For 38 nights from February through April, the historical buildings along North Terrace’s cultural precinct will again get a facelift as part of the 2010 Adelaide Festival.

Northern Lights – one of the most popular Adelaide Festival attractions ever – will return in 2010 bigger and better than before.

Northern Lights will again stretch westward along the stunning North Terrace boulevard, illuminating the historic exteriors of the State Library, SA Museum, Art Gallery of SA, Elder Hall, Mitchell Building and Bonython Hall – and in 2010, will extend around into King William Street to light up the rear wall of Parliament House with designs from the APY Lands in Central Australia.

Adelaide Festival Artistic Director, Paul Grabowsky said: “The images of the Central Desert are a part of Aboriginal law and Parliament House is the building in which law is made in Adelaide, so right then and there we are making a very powerful connection between two levels of law in our nation”.

“It is wonderful for the people of Adelaide – and our visitors – to again be able to share in the spectacle of the largest light installation of its type ever displayed in Australia – and is one of the ways we will celebrate the Festival’s 50th anniversary year in 2010.”

Internationally acclaimed, Sydney‐based projection specialists The Electric Canvas will return to Adelaide to light up our city. Northern Lights was created using digital software and giant French‐made PIGI system projectors, each weighing more than 200kg.