Please register above so we can order enough cider and hot chocolate! Drop by anytime and stay as long as you want.

Rain or shine! Projections and sound will be inside the Chapel in inclement weather.

Presented by the MIT Office of Religious, Spiritual, and Ethical Life (ORSEL), What is Your Light? transforms the MIT Chapel into a living canvas of light, sound, and reflection. Voices from across the MIT community merge into a one-hour audio track, accompanied by live musicians and interactive projections. Visitors are invited to strike a tam-tam, illuminating lanterns of light and sending ripples of sound across the Kresge Oval, or light their own lantern to float upon the Chapel’s waters. Together, we celebrate the values, stories, and visions that guide our community.

Inside the MIT Chapel, we invite you to reflect on the question: “What is your light?”:

• Record your thoughts for the realtalk@mit archives
• Write your reflections on a lantern
• Float your lantern in the moat, adding your response to others from the MIT community

Created by MF Dynamics in partership with ORSEL and realtalk@MIT.

Free and open to the public. Funded in part by the Council for the Arts at MIT. This project has been approved by the Office of the Vice Provost and the Open Space Working Group.

This event is part of ORSEL's Refresh Days, a series honoring new year's celebrations and festivals of light from the world's major religions-from Diwali (October 20) to Nowruz, Lunar New Year, and more.

Photo by Ellie Montmayor from Fall 2024 Refresh Days event, Light the Moat.