Events

Discover the magic of the award-winning Carlos Miele boutique located in the heart of the Meat Packing District.

Come tour Frederick P. Rose Hall, home of Jazz at Lincoln Center with the Designers Lighting Forum.

Join us for a unique evening of presentations by the designers responsible for this incredible facility.

The First Place Winner in the City Lights Design Competition will discuss their winning entry and design logic.

A compelling tale of love, betrayal, and greed, THE WOMAN IN WHITE is a stunning new musical.

Residential is the hot real estate market - nowhere more than in New York. To find out about the new lighting that serves this enthused audience, visit the DLFNY Residential Lighting Fair.

Come walk through the exciting spaces at “the world’s most famous toy store” – FAO Schwarz. See and hear the design team at Focus Lighting explain how they achieved the dramatic effects, as well as the challenges they faced in relighting this New York City icon.

The DLFNY is happy to invite you to a special, sparkling, and unscheduled event!

Prior to the show at 7:00 pm, we will congregate in the New Amsterdam Theater's Lower Lounge and talk with Steve Katz, who will give us some background on the LED effects. Daniel Walker, the shows Assistant Lighting Designer, will also be on hand to speak on the lighting of Mary Poppins

Please join us for a special tour of this lighting project in progress for one of the oldest churches and parishes in Manhattan. Dating back to the 1700's, the First Presbyterian Church of Fifth Avenue is refitting and restoring the chapel and main sanctuary with the latest in efficient and green lighting treatments and controls.

In 2006, Peggy Meehan and Bob Nadel of the Illuminating Engineering Society (IES) met with Burt Grant of the Designers Lighting Forum (DLF) with an idea for a joint IES/DLF ...

Come walk through the dramatically restored Carlton Hotel lobby and the adjoining "Country" restaurant, designed by the Rockwell Group with Focus Lighting.

Join Domingo Gonzalez Associates and the DLFNY for a tour of the West Midtown Ferry Terminal, another glowing feature of the city's reclaimed Hudson waterfront.

Celebrate the solstice with a picnic, fireworks and dynamic light display at Coney Island where Leni Schwendinger will recount the design process of her studio's dramatic illumination of the landmark Parachute Jump.

Do color changing LEDs make your bowling score higher or lower? Hear from the lighting designer, David LaVigna of zeroLUX, and bowl a game or two at the coolest lanes in town. It's our opening event for our 2007/2008 calendar and it's sure to be a blast.

Journey to Columbus Circle to see how the famous statue and surrounding fountains have been relighted. Lighting designers from L'Observatoire will describe how the state-of-the-art lighting transforms this once uninviting traffic circle into an inspiring and dramatic civic monument.

This award winning lighting design reveals the exquisite polychrome tile ceiling. Join lighting designers Sachs Morgan Studio for an intimate visit to historic Temple Emanu-El on Manhattan's Upper East Side.

. . . and beyond your wildest dreams. It's the annual DLFNY theater benefit "The Little Mermaid" with lighting by Natasha Katz and our unique post-performance dialogue.

See how an icon of casual fashion lights up its flagship store in the USA. Our special morning program begins with a breakfast presentation about Lacoste's design and continues with a first-hand tour of the store itself. Join us for this eye-opening program on exciting retail lighting!

Even if you don't sleep here, you can experience how fine art, rich materials and great lighting distinguish the sophisticated Ritz Carlton hotel and residential tower! In our small-group, designer-led tours, we will enjoy this splendid transformation and see some of the design details that make it happen.