The Lantern, the Spirit and the Living Object: Breathing Life Into Japanese Craft

A paper lantern is one of the oldest sustained inventions of Japanese hand-craft. For more than a thousand years, the chōchin has been carried at temple gates, lit at Bon Festival to guide ancestor spirits home and placed at the thresholds where one world meets another. 

Tonight, in the space of a single hour, come learn the story of this object and then make one with your own hands.