Workshops

LANTERN MAKING WORKSHOP WITH SPINS AND NEEDLES more...

We welcome your participation; Every lantern made will help Ottawa shine!

The best way to participate in the Lumière Festival is to make your own lantern. We offer a variety of ways for you to be creative:

• Attend a lantern making workshop at the Crichton Cultural Community Centre. Workshops are offered year round.
• Call us to arrange a facilitated lantern making workshop for your camp, organization, bridal shower, sleep over or any other social gathering.
• We have lantern making kits available at the CCCC. These kits come with all the supplies you require (except for white glue), instructions and even an email address for if you need some help.

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Workshop Calendar

Please call our office (613-745-2742) to register for lantern making workshops.

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Lantern Making Workshops

Facilitated Lantern Making Workshop

To help fund and promote Lumière we are pleased to offer you facilitated lantern making workshops. We offer a variety of lantern types, making this activity accessible for all ages and artistic abilities. Workshops can be held at your location or at the Crichton Cultural Community Centre (www.crichtonccc.ca).

Lantern Making workshops are great for:

Camps Schools Day care

Seniors Birthdays BBQ's Bridal/Baby showers Parties Work functions/team building

Lantern Making Kits

We offer lantern making kits and supplies. These beautifully packaged kits are a great activity to do at home and they make terrific gifts. We can also prepare lantern making supplies for organizations who wish to have their own lantern making workshops.

To order a workshop or lantern making supplies contact the office at 745-2742 or email cccc@bellnet.ca

Lantern Making Workshop with Spins & Needles

The Lumière Festival and Spins and Needles team up to offer a night of creative crafting on
Friday July 25 at the Montgomery Legion Hall
(330 kent st. @ somerset st. w.), from 8:00 p.m. onward.

Bamboo pyramid lantern kits will be available, and workshop facilitator Michelle Petersen will be encouraging participants to assist her in creating a large lantern installation! 

spins & needles craft + DJ night is a travelling cultural event that mixes hip do-it-yourself projects with funky music spun by DJs in various galleries, bars and esoteric spaces across Canada and beyond.

Based in Ottawa, Canada, the event was created in 2005 by organizers Melanie Yugo (the crafter/designer) and Jason Pelletier (the DJ). For a small cover charge, creative types and nightlife-ers gain access to materials and instructions to make a featured art/craft project while having a few drinks and listening to DJs spin beats. Getting messy and creative is key.

In addition to the Craft + DJ Night in Ottawa and other Canadian cities, other spin-off events have included the monthly Disco Bingo Night at Shanghai Restaurant (Ottawa); various workshops; and installments at the National Gallery of Canada, Canadian Museum of Civilization Maker Faire (San Francisco) and the Etsy Labs (Brooklyn, NY).

By holding this craft night and DJ night, participating in other local events and forming partnerships with local organizations, our goals are:

• to build and sustain the creative communities of Ottawa and elsewhere
• to create an inclusive space where music, arts & crafts is accessible to everyone
• to encourage and inspire people to be active creators of their lives.