Victoria Park Lantern Festival | St. John's, Newfoundland

2011 Lantern Festival Photos

Lantern Festival — Thu, 17 May 2012 14:25:26 +0000

Lantern Festival 2011 photo galleries are finally posted! Check ‘em out!

Starry Nights Workshop with Artist Heidi Wagner

Lantern Festival — Thu, 29 Mar 2012 02:55:24 +0000

Parade Masks Workshop

Participants will learn how to make several shapes and sizes of carnivalesque masks with instruction and hands-on skill-building, led by textile and fashion artist Heidi Wagner. Visit heidiwagner.ca to see some of her masks from an exhibition at The Sprout last spring!

Dates: Wednesdays, June 6, June 13, June 20 and June 27

Times: 7 pm to 9:30 pm
Location: Victoria Park Poolhouse

Cost to participants: $80
Please fill out our registration form.

This project is supported by the Newfoundland and Labrador Arts Council.

Starry Nights Workshop with Artist Isabella St. John

Lantern Festival — Fri, 02 Mar 2012 16:28:54 +0000

“An Unexhausted Cup of Day”: Clay Lantern Workshop

Join ceramic artist Isabella St. John for three evenings of hand-building your own unexhausted cup of day. Workshop will include an introduction to lantern history, will provide inspirational examples of Isabella’s lanterns, and will lead participants through the steps to create their own lanterns, in time for the Victoria Park Lantern Festival, July 28, 2012.

Dates: Mondays, July 2, July 9 and July 16
Times: 7 pm to 10 pm / 10:30 pm
Location: Clay Studio, Devon House

Cost to participants: $80
Registration will be available starting in April through the Clay Studio.

Phone registration at the Clay Studio: 709-753-2534

This project is supported by the Newfoundland and Labrador Arts Council.

Love’s Lantern

(For Aline)

Because the road was steep and long
And through a dark and lonely land,
God set upon my lips a song
And put a lantern in my hand.

Through miles on weary miles of night
That stretch relentless in my way
My lantern burns serene and white,
An unexhausted cup of day.

O golden lights and lights like wine,
How dim your boasted splendors are.
Behold this little lamp of mine;
It is more starlike than a star!

Joyce Kilmer (1886-1918)

Starry Nights Workshop with Theatre Technician Mike Donovan

Lantern Festival — Fri, 02 Mar 2012 16:25:04 +0000

Unfortunately, this workshop was cancelled by the facilitator. Please consider registering instead for our next two workshops, Parade Masks with Heidi Wagner and Clay Lanterns with Isabella St. John. Thanks to all for their interest.

Workshop: Artistic Lighting Effects 101
Participants will learn how to take their lantern and home decor lighting to the next level with instruction and hands-on skill-building, led by theatre technician Mike Donovan.

Dates: Saturday, May 12 and Sunday, May 13 CANCELLED
Times: 10 am to 4 pm
Location: Victoria Park Poolhouse

Cost to Participants: $80

This project is supported by the Newfoundland and Labrador Arts Council.

Starry Nights Workshop with Artist Anita Singh

Lantern Festival — Fri, 02 Mar 2012 16:20:55 +0000

Workshop: Patterned Light
Participants will learn how design and carve a block of linoleum in preparation for constructing their own patterned lanterns using inks and Japanese papers. Led by graphic artist and papermaker Anita Singh.

Dates: Saturday, April 14 and Sunday, April 15
Time: 10 am to 4 pm
Location: Victoria Park Poolhouse

Cost to participants: $80
Please fill out our registration form.

This project is supported by the Newfoundland and Labrador Arts Council.

’tis the Season to Mummer

Lantern Festival — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 17:47:50 +0000

The 2011 Mummer’s Festival is coming soon – Saturday, December 17th. Leading up to the festival there are a full series of workshops on building great stuff for mummering like a hobby horse and an ugly stick. There are also interesting presentations on the history of mummering in Newfoundland.

The Mummer’s Festival has a new website that has the complete mummering schedule, lots of photos and footage from the past festivals and many stories about mummering. Go to mummersfestival.ca and get ready to mummer.

The workshops on December 3rd, 6th, 10th, 11th and 13th take place at the Pool House in Victoria Park.

The Best Festival in St. John’s

Lantern Festival — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 12:15:54 +0000

Congratulations Volunteers! The 2011 Victoria Park Lantern Festival has won the Best Festival (Non-Music) category as voted by readers in The Scope’s Best of St. John’s survey!

We couldn’t have done it without the awesome job of our 2011 Lantern Festival staff (Renee, Dzenna and Danon ), the juggler’s group,a big huge bunch of volunteers and of course all the community who came out to build and repair/recreate lanterns.

To celebrate, an awards celebration is being planned in honour of all the Best of St. John’s winners on:

When: Thursday, December 15 from 8pm to 9pm
Where: The Rock House on George Street

Live music will follow, performed by this year’s Atlantis Music Prize nominees. The whole event is free to attend and it’s open to the public, so you’re welcome to invite your colleagues and friends (+19). We hope you can make it!

See the print-friendly invitation. Please RSVP to let us know whether you’ll be attending!

QUICK FACTS on The Scope’s Best of St. John’s Survey

More than 1,000 complete surveys (a minimum of 15 categories) were filled out between August and October 2011.
In January, 2012, a special issue will be dedicated to highlighting the survey results and the winners.
Every month 23,000 – 28,000 print copies of The Scope are distributed to 240+ locations in St. John’s, Mount Pearl, Paradise, Torbay and Conception Bay South, including all 13 Northeast Avalon Sobeys and Dominion stores.

Lantern Festival is Happening Today!

devo — Sat, 30 Jul 2011 14:33:49 +0000

The 11th Annual Lantern Festival is going ahead today, July 30th, in Victoria Park from 2 to around 10:30. Bring your friends and family! Free all day event.

Adopt-a-Lantern Repair Workshops

Lantern Festival — Sat, 23 Jul 2011 13:26:20 +0000

The pool house in Victoria Park is open on the weekend and the evenings running up to next Saturday’s Lantern Festival (Jul 30th). We need volunteers to adopt lanterns and beautifully repair them for the lantern installation.

Pool House Hours

Jul 23th to Jul 29th

Saturday 12pm-6pm
Sunday 12pm – 6pm
Monday 6pm – 10pm
Tuesday 6pm – 10pm
Wednesday 6pm – 9pm
Thursday 6pm – 10pm
Friday 6pm – 10pm – Invitation only. We need experienced lantern makers and focused volunteers for the last night before festival.

It’s too late to build an elaborate personal lantern from scratch at the pool house, but we have many that you can adopt and repair. Repairing a lantern gives lantern enthusiasts excellent insight into what works and what doesn’t when putting a lantern together.

It is very easy to build a lantern from a tin can or a glass jar at home. We’ll have the glass jar workshop on the day of the festival, too.

Let there be light!

Lanterns at the Rocket (July 2011)

Lantern Festival — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 12:48:57 +0000

Just to get everyone in the mood, a small sampling of lanterns have been installed at the Rocket Bakery on Water Street.

Rocket man, Simon Lono, built the “Rocket” lantern in 2009 and the up and coming amazing first time lantern maker, Steph Dunn created “Charlie” the seahorse. A couple of stars and a the little angel fish sculpture have been added for colour.

We hope these lanterns inspire folks to come on down to the Victoria Park Pool House before the Lantern Festival on July 30th to help us finish up lanterns for this year’s lantern installation.

The lanterns at the Rocket are just for display an are not for sale or auction; however, there will be lanterns for sale at the festival merchandise tent if you haven’t had time to make your own, and of course there will be the day of Last Chance Glass Jar workshop.