Sundowner Lantern Parade

As part of the World Heritage Day celebrations in Saltaire, the talented people at Cecil Green Arts organised a Lantern Parade around Roberts Park as the sun went down. They had some of their large scale paper lanterns, like the fox above, which are exquisite. Then there were scores of children and local people carrying pyramidal lanterns that they'd made in workshops in the weeks leading up to the event. It was rather a wonderful sight. 

Musicians wrapped in coloured lights led the parade, and then came a lantern like a jellyfish, with coloured streamers:

There was an owl, a turtle, seagulls and a pig on a bike. They had one of their large figures:

and a huge bee or wasp too. It's amazing how much character they manage to invoke with just paper, paint and a willow framework.

The evening ended with fire jugglers and the burning of a paper hare, representing Spring I suppose. I'm sure it wasn't meant to be the Easter bunny!!