’tis the Season to Mummer Event Date: Dec 17, 2011 @ 13:00
Participation
Our Art
The Lantern Festival is a creative participatory project. Hundreds of people construct bamboo and tissue paper lanterns each year. Boxes and pyramids are our basic learning lanterns. More advanced learning lanterns are the ever-popular stars, which build three-dimensional skills that benefit from the tensile strength of the bamboo and the papering prowess of the creator. Hooked on these foundational lanterns, volunteers and workshop participants begin to develop a creative eye for new structures, specialized adaptations and better effects each year. New lantern builders absorb the know-how of past lantern-builders, and design innovations become design traditions.
Your Surprises
A wonderful side-effect of the participatory nature of the festival is that community participants bring us artistic surprises every year. People are invited to come in costume and or character and they do – with or without a lantern to bear.
