WaterFire Kansas City 2008
Designed by award-winning artist Barnaby Evans, WaterFire Kansas City
is a unique, multi-sensory experience of music, fire and water. The
moving art installation features more than 55 floating bonfires on
Brush Creek.
The event begins with a series of boats that travel along Brush Creek
through the darkness. They make their way with torches aflame in an
enchanting display to ignite the braziers and bring all 55 pieces to
life. Throughout the evening, boats return to the braziers, constantly
feeding them with new wood and keeping the sculpture in its original
form for the duration of the evening.
This powerful visual is reinforced by the fragrant scent of aromatic
wood smoke, the flickering firelight on the anchored bridges, the
silhouettes of the fire-tenders passing by the flames, the torch-lit
vessels traveling down the creek, and the enchanting music . Food will
be available for purchase from Plaza restaurants.
WaterFire was originally created by Barnaby Evans in 1994 on the three
rivers of downtown Providence, Rhode Island. The living fire sculpture
has become a signature event for the city, attracting more than 10
million visitors and drawing praise as a moving symbol of Providence’s
renaissance.