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Catford South Kids' Lantern Parade

Funded on Spacehive 15 June 2016

Impact data and claims within this report are provided by the project creator and have not been independently verified by Spacehive.

Catford South Kids' Lantern Parade

Catford South Kids' Lantern Parade

Corbett Residents Association By Corbett Residents Association

Twilight. Music and children's voices float across the terraced streets. A procession of lights swings into view. Happy children's faces glow in the swaying lantern lights...

Lewisham Delivery stage

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£10,587
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This project was funded on 15 Jun 2016!

A hundred (or more!) children with mums and dads, friends and neighbours, walking to the beat of live drums and music and holding their handmade lanterns in celebration of the season and our life together as a diverse community.

With the guidance of Emergency Exit Arts in Greenwich, we propose to make a community lantern parade where children from local schools and groups learn to build lanterns, then come together with family and neighbours on an evening in late autumn or early winter of 2016 to process together with their lanterns through the streets of Catford South ward.

What we'll deliver:

  • Create a community-initiated lantern parade to bring the community together
  • Hopefully start a yearly event that will be a highlight of the community calendar
  • Build on Catford South’s growing sense of community through shared effort and experience
  • Create an opportunity for the community to engage with each other in an active, positive, inclusive way
  • Give the children an opportunity to be a part of something bigger than just their family or school

Why it's a great idea:

There are few local opportunities for children to come together across the usual boundaries of schoolyard, church group or family social gathering. This is a chance for kids to work together on something bigger than themselves, to make something that is a part of a bigger whole, which they can then share with their family and neighbours.

The workshops and parade will be creative, safe, fun. It will be an opportunity for children to develop an understanding of creative processes through practical experience, problem solving, imaginative thought, risk taking, reflection and presentation of their ideas and thoughts.

People across the ward will come together in celebration. They will not be passive spectators, but active participants, enhancing our sense of community through a shared cultural experience.

Steps to get it done:

  • Artist-led lantern-making workshops with schools, local groups and at local public venues
  • Skill sharing workshop with local teachers, so that lantern-making can be taught beyond the artist-led workshops
  • Discussion with local community groups to decide on a parade route
  • Event management led by Emergency Exit Arts (liaison with Council, traffic management, health and safety, etc.)

(Photos by Emergency Exit Arts)

Gallery

Location Lewisham

About the space

Catford South Ward

Council

London Borough of Lewisham

How will the money be spent?Total £10,574

8 artist-led lantern making workshops - £1,901 (18%)
Team of six managing procession and final lantern prep - £1,260 (12%)
Event management (liaison with Council, licensing, traffic management plan, health and safety) - £1,050 (10%)
Emergency Exit Arts overheads - £906 (9%)
Project Management and mileage - £900 (9%)
Materials ordering and preparation, design, lantern prep, lighting, batteries - £750 (7%)
Materials for 10 groups, plus extra for independent classes - £720 (7%)
Stewards, security and traffic management for event - £664 (6%)
Samba band - £600 (6%)
Marketing and promotion - £390 (4%)
Other - £1,433 (14%)

Costs Breakdown

This shows how money raised for the project will be spent. These costs have been confirmed by the project's Delivery Manager and verified.

18%
8 artist-led lantern making workshops
£1,901
12%
Team of six managing procession and final lantern prep
£1,260
10%
Event management (liaison with Council, licensing, traffic management plan, health and safety)
£1,050
9%
Emergency Exit Arts overheads
£906
9%
Project Management and mileage
£900
7%
Materials ordering and preparation, design, lantern prep, lighting, batteries
£750
7%
Materials for 10 groups, plus extra for independent classes
£720
6%
Stewards, security and traffic management for event
£664
6%
Samba band
£600
4%
Marketing and promotion
£390
14%
Other Read More
£1,433
  • Spacehive fees
    £498
  • First Aid for event
    £360
  • Lighting labour, installing batteries, checking bulbs, wiring maintenance
    £180
  • Skill sharing workshop for teachers
    £106
  • VAT
    £100
  • Licences for event
    £98
  • Radios
    £72
  • Transaction Fees
    £19

Total £10,574

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