In the autumn and winter of 2002 participants created work for Coalville Lantern procession.
Community artists Katy Doncaster and Frazer Johnston worked with young people at King Edward VII Community College (the school is situated close by both Greenhill and Agar Nook estates in Coalville) to create large sculptural lanterns for the lantern procession.
These sessions were run in partnership with the college and participants worked with the artists to design and build large structures which could provide an exciting new element to the lantern procession.
These structures included dragons and “Scratter the Sea Monster” which were carried at the front of the lantern procession. 2002 was the third Coalville Community Lantern Procession and artists had worked with hundreds of people of all ages to make lanterns of many shapes, sizes and colours. This meant that around 700 adults and children from the whole of North West Leicestershire joined with the eState of the Art participants in the procession on December 6th.
Another group of pupils at the college worked with musicians Emma Williams, Mark and Mikey to develop music which they performed to lead the procession on December 6th.
Coalville Lantern Procession
