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Illuminares Lantern Festival – 25 Light Years
The Public Dreams Society is pleased to announce the 2013 Illuminares Lantern Festival will take place on Saturday, July 20, at its traditional location around East Vancouver’s Trout Lake.  This year marks the 25th Anniversary of the iconic community festival, and for this edition of our signature event we are marking that milestone with the theme ’25 Light Years’.

While the human energy of the first Illuminares rippled out through the Trout Lake area communities, the light energy sped upward towards the stars – passing Alpha Centauri after five years, zooming past Sirius, Procyon and Altair, until just this summer reaching the star Vega, twenty-five light years from Earth. This summer, visit the shores of Trout Lake and take a journey back through time with Public Dreams, navigating our history using these stars as your signposts!

Illuminares has been described as an iconic part of the cultural landscape in Vancouver, and earlier this year it was named ‘Best East Vancouver Festival’ in the Vancouver Courier newspaper.  Drawing over 20,000 people a year to John Hendry Park, the Lantern Festival is a spectacle for all ages and one of the Don’t-Miss events of Vancouver’s summer.  Most importantly, Illuminares started as a community festival and it remains one to this day, relying on public participation to create its special kind of magic.   This year we bring the festival back to it’s roots, with less electricty, less programming and focussing on the procession. We will be offering lantern making workshops at Trout Lake Community Centre the week prior the festival and during the event itself.  Please come, make a lantern, and join us in our walk around the lake at 9:30 pm.