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The Lantern Festival and Reusing Coffee Cups

Written by maia
July 30, 2007 at 4:00 am

My posts have dwindled for a while, but my trash involvement hasn’t.
I was just at a trip on Vancouver Island at the Pigeon Lake Waste Management Facility and also at Hornby Island’s state of the art Recycling Depot.
I will share the details of those visits a bit later; this post is about something that arose spontaneously.

We were having late brunch at my house the day of a well-known and exiting event, the Illuminares Lantern Festival. Lots of people make lanterns and come to this celebration of light, in Trout Lake Park in East Vancouver. The park is lit up by the lanterns and livened by the sounds of live music and theatre and acrobatic performances.

As my friends and I were talking about going to the festivals and that it would be great to make lanterns, an idea came to my head. Why not make lanterns from used coffee cups (luckily I have a rich collection)

So here we did.

A small part of my used coffee cup collection

The beggining of the fish lantern

Fish Face

We used the paper starbucks bags to line the holes of the lantern, creating a dimmer light effect. We also drew with color pastels on the bags, so we can get different colors of light.

Laura’s finished fish lantern.

My abstract lanterns.

My lantern in action

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Rob wrote @ July 30th, 2007 at 9:51 am

I came across a related idea this morning, in which you built lanterns out of discarded CDs or DVDs. There are a few brief ideas on this website, but I’m sure a small touch of creativity could lend to much more interesting designs.

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Maia Iotzova is based in Vancouver. Her work concentrates on exploring environmental themes through playful and socially conscious art and she is currently creating various projects with garbage and working toward a documentary on the subject.
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