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Illumine: Experience Oakland After Dark
Apr 17
Illumine: Experience Oakland After Dark

As the sun sets, Oakland Cemetery is transformed. Through innovative lighting and art installations by local artists, interactive experiences, and live music, Illumine 2025 will light up the shadows of the night.

Illumine: Experience Oakland After Dark
Apr 18
Illumine: Experience Oakland After Dark

Experience Oakland Cemetery after dark at illumine, a unique arts event featuring colorful lighting, exhibits by Atlanta’s top artists, live music, and more.

Illumine: Experience Oakland After Dark
Apr 19
Illumine: Experience Oakland After Dark

Experience Oakland Cemetery after dark at illumine, a unique arts event featuring colorful lighting, exhibits by Atlanta’s top artists, live music, and more.

Illumine: Experience Oakland After Dark
Apr 20
Illumine: Experience Oakland After Dark

Experience Oakland Cemetery after dark at illumine, a unique arts event featuring colorful lighting, exhibits by Atlanta’s top artists, live music, and more.

Illumine: Experience Oakland After Dark
Apr 24
Illumine: Experience Oakland After Dark

Experience Oakland Cemetery after dark at illumine, a unique arts event featuring colorful lighting, exhibits by Atlanta’s top artists, live music, and more.

Illumine: Experience Oakland After Dark
Apr 25
Illumine: Experience Oakland After Dark

Experience Oakland Cemetery after dark at illumine, a unique arts event featuring colorful lighting, exhibits by Atlanta’s top artists, live music, and more.

Illumine: Experience Oakland After Dark
Apr 26
Illumine: Experience Oakland After Dark
Illumine: Experience Oakland After Dark
Apr 27
Illumine: Experience Oakland After Dark

Experience Oakland Cemetery after dark at illumine, a unique arts event featuring colorful lighting, exhibits by Atlanta’s top artists, live music, and more.

About Oakland

Historic Oakland Cemetery is Atlanta’s oldest public park and the final resting place of many of the city’s most noted citizens. Less than a mile from downtown, its 48 acres are full of treasures – history and gardens, sculpture and architecture, ancient oaks and magnolias.

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Digging Deeper Blog
Oakland Cemetery’s Upcoming “illumine” Arts Event Featured on WABE’s “City Lights”
Oakland Cemetery’s Upcoming “illumine” Arts Event Featured on WABE’s “City Lights”

Historic Oakland Foundation’s Director of Adult Programs Sandy White and Cat Eye Creative Founder Adam Crawford recently joined Summer Evans on WABE’s City Lights to share the vision behind this year’s event and offer a glimpse into what attendees can expect.

Get Ready for illumine 2025 with the Official “What Remains” Playlist
Get Ready for illumine 2025 with the Official “What Remains” Playlist

illumine is almost here! Get in the spirit with the official illumine 2025 playlist inspied by this year’s theme: what remains.

Historic Oakland Foundation Officially Opens New Visitor Center
Historic Oakland Foundation Officially Opens New Visitor Center

On April 3, 2025, Historic Oakland Foundation officially opened the new Visitor Center, located at 374 Martin Luther King Jr. Dr SE.

Spring Plant Sale Brings Rare Finds to Oakland this April – Trees, Perennials, Edibles & More!
Spring Plant Sale Brings Rare Finds to Oakland this April – Trees, Perennials, Edibles & More!

Learn more about the Spring Plant Sale from Oakland’s Gardens Team!

Remembrance and Renewal: Cemeteries and Art, Old and New
Remembrance and Renewal: Cemeteries and Art, Old and New

Burial grounds have long served as cultural and artistic gathering spaces. Oakland’s upcoming event illumine will modernize this tradition by illuminating the cemetery with art installations.

Meet the Artists of illumine 2025
Meet the Artists of illumine 2025

Announcing the artists of illumine 2025, in partnership with Cat Eye Creative: Vanna Black, Kevin Chambers, FRKO, Bojana Ginn, Angie Jerez, Navin June Norling, and VAYNE.

In the Final Stages of Completion, Oakland Visitor Center Prepares for Grand Opening
In the Final Stages of Completion, Oakland Visitor Center Prepares for Grand Opening

Historic Oakland Foundation is thrilled to share that the new Visitor Center across from the cemetery’s western gate is near completion and has “soft opened” to the public.