Artist Statement:

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Our artistic mission is to create open participatory platforms for creative play in public spaces. Parades are where a community sees itself. Lantern Parades are where a community sees itself as playful volumes of light, moving to the same rhythm, through a shared space. We believe this experience and the memory of it has a lasting positive impact on how people feel about their public space and who they share it with. When we lay down joyful shared memories together in a place, it is a blessing on that place. 

 

We create large scale lantern puppets because we believe in the experiential value of real encounters with fantastical creatures. When we encounter and interact with art beyond our imagination in a familiar space, it expands our capacity to imagine what is possible here. We hope our work serves as a ritual reminder that we have the collective agency to regularly create wondrous experiences for ourselves and our community. As traditions, participatory creative celebrations reinforce our belief in the extraordinary nature of our collective character and the place we call home.

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Creating parade art with our hands

for the purpose of delighting perfect strangers

with whom we have a date

to dance together beneath the sky

is a vital virtue of human kind.

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We are always interested in creating new parades specific to people and place.

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