription preferences Tacoma Light Trail · 3325 N 21st St · Tacoma, WA 98406-6105 · USA | | -- Rosemary Ponnekanti (she/her)Director Tacoma Light TrailDec. 31, 2022 - Jan. 19, 2023 Light art downtown.A sound trail of music and poetry. Live music, circus and spoken word.Be the light.TacomaLightTrail.orgFacebook | Instagram Fiscally sponsored by Shunpike, a 501(c)3. Statement of Gratitude: We acknowledge the land on which we share light, art and story is the traditional home of the Coast Salish Peoples, including Puyallup, Duwamish, Tulalip, Muckleshoot, and Suquamish tribal nations. We are grateful to the original caretakers of this land who are still here. Along with our gratitude is our commitment to the ongoing work of uplifting Native communities, and to protecting the land and resources that sustain us all.