WAVE : Light + Water + Sound May 30 - June 2, 2019

When art, nature and technology come together in a spectacular mountain environment, the result can be truly incredible! This Spring join us for WAVE : Light + Water + Sound, a free festival featuring illuminated sculptures, projections and digital art in and around the Blue River Plaza in downtown Breckenridge, transforming the river, bridges and waterfront area into outdoor canvases, stages and exhibition spaces.

Overview of Events 2019 :

Sculptures + Installations
Concerts + Screenings
Community Events + Workshops

Named 'Best New Festival' 2017 by Westword Magazine

SCULPTURES + INSTALLATIONS

Interactive

breckenridge wave festival cloud installation

CLOUD
by Caitlind r.c. Brown + Wayne Garrett

A large-scale interactive work sculpted from 6,000 incandescent light bulbs., this piece will incorporate hundreds of pull-strings to create a simple, bright, and playfully collaborative work. Stand inside and underneath to become part of an impromptu team that animates the sculpture, creating “lightning".

Arts District Campus
117 Washington Ave

Iceberg
by ATOMIC3 and APPAREIL Architecture

A playful immersive work that tells the story of an iceberg, from its calving into Arctic waters to its final melting near a southern shore. Iceberg will consist of a series of illuminated metallic arches arranged as a tunnel and "warmed" by human activity, creating a musical corridor and a visual and auditory symphony.

Blue River Plaza
203 S Main St

Loop
by Ekumen

An optical toy, Loop is a cross between a music box, a zoetrope and a railway handcar. The retro-futuristic machine will project black and white images, tinted through a strobe effect and recalling the earliest movies, that will be visible inside the cylindar as well as out, set to the speed at which the participants inside set.

Ridge Street Arts Square
135 S Ridge St

Visual

Les Voyageurs + Les Oiseaux
by Cédric Le Borgne

Translating into The Travelers and The Birds, these illuminated artworks delicately sculpted from chicken wire will take human and bird form sitting on roofs, perched in trees or suspended in the air. They will invite you to glance up and around and offer the possibility of a connection between the sky and the ground.

Arts District Campus
117 Washington Ave

Light Flows
by ACT Lighting Design

A media installation that will project images from natural phenomena onto a large net, giving the effect of a hologram in the air mimicking travel around the world and further. Rare treasures from the universe, the northern skies, the deep sea, the center of the earth and more will float above reminding people how much light matters.

Riverwalk Center Lawn
150 W Adams Ave

Featured Artist
Scott Young, Denver CO

Tension

A maze of neon mystically bent into dangling “ropes” of illuminated glass.

Gallery @ OMH, Old Masonic Hall
136 S Main St

Intermittent Positive Reinforcement

A hanging neon sculpture with an interactive Instagram platform.

Arts District Lawn
117 Washington Ave

CONCERTS + SCREENINGS

Floating Brass
with National Repertory Orchestra

Featuring musicians from the National Repertory Orchestra, Floating Brass is a series of mobile pop-up performances that drift around the WAVE exhibition site.

Arts District Campus
117 Washington Ave

5p - 9p nightly

Through the Blue 4.0
with Russick Smith

Featuring cellist Russick Smith, Through the Blue is a concert of cascading melodies on a tiny island between the banks of the Blue River.

Blue River (Next to Riverwalk Center)
150 W Adams Ave

8p – 10:30p nightly

WAVE Reels
with Breckenridge Film Festival

A collection of short films dedicated to different themes within the WAVE exhibition.

Arts District Campus
117 Washington Ave

8:30p – 11p nightly

COMMUNITY EVENTS + WORKSHOPS

LightCycles: A Community Bike Ride

An event that encourages local cyclists to light up their bikes for a parade through the WAVE exhibition site.

Blue River Bikeway
150 W Adams Ave

7p–9p | May 30

Riders should gather between 7-8pm at Psycle9600 (505 S Main Street) with pre-decorated bikes.. or gear up onsite with free glow swag. Participants are encouraged to use reusable lights. Prizes will be awarded to the “greenest” bikes. This event is a co-produced with the Cycle Effect and Psycle9600.