Northern Lights Display - May 2021
April 26th, 2021
The stadium's Northern Lights Display is recognized around the world as a landmark of Vancouver’s skyline. BC Place is honoured to be able to help bring awareness to events, charities and non-profit causes that are important to communities in British Columbia.
Here are the stadium's lighting initiatives for May:
May 1st - Grey for Brain Tumour Awareness Month
May 2nd - Red for Asian Heritage Month
May 3rd - Green for Lyme Disease Awareness Month
May 4th - Yellow for CMHA Mental Health Week
May 5th - Purple for World Pulmonary Hypertension (PH) Day
May 6th - Blue and Green for Cystic Fibrosis Awareness Month
May 7th - Red in advance of Red Cross Day on May 8th
May 8th - Teal for World Ovarian Cancer Day
May 9th - Teal for Food Allergy Awareness Week
May 10th - Purple for World Lupus Day
May 11th - Blue and Purple in advance of Chronic Immunological and Neurological Diseases (CIND) Awareness Day on May 12th
May 12th - Blue for International Nurses Day and National Nurses Week
May 13th - Blue and Yellow in advance of MPS Awareness Day on May 15th
May 14th - Blue and Purple in advance of Huntington Disease Awareness Day on May 15th
May 15th - Green in advance of Celiac Awareness Day on May 16th
May 16th - Red in advance of World Hypertension Day on May 17th
May 17th - Blue and Green for World Neurofibromatosis (NF) Awareness Day
May 18th - Blue for Speech and Hearing Awareness Month and Vision Health Month
May 19th - Purple for World IBD Day
May 20th - Yellow for Melanoma and Skin Cancer Awareness Month
May 21st - Rainbow for World Day of Cultural Diversity for Dialogue and Development
May 22nd - Orange for World Preeclampsia Day
May 23rd - Blue in advance of BC Bereavement Day on May 30th
May 24th - Purple for World Schizophrenia and Psychosis Awareness Day
May 25th - Yellow for Bladder Cancer Awareness Month
May 26th - Blue and Green for National Tourism Week
May 27th - Red in advance of Menstrual Hygiene (MH) Day on May 28th
May 28th - Teal and Coral for Vancouver Startup Week
May 29th - Blue and Gold for Courage to Come Back Awards
May 30th - Red for World Multiple Sclerosis (MS) Day
May 31st - Orange to honour the 215 children whose remains were discovered in a mass grave at the site of the former Kamloops Indian Residential School.
In addition to these lighting initiatives, the stadium will continue to light up with a special animation at the top of each hour (between sunset and 11pm) every night to show support for health care professionals across the province who are working tirelessly to support our communities through the COVID-19 pandemic.
To learn more or to submit a lighting request, visit our Northern Lights Display page.