Children’s Services are pleased to welcome back Reg Payn and his team from Articulate to present the Island Light Festival 2016 this February half-term.
A range of activities including lantern making, collage workshops, shadow projections and singing sessions will be taking place throughout the week at Carn Thomas Children’s Centre.
This year’s theme is migration: ’Following in their Footsteps’. The week will end on Saturday 20 February with an evening procession through Hugh Town to parade what promise to be some spectacular lanterns of all shapes and sizes.
Booking is essential for the community lantern making workshops and children under 12 must be accompanied by a carer over the age of 16.
The cost will be £5 per lantern. Please return family workshop bookings to the Children’s Services office at Carn Thomas or alternatively you can book by emailing childrensservices@scilly.gov.uk.
The procession will depart from Carn Thomas at approximately 6:30pm and continue along the strand to Hugh Street where there will be a loop at the Mermaid car park. The parade will then return along Hugh Street via Park House for the singers to perform for the residents. It will then cut through Well Cross to Holgates Green where the parade will conclude with a firework display.
The full list of Island Light Festival activities is as follows:
Lantern making workshops
4 identical sessions suitable adults and accompanied children aged 5+
Price: £5 per lantern
Location: Main Hall, Carn Thomas
Monday 15 February, 10am to 12:30pm
Monday 15 February, 1:30pm to 4pm
Wednesday 17 February, 10am to 12:30pm
Wednesday 17 February, 1:30pm to 4pm
Drawing and collage workshops
2 identical sessions suitable for adults and accompanied children aged 5+
Price: free
Location: Youth Hub, Carn Thomas
Monday 15 February, 1:30pm to 4:00pm
Tuesday 16 February, 10am to 12:30pm
Singing in the Mermaid Bar
Price: free
Location: The Mermaid
Monday 15 February, 7pm onwards
Singing sessions for the lantern parade
Suitable for adults and children aged 12+.
Price: free
Location: Youth Hub, Carn Thomas
Tuesday 16 February, 2pm to 3:30pm
Wednesday 17 February, 2pm to 3:30pm
Thursday 18 February, 2pm to 3:30pm
Community tissue papering of the big lanterns
Price: free
Location: Main Hall, Carn Thomas
Friday 19 February, 1:30pm onwards
Parade, singing and fireworks
Price: free
Location: meet at Carn Thomas car park
[DATE CHANGED!] Friday 19 February, 6.30pm
Due to weather, we have brought the Lantern Parade forward to Friday 19 February. It will be at the same time of 6.30pm from Carn Thomas. If you have made a lantern, please do not worry about collecting it from the school, it will be waiting for you at Carn Thomas.