FESTIVAL OF LIGHTS: Annual Christmas Display at Ayala Triangle Garden in Makati

This park in Makati City is lit up during Christmas Season every year!

Christmas is officially here when the Festival of Lights opens their magnificent Music & Light show at Ayala Triangle Gardens.

On it's 9th year, the Festival of Lights 2017 has made it to the coveted list of Conde Nast Traveller’s Seven Most Spectacular Lights in the World, in the company of distinguished luminaries such as the Tivoli Gardens in Copenhagen, Denmark, the holiday lights display at the legendary Champs-Elysees in Paris and Japan’s Kobe Luminarie.

ABOUT FESTIVAL OF LIGHTS

Festival of Lights is a light show choreographed by award-winning director Voltaire de Jesus and Luther Gumia. More than 1.6 million LED lights were used for the light show, adding brilliance while staying environmentally sustainable.

One medly will be staged every 30 minutes nightly. Each one boasts of a different mood, pace, and rhythm. As the lights flash and change colours to the beat of music, the revelry and joy of Christmas will surely be felt by everyone.

Festival of Lights 2022

Festival of Lights 2022

The lights are going to shine brightly at Ayala once more as Makati City brings back the highly anticipated and much-loved Christmas show at the Ayala Triangle Gardens. The dancing lights and music extravaganza runs from November 10 to January 8 every 6PM-10PM.

Festival of Lights 2022

This year’s show is a LIVE 360-degree experience conceptualized by Director Ohm David and Lighting Designer Sueyen Austero.

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These are the past light shows at Ayala Triangle Gardens:

Gallery of Lights 2019

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This year's theme is "Gallery of Lights" where it showcase different colors of light dancing in different shapes that looks like a gallery. The light show will start at 6pm until 10pm every night starting November 12, 2019.

Festival of Lights 2018

On November 15, Makati will once again welcome the most wonderful season of the year with Ayala Triangle Gardens’ Festival of Lights, the signature lights and sound show that has beguiled thousands of Filipinos each yuletide season.

The Festival of Lights is just one of the numerous lights shows in Metro Manila and the whole country this year.

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For this year’s Festival of Lights, a number of weather proof led lights were used to light up the entity of Ayala Gardens in Makati City. The light show is choreographed by award-winning director, Voltaire de Jesus and will follow three musical distinct themes - Classic Filipino Christmas songs by Roy del Valle, Traditional Christmas songs by Von de Guzman and, Christmas songs with techno mix by Tris Sunguitan.

The Festival of Lights at the Ayala Triangle Gardens in Makati City will run daily starting November 9, 2017 to January 7, 2018 with a 30- minute interval every hour from 6:00 PM to 10:00PM and will allow its patrons to fully enjoy the Holiday season.

Have a glimpse of the Festival of Lights here:

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Festival of Lights 2017

Here's how it looks in 2017:

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HOW TO GET TO FESTIVAL OF LIGHTS

Festival of Lights is located at Ayala Triangle Gardens. Here are the directions you can follow for public commuting:

Via Public Transportation

FROM EDSA

Take bus anywhere along EDSA with "Ayala-LRT Leveriza" sign.
In Monumento, you can take ride bus at the corner of 5th Avenue also known as C-3.
You can also ride a bus bound to Ayala from Fairview and Novaliches.
You can get off exactly at Philippine Stock Exchange and walk your way up to the Ayala Triangle Garden.

FROM BACLARAN

From Baclaran, ride bus with "Ayala LRT Leveriza" sign.
During weekdays, get off at proper unloading area which is right before Paseo de Roxas.
Otherwise, you will walk way too far because the next unloading station for north bound lane of Ayala is on Rustan or Glorietta.
Once you got off the bus in the unloading area before Paseo de Roxas Street, walk your way to the underpass and head onto the opposite side of Ayala where the Ayala Tower One is erected.
At the back of the building is Ayala Triangle Garden.
During Saturdays and Sundays, you can get off at the opposite side of Ayala Tower One Bldg and cross the road to get to the Ayala Triangle Garden.

This route can also be taken by those coming from LRT-1 Taft Avenue, Harrison and Leveriza.

If you are going to Ayala Triangle Gardens with your private vehicle, you can just easily get directions from your Waze or Google Maps app. See the exact location on Google Maps: