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GLOW 2022 - Urban Skin
GLOW is the largest and longest running light festival in the Netherlands. This year GLOW can be visited in Eindhoven from November 12 to 19. After two "special" years, the 17th edition promises to be like before, with new high-profile and innovative works and the by visitors very popular joint route. Along this route are 33 light artworks by artists from home and abroad.
The works of light art are connected by a walking route. The route is about five kilometers long and will take you about three hours to walk it all the way.
GLOW is the largest and longest running light festival in the Netherlands. The first edition in 2006 already attracted about 45,000 visitors. Over the years, the festival grew to a record number of about 770,000 visitors in 2019. This puts GLOW in the top 5 best visited light art festivals in the world.
Theme GLOW 2022
The theme of GLOW 2022 is "Urban Skin. Urban stands for re-engaging the city and its inhabitants. Skin, because the city is seen, as it were, as a moving body clothed by the light art of GLOW.
What does GLOW consume?
GLOW has 33 works of light art this year. These use in 9 days (8 days + 1 dress rehearsal night) together 5000 kWh of electricity. In addition, the organization (think of temporary accommodations for crew, testing, etc.) consumes 2000 kWh of electricity.
Because we also respond to the call of the European Union to save at least 10% energy this year, GLOW switches off the lights one hour earlier from Monday to Thursday. Namely at 22:00 instead of 23:00. With this we save 500 kWh.
All together, the total energy consumption is thus 6500 kWh. That is comparable to the average consumption of about 100 Dutch households in the same 9 days. GLOW is a foundation, which means that we are responsible for the (extra) costs of this consumption.
How does GLOW get its power?
GLOW gets its power in several ways:
- Two works do not use the energy grid. These experimental works can be found in the Anne Frankplantsoen and they are powered by the water from the Dommel River and the movement of GLOW visitors themselves.
- Three of the works of GLOW and the permanent works use the so-called event boxes of the Municipality of Eindhoven. The Municipality of Eindhoven purchases so-called Guarantees of Origin for the supply of electricity. These Guarantees of Origin are 100% Dutch Wind Energy.
- The other works use ordinary grid power which is taken from private or business grid connections.
- GLOW does not use generators.