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Welcome to
Light Whale International
Bringing lantern parades, light installations and craft workshops to communities in the UK and beyond!
What We Do
Community Parades
We make large-scale lantern parades with communities.
We facilitate a series of public lantern making workshops where people come together to make lanterns and swap stories about the place they live.
From there, we build a one-off processional performance based off these stories. No two have looked the same. We’ve had migrating birds, smoke-breathing dragons, tandem bicycles and more fish than anyone planned for.
Sometimes this means closing a high street and turning it into a community celebration — a kind of modern folk ritual — with crowds of up to 2,000 people.
Installations
Alongside processional work, we build illuminated willow structures for indoor and outdoor settings.
These range from small functional objects (like a series of bespoke lampshades) to larger sculptural works (everything from an oversized grasshopper to Boreas the Greek god of the North Wind!)
The pieces are made in situ for installation in public space, designed to sit within existing architecture or landscape, and weatherproofed for longer-term outdoor display.
Pocket Performances
Pocket performances are smaller, more nimble versions of the parade work.
Sometimes they happen over a few days — workshops, story gathering, then a short processional performance that pops up in the street. We’ve made these in towns and villages across the UK and Europe: from the foothills of the alps to the fens.
We also have a set of walkabout characters — including three loud-mouthed birds and a musical clam. Battery powered and portable, they can roam more or less anywhere and tend to appear where you don’t quite expect them!
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