February 13, 2025Events

Centennial Celebration: Ignite Broward 2-23

ArtsPark at Young Circle

Sunday, February 23, 2025
6:30 pm - 11:00 pm

1 N. Young Circle Hollywood

Centennial Celebration: Ignite Broward

Kickoff event starts at 6:30 p.m. at the ArtsPark at Young Circle. The event runs every evening from dusk to 11:00 p.m.

IGNITE Broward, South Florida’s premier festival featuring an array of immersive light and sound-based art experiences, returns for its fourth year February 14-23. The 2025 edition is the festival’s most ambitious yet, running for 10 days (significantly longer than previous years) with over 30 spectacular displays of art, light and technology across three Broward County locations: Esplanade Park and Riverwalk in Fort Lauderdale, Mad Arts in Dania Beach, and ArtsPark at Young Circle in downtown Hollywood. The festival will include immersive large-scale projection mapping, interactive light sculptures and installations, sound-based experiences, musical performances and other family-friendly programs by more than 24 local, national and international artists.

Among the festival’s notable participants are artists Daniel Popper and Javier Riera. Popper, a multidisciplinary artist known for his large-scale figures that frequently serve as stages, gateways or chapels at major art and music festivals, transforms spaces into surreal environments, inviting viewers to engage with hybrid entities that blend elements of nature and humanity.

Riera is a pioneer in his field who specializes in lighting interventions on the landscape in public spaces. His installations aim to broaden viewers’ perceptions of hidden dimensions, generating an experience of visibility in which there is both calm and amazement at the same time. Both Popper’s and Riera’s works will be on view in Hollywood.

IGNITE Broward 2025 is presented by the Broward Cultural Division and produced by Mad Arts, with additional support provided by the City of Hollywood, Visit Lauderdale, and City of Dania Beach. The festival is free and open to the public, continuing its mission of accessible art for all.

The City of Dania Beach is sponsoring a free shuttle running from the Dania Beach City Hall Garage to all festival locations. In one day, visitors can capture some of the event’s signature works of art, such as the projections at Mad Arts by New York-based artist Peter Burr with generative art that virtually drives the figures of people off a cliff as the algorithm produces a new piece each day, or the work by Max Cooper featuring Ksawery Komputery and MinJeong An, where viewers can interact with the piece in real time and share things they would like to express but can’t in everyday life. At Esplanade Park and Riverwalk, visitors can enter an immersive show of light and wander through the expansive work of The Moonlight Collective. At IGNITE Broward’s third location in Hollywood visitors can enter a hypnotic portal sculpture by This is Loop and encounter the works of sedemminut.

Events Calendar