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Let's Glow SF

BRACE YOURSELF FOR BRILLIANCE

Let's Glow SF, the nation's largest holiday projection arts festival, is making a triumphant return to San Francisco from December 4-13, 2026, for its sixth year.

Over ten winter nights, breathtaking animated projections will illuminate a collection of Downtown's architectural icons, transforming them into colossal, colorful canvases featuring works by 19 international artists and studios. It's a free, family-friendly celebration of creativity, community, and the holiday spirit.

Hosted by the Downtown SF Partnership, Let's Glow SF has quickly become a cherished Bay Area tradition, drawing hundreds of thousands of visitors from across the world. 

Locations

Ferry Building
1 Ferry Building
Featured Artists
Re4ee (Countdown Timer)
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Ferry Building Logo
101 California St
101 California St
Featured Artists
Re4ee (Countdown Timer)
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Enjoy this show inside 101 California Plaza
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Hines

Pacific Exchange
301 Pine St
Featured Artists
Re4ee (Countdown Timer)
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Enjoy this show from 300 Pine Street
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City Club
Hobart Building
582 Market St
Featured Artists
Re4ee (Countdown Timer)
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Enjoy this show from 1 Post Street
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Empire Distribution
Yerba Buena Lane at Market St
Featured Artists
Re4ee (Countdown Timer)
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Enjoy this show from Yerba Buena Lane off of Market Street
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Yerba Buena
Top of Salesforce Tower
415 Mission St
Featured Artists
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Enjoy this show from anywhere in Downtown

Find Your Way at Let's Glow SF

Event Map

Featured Artists

Re4ee
Lisbon, Portugal
Snow Spirits
Downtown's landmarks come alive as winter's creatures emerge amid flowing light and crystalline forms, counting down to the promise of a new beginning.
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Doddz
Birmingham, UK
The Winterport
A story of love and reunion, brought to life through animations created from the movements of real aerial acrobats.
Ferry Building
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GLITCH
Namur, Belgium
PHAOS
As light meets frost and ice, winter's quiet beauty unfolds in a spectrum of colors, carrying the promise of warmth and renewal.
Ferry Building
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Edmosh x Bruno Bez
Brazil & Germany
Many Faces, One Winter
Five faces emerge from winters elsewhere, bringing diverse cultures and identities together in a shared expression of warmth and wonder.
Ferry Building
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Fearmos
Surabaya, Indonesia
The Perfect Winter
Indonesian artists invite their community to imagine the perfect winter, revealing a season defined not by snow or cold, but by the simple warmth of being together.
101 California St
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Immerse Studio
Los Angeles, CA
The Conductors Children: Order & Chaos
When a conductor's orderly winter wonderland meets two children's playful chaos, they discover the magic of creating something together.
101 California St
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Jake Oleson
New York City, USA
The Way Home
Lost in a winter storm, a boy follows a light through cherished memories of his father, discovering that love can always guide him home.
101 California St
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Ouchhh
Istanbul, Turkey
Winter Dreams: A Poetic Data Painting
Winter awakens within the architecture as vibrant worlds of color, light, and motion converge into a dreamlike landscape that inspires wonder.
Pacific Exchange
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Adobe
San Jose, CA, USA
Story by the Bay
San Francisco's rich heritage unfolds through colorful, origami-inspired visuals, celebrating its pioneering past and enduring creative spirit.
Pacific Exchange
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GMUNK x Peter Clark
San Francisco, California
Thermal.Phase
Using real experiments with heat, ice, and light, solid architecture becomes something fluid and ephemeral, suspended between states.
Pacific Exchange
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Visual Endeavors
Santa Cruz, CA
The Longest Night
On the darkest night of the year, a single flame travels across cultures and traditions, celebrating the light that brings us together.
Hobart Building
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David Ariew
Castle Rock, Colorado
Axis Mundi
An angelic figure awakens a crystalline world of mirrored halls and luminous snowflakes, spreading light as she takes flight.
Hobart Building
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Spectre Lab
Paris, France
Winter Embers
Across the world, winter unfolds through dance, ringing bells, and rising lanterns, each tradition carrying its own warmth and wonder.
Hobart Building
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Andy Gilmore x META
New York, USA
Fractal Flakes
Nature's microscopic masterpieces take on monumental scale as geometric patterns freeze, multiply, and bloom into luminous formations of frost.
Yerba Buena Lane at Market St
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Leslie Epsztein
Paris, France
Nord
A direction, a guide, an invisible force. Journey from the stars to the center of the Earth to discover the many dimensions of North.
Yerba Buena Lane at Market St
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Michaela Mitchum
San Francisco, CA
The Lights
The magic of the Northern Lights comes to San Francisco, transforming Salesforce Tower into a canvas for nature's most breathtaking light show.
Top of Salesforce Tower
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