VanDusen Botanical Garden presents Festival of Lights
December 11, 2009 - January 3, 2010
VanDusen Botanical Garden’s Festival of Lights is the best therapy we can think of to combat the winter blahs. It has proven effective in upping the fun quotient for extended families with multiple generations, dating couples as well as friends looking for something to do together. Running December 11th through January 3rd from 4:30 to 9 pm every night (except December 25th when the Garden is closed), Festival of Lights presents a dazzling wonderland illuminated by more than 1.4 million lights displayed over 10 acres of the Garden.
The centre piece of Festival of Lights is the enthralling Dancing Lights on Livingstone Lake. Every half hour on the half hour, the show features thousands of lights on Lake Walk and Lake Peninsula programmed to dance, change colour, flicker, twirl and twinkle in harmony with recorded music. This year the Dancing Lights offers two different seven-minute interpretations of seasonal music - one will be in a more traditional vein while the other will appeal to those who like to see the old standards revved up by the high voltage energy of the likes of the Trans Siberian Orchestra. The shows will alternate so that there is a different Dancing Lights every half hour. In addition to watching the show from Lake Walk, you might want to watch it from the higher vantage point of Candy Cane Lane on the ridge overlooking Lake Walk and Livingstone Lake.
Price: (includes service fees) Adult: $14 Senior: $10.00 Youth (13 -18): $10.00 Child ( 6- 12): $8.00 Family (2 adults and their children 6-18): $29.50
Children under 6: Free
Tickets Are also Available at the VanDusen Botanical Garden Shop
