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WaterFire Kansas City 2008
Preview: The event begins with a series of boats that travel along Brush Creek through the darkness. They make their way with torches aflame in an enchanting display to ignite the braziers and bring all 55 pieces to life. Throughout the evening, boats return to the braziers, constantly feeding them with new wood and keeping the sculpture in its original form for the duration of the evening.
WaterFire Kansas City 2008
Designed by award-winning artist Barnaby Evans,WaterFire Kansas City is a unique, multi-sensory experience of music, fire and water. The moving art installation features more than 55 floating bonfires on Brush Creek. This year's event will be held Saturday, October 25.
WaterFire was originally created by Barnaby Evans in 1994 on the three rivers of downtown Providence, Rhode Island. The living fire sculpture has become a signature event for the city, attracting more than 10 million visitors and drawing praise as a moving symbol of Providence's renaissance.
The event begins with a series of boats that travel along Brush Creek through the darkness. They make their way with torches aflame in an enchanting display to ignite the braziers and bring all 55 pieces to life. Throughout the evening, boats return to the braziers, constantly feeding them with new wood and keeping the sculpture in its original form for the duration of the evening.
This powerful visual is reinforced by the fragrant scent of aromatic wood smoke, the flickering firelight on the anchored bridges, the silhouettes of the fire-tenders passing by the flames, the torch-lit vessels traveling down the creek, accompanied by beautiful recorded music and some great local entertainment with Quixotic dance company, opera favorites with mezzo-soprano Elaine Fox, soprano Sylvia Stoner, tenor Nathan Granner and guitarist Beau Bledsoe courtesy of Night of Song, some sexy tango music and other local performers. Food will be available for purchase from Plaza restaurants.
Music begins at 6:25 p.m. and runs to around midnight.
Fires light at 6:35 p.m.
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