Illuminares

Illuminares is an annual lantern festival held every summer in John Hendry Park (also known as Trout Lake Park) in east Vancouver. In 2010, the festival moved to Canada Place, but the 2012 festival will see a return to John Hendry Park. The event is put on by the Public Dreams Society, a group formed in 1985 to encourage community events. Illuminares is a mixture of events put on by the society, such as fire-breathers and bands, and participants bringing their own homemade lanterns. Local artists run lantern making workshops to help people make their own personalized lantern. The festival is paid for through corporate and community sponsors, government grants as well as donations from participants at the event.