Portland Winter Light Festival

Portland Winter Light Festival Feb 6-14, 2026. Experience Portland transformed by light! A program of the Willamette Light Brigade.
✨☔️💡 💡☔️✨ No tickets are needed for the festival.

Explore free light-based art, immersive sculpture, performances & participatory events citywide each February. The 9th annual Portland Winter Light Festival is February 2 - 10, 2024. The Portland Winter Light Festival (a Willamette Light Brigade event), is a free, all-ages, community-wide celebration illuminating the city's public spaces with installations by premier light artists and designers. If someone tries to sell you tickets, say NO!

Portland doesn’t merely attend the Festival. PORTLAND SHOWS UP. You know the drill. Tag your friends in the comments,...
03/27/2026

Portland doesn’t merely attend the Festival. PORTLAND SHOWS UP.

You know the drill. Tag your friends in the comments, share to your feed/stories, and follow us!

03/16/2026

Mechan 42: Space Traveler has officially clocked out. After holding court at Parkrose Hardware for the duration of the Festival (and then some), our favorite intergalactic visitor is packing it up and heading back home.

Safe travels, Space Traveler. Thanks for keeping an eye on Parkrose while you were here.

Lucky Plucky the Cosmic Ducky seems… conflicted about the Mind Melter 6000 cleanup crew’s work.Seriously—can anyone tell...
03/12/2026

Lucky Plucky the Cosmic Ducky seems… conflicted about the Mind Melter 6000 cleanup crew’s work.

Seriously—can anyone tell us what’s actually happening here? 📸Amy Sakurai

02/26/2026

Can we all agree that Friday the 13th at the Festival was magical? MarchFourth brought an insane amount of joy and energy to Pioneer Courthouse Square!

Last call, light lovers.We need just 12 more people to fill out the Portland Winter Light Festival survey before it clos...
02/19/2026

Last call, light lovers.

We need just 12 more people to fill out the Portland Winter Light Festival survey before it closes.

Do it now, before the link disappears and you miss your shot at being entered to win two tickets on Alaska Airlines ✈️

It takes a few minutes.
It helps keep the Festival glowing.
And it could literally take you somewhere else.

Link in comments. Go. 📸Brooke Hoyer

02/19/2026

We’re not quite ready to let the glow fade. A number of installations are staying lit through February and some through March, so the Festival spirit is still out there waiting for you on your next walk, coffee run, or night out.

At Waterfront Park, Cosmic Cuddle and Electric Dandelions will continue shining through late March. Swing by and soak them in while winter still has its hold.

Over at Big Pink, Fabled Passage is still welcoming visitors. While you’re there, step inside to spend a moment with Heron’s Embrace.

Across the city you’ll find light lingering in all kinds of corners:

Mechan 42 at Parkrose Hardware
Nautilus Deep Sea at Director Park
Golden Jubilee at Couch Park
A Thousand Tiny Currents at the James Beard Public Market
The Wanderette at The Nines
Chasing Rainbows at Sentinel Hotel
The Portland Gayborhood has relocated to Shattuck Hall at PSU

and a whole constellation of art in the Mississippi neighborhood; Spurrkland, Snippets, and Sweethearts.

You can also catch Porch Light at The Old Church, multiple works along the Justice Center Sidewalk Gallery plus that unforgettable octopus, giant monster and glass raindrops nearby, Books Are Lit at Lincoln High School, and Roboto Octopodo’s Diatomorama at The Newberry Building.

So keep your walking shoes on. The Festival may be over, but the light is still out there.

What’s still glowing? Get all the links on the landing page of our site! (link in first comment)

TOP 5 REASONS TO FILL OUT OUR SURVEY5️⃣ Tens (possibly hundreds?) of thousands of people came out to the Festival. Only ...
02/17/2026

TOP 5 REASONS TO FILL OUT OUR SURVEY

5️⃣ Tens (possibly hundreds?) of thousands of people came out to the Festival. Only about 600 filled out the survey.
You could be one of the chosen few. The elite. The luminous.

4️⃣ Your odds of winning are now wildly better (winning what? See reason 1).

3️⃣ You love the Festival and want it to keep happening forever and ever and ever. This survey is one of the biggest ways you help make that happen.

2️⃣ Something at the Festival made you unexpectedly emotional.
A glowing bridge. A laughing kid. A giant weird art thing. Tell us about it so we can do more of that.

2️⃣ Also your face hurt from smiling so much. We call that “scientific evidence of joy.”

1️⃣ You’ll be entered to win TWO tickets on Alaska Airlines ✈️
Which means this survey could literally take you somewhere warm and dry.

Fill it out. Be a hero. Link in comments.

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Join us for the 5th annual Portland Winter Light Festival on February 6-8, 2020!

The Portland Winter Light Festival (PDXWLF) is Portland's premier outdoor winter art event that transforms, illuminates and animates Portland's nighttime urban landscape. The 2018 festival attracted over 142,000 attendees and generated more than $1.85 million in goods and services spending in the city of Portland. The Festival presented over 100 installations, 70 performers, and 12 educational speakers and workshops. PDXWLF is an activity of the local non-profit, Willamette Light Brigade.

“Cosmic Space Worm” by Tyler FuQua. Photo by Brianna Shade.