Child starring into an interactive light installation. Saturday (7-19-2008)) Glow festival was inspired by the Nuit Blanche (White Night) festival in Paris, but the combination of beach, sand, pier, and music made it pure Los Angeles, California, USA. 200,000 people attended over the dusk-to-dawn, 12-hour event from 7pm-7am, visitors saw illuminated sculpture and installations, a grunion run remade in glow sticks in the sand, and light shows.