10/12/2024
Rave Creative’s Christmas Light Carol
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Over a year ago, the City Wall Wine Bar in Rochester approached us at Rave Creative, looking to deck out their shopfront with festive Christmas lights. While the initial project didn’t move forward due to a sponsorship setback, 2024 brought a second chance, and this time, they were ready to go all out with something bigger and better…
And what screams Christmas more than a dazzling 8m x 1.5m display packed with 16,000 LED pixels, lighting up the high street with Christmas-y animations.
Thanks to the donations of The City Wall and The Rochester Christmas Lights Legacy Fund, the hardware and equipment for this display were fully funded. PixNet stepped up, supplying the LEDs and hardware at cost price, while local heroes Hotchkiss Westwell crafted and delivered eight massive steel frames to form the backbone of the display.
And finally in came Rave Creative, donating 100+ hours of our time to design, fabricate and programme the huge 8 metre display. 16,000 LEDs, 16 power supplies, 4 microcomputers and many hours of programming later, Christmas had finally come to town in Rochester.
Why did we do it?
Because, like so many others self-funding this year’s Christmas lights in Rochester, we believe in giving back to the community we’re proud to call home. As a Rochester-based company, we’ve been fortunate to cross paths with incredible Rochester-based businesses, shops, and people, and sometimes, you just have to do something purely to make everyone smile.
These lights are the result of hundreds of hours of effort, generosity, and collaboration between Rochester’s businesses and the individuals donating to the Christmas Lights Legacy Fund.
Our aim is to see this glow stretch across the entire high street in the coming years, lighting up every corner of the high street.
So get yourself down to Rochester one evening and feel the Christmas vibes for yourself.
Merry Christmas from Rave Creative :-)