Highland Lights returns, as we build on this new local tradition, creating new lanterns and exploring new pathways through our hillside home. Following in the footsteps of last year’s Reawakened Landscape, we now turn our gaze to the stars. This year’s Ad Astra is inspired by the constellations in the night sky and the enduring hope and imagination they ignite.
During a month of free collaborative workshops – led by Alex Kahn and Sophia Michahelles of Processional Arts – participants will create a cosmos of illuminated celestial characters and tales, who will emerge at twilight to wander the hills and meadows on Earth Day, April 22. Attendees will be invited to wander the landscape at will as they explore the heavens, carrying mini-planetarium lanterns to guide them. Lanterns great and small will gradually converge into a final procession, a community constellation to gather around the fire for drinks and stories.
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We Need Your Help!
There are many ways to get involved and help us create Highland Lights: Ad Astra.
Questions? Please reach out to hello@highlandlights.org.
Join us for a lantern-building workshop 🎨
Visit the webpage and registration form here to sign up and learn more.
Besides being incredibly fun and collaborative the workshops are designed so you can come for as many as you’d like. No experience in lantern-making necessary!
Each weekend will have a different set of tasks to bring these collaboratively-built lanterns to completion. In addition to the big collaborative lanterns, every weekend offers a chance to make smaller hand-held lanterns, either to take home or leaver for procession participants to carry on April 22.
Volunteer to carry a giant lantern 💫
For the performance on April 22 we will need help carrying these beautiful creations. To sign up to carry please reach out to hello@highlandlights.org.
Send in your favorite texts & poems 📥
Email hello@highlandlights.org.
Just come and experience the performance on April 22 ⭐
Highland Lights: Ad Astra, is free and open to the public, please RSVP link below so we can plan accordingly.
If you are attending and are interested in carrying a lantern please email hello@highlandlights.org.
