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Luminaria 2010
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Bringing Ideas to Life


The CE Group blended the mayor’s concept of a celebration of the city’s arts and the ideas and participation of the artist community into a marketable festival attractive to potential sponsors and locals and tourists to attend.

Janet Holliday and her team at the CE Group executed a flawless evening of art & culture with Luminaria: Arts Night in San Antonio. A one night event that celebrated the best that San Antonio has to offer in the field of art. With past successes of the San Antonio Spurs Celebratoin & the NCAA Final Four, the CE Group continues their creative excellence with pristine production.
- Phil Hardberger (Mayor, City of San Antonio)

We created a street festival with a defined footprint easy for attendees to move from one end to another and anchor the footprint with music and performance stages. CE was also tasked with utilizing buildings downtown as a blank canvas and illuminate the palette of the logo on them. The guest experience was enhanced with interactive entertainment adjacent to visual art or within spaces not covered by the music stages. Concession selections were closely scrutinized, so guest choices were new and unusual for a festival and we worked closely with sponsors to activate in “artistic” ways to attract crowds. Pre-event estimates of attendance were 25,000. Actual attendance was over 100,000!