Minor Mishap’s Winter Solstice Lantern Parade has become an annual celebration of light, community, music, creativity and booty shakin’. Each year, we gather together on the longest night of the year, with lanterns in hand. Together, we make a collective art-piece, a swirl of beauty: of all our lanterns together in one place, under the night sky. Minor Mishap Marching Band – a 25-piece brass band – will provide the soundtrack.

Minor Mishap’s Winter Solstice Lantern Parade is FREE! but they are helped by your RSVP by following this link: https://goo.gl/forms/IDKkS06xGuWpNqqk2

Please make flameless lanterns! The beauty and magic of this event is in all of contributing our own piece of beauty and light to the whole – hundreds of lanterns coming together under the night sky is truly a beautiful sight! It’s easy to make a beautiful light-diffuser out of paper or fabric or a jar or by poking hols in a can…and attach it to a flashlight.

This project is supported in part by the Cultural Arts Division of the City of Austin Economic Development Department, and by the generous involvement of our Krewe de Mishappiness members. You can learn about (and join) the Krewe de Mishappiness here: https://squareup.com/store/minor-mishap-marching-band

Minor Mishap would like to extend a special thank you to Mueller Community Association for allowing them to use their gorgeous park, to create community and art!

PLEASE MAKE LANTERNS! The beauty and creativity of this parade comes from YOU! The collective beauty of hundreds of lanterns coming together in one place is the lantern parade. For safety reasons, please only use flashlights, LEDs, etc as your light source. Please no fire! This page has tons of great ideas for DIY lanterns: http://www.youandkids.com/diy-hanging-lanterns/

LEAVE NO TRACE! Of course we want to leave the park clean and beautiful! Please be sure to bring your beautiful lanterns home with you and don’t leave any garbage in the park. Therefore- we can’t put any lanterns in the water or release any in the air! Please keep your lantern with you 🙂

ADA ACCESSIBILITY AND ROUTE: The route is short and all on the path around the lake – making it accessible for anyone with mobility impairments. We very much want you to participate!

TIME: We will do our best to start on time – we know the kiddos are not always patient. We gather at 5:30. Music and parade start at 6:00

PARKING There are 3 parking garages near the park. 1830 Simond Ave Parking is the closest garage. There is also street parking.

GATHERING SPOT: We will gather at Lake Nessie – the mosaic Loch Ness Monster near the Thinkery. https://goo.gl/maps/yn36RXqQAFq