Newquay Lantern Parade lights up Trenance Gardens on 21st November

The annual Newquay Lantern Parade is returning on the 21st of November 2026 to light up the Cornish town. The new home of the Lantern Parade event is down in Trenance Valley, and much the same as last year, it will be linked in with the Trenance Cottages Light Switch-on event happening on the same night. The lanterns will process from 6 pm through Trenance Valley to the cottages, with viewing points in both Trenance Gardens and the Boating Lake.

This year, Blystra Arts, who deliver all the creative activity related to the parade, have been able to enhance the event even further by linking the project in with another of their 2025 projects, Stories from the Station, a heritage project running in 2025 to coincide with the 200 year anniversary of the first passenger steam train journey. This project saw Blystra working with the community making five willow train carriages, each one depicting a different era, story or character related to Newquay Railway station which has been explored during the life of the project. Carriages have been created and decorated alongside, Your Art Connect, Age UK, Newquay MIND, Treviglas Academy and the general community. Visitors attending on the 21st you will be able to see the inaugural journey of this one-of-a-kind willow train lantern making its way though Trenance Valley as part of the procession, parading under the viaduct.

https://blystraarts.org/newquay-lantern-parade-and-creative-activity


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