Walsall Makes: Community Lantern Festival

Butts Lantern Festival by Walsall Creative Factory

The team at Walsall Creative Factory didn’t let the horrible weekend weather spoil their plans as they delivered a stunning example of community resilience and creativity with their lantern trail representing local history and diversity.

The trail was the culmination of drop-in workshops which were offered to create individual and giant feature lanterns for a Lantern Festival trail around The Butts on Sunday 8th December.

Walsall Creative Factory were successful recipients of a Small Grant Commission with Creative Black Country and One Walsall as part of WALSALL MAKES; a 6 month initiative to support community events and create moments of magic in the town, bringing people together and creating something memorable for residents. And they certainly did that.

Images by Dee Patel