The annual Eisenhower Park festival combines large-scale light art, civic backing and a children’s museum partnership to deepen its family-focused appeal.
LuminoCity Festival has begun its 2025 Holiday Lights Festival at East Meadow’s Eisenhower Park, with LuminoCity drawing more than 5,000 guests during its opening weekend. The season runs from November 7, 2025, through January 1, 2026, and features two themed light parks built around winter fairy tales, LED displays and illuminated nightscapes. The event’s scale and established local partnerships position it as a recurring family attraction for Long Island.
The festival is held each year with Nassau County, whose County Executive Bruce Blakeman emceed the opening ceremony and encouraged residents to visit the park. LuminoCity founder and chief executive Xiaoyi Chen credited the county’s support and described the event as part of a tradition connecting light, imagination and community. That civic relationship gives the attraction a public-facing role beyond its evening entertainment offer.
This year’s theme, “Fantasy Winter Fairyland”, transforms 14 acres of Eisenhower Park into an immersive walk-through display. The programme includes millions of LED lights, photo opportunities and a 50-foot “Castle in the Sky” sculpture, which the company describes as among the tallest light sculptures in North America. The combination of a large site and substantial installations makes the festival as much a visual exhibition as a seasonal outing.
LuminoCity has also renewed its partnership with the Long Island Children’s Museum for a fourth year. Winning art renderings created by young artists from Long Island are being transformed into bespoke light displays in the festival’s Lumi’s Utopia area. The collaboration adds an educational and participatory layer to the experience, linking children’s creative work with a public installation viewed by festival visitors.
The 2025 programme shows how LuminoCity is building a holiday attraction through a combination of spectacle, municipal cooperation and local cultural participation. Its continuing presence at Eisenhower Park, alongside the museum collaboration and themed installations, gives the festival a consistent structure while allowing each season to carry a distinct creative identity. For the company, the model reinforces the value of large-scale light art as a repeatable family and community experience.
