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From December 30 to January 7, dreamlaser will present a New Year's mapping show on the Dmitrievskaya Tower of the Nizhny Novgorod Kremlin. The projection will be part of the festive decorations of the city's historic center and will be available to viewers throughout the entire New Year holidays.
This time, the central character of the story will be the Storyteller — a mysterious northern boy who flies around the world and appears wherever magic is happening. He collects stories and fairy tales, recording them on his scarf and cloak. On New Year's Eve, the Storyteller flies to children to share the tales he has gathered over the year, so that they may fall asleep and see magical dreams at the moment the New Year arrives. Through light and animation, viewers will be introduced to a fantastic world of light — various locations with magical creatures that embody light and interact with it.
In the opening scenes, the Storyteller greets the audience and invites them on a journey, showing a stylized nighttime Nizhny Novgorod. The plot then transports viewers to magical worlds of light: fantastic fish swim across a starry sky, unusual flowers and crystal butterfly-snowflakes appear, and cities of the seasons — Winter, Spring, Summer, and Autumn — alternate, colored by the light of the northern lights.
A separate part of the story is dedicated to a fairytale forest, where animal symbols of different years appear, as well as scenes with dancing stars that form constellations. The culmination will be the image of a fairytale deer carrying the sun, and the final episode where light conquers darkness, and the silhouettes of children with lit light in their hearts fill the space with warmth and hope.
The show will conclude with a New Year's greeting featuring a magical clock counting down the final seconds of the departing year in a reverse countdown.
On the outer side of the Dmitrievskaya Tower, a parallel program awaits the audience. It alternates warm festive imagery and icy textures of the northern lights: a toy New Year's town with a fir tree, an ice horse — the symbol of the upcoming year — festive ornaments, and a final scene with three-dimensional numbers "2026" and the inscription "Happy New Year!".
The projections will be shown daily: from 4:00 PM on December 31 to 2:00 AM on January 1, then every day from January 1 to 6 from 4:00 PM to 10:00 PM, and from 4:00 PM on January 7 to 2:00 AM on January 8.