Lunar New Year Lantern Festival

We are excited about the start of 2025, and the return of the annual Lantern Festival here at the Arts Center.

Join us as we celebrate 2025 the Year of the Snake and fill our entire lobby with lanterns!

Decorate a Lantern

EVERYONE is invited to participate! Our goal is to hang 300 decorated lanterns in the Arts Center lobby, celebrating our hopes and wishes for a brighter future. Instructions are included with each lantern picked up.

►Pick up a lantern starting January 3rd at the Sherwood Center for the Arts. Lanterns must be decorated and returned by January 21st to the Arts Center to be part of a community installation that remain in place for over a month.

Each lantern will be unique! Some people write or draw their wishes for the new year on their lantern, or celebrate their blessings.

Important Dates:

Lantern Pick-up: Friday, January 3, 2025
Lanterns Returned: Tuesday, January 21st, 2025
Lantern Celebration: Saturday, February 1, 2025 from 2-5pm
Lanterns come down: Tuesday, March 18, 2025

LANTERNS WILL REMAIN ON DISPLAY THROUGH THE MONTH OF FEBRUARY

**Lanterns will come down on Tuesday, March 18. If you'd like to retrieve your lantern(s), please pick up on this date!

Lantern Festival Event

Join us on Saturday, February 1 from 2-5 pm for the Lantern Festival celebration. Enjoy treats (limited quantities), live performances, and interactive activities as we usher in the Lunar New Year!

Lantern Festival is celebrated annually on the 15^th day of the first lunar month to mark the grand finale of the Lunar New Year celebrations. It is also the very first full moon day of the New Year, symbolizing the coming of the spring. People light lanterns in their homes and in public spaces during the spring festival to symbolize “illuminating the future.” The Lantern Festival is an important part of the Lunar New Year.

Brought to you by Sherwood Cultural Arts Commission and Sherwood Center for the Arts.