The Baltimore Office of Promotion & the Arts (BOPA) coordinates Baltimore’s major events including the Baltimore Book Festival, Baltimore Farmers’ Market & Bazaar, Artscape, and civic celebrations such as New Year’s Eve, the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Parade, and the Fourth of July. In 2016, BOPA will launch the inaugural Light City Baltimore festival, designed to help brand the city as a hub of arts and innovation, building on burgeoning tech and music scenes. The weeklong festival will feature 50 attractions including 28 large-scale light art installations, performance venues, family-friendly activities, and a series of four, two-day innovation conferences focusing on a theme of “Powering Social Change.” Five city neighborhoods will each host an artist-in-residence to create public art projects featuring light. This grant provided funding for BOPA’s neighborhood engagement in the festival.