About this Event
🚨 Opening December 6, 2024, and running through mid-January, 2025, this walkable journey combines cutting-edge digital art and interactive installations.
The Experience:
🌃 Embark on a 50-minute journey through six unique zones – featuring lasers, reactive video, LED sculpture, projection mapping, and more – each inspired by a different aspect of city life.
🎨 Interact with the art, transforming the visuals with a wave of your hand. Two special zones feature choreographed light and sound performances, creating a powerful synergy that brings the city’s heartbeat to life.
🥘🍸 End the experience by indulging in an elevated cocktail lounge featuring a seasonal El Comal tapas-style menu.
General Info:
🗓️ Dates: December 6, 2024 – January 19, 2025
⏰ Timeslots: Every 30 minutes between 5:30 PM – 10:30 PM (must arrive within 10 minutes of scheudled time to ensure timely entry)
🏙️ Location: Quartyard - 1301 Market St, San Diego, CA 92101
🎟️ Price: Adults - $20 | Students - $15 | Children under 5 - FREE (VIP ticket packages will also be available--coming soon)
👨👩👦👦 City Lights is an all-ages event
☔ Experience is rain-or-shine
🚙 Parking: There is nearby street parking around the venue (meters end between 6pm-8pm Mon-Sat with free metered parking on Sundays.)
🍻 Access to a full bar and a curated cocktail list for guests 21+
🚫 No refunds
As the days grow shorter, City Lights transforms San Diego’s winter solstice nights into a celebration of the city’s urban heart, offering a new way to experience the magic beyond the beach this holiday season🤩
🔊 Concert Experience Dates:
🎧 Wondergate x WCW Presents: Made by Pete on Dec. 14th
🍄 Mark Farina Mushroom Jazz on Dec. 21st
🕺 Return of the 80s on Dec. 28th
🎶 R&B Block Party: East Coast New Year's Eve on Dec. 31st
About City Lights💫 City Lights is the latest project led and designed by visual-digital artist Ben Guerrette, alongside a multidisciplinary team of artists, technologists, and designers known for pushing the boundaries of digital art and immersive experiences. Guerrette, known for his expertise in audio-visual installations and his passion for live music, brings a unique perspective to this experience, taking inspiration from the energy of city life and the edgy, untamed vibe of 90s rave culture. City Lights offers an experience that transforms Quartyard into a dynamic world of light, sound, and exploration this holiday season.
About Quartyard🪩 Quartyard is an event venue and urban park constructed from repurposed shipping containers in the East Village Neighborhood of Downtown San Diego. Quartyard is home to an eatery, full-service beer garden, event venue, art space, and coffee shop. Open five days a week, Quartyard plays host to a number of cultural events, outdoor concerts, private events, street markets and community activities. Quartyard’s utilization of sustainable and innovative design activates vacant urban land into a vibrant outdoor community space for a unique outdoor experience unlike any other.
✨ City Lights captures the rhythm, energy, & spirit of this incredible city--we're so excited to invite you to this creation of energetic visuals blended with dynamic soundscapes. For more information, click HERE.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Quartyard, 1301 Market Street, San Diego, United States
USD 17.03 to USD 22.30
