About i Light Marina Bay i Light Marina Bay, Asia’s leading sustainable light art festival, was first held in 2010 by the Urban Redevelopment Authority as a biennial event to inject vibrancy and reinforce Marina Bay’s position as a sustainable precinct. The festival features light art installations around the Marina Bay waterfront by local and international artists incorporating sustainable elements, such as the use of recyclable materials and energy-efficient lighting technologies. The festival is powered through energy savings from the ‘Switch Off, Turn Up’ campaign, where participating stakeholders and building owners around the Bay and beyond are encouraged to switch off non-essential lighting and turn up air-conditioning temperatures during the period of the festival. Beyond the showcase of visual art and urban space, the festival also offers a dynamic line-up of events and programmes, including performances, dining options, workshops and family-friendly activities. In view of the good response for the first three editions of the festival, i Light Marina Bay will become an annual event from 2016.
About Marina Bay Marina Bay is the heart of Singapore’s city centre and a well-established, vibrant destination for the local community. It provides Singapore with an opportunity for further urban transformation and to attract new investments, visitors and talents. Extending seamlessly from the existing Central Business District, Marina Bay is the new focal point that reinforces Singapore’s position as a leading global city. It offers extraordinary potential for growth and development in the heart of the city, an advantage that few other cities can offer, and creates an exciting array of limitless opportunities for locals and foreigners alike, to explore (live), exchange (work) and entertain (play). About Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) The Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) is Singapore’s national land use planning and conservation agency. URA’s mission is “to make Singapore a great city to live, work and play”. We strive to create a vibrant and sustainable city of distinction by planning and facilitating Singapore’s physical development in partnership with the community. As the main land sales agent for the state, our multifaceted engagement strategy includes the sale of state land to attract and channel private capital investment to develop sites for meeting our land use needs. As the place manager for Marina Bay, we promote exciting activities within Marina Bay in collaboration with other government agencies and private stakeholders. To create an exciting cityscape, URA also actively promotes architecture and urban design excellence. For more information, please visit us at www.ura.gov.sg.