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Let's Glow SF

Brace yourself for brilliance! Let's Glow SF, the nation's largest FREE holiday projection arts festival, is making a triumphant return to downtown San Francisco for its fifth and grandest year yet.

This all-ages., family-friendly event runs for 10 nights from December 5–14, 2025. Breathtaking animated projections will illuminate eight landmark buildings across the city's core nightly from 5:30pm to 10:00pm, transforming them into colossal, colorful canvases featuring work by 19 artists from around the globe.

It's the ultimate convergence of technology and art, and it’s an unforgettable celebration of creativity, community, and the holiday spirit, cementing its status as San Francisco’s signature holiday event!



Locations

Ferry Building
1 Ferry Building
Featured Artists
For Best Viewing
Best viewed from Harry Bridges Plaza
Building Sponsor
The Ferry Building

East Cut Electric
424 Folsom Street
Featured Artists
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Best viewed from 420 Folsom Street
Building Sponsor
101 California St
101 California St
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Best viewed from 101 California Plaza
Building Sponsor
Hines

Mechanics Monument Plaza
488 Market Street
Featured Artists
Building Sponsor
Yerba Buena Lane at Market St
Featured Artists
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Best viewed from Yerba Buena Lane off of Market Street
Building Sponsor
Hobart Building
828 Market St
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Best viewed from 1 Post Street
Building Sponsor

Pacific Coast Stock Exchange
301 Pine St
Featured Artists
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Best viewed from 300 Pine Street
Building Sponsor

Transamerica Pyramid Center
600 Montgomery St
Featured Artists
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Best viewed from within the Transamerica Redwood Park
Building Sponsor
Salesforce Tower
415 Mission St
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Enjoy this beautiful show from anywhere in downtown San Francisco

Find Your Way at Let's Glow

Event Map

ACE Parking is offering an event flat rate fee of $20 during the 5:30 PM – 10:00 PM event hours at the following locations: 225 Bush Street, 475 Sansome Street, 550 California Street, Post Montgomery Center Garage, 333 Market Street, 100 Pine Street, 275 Battery Street, and 255 California Street.

Please note:
Visitors must arrive before the garage closes. If visitors plan to return after hours, they can let the valet know and will be instructed to self-park and keep their keys.

Featured Artists

Ben Stokes
San Francisco, CA, USA
Frozen in Motion
A vibrant, kinetic journey through San Francisco at night. Using drone photography and light-painting, the piece features an impressionistic ballerina activating iconic sights in perpetual, colorful motion on the building facade.
Yerba Buena Lane at Market St
Bruno Ribeiro
Paris, France
The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco
Inspired by Mark Twain's famous quip, this nostalgic show unfolds as a surreal postcard journey through San Francisco, where archival imagery of the city's most iconic locations is reimagined as a dreamlike winter wonderland suspended in time.
East Cut Electric
Dirty Monitor
Charleroi, Belgium
Awakening
This show transforms the brooding Ferry Building from solitude to vivid life. Symbolic animals (Deer, Cat, Fish, Bird) introduce bursts of color and energy, delivering an urgent, artistic pulse of hope and a final message: "WAKE UP."
Ferry Building
Filip Roca
Barcelona, Spain
Crystal Resonance
Inspired by snowflakes and natural symmetry, Crystal Resonance is an ephemeral architecture of light and sound using generative algorithms to create evolving crystalline patterns on the building, offering a moment of quiet, immersive contemplation.
101 California St
Glitch
Belgium
Aeva
The silent deity of winter arrives, breathing frost and ice that redraw the building and make cold a living presence.
Pacific Coast Stock Exchange
Jacob Stephens
San Rafael, CA, USA
Gingerbread takes over! These projections offer a whimsical and imaginative experience, transforming all of the "Lets Glow" buildings into full-sized gingerbread houses. The handcrafted aesthetic and impressive scale are designed to evoke a sense of warmt
Jeff Dobrow
Charlottesville, VA, USA
{ glacial }
A crystalline dream of light and transformation. { glacial } captures frozen moments through kaleidoscopic reflections, evolving with memory and movement into shimmering winter visions that explore change, perception, and renewal.
Ferry Building
Julia Shamsheieva
Odesa, Ukraine
Time for Wonder
Inspired by a magical music box, this piece explores the quiet hope for wonder. Watch time unravel as a delicate figurine waltzes, and a rabbit leaps into a wondrous story when the clock strikes midnight, filling the facade with golden light.
Hobart Building
Les Ateliers BK
Lyon, France
Bay of Light
This vertical projection explores the rich heritage and transformation of the East Cut coastline, using a dynamic, seamless visual narrative to blend local history with modern architectural innovation.
East Cut Electric
Leslie Epsztein
Paris, France
Winter Solstice
Using celestial maps, the sun, and moon, this piece explores the year's longest night through a cosmic aesthetic and contrasting winter emotions. Snowflakes act as a metaphor for stars, linking vast astronomical events to intimate seasonal feelings.
101 California St
Maxin10sity
Budapest, Hungary
Chromatic Winter Bloom
An abstract, painterly journey showing winter’s vibrant bloom. This dynamic piece uses fluid motion and color to reflect the cyclical transition of seasons, where darkness gives way to light, growth, and the quiet hope of renewal.
Hobart Building
Spectre Lab
Paris, France
Givrés! – Frosty Minds & Icy Worlds
"Givrés! – Frosty Minds & Icy Worlds" is a humorous and playful reimagining of winter. The show uses volumetric illusions to make pixel art images appear to burst off the facade, turning frost into a material for inventive, dreamlike scenes and uncontroll
Hobart Building
The Fox, The Folks
Bandung, Indonesia
Of Lantern and Light
A poetic winter tale of connection, light, and warmth. A lone fox in a dark tower discovers a thread of starlight that sparks a journey of illumination, cultural celebration, and renewal amid glowing lanterns, snowfall, and frost-kissed dreams.
Ferry Building

Additional Activations

Electric Dandelions

Location
Mechanics Monument Plaza 

488 Market St, San Francisco, CA 94111

Featured Art
Discover six whimsical, 28-foot tall dandelion sculptures lighting up the night at Mechanics Monument Plaza. Created by the artists at Liquid PXL, these giant geometric forms come to life with mesmerizing LED animations, creating a perpetual, vibrant fireworks spectacle that transports you to a field of dreams.

About the Artist

Iceberg Interludes

Location
To be announced

Featured Artists
This winter, radiant icebergs will help light the way between Let's Glow SF show locations. Built by LeMonde Studio, each of the six glowing icebergs comes to life the moment you step up and interact. A quick 20-second burst of human power causes the berg to play a different whimsical winter tune, illuminating the berg for up to 12 minutes!

About the Artist

Transamerica Pyramid Center

Location
600 Montgomery St, San Francisco, CA 94111

Featured Art
Details Coming Soon

Let's Glow SF is proudly produced by the Downtown SF Partnership in collaboration with A3 Visual.

The Downtown SF Partnership stewards 43 blocks in San Francisco’s Financial District and Jackson Square, creating a welcoming, dynamic downtown that fuels the city’s economic vitality.

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