The FINALE - Awakening
Drawing upon LightnUp’s experience in creating celebratory theatre utilising fire, shadow and illuminated art work
Each year the Lismore Lantern Parade has a theme. which acts as a metaphor with which the creators of the parade and the community can engage. With all the fear and negativity bombarding our lives the Lismore Lantern Parade allows us to all step into a moment out of time, filled with positivity and light, which we can take forward into our daily lives. Our ability to hold a vision, a dream, is one of our most powerful attributes as human beings
Sound of Colour, Mythlines, and last year's Re-Enchanting the Dream are all themes that have informed the creative direction and performance of the parade and significantly its fiery finale. The themes communicate a certain philosophical and and social message to our community.
Our 2008 theme is about waking up to the real world, to our immense possibilities and the power to enact our lives with imagination and integrity. To live fully and fearlessly.....Awakening
The Poem
You, sent out beyond your recall, go to the limits of your longing.
Embody me.
Flare up like flame
And make big shadows I can move in.
Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror.
Just keep going. No feeling is final.
Don’t let yourself lose me.
Nearby is the country they call life.
You will know it by its seriousness.
Give me your hand.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
The Song
You who follow your dreams and visions
Withe joy in your hearts
and courage
You who follow your dreams and visions
join with me tonight...
~ Kath McMillan -
arrangement Bruce McNicoll
