Friday 17 10 '14
JOIN US AT THE LIGHT FRONT
On 17 October, GoneWest will be organising a large participatory event with the name of Light Front. After this Light Front, Arno will perform at a concert to be held near the locks at Ganzenpoot in Nieuwpoort.
With the Light Front, we will be following the front line as it existed at the time of the ceasefire in the autumn of 1914 after the flooding of the plains end of October. At night, the troops from both sides could see each other’s lights along the front line, across the flooded plains. During the first weekend of GoneWest, we want to recreate this line by having 10,000 participants light up the stretch of land between Nieuwpoort beach and Ploegsteert, using flaming torches.
Amidst this front line of burning torches, artistic pyro static installations will be set up in the nine municipalities involved. Each of these creations will take their inspiration from the historical backdrop of nine historical places (Ganzenpoot in Nieuwpoort, the Yser Tower in Diksmuide, the Three Canals in Houthulst, Hill 60 in Ypres, the German Soldiers’ Cemetery in Langemark-Poelkapelle, Tyne Cot Cemetery in Zonnebeke, Pool of Peace in Heuvelland, the football pitch in Mesen and the Memorial to the Missing in Ploegsteert).
The list of the names of the 600,000 victims fallen on Belgian soil will also be projected on to the Albert I monument in Nieuwpoort, the Yser Tower in Diksmuide and the Belfry in Ypres. The whole project is intende as a deeply reflective moment, with all attention being focused on the victims of this conflict.
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