The Honda Celebration of Light returns to English Bay for another three explosive nights this summer! Names of the performing countries are yet to be announced, but the dates for fireworks extravaganza are now available: Saturday July 26th, Wednesday July…
The United Kingdom was the first up in the three-night 2013 Honda Celebration of Light fireworks competition. Pyro 2000 was chosen to represent the island nation with a selection of songs from the James Bond film series, featuring the themes…
Get ready to brighten those summer evenings with the Honda Celebration of Light. Three countries will take the stage, er barge, this July and August with their music-infused pyrotechnical performances. Saturday, July 27th, 2013 – United Kingdom Wednesday, July 31st,…
In their first international pyrotechnical performance, Vietnam set the sky afire with a sparkling show for the opening night of the Honda Celebration of Light. The southeast Asian nation stunned the thousands who packed the shore around English Bay and…
With Vancouver’s Celebration of Light fireworks festival just around the corner, I thought I’d give some pointers on how to snap pics of fireworks. And for this, you don’t need a fancy DSLR to take shots – many point-and-shoot cameras…
Putting on a stunning pyrotechnical show is expensive, something that has haunted the Celebration of Light for much of it’s lifetime. In recent years, the event has gone from four nights to three and was on the verge of disappearing altogether without…
The first evening of the Celebration of Light started off on the right foot. Although the fireworks festival is down to three days from four, it still was a spectacular show with the first performer, China, setting the bar. Event…
The sky will light up over Vancouver once again as the Celebration of Light returns to English Bay this summer. Last year’s winner of the fireworks competition, Spain, will join China and Canada with their explosive style. China is first…
The annual Celebration of Light fireworks competition returns to English Bay for three nights in 2011. The event usually hosts four nights, but is down to three likely due to the high cost to plan and execute the dazzling displays.…
The beaches were packed as Mexico took the stage, err, barge, during the third evening of the Celebration of Light. The crowd cheered on a magnificent performance by Lux Pirotecnia that lit up English Bay. This time I sat with…
