Let there be Light

As mentioned in the previous post, this week is Jerusalem's Festival of Lights.  In and around the Old City this week, when twilight deepens, things start lighting up.

Acrobats in the "History of Light" show

Scenes from a projection on the northern wall of the city.  Love the snowboarder.

Probably one of my favorite places was Damascus Gate.  It was just so...diverse.  Good spacial awareness in whoever designed the program.  I have to say, though, that one of my favorite parts of the show at the gate was a couple kids fighting with strobe-light-sabers.  

Practicing for the next Star Wars Movie - set in Jerusalem.

After Damascus Gate we stopped at Zedikiah's Tunnels/Solomon's Quaries, which were lit up to imitate being underwater.

Blub, blub, blub...

The next stop was the Cardo.  Once the center of commerse in the Roman city of Aelia Capitolina, for a short week it is again inhabited by shops, shops full of artist selling their creative light fixtures.

This man demonstrates his glass-blowing skill.

A couple nights before we stopped at the city of David where they projected a brief history of Jerusalem on the stepped-stone-structure.

This is the destruction of Jerusalem, probably by the Babylonians.

Walking towards the Old City from my house gives a good glimpse of the lights and festivities at Jaffa Gate.

I believe the Festival is on for another couple days, so if you happen to be in the city, check it out.