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Come for the Secret Rent Party… leave with something extraordinary 🎁✨ Up for auction: tickets to three incredible live experiences! – A weekend pass to the Vancouver Folk Festival 🎶 – A 4-pack to the Vancouver Children’s F
Join us for Secret Tours of Forbidden Spaces! These engaging experiences are part mystery, part storytelling, and entirely unexpected, and each features a themed beverage to enhance your night. Tour #1: The Louis XlV Champagne Tour Tour #2: Tea-quila
Come experience the massive love vibe that has become the essence of our Secret Rent Parties and enjoy a night of surprise, delight and unbridled fun! Live music, Balkan dancing, signature cocktails, an auction that is definitely not silent, Secret
Come experience the massive love vibe that has become the essence of our fabulous Secret Rent Parties! 💖✨🎶 But wait… what is a Rent Party? Folks get together to have a great time listening and dancing to live music, drinking and carousing w
upcoming Secret activities: Sunday April 12 6:00 - 8:00pm 🌿🍄✨ Immerse yourself in a sensory and playful experience exploring the aromatic essence of our mysterious fungi friends. We’ll engage in drawing games and creative writings inspired b
Created by award winning actor, playwright and multi-disciplinary spoken word artist shayna-adjowa jones, this sweeping oral storytelling piece is rich with Afro-diasporic folklore, folk history, rhythm and song. ✨🎶 Experience shayna-adjowa’s
✨Once upon a time, seekers of secrets would tap upon our antique door knocker to enter the beauteous realm of Secret Headquarters. 🗝️ Suddenly, in the dark of night, a dastardly thief absconded with the precious object, heralding many months of muf
Sunday March 29th 2:00 - 5:00pm Secret Stories from Secret Members ✨ This series invites the courageously gregarious among us to draw from their personal experiences and share a true story based on the current theme. Introverts and shy folk are most
Way back in December the longest, darkest night of the year shimmered with lanterns, music, art and beautiful community connections! ✨🏮 The magic of our 32nd Annual Winter Solstice Lantern Festival continues to resonate and we invite you to explore
💛 What is the Secret Lantern Society without our legion of loyal volunteers? ✨ Our Volunteer Appreciation Party was held exactly one month after the festival and was a joyful gathering of the generous humans who contributed their energy and inspir
🌙 During the weeks preceding festival day, our Secret Solstice Salon Series offered five nights of winter traditions as celebrated by various global communities. These intimate evenings of cultural sharing were each a true delight and we sincerely t
🌿 More than a Salon, this one-woman play by Dale Hamilton explores land use in the time of global warming from an all-too human perspective. With tea and time for discussion. 🎟️ Link in bio #ClimateTheatre #RegenerativeFutures #ArtMeetsEnvironment
🎨 Interactive & Immersive Step into the glowing world of Mind of a Snail Puppet Co. and play with light and projections — a whimsical invitation to explore your own creativity. Step outside into the dark and take a stroll down the boardwal
Granville Island glows brighter than ever as artists, musicians, and storytellers fill every corner with rhythm, light, and magic! 🎶 ✨ Part 1/2 ✨ 🎭 On Stage & In Motion Join any of the 3 processions led by Bloco Energia, the Carnival Band or R
✨ Join the 32nd Annual Winter Solstice Lantern Festival at the Roundhouse in Yaletown!🌙🎶 🎵 Music Highlights Feel the warmth of live music as Susan Gerofsky fills the air with soulful accordion melodies, and the mysterious Sospiro Misterioso bring
✨ With gratitude and glowing hearts, we thank our incredible community partners, sponsors, and funders for helping us bring the 32nd Annual Winter Solstice Lantern Festival to life! 💛 Your support keeps the lanterns glowing, the music playing, and t
🌌 Watch the dark night sky! 🌌 🌙 The 32nd Annual Winter Solstice Lantern Festival returns just 5 dark nights away, illuminating our community with light, music, and joyous celebration. See our schedule and map! Join us as we honour the longest nigh
What is time? ⏳ Is it real? 🌌 Once upon a time we knew ourselves through the rhythms of the sun and the patterns of the stars. And while we secretly embrace the timelessness of beauty and wonder, we urge you to become a Secret Member before 11:59pm
🏮 The labyrinth has long been used for meditation, prayer and sites of ritual in various cultures around the world. Created with over 500 pure beeswax candles, the winter solstice labyrinth invites you to warm yourself in a self-guided ceremony inte

2015 - Granville Island

All photos courtesy Bruce McPherson. Check out Bruce's Flickr profile and collections.

2015 - Granville Island

All photos courtesy Jan Gates.

2008

Video: Jeremy Williams and Naomi Singer
(Please note: This video was originally created in 2002 and the festival has evolved and changed since that time.)

One festival, six neighbourhoods The dance of the sun and earth has inspired celebrations of the human spirit, expressed through art and music, throughout the ages. Honouring many cultural traditions, the annual Winter Solstice Lantern Festival illuminates the longest night of the year with lanterns, fire, singing, drumming, music, dancing - and skating!

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