Workshops & Lanterns

Get in touch with your creative side and make a lantern. You can build one for yourself to carry in the lantern procession or you can create one to install on the hillside for the annual lantern installation.

  • Public Lantern Making Workshops

    The public lantern making workshops begin in summer usually about 6-8 weeks before the Festival’s date (the Saturday of the last full weekend in July). This usually means early to mid June, but varies from year to year based on volunteer resources.
  • Special Workshops

    For the Serious Lantern Enthusiast Every year we seek out artists and lantern enthusiasts to create new large installation lanterns for the festival’s hillside and lanterns for special fund raising projects. Lanterns are fragile creatures and each year we also need novice and experienced volunteers to repair the creations from past. To complete this important [...]
  • Last Chance Glass Jar Workshop

    Luckily for the late blooming lantern seekers there exists the last minute glass jar!
  • Types of Lanterns

    Every type of lantern can be a masterpiece. You just need to think about the light before you glue.