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Mar 12, 2015 • Comments Closed
We are working in partnership with Wirral Creative Youth Development team on a great project in and around the newly renovated Old Priory in Birkenhead.
PRIORY TALES has been specially created for the Birkenhead Priory to celebrate over 800…
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Jan 28, 2015 • Comments Closed
We’ll be celebrating Chinese New Year in Liverpool on Sunday 22nd February, with a short but vibrant city centre parade, including our newly commissioned Year of the Goat puppet. The event is produced by Liverpool City Council with…
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Nov 20, 2014 • Comments Closed
Over the next few weeks we will be spreading a little lantern magic around the UK with events. Perth:Scotland, Chester Zoo, Warrington, Wicksteed Park and Wakehurst Place will all be aglow with Lantern Company magic. More details available…
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Nov 5, 2014 • Comments Closed
A team of 7 Lantern Company folk have returned from an amazing trip to Hong Kong, courtesy of our partners, Hong Kong Youth Arts Foundation, for the fabulous Standard Chartered Arts in the Park Festival 15th, 16th and 17th November. We…
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Nov 5, 2014 • Comments Closed
On Friday 7th November, we brought a little luminous magic to Liverpool’s city centre streets with our winter lantern parade. Characters such Little Red Riding Hood, the white wolf, a giant Jack with his magic beans, not to mention…
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Sep 12, 2014 • Comments Closed
We have a great gallery of photos by Mark Loudon and Joann Kushner, from Halloween Lantern Carnival 2014, as well as a new short film by Magic Monkey up on the website portfolio page. Please take a look, and many thanks going out to everyone…
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Sep 2, 2014 • Comments Closed
Saturday 6th September: The Lantern Company will be taking a whole host of our favorite illuminated Giant puppets and characters to Festival No.6 for a spectacularly surreal and illuminated parade this Saturday night, as well as holding…
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Jul 16, 2014 • Comments Closed
We are totally thrilled to have been invited back to Hong Kong to work with our brilliant partners, Hong Kong Youth Arts Foundation for the second year running. We have just had confirmation of a new commission of 3 giant illuminated puppets…
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Jun 17, 2014 • Comments Closed
Jo Pocock, Becky Barnett and Gavin Lewery, have been working closely with the Art Department at Childwall School and Year 7, 8 and 9 students, on an ambitious public sculpture project, which has been jointly designed by the students and Lantern…
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Jun 17, 2014 • Comments Closed
Our giant Owl and Wolf puppets, both designed and made by Eilidh Bryan, have been invigorated with a new lease of life and lights and will be gallivanting around at the brilliant Hurricane Music Festival this weekend, with a little help from…
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Mar 24, 2014 • Comments Closed
We will be illuminating the grounds of the Red Rum Gardens at Aintree Race Course with a host of lovely Lanterns and our very own Giant Red Horse Lantern, for the famous Ladies Day on Friday 4th April at Aintree. The odds on our Lantern Horse…
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Feb 26, 2014 • Comments Closed
“Illuminated puppetry is not something that is often done in Hong Kong and so when we decided to create the city’s very first night parade of illuminated artworks, we knew we needed expert help. We scoured the globe and were thrilled…
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Feb 13, 2014 • Comments Closed
The people of Liverpool will be able to take full possession of their new theatre on the weekend of 1st and 2nd March. Lights Up, on the Saturday night, will be a parade and people’s celebration, created in collaboration with the Liverpool…
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Jan 24, 2014 • Comments Closed
To celebrate Chinese New Year, Year of the Horse, the Lantern Company have created a beautiful larger than life Horse Lantern, commissioned by Liverpool City Council, that will be on display outside St Luke’s (Bombed Out) Church.…
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