January 19th-20th: IYL2015 Opening Ceremony at UNESCO Headquarters, Paris

Sponsored by The Dodd Walls Centre for Photonic and Quantum Technologies

March 29th: MOTAT Science Street Fair

April 11th-18th: Celebration of Light Festival
Sponsored by Science Alive!

April 27th: Nature’s Light Show

May 2nd-10th: MOTAT Light Week

May 4th-8th: Primary Science Week

May 13th: Aurora Australis

June 20th: Space Night

July 1st:  LIGHT Beyond the Bulb, University of Canterbury

July 3rd-5th, 9th-10th: Chemistry of Light
Sponsored by The New Zealand Institute of Chemistry and The MacDiarmid Institute for Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology

July 4th: Matariki Celebration

July 5th: Public Lecture by Richard Easther

July 6th: Public Lecture by Hans Bachor

July 18th: Luminescence: the Spectrum of Science, awards for the Photography Competition
Brought to you by the University of Otago SPIE and OSA chapters

July 1st-August 15th:  LIGHT Beyond the Bulb, University of Canterbury

August 16-September 30: LIGHT Beyond the Bulb, Christchurch International Airport

September 19-27th: Te Koanga

August 16-September 30: LIGHT Beyond the Bulb, Christchurch International Airport

October 9th-11th: Starlight Festival and LIGHT Beyond the Bulb

November 30th: Asia Pacific Conference and workshop on Quantum Information Science