The River of Light, Waterbury’s annual Community Lantern Parade began in 2010. Founding member Angelo Arnold, has worked as part of an artists’ team to give students from the Waterbury/ Duxbury School District and surrounding towns, an opportunity to learn lantern-making and construction techniques to create willow and tissue paper lantern structures.

In addition to this, Arnold has worked with professional artists during a special two-day lantern workshop, to design and build larger-scale luminaries to spearhead the procession. The artists have willow, rattan and bamboo at their disposal as well as tuition in construction, structure and form, lighting, wiring and back-pack and harness building.

More information can be found at http://ariveroflightinwaterbury.wordpress.com/

Parade 2012

Parade 2012

Team Dragon for 2012

Team Dragon for 2012

Thatcher Brook Primary School Workshops 2010

Thatcher Brook Primary School Workshops 2010

Community Workshop at Helen Day, VT 2011

Community Workshop at Helen Day, VT 2011

Artist Lantern Workshops 2011

Artist Lantern Workshops 2011

Artist Lanterns 2012 Parade

Artist Lanterns 2012 Parade

Parade 2011

Parade 2011