The West End will shine brighter this holiday season, with the launch of the first annual Lumière festival of lights.
Modelled after Lyon, France's Fête des Lumières, the West End version will feature dazzling light displays stretching along Davie, Denman, and Robson streets.
St. Paul's Lights of Hope display will serve as the epicentre of the light displays, while brand new programmable LED displays will lead you down Davie Street, towards Denman.
There King George Secondary School will showing off their "Glowing Wall", while businesses on Robson will be getting into the act too.
"We're taking the dark spaces and making them a little more decorative," says West End Business Improvement Association executive director Stephen Regan. "We're trying to connect all the the dots."
The West End BIA will be offering free trolley rides with eight stops at displays throughout the neighbourhood. A lantern procession will also be taking place along the Comox greenway, and the West End Community Centre will also be hosting festive events.
Lumière takes place Dec. 11-13. For more information, visit WestEndBIA.com.
