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May 3, 2025!
Atlanta Beltline Southwest Trail
Line-up starts at Adair Park I at 7:35pm
Parade Line-up and Route Map!
Step-off at 8:35pm
This is our 15th Beltline Lantern Parade! Everyone is always invited to make a lantern and walk in the parade! Think Mardi Gras day in lantern form. Individual creativity rules! Make a lantern, come to line-up, and choose your spot to walk behind one of our five fabulous marching bands! Or volunteer to be a parade marshal and escort the bands down the route! Marshal Sign-up here!
BAND LINE UP!
Atlanta Drum Academy
Black Sheep Ensemble
Seed & Feed Marching Abominables
Atlanta Freedom Band
Mausiki Scales & Common Ground Collective
Wait, how do I make a lantern? There are all kinds of ways! Invention is encouraged and applauded.
Look at photos of past parades below, check out the Lantern Ideas & Inspiration page or take a workshop!
WEIRD GONE PRO 2025 LANTERN WORKSHOPS!
All workshops are held at the Krewe's studio at 1200 White St. SW, Atlanta GA 30310
“Time Flies Weirdly”
Master Lantern Puppet Class with Chantelle Rytter
Thursday, April 10 - Thursday, April 17
(weekdays, 6:30-9:30pm, Saturday & Sunday 11am-6pm (with lunch break)
$100 Need-based financial assistance available.
There are 7 spaces.
This is an intense week-long team build celebrating our 15 years of lantern parading on the Beltline with an ensemble of seven absurd timepieces with wings. The ensemble will perform in the BeltLine Lantern Parade on May 3, 2025. You will learn new construction skills, puppeteer tricky-ticky clocks, make new friends, and be rockstars in the parade! Please send a note of interest confirming your availability for the dates and your commitment to performing in the parade to chantellerytter@gmail.com.
Everybody Lantern Puppets!
Saturday, April 19 11am-2pm
$25 Register here
It is great fun to parade with a lantern puppet because they are interactive.These lantern puppets are easy and can be as simple or elaborate as you like. It’s your design. Think of them as a fantastical second-self, a playful critter native to the world of lantern parade! Two people are welcome to work on one puppet. It's fun to be a team. Check out the video for ideas:
Trees Atlanta Acorn Lantern Puppet Workshop!
Tuesday April 22 6:30-9:00pm
$20 Register Here
Parade with Trees Atlanta! The Acorn Lantern Theme celebrates the over 30 native Georgia Oaks planted along Atlanta’s Beltline Arboretum, benefiting Atlanta’s wildlife and city. These lanterns highlight the Atlanta Beltline Arboretum and are adorable acorn puppets with oak leaf hands! All materials included. Kids must be accompanied by an adult at all times.
FREE Drop-in Coloring Lantern Workshop
Sunday, April 27 12-4pm
Just come by!
1200 White St. SW, Atlanta GA 30310
Next to Pickle Ball. Look for the red Krewe flag.
These lanterns are easy and great for anyone who likes to color! They take about an hour to make. All materials included, funded by Atlanta Beltline Art. Kids must be accompanied by an adult at all times.
Coloring Lantern - Adults-Only Night!
Tuesday, April 29 6:30pm-9:00pm
$12 Register here
Easy peasy lanterns! Relax, color, BYOB. All materials included.
We are forever grateful to our 2025 Lantern Parade Sponsors! Lee + White, Ackerman & Co. and MDH Partners Having a temporary studio at Lee + White has meant the world to our practice. THANK YOU!
ABOUT THE PARADE:
The Atlanta Beltline Lantern Parade is is the mothership of our lantern parades. In 2010, the Krewe of the Grateful Gluttons answered a call for proposals from Beltline Art with the idea of a lantern parade where everyone is invited to make a lantern and participate, like Mardi Gras Day marching down the Beltline. At the time, the Beltline Eastside Trail was a creepy dirt path behind the dumpsters. Our first lantern parade in 2010 drew a spirited 400 participants, and zero spectators. By 2019 the parade was drawing an estimated 70,000 in spectators and participants, and became a beloved Atlanta tradition. The Krewe builds and performs giant lantern puppets and hosts lantern workshops. We are always astounded by the amazing lanterns people bring to the parade! Atlanta's got game. This is our 15th year with Beltline Art. We are forever grateful to the Atlanta Beltline for giving such great support to a crazy idea.
Note: Why did we move the parade to the Westside Trail? The Eastside Trail is lit!
Big thanks to everyone who came out for the Westside Atlanta Beltline Lantern Parade!
You brought the magic! Here's a great set of photos from the AJC, an excellent recap on the BeltLine Blog, a fun WABE interview with Lois Reitzes, and a lovely piece in Atlanta Intown Magazine. Check out the BeltLine's video!
Here's some of our favorite photos and video from 2019, our 10th year on the Eastside Trail: 11 Alive's 30 minute video! , Atlanta Intown's Photos, and Steve Eberhardt's Photos.
