Portland Winter Light Festival 2025 | 9 Days of FREE, Outdoor Winter Art Across The City

The Portland Winter Light Festival (PDXWLF) is Portland’s premier outdoor winter art activity that transforms, illuminates and animates Portland’s nighttime urban landscape February 7-15.

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From Press Release:
Portland Winter Light Festival
February 7-15, 2025
FREE | All Ages
6-10PM unless otherwise noted
Free
More info: pdxwlf.com

Where: At sites throughout Portland, with anchor locations at Pioneer Courthouse Square, World Trade Center, and The Electric blocks

The Portland Winter Light Festival (PDXWLF) is thrilled to announce the dates of its landmark 10th anniversary celebration. The festival will illuminate the city from February 7th to 15th, 2025, with free light-based art installations, immersive sculptures, video projections, fire art, performances, music, food carts and participatory events across Portland. Under the theme “A Light For Tomorrow,” PDXWLF invites artists, performers, architects, designers and venues to submit proposals and be part of this momentous event.

The Portland Winter Light Festival is a family-friendly city-wide event that brings residents and visitors out to explore free digital and light-based artwork and performances each February. The Festival has grown ninefold since its inception and saw an attendance of 274,000 in February 2024. It presented 159 free public art installations and 52 free performances showcasing the creative work of 417 artists and performers.

The call for participation for PDXWLF 2025 is now open, and submissions are welcome from all creatives and community members who wish to contribute to the 10th-anniversary celebration. This is an opportunity to showcase innovative light-based art installations and performances, engaging people of all ages and backgrounds to celebrate light and community. The call for participation can be found at pdxwlf.com.

“The Light Festival, like no other, galvanizes the public around art, creativity, and community,” says Alisha Sullivan, Executive Director of the Willamette Light Brigade, the nonprofit arts organization responsible for PDXWLF. “This year we celebrate our 10th anniversary and how art, particularly accessible, playful, light-based art, can lead to positive invigoration for Portland in the winter when we need it most.”

The Portland Winter Light Festival offers a unique opportunity to experience cutting-edge tech-based art installations in public spaces for free. The vibrant event drives late winter tourism and engagement, contributing an estimated economic impact of $10 million in 2024.