Creative Lights Festival: Fantastic Fiction

Join us for Creative Lights Festival: Fantastic Fiction, a magical day of creativity, community and celebration as part of Oxford's Christmas Lights Festival. Families and young people are invited to take part in a range of free creative activities inspired by the world of books, stories, imagination and fictional adventures. Indoor activities start from 2pm, offering opportunities to get creative, make lanterns, and enjoy time together with friends, family and neighbours, including a free community meal.

 

Creative Lights Festival celebrates the joy of reading, imagination and storytelling. Inspired by their favourite fictional worlds, characters and books, local young people will create lanterns that bring stories to life and encourage a love of reading through creativity, light and community celebration. As darkness falls, the festival will culminate in a vibrant lantern parade around the Rose Hill estate, showcasing the fantastic lanterns created by local young people and families. The parade will feature both small hand-held lanterns and spectacular large-scale illuminated creations, accompanied by a live band, bringing colour, music and storytelling to the streets of Rose Hill.

 

Bring your lanterns and join us outside Rose Hill Community Centre from 4.30pm as we gather for the parade, which will depart at 5.00pm and process around the Rose Hill estate. This event is a joint project between Rose Hill Junior Youth Club, Film Oxford and Rose Hill Community Centre, working together to bring local people of all ages together through creativity, storytelling and celebration. Free and open to all. Come and help light up Rose Hill with Fantastic Fiction!

 

There will also be free activities and workshops for young people leading up to the Festival weekend (details on our webpage)​

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 FREE EVENT    FULLY ACCESSIBLE