Although the annual LUMA light festival has been cancelled due to Covid-19 restrictions, the schools’ projects will continue with exhibits in Wānaka and Queenstown over Queen’s Birthday weekend.

The LUMA Schools Programme provides teachers and students the chance to work on projects throughout the year to create installations that can be exhibited at LUMA. 

“LUMA Schools is the most important community project and is an annual highlight for the LUMA crew,” Mount Aspiring College (MAC) technology teacher Rebecca Hembrow said.

“One of the schools’ projects is an amazing collaborative piece which includes work from nine different schools.”

Exhibits can involve hundreds of students in their creation.  

Students spend up to eight months working on their exhibits from conceptualisation, creating prototypes and presenting their finished light sculptures for inclusion in LUMA.

Students also have the opportunity to take part in the installation of the work.

“Mount Aspiring College has been working on an amazing exhibit that has involved hundreds of students,” Rebecca said.

“The pieces will be exhibited over the Queen's birthday as usual and I'm looking forward to working with installers to show what fantastic work has been created by our learning community.”

Along with MAC the LUMA Schools project involves Wānaka Primary School and Take Kārara.

Rebecca said the schools project is fully funded with the support of the LUMA Trust and that exhibit locations are yet to be finalised.

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