Festival of Lights December 21, 2005

Join the Red Pepper Spectacle Arts, Samba Squad, costumed characters, giant puppets, stiltwalkers, and firebreathers in a lantern-lit carnival parade through Kensington Market that ends with a fiery solstice send-off at Bellevue Square Park.

Thousands of participants annually -- bang a drum or a pot and pan, ring a bell, carry a lantern, make a puppet, wear a mask.

Procession starts at Augusta and Oxford (just south of College, between Spadina and Bathurst).