Climate Chaos | Climate Rising - 365 days, 2 nights, June 11, 2016 - June 10, 2017 Climate Chaos | Climate Rising - 365 days, 2 nights, June 11, 2016 - June 10, 2017 Climate Chaos | Climate Rising - 365 days, 2 nights, June 11, 2016 - June 10, 2017
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Thank you for attending Northern Spark 2017!

 415 artists and 45,000 attendees helped make Northern Spark 2017 a night of artful adventure in 7 neighborhoods along the Green Line in Minneapolis and Saint Paul.

Click here to fill out a festival survey to help us make next year even better!

Click here to view photo highlights from the night-of.

Northern Spark 2017 by the Numbers:

 

Attendees: more than 45,000

Artists: 415

Projects: 63

NorthernSpark.org page views: 201,161

Free rides using Metro Transit’s downloadable pass: 33,000

Media hits: 90+

#northernspark images on Instagram: 6,779

Time trending on Twitter: 11 hours

New Facebook page likes during the festival: 129

Secondhand water bottles given away: 700

People who said goodbye to their biome: 921

Prayer pockets hung: 1,000

Line still going strong at 5:30am: Night Library

Trees adopted: 300

String surveys strung: 570

Google Cardboards distributed: 800

 

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Read about the Northern Spark 2017 Artists and Partners!

Northern Spark Artists listed here. Northern Spark Partners listed here.

Thanks to our funders and sponsors 

who generously support our work to put interactive art in the public realm.

Northern Spark has always been for everyone.

We welcome people of all ethnicities, genders, abilities and beliefs.

We do not tolerate violence or harassment in any form. 

Have a peaceful and curiosity-filled night!