• Wembley Park will be illuminated with freshly commissioned light and art works as part of Winterfest 2021, which begins on November 25th.
• The global premiere of Kumquat Lab’s new light work, “Reunion,” will be unveiled at Market Square.
• Yoni Alter, a Brent-based artist, will display new digital artwork around Wembley Park and onto London’s tallest LED tree, which boasts over 100,000 lights.
• A recent photo exhibition featuring 12 UK-based photographers will be shown in a permanent new outdoor gallery.

Wembley Park’s free winter lights festival will return to Wembley Park from Thursday 25th November 2021, starting out with the formal lights switch-on of London’s largest LED tree on Wembley Park Boulevard, after the success of Winterfest in 2019.

The ‘Reunited in Light’ family-friendly and open-air light path will be available to the public seven days a week, from 10am to 10pm, until January 4, 2022. Winterfest in Wembley Park, London’s internationally famous entertainment area and 365-day neighbourhood, will attempt to provide a sense of togetherness and joy to Londoners through a variety of freshly commissioned light and artworks, following a tough year. The event, which takes place just in time for the holidays, will be a great way to treat family and friends to an engaging and Instagrammable experience.

The largest LED Christmas tree in London will be on display at Winterfest 2021, decorated with brand-new digital artwork by Brent artist Yoni Alter. On the 25-metre-high walk-through tree outside London Designer Outlet, ‘City Lights,’ made up of 100,000 dynamic lights that pulse to different rhythms and represent the energy and speed of a cityscape, will be on show. Throughout Wembley Park, bespoke light commissions will be scattered over trees, digital totems, light banners, lampposts, and other infrastructure, immersing visitors in the festive spirit.

Winterfest will be the first opportunity to see ‘Reunion,’ a unique light work by Kumquat Lab, which will be presented in Market Square as a global exclusive, celebrating the joy of getting together again after months of social isolation. A sequence of light arches forms a circular area where people are welcome to meet in the project. Each ‘tunnel’ is unique, symbolising the diversity of our personal experiences over the epidemic months. A shared space near the exit will invite people to engage and bring the installation to life.

In another exclusive, a new permanent outdoor gallery will open on the renowned Olympic Way with a photographic show called “Reunited in Light,” which will run from November 25th to February 27th, 2022. This first show will include 12 photographers from the United Kingdom, ranging from fresh grads to award-winning artists like Tami Aftab and Sophie Harris-Taylor. The selected images will be exhibited in 16 lightboxes created by Toy and Robin. The pictures will show uplifting and vivid scenes of unity, sensitivity, and intimacy, reminding visitors of the power of people coming together.

‘Reflections of the Future,’ which will open later in the Winterfest schedule on Thursday, December 9th, will be the event’s centrepiece. Reflections is a newly commissioned light work by Lucid Creates that spans half of Olympic Way and has the National Stadium arch as a backdrop. It was created particularly for the event to transport people on an uplifting, holistic experience. This mirrored audio-visual pathway uses optical illusion, light, and music to create an immersive show that is sure to amaze and uplift spirits.

These new commissions will complement the existing collection of public art on display on the Wembley Park Art Trail, which includes permanent light installations like ‘Shadow Wall’ by renowned multi-disciplinary artist Jason Bruges and on Bobby Moore Bridge, which was revamped by Dixon Jones Architects with lighting design by Spiers & Major and Light Lab.