Workshop to make lanterns
A workshop to create more than 200 hand-held lanterns for Woy Woy's Australia Day celebrations will be held at Deepwater Plaza from 10am to 1pm on Monday, January 18.
Gosford Council's cultural resources officer Ms Darlene Cole said this year marked the fourth lantern procession at Woy Woy's Australia Day event.
"Along with several hundred hand-held lanterns, each year we create large symbolic lanterns to represent a section of our community.
"The Eternal Flame honours our soldiers; the whale represents our Aboriginal community; a peace heart our Multicultural community; a boat of dreams the youth and a pelican stands for the Woy Woy Peninsula."
"One large feature lantern (15 meters long) will be created at the Sea Scout Hall, at North Burge Rd in Woy Woy, between 10am and 2pm on January 16, 17, 23 and 24 and at Memorial Park between 3pm and 6pm on Australia Day," Ms Cole said.
Ms Cole said children of all ages were invited to help create the hundreds of lanterns needed to make the event a success.
"The lanterns will be displayed at Gosford's Imperial Centre until the lantern procession along Brick Wharf Rd, Woy Woy, on Australia Day," Ms Cole said.
"Children under 10 must be accompanied by an adult."
For further information or to register your interest, contact Darlene Cole on 4325 8896 or by email darlene.cole@gosford.nsw.gov.au
Press release, 8 Jan 2010
Darlene Cole, Gosford Council