Chase the Dark, the global event encouraging every lighting enthusiast to play with light! This unique, 24-hour celebration follows the rising sun as it "chases" the darkness westward from one side of the International Date Line to the other.
Now in its 11th year, lighting designers, students, and enthusiasts worldwide join in a creative activity around the theme of 'Upcycling,' which refers to using and reusing "found materials" for a new and possibly even better purpose.
Attendees are invited to make tealight luminaires from used or otherwise discarded things we find all around us. The goal is to make something illuminating and interesting that requires no purchased product and is lit by a single tealight.
Old packaging, textiles, office materials, food containers; we'll use anything we can rescue from the refuse to give new light and new life!
We will share our results (and the creative process) with the world on social media that evening using the #IALDChaseDark hashtag.