Name: Lantern Workshop
Start: 2025-03-23T13:00:00-07:00
End: 2025-03-23T17:00:00-07:00
Location: 1398 E 3rd Ave, Vancouver, BC V5N, Canada

After three decades of hosting lantern workshops in various community centres, we are delighted to present workshops at our own Secret Headquarters! Join us and learn how to make your own Secret Lantern from a variety of natural materials.
Celebrate the riotous beauty of summer at our Nature Lantern workshop where we’ll create beautiful lanterns from pressed flower petals and twigs harvested from summer’s absurd abundance. We have lots to share but if you want to make your lantern extra special with materials from your own garden just place some flowers between paper towels inside a hardcover book, and place more books on top for about a week to create pressed flowers - so satisfying!
These small lanterns can easily be made within a few hours. No experience necessary, though curiosity, humour, and patience with yourself are essential.
The workshop will be led by Secret Lantern Society’s own Artistic Director Naomi Singer, who loves to hold the natural world in her hands and heart.
Photo of Naomi by Jan Gates
Flower photos by Naomi Singer
About the fascilitator:
As a community-engaged Celebration Artist, Naomi’s work is inspired by the rampant creative energy of both the natural world and the human spirit. She has collaborated with numerous artists and organizations for over three decades, developing civic experiences designed to inspire public creativity. She is the founding Artistic Director of the Secret Lantern Society and is the creator and Artistic Director of the Annual Winter Solstice Lantern Festival which she started in 1994. Over the course of three decades the festival has been attended by over 250,000 participants from diverse cultures. Naomi is also the founding Artistic Director of the Stanley Park Ghost Train and was a Co-Director of the Public Dreams Society where she was instrumental in the development of both the Parade of The Lost Souls and the Illuminares Lantern Festival. In addition to her work as a festival creator and organizer she continues her own practice as an artist, creating lanterns and site-specific decor for weddings, memorials, birthdays and festivals.

Secret Headquarters is gratefully situated on the unceded territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh peoples. We honor, respect, and give thanks to our hosts.