Lots of ghoulish fun lined up for city’s Halloween celebrations

Halloween Lantern Carnival

Thousands of people are expected to flock to Liverpool next weekend (Sunday, October 29) for an evening of ghoulish fun.

It’s the Halloween Lantern Carnival, which is coming to the city centre for one night only in a dazzling parade.

Starting from the Pilgrim Street/Hardman St junction at 6pm, the spectacle will make its way through the city streets down towards the river.

The best vantage points will be on Hardman Street, Bold Street, Church Street, Paradise Street, Thomas Steer Way, and Albert Dock, where the carnival will end at 7pm.

Families are invited to take part by attending a number of free lantern and mask making workshops to take place at Albert Dock, Metquarter and St Johns Shopping Centre during the half term week.

Those created at Albert Dock will then become part of a magical static display around the grade I-listed estate, featuring no less than 500 lanterns all lit up on the evenings of October 28 and 29.

These will join a variety of large animal lanterns that will be dotted around the Dock and illuminated from this Saturday, October 21, right through to Bonfire Night on November 5.

Halloween Lantern Carnival is happening thanks to a partnership between Lantern Company, Albert Dock Liverpool, Culture Liverpool, and Liverpool BID Company.

Jo Pocock, artistic director of Lantern Company said: “We are very excited to be able to announce that Halloween Lantern Carnival really is heading back to Liverpool this October.

“Although most of those taking part are from the Bare Bones Tours plc, we are pleased to be working with many brilliant local performing arts groups, bands and colleges.

“This huge scale carnival will be an incredible and truly extraordinary spectacle to behold for fun lovers of all ages.”

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