{"id":797285,"date":"2026-03-01T17:03:19","date_gmt":"2026-03-01T17:03:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/797285\/"},"modified":"2026-03-01T17:03:19","modified_gmt":"2026-03-01T17:03:19","slug":"13-photos-capture-horsforths-magical-lantern-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/797285\/","title":{"rendered":"13 photos capture Horsforth&#8217;s magical Lantern Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"has-text-align-right\"><strong>Photos: Kelvin Wakefield<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Horsforth residents brought light, colour and music to Hall Park as the town\u2019s first Lantern Parade drew the crowds yesterday evening (Saturday, 28 February).<\/p>\n<p>Music was provided by the Pop n Rock Choir. The Huddersfield Samba band then launched into an entertaining set as they paraded around the park, followed by hundreds of people with lanterns.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Guided by the Horsforth Sprite \u2013 who many will have seen at the town\u2019s Christmas light switch on in December \u2013 visitors followed a trail of lanterns, which had been created at community workshops. They were accompanied by poetry, music and story telling.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Here\u2019s a slideshow of photos, taken by Kelvin Wakefield:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The event was organised by a new collective, bringing their creative talents together to produce a real community event.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The brand-new creative group from Horsforth includes collaboration with Marc Parrett from\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.grandly-strange.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Grandly Strange Puppet Theatre<\/a>, Marianne Helliwell from\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/forminfabric.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Form in Fabric<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/horsforthclimateaction.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Horsforth Climate Action<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ls18rocks.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">LS18 Rocks<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.horsforth-woa.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Walk of Art<\/a>, Neil Edwards and his daughter Oonagh, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lovehorsforthpark.co.uk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Friends of Horsforth Hall Park\u00a0<\/a>and many more local volunteers. <\/p>\n<p>They brought creativity, music and art to the park, and celebrating light in the darkness.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Sponsored content<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"608\" height=\"884\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Screenshot-2025-10-03-at-13.23.42.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-191083\"  \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.specsavers.co.uk\/stores\/kirkstall\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.specsavers.co.uk\/stores\/kirkstall<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Photos: Kelvin Wakefield Horsforth residents brought light, colour and music to Hall Park as the town\u2019s first Lantern&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":797286,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8814],"tags":[748,208169,393,213406,4884,209390,213718,219406,231442,231443,220524,1860,231444,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-797285","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-leeds","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-community-reporters","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-friends-of-horsforth-hall-park","12":"tag-great-britain","13":"tag-horsforth","14":"tag-horsforth-climate-action","15":"tag-horsforth-lantern-festival","16":"tag-horsforth-lantern-parade","17":"tag-horsforth-walk-of-art","18":"tag-kelvin-wakefield","19":"tag-leeds","20":"tag-ls18-rocks","21":"tag-uk","22":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116155004141459837","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=797285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797285\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/797286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=797285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=797285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=797285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}