Jan. 20th, 2005

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Lights out for Luminara festival
Times Colonist (Victoria) Thu 20 Jan

The Luminara Victoria lantern festival, one of the city's most popular summertime events, will fade to black this year.
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Hmmm... hard to judge this one. Idealistically, there should be nothing in the way of any number of people congregating in a public space like Beacon Hill Park (despite the wishes of the "Friends Of --", who would like to see no one at all there), carrying lanterns of their own design, walking around, visiting with friends, and leaving, with no public or private funding or sponsorship involved whatosever. Sort of like a very congenial, creative and drawn-out flash mob.

That's how I'd like to see it, but we all know these days that you can't have "fun" without "funding". Everything conceivably public and creative has to be conscripted by one agency or another, since public space is a commodity like everything else.

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