Charge your phone. #ChargeYourself. This year, we finished our summer with a bang as an official Grüne Kiez partner at Berlin’s Lollapalooza Festival – 10th & 11th September 2016 in Treptower Park. (Although, to be perfectly honest, we were the ones providing the space to lounge around and chill out, not the ones making all the noise!) Thanks so much […]
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Keeping schools ‘on air’ in Rwanda
‘The Solar charger has assisted in keeping us on air with the rest of the staff at school anytime, anywhere without worrying about a power blackout.’ – Teacher from Bisate Primary School. Great news! The Solar Kids School Program is bringing light and energy to school kids and their teachers in rural Rwanda – keeping them […]
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Natural Light with Velux
Little Sun and Velux bring Natural Light lamps to off-grid Africa We’re happy to announce that our collaboration with Velux to develop and bring Natural Light lamps to communities that are very much in need in off-grid Africa has been a wonderful success. Velux has beautifully documented several stories from farmers, midwives, school teachers and young women […]
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“Sun + Energy + Art”: our Little Learners Exhibition
Sun, energy and art – what more do you need in life?! Coming up in February, in cooperation with the Kinder Künste Zentrum, Little Sun will run a very special exhibition called Sonne + Energie + Kunst (Sun + Energy + Art), showing work created by the students of the Kinder Künste Zentrum in response to […]
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“Light is Life Chain” at L’école Massillon, Paris
What happens when you give a bunch of school kids a little yellow solar lamp? They can feel that this little thing in their hands has a lot of power… …that even though they are little too, they can have a big impact on the future of our planet. In December 2015, during the COP21 […]
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Little Suns for Hope: Chernobyl Children’s Camp, Switzerland
Little Sun recently received these heartwarming words from Theo Schäfer, director of the Ukrainian children’s camp in Ste-Croix, Switzerland, who gave Little Sun lamps to the children of the camp as a surprise gift of light and hope. Now let me report on the Little Suns. The children got them as a surprise on the […]
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“Little Sun Blackouts” at Louisiana Museum
Every Saturday in December of 2014, Denmark’s Louisiana Museum of Modern Art invited children and their parents to experience a Little Sun Blackout – where they got to explore Olafur Eliasson’s ‘Riverbed’ exhibition in complete darkness, with only the light of their Little Sun solar lamps to guide them! Says Louise Hauerberg, Head of Boernehuset […]
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Olafur Eliasson’s McDermott Award Residency at MIT
In March 2014 artist and Little Sun founder Olafur Eliasson kicked off his exciting 2014 Eugene McDermott Award residency at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). For the next three days, Eliasson collaborated with MIT students on the Little Sun lamp and project — as well as conducted a series of labs and public lectures. Also […]
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Pop-up shop in Reykjavik
For one month, a Little Sun Pop-Up Shop came to Iceland’s capital city of Reykjavik! The concept of bringing a Little Sun Pop-Up Shop to Iceland originated with i8 Gallery Director Börkur Arnarson, who represents Little Sun Founder and Artist Olafur Eliasson in Iceland. The temporary Little Sun Pop-Up Shop (open 1 August–1 September 2014) […]
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