In partnership with DTLA Alliance, Liquid PXL, and The Goddess Mercado.
Join us for Downtown LA's biggest switch-flipping ceremony, Grand Illuminations! Enjoy a holiday marketplace curated by The Goddess Mercado, featuring a lighting ceremony, followed by live music until 7 pm. Celebrate the season as Liquid PXL lights up Downtown LA with a mesmerizing display of color, motion, and magic featuring the dazzling Electric Dandelions and a towering LED light tree.
Please help us spread the holiday spirit by supporting the Para Los Niños Toy and Essentials Drive. Donate essential hygiene items, gift cards, or new unwrapped toys to support local children, families, and youth in need. Click the link for Para Los Niños wishlist.
Weds. December 3, 2025
Goddess Mercado Marketplace: 12:00pm-7:00pm
Lighting Ceremony: 5:00pm
Live Band: 4:00pm-7:00pm
Liquid PXL transforms Cal Plaza with a Spectacular Light Show for the second year in a row
Downtown LA welcomes a dazzling new attraction with Grand Illuminations at The Yard at Cal Plaza. Starting December 3, 2025 through January 4, 2026. Experience an immersive world of light and color as LA-based artist Liquid PXL paints the night with holiday lights. Marvel at showstoppers like the towering 25-foot LED tree, 10 radiant Electric Dandelions, mesmerizing Lumiverse light columns, alongside festive holiday décor adorning the plaza.
What to Expect:
✨Experience a new, immersive holiday light display at The Yard at Cal Plaza, featuring Liquid PXL’s Electric Dandelions, Lumiverse, and a 25-foot custom-designed tree
🧸 Bring a new, unwrapped toy or hygiene product to support the Para Los Niños Toy and Essentials Drive
🎄 Lighting ceremony at 5 PM
🎶 Live musical performances from 4 PM – 7 PM
☕ Enjoy a holiday marketplace curated by The Goddess Mercado from 12 pm-7 pm
What to Expect Nightly:
🕙 Nightly light shows from dusk 'til 10 pm, through January 4, 2026
🌟 10 radiant Electric Dandelions
✨ Lumiverse light columns
🎄 25' LED light tree
🎁 Festive decorations
🚋 Just steps away from Angels Flight, Cal Marketplace, and Grand Central Market
About Liquid PXL
Liquid PXL is an LA-based group of artists, engineers and friends dedicated to creating fun and large-scale interactive art installations. Liquid PXL began with its first big art project at Burning Man in 2012, followed by its first music festival exhibit at Lucidity in 2013. Several of their LED light installations have been exhibited at international light festivals rhythm and color.
About Plaza Commons, Inc. (PCI)
Plaza Commons, Inc. (PCI) is a mutual benefit corporation comprised of the owners of the corporate buildings at California Plaza that include CIM Group, Rising Realty Partners, and OMNI Hotel – Los Angeles. Through PCI’s funding of the Performing Arts Program, the owners of California Plaza have supported the development of Grand Performances’ summer series that now draws significant local, regional, and national attention to the plaza and downtown Los Angeles.
About DTLA Alliance
The DTLA Alliance is a private non-profit coalition of more than 2,000 property owners, employing a team of nearly 100 and working with a range of city, county, and state officials and agencies to enhance the quality of life in the 65-square blocks of the Downtown Center, a bustling commercial and residential hub including Bunker Hill, the Financial District, Jewelry District, and Pershing Square.
For over 25 years, the DTLA Alliance has taken pride in keeping the Downtown Center safe, clean, and welcoming, providing services such as sidewalk wash downs, trash pickups, and graffiti removal;
deploying safety patrols on foot, bicycle, and vehicle; providing community assistance with Downtown ambassadors; and responding to individuals and properties in need of assistance through a 24/7 service hotline.
The organization is the leading source of information about Downtown LA and the Downtown market. Through DowntownLA.com, This Week in DTLA e-newsletter, and @downtown_la on social media, it reaches millions of people a year with stories about DTLA and insights on the latest to see and do. The DTLA Alliance produces highly regarded market reports and guides to the office, retail, residential, hospitality, and arts & culture sectors, along with research, tours, and other services to attract and support investment, development, and new businesses to DTLA.
About Para Los Niños
Para Los Niños continues to serve L.A.’s neediest children and families, placing education at the core of our work. In keeping with our original mission to help children thrive, our model – of early-education, TK-8th grade education, youth workforce services, and family and community services – provides a comprehensive, holistic approach to break the cycle of poverty and help children, youth, and families reach their full potential.
