Events

You don't want to miss this acclaimed interpretation of Swan Lake and a unique look at lighting dance, including the DLFNY's exclusive post-show discussion with the lighting design team. "It will change the way you see ballet forever.

Tour the newly renovated Juilliard School's public lobbies, performance spaces and classrooms. The design team's dynamic solution opens Pietro Belluschi's 1969 Alice Tully Hall and Juilliard School to daylight and views, reengaging the vibrant city life surrounding Lincoln Center.

See and hear how some of the city's most celebrated stores create and light their holiday displays and windows.

Experience a new multi-sensory, multi-level vision of food service: part fine dining, part street food and part science fiction.

A special Friday evening program to see the restoration of Pierpont Morgan's Library.

Contemporary high-end hotels are increasingly incorporating leading-edge new technologies and lighting treatments, many of which are now finding their way into trend-setting residential projects.

Our season kick-off is also our annual Theater Benefit event, and this year's event will be like no other we've attended: the world premiere of Cirque de Soleil's Zarkana. Staged at the iconic Radio City Music Hall, Zarkana is "an acrobatic rock opera that blends circus arts with the surreal to create a world where physical virtuosity rubs shoulders with the strange."

Join us for our exclusive designer-led sunset tour of the High Line, exploring the newly opened Section 2 and revisiting the highly acclaimed Section 1. Jason Neches of L'Observatoire will guide us.

Combine upscale rental apartments with a hip condo and a hotel that merges SciFi futurism with the luxe of business class airline cabins. Put them on West 42nd Street. Then decide in mid-design to "go green."

It's a festival of lights and what better way to experience it than the DLFNY's annual holiday window display tour?

The most recognized skyline in the world has two new lighted additions. Cline Bettridge Bernstein will present and discuss the spires of One Bryant Park and Four Times Square: the designs, the challenges and implementation.

More exhibitors, more presenters and longer hours! The phenomenally successful LEDucation conference and trade show returns for its sixth year.

Amidst the contrasting new and old in the re-emerging Bowery, the Sperone Westwater Gallery at night presents a glowing shaft of light, punctuated by a hovering red form that elevates behind the glazed façade.

Join us for a guided tour of the renovated and expanded Museum of the Moving Image, awash with light that, like the art form it illuminates, is both subtle and dramatic. Enjoy the generous, fluid and engaging spaces by Leeser Architecture and ACH Architecture, and explore the wonderful exhibits, rich with memories.

For our 2012/2013 kick-off (or should we say blast-off?) event, the DLFNY is excited and proud to provide the design community with an opportunity to bring you to one of the few places in the world with an up-close view of a space shuttle.

Join us and the Focus Lighting design team on a tour of Frye Company's first store in 148 years.

Join us for a lively discussion on hospitality design with Ken Ventry and Levia Lew, principals and founders of Reveal Design Group.

New residential lighting technologies and how they impact our perception of color and texture in the residential environment of today will be the topic of this expert panel, consisting of an Interior Designer, Lighting Designer, Electrician, Colorist, Lighting Control Expert and Manufacturer.

With a larger exhibit space, 50+ new exhibitor tables, AIA CEU accredited programs and more.

A NYC Lighting Community Event, jointly Sponsored by Illuminating Engineering Society of North America, NYC Section (IESNYC), Designers Lighting Forum of New York (DLFNY), and IES Long Island (IESLI).