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| Bratislava gearing up for New Year’s Eve |
| Bratislava, 30.12.2017 |
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| This year the city has prepared a unique audiovisual show and traditional run over the Danube bridges
Bratislava will traditionally welcome the new year of 2018 with a run over the Danube bridges and midnight light show fusing fireworks with new media and music.
“We have created a brand new site-specific audiovisual performance taking place beyond the Danube River embankment for the last minutes of the year,” said Zuzana Pacáková, organiser of the popular White Night.
Like last year the Bratislava city council has joined forces with the Old Town to prepare a joint celebration of the New Year’s arrival. This year the New Year’s Eve festivities will be centralised at the Hviezdoslavovo and Štúrovo Squares.
The festivities will start around 22:00 with a warm up-party on Hviezdoslavovo Square where a DJ will play music. The open-air disco will last until 2:00 the next day.
A monumental construction 28 metres long and five metres high will be installed on Štúrovo Square, serving for the audiovisual show. The construction will be accompanied by a digital countdown timer.
“This year we are cooperating with the young Slovak musician Dalibor Kocian aka Stroon, who composed music exclusively for this occasion,” said Pacáková. She added that this will be electronic music combined with a vibraphone. “It will be a magical audiovisual show that will swallow up visitors in time as well as space.”
The performance will start around 23:30 with ambient lighting. The audiovisual show will start around 23:45 and be followed by a countdown of 2017’s final seconds. Afterwards the show will interconnect with the fireworks launched from a boat on the Danube, explained Pacáková.
“We were looking for something spectacular and this is why we are using the most modern technologies. The combination of music with light and firework artists is especially unique and has not been used in Slovakia so far,” said Pacáková. “This is the first time we are doing something like this so we ourselves are curious as to how it will look since it’s a demanding project.”
Security above all
The city council is promising that enforced patrols of municipal and state police along with security guards, firefighters and paramedics will take care of security, also with respect to recent terrorist attacks.
So due to security reasons people will be able to enter Hviezdoslavovo Square only via six checkpoints. The guards will check people to ensure they do not take prohibited items into the central zone. These include glass bottles, knives or other sharp or dangerous items, as well as pyrotechnics. In Bratislava the latter, except for small sparklers and other less dangerous pyrotechnics, are banned. There is no exception for New Year’s Eve celebrations.
The entry points into the central zone on Hviezdoslavovo Square will be at the intersection of Laurinská and Rybárska Streets (close to the Čumil sculpture) and on the intersection of Mostová and Medená Streets. Another one will be at Palackého Street from Kúpeľná Street. Guards will check visitors at Jesenského Street next to the Slovak National Theatre and on Gorkého Street next to Poštová Banka. An entrance to the central zone will be located close to the US Embassy and Strakova Street.
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