Gallier Hall will not be splashed with a fantastical, custom-fit video projection this November, and a psychedelic, silent disco will not transpire in the Piazza d’Italia.

LUNA Fête , the glowing, glittering light art festival that has taken place each year since 2014, has been cancelled in 2025.

According to Arts New Orleans President and CEO Joycelyn Reynolds, the 2024 event was a big success, drawing approximately 40,000 sectators, who strolled through an array of glowing high-tech displays along Lafayette Street.

The upcoming fest would have cost approximately $500,000 Reynolds said. And the money didn’t materialize.

For reasons not entirely clear, Reynolds said, corporate sponsorship was lower than expected. But the death blow was the loss of an $80,000 National Endowment for th

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