2023 Arcata Lantern Floating Ceremony

The 40th Annual Arcata Lantern Floating Ceremony is scheduled for Saturday, August 5th, 2023. In the morning there will be Lantern Making at the Arcata Farmer’s Market. Then around 7:30pm people will gather at the Arcata Marsh & Wildlife Sanctuary by Klopp Lake at the end of South I Street for the ceremony.

Visitors are encouraged to walk, bike or ride a shuttle van from the parking lot at Samoa and I Streets or the Arcata Marsh Interpretive Center parking lot on South G Street.

This event is an opportunity to offer spiritual consolation for everyone affected by the pandemic, those we miss, departed loved ones, ancestors and all we hold dear. The City of Arcata’s Nuclear Free Zone Committee began this ceremony 40 years ago to commemorate the US atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945 and to affirm our dedication as a community to the cause of peace, to bring awareness to the dangers of nuclear proliferation, and to advocate for environmental sustainability.

Event Schedule:

9am – 1:30pm – Lantern Making at the Arcata Farmer’s Market – Tables will be set up and there will be supplies.

7pm – 7:30pm – People will gather at the Arcata Marsh & Wildlife Sanctuary by Klopp Lake at the end of South I Street.

Rick Kruze will be playing the shakuhachi flute as people arrive.

Humboldt Taiko Drumming

Hula Dancing with Jane Epperson Bloomfield

The McKinleyville Choir will sing.

The Raging Grannies will be singing songs.

Poetry – Daryl Chin

8:40 – Lantern Floating.

This is a free event!
All are invited to attend.

Community groups helping to create these events are:

City of Arcata, Humboldt Buddhist Peace Fellowship, GI Rights Hotline, Shinnyo en, Humboldt Unitarian Universalist Fellowship Social Action Committee, Veterans For Peace, Humboldt Friends Meeting (Quakers), United States Servas & Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom

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Arcata Lantern Floating Virtual Ceremony

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Welcome to the Arcata Lantern Floating Ceremony Website

Lantern floating is a beautiful opportunity for the community to come together for a collective moment of remembrance and reflection.

In 2019 we co-create a virtual ceremony in a video of photos, artwork, remembrances, hopes and intentions. There are also other videos on this site, including a documentary of the Arcata Lantern Floating Ceremony by local filmmaker Brianna Chapman and other videography.

This event is an opportunity to offer spiritual consolation for people we miss, departed loved ones, ancestors, intercultural harmony, healing and all we hold dear.

Our Facebook page is www.facebook.com/ArcataLanternFloatingCeremony

Our deepest gratitude to Mark Larson for the photo on the top of this page and for the many photographs he has taken of the Arcata Lantern Ceremony over the years, many of which are in our images gallery on this website.

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