This year the 2024 Lismore Lantern Parade will be celebrating 30 years of bringing light to the hearts of our Northern Rivers communities. 

We appreciate your donation to help us to continue this beloved community tradition of bringing a breath-taking parade of lanterns, light and performance through the main streets of Lismore, travelling through the heart of the city to the banks of the Wilsons River culminating in a theatrical performance, fireworks and a spectacular bonfire.

Established 30 years ago, the first lantern parade involved only a few hundred participants and a small crowd. We now have over 2,500 people walking in the parade with a crowd of over thirty-two thousand people lining the streets from our local community, and from all over Australia and the world.

The Lismore Lantern Parade is now a nationally and internationally recognised, award-winning annual festival that celebrates the winter solstice – the shortest day of the year, a time of optimism and renewal. 

So many families from all over Australia have grown up in wonderment of the magic of the lanterns each year. The lantern parade is truly an intergenerational tradition, with babies in prams now bringing their teenagers to the lantern parade this year.

Every donation, no matter how small, supports the not-for-profit organisation LightnUp Inc to fund the parade.

We can't do it without you! 

We acknowledge many donors now prefer a digital donation option, who in past years would have donated small amounts of cash to our donation buckets, thank you for taking the time to add your donation to this “digital bucket”.

For more information about donation options, please follow this LINK.

Thank you for being part of the 2024 Lismore Lantern Parade fundraising campaign.