A Lantern Affair

Join us for a Multicultural Celebration of Light!

Saturday, December 1 from 4:30 - 7:30pm

Come celebrate the things that make us unique but together form a cultural mosaic!

Drop by Carré Heritage Square for A Lantern Affair, our free, all-ages holiday event featuring live music and song, arts activities, home baking, a pottery show and sale, a multicultural celebration of light and a radio version of the classic Dickens tale, A Christmas Carol (Live on Air)!

Make your own lantern, choosing from designs particular to different cultures, and then participate in our festive lantern ceremony; create crafts inspired by traditional cultural designs; have a visit with Father Christmas; bake up some heritage goodies; tick some items off your gift list and more, all in three hours!

*Place des Arts will have a box for Share food and toy bank donations in our Atrium from November 15 to December 20. Please consider bringing a donation of food or a new, unwrapped toy when you come to A Lantern Affair.

Schedule of the Day

4:30 - 5:00PM: Les Echos du Pacifique in Place des Arts' Atrium

5:15 - 5:30PM: A Lantern Affair Ceremony in the Leonore Peyton Salon

5:30 - 6:00PM: Pianist Jordan Yep in Place des Arts' Atrium

6:00 - 6:45PM: A Christmas Carol Live on Air in the Leonore Peyton Salon

6:45 - 7:00PM: Father Christmas reads T'was the Night before Christmas in the Fraser Mills Station Museum

Drop in Activities

At Place des Arts

Room 109: Arts & Crafts - Poinsettia Paper Plates & Craft Stick Reindeer

Room 202: Lantern Making

Room 206: Cookie Decorating

Pottery Studio: Pottery Student Show and Sale

At Mackin House Museum

Museum tours, heritage baking, gingerbread decorating, storytelling, hot apple cider