Tofino Lantern Festival

Tofino Lantern Festival

The Tofino Lantern Festival is the Raincoast Education Society's 'signature' community event and fundraiser, drawing the young and old with an unbelievable variety of handmade lanterns. The Tofino Lantern Festival was born in 2001 and has grown to feature local musicians and artists and includes a ‘permanent collection’ of locally-created West Coast lanterns. Many of these lanterns are modeled on local flora and fauna, such as mushrooms, sharks, flowers, fish, owls, banana slugs, and trees, but there is also a village worth of houses, a constellation of stars, a galaxy of planets, a yard of recycling lanterns and much, much more. Best of all, each year new lanterns are created and paraded around the Tofino Botanical Garden trails by children and ‘children-at-heart.’ Don’t miss this magical, candle-lit celebration of West Coast culture!