About the Event
Click here to find out more about the lantern parade, and 2018's event
Get Involved
Click here to find out more about our workshops, the parade and live entertainment
Support Us
Click here for more information about ways you can support the Lantern Parade
Partners
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Media and Downloads
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Contact
Robyn Bunyan - Education Manager email/robyn.bunyan@nordenfarm.org dd/01628 682563
The Lantern Parade
Norden Farm present
The Carnival of the Animals - Maidenhead's Community Lantern Parade
About the event
The community lantern parade is an annual event produced by Norden Farm, which brings the local community together in celebration to light up the town.
The project runs across a six-week period giving the community opportunities to take part in low cost arts workshops and be a part of spectacular parade and celebratory concert.
We work with practitioners from Same Sky, the largest community arts charity in the South East, to create vivid willow lanterns, which illuminate Maidenhead Town Centre.
The project includes workshops with members of the public, schools and community groups in the run up to the event.
In 2017 over 2500 people participated across the project - with nearly 1500 people taking part in the parade which departs from Maidenhead Town Hall.
To mark the occasion there will be a special retrospective exhibition at Norden Farm opening on Tuesday 15 January 2019.
If you have photos and videos of past Lantern Parades we would love to see them, and include them in the exhibition.
Email your photos and videos to robyn.bunyan@nordenfarm.org
For more information about how you can get involved with the event, please follow the links in the right hand bar.
2018's event
This year's event takes place on Saturday 8 December.
- 4.30pm - Live music and entertainment
- 5pm - Parade departs from Maidenhead Town Hall
- 5.45pm – 6.15pm - Live music and entertainment continues
all times tbc
For information about how you can get involved click here.
Watch our Lantern Parade mini documentary