Lanterns for Peace - August 4, 2024

Tenney Park - Madison, Wisconsin

Rain Plan: If it rains, we will create lanterns and complete the speaking program inside the John Wall Family Pavilion. Then if it is clear enough, we will launch the lanterns on the water.

Photos by Joshua Abraham

Join us for this family friendly event on Sunday, August 4th to commemorate the lives lost in the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings 79 years ago and make sure that such nuclear attacks never again take place. We remember the past, so that we can envision and work for a peaceful, just and nuclear-free future.

The event will be open to the public to attend at Tenney Park outside of the John Wall Family Pavilion and the entire event will be held outdoors weather & temperature depending. You are welcome to mail in your lantern design by Monday, July 29th to our office if you cannot be in attendance.

SCHEDULE:

  • 6:30pm: Open to public at to create lanterns

  • 7:30pm: Program starts

  • ~7:45-8:00pm: Lanterns launched at dusk

*PSR WI has reused the styrofoam bases, candles and skewer sticks for the lanterns for at least 6 years. PSR WI removes all the materials from the Tenney Park Lagoon and we leave no trace.

Masks are encouraged to protect our vulnerable populations.

You can design and decorate your own lantern paper from your home by Monday, July 29!

There are four easy steps for decorating paper for Lanterns for Peace:

  1. Decorate a letter or legal sized paper with your message of peace, justice and a nuclear weapon free future. Your message can be in words, pictures or designs. Crayons, markers, colored pencils, paint, etc are all acceptable. All ages are encouraged to decorate their own! Simply send us your paper(s) and we will affix them to an assembled lantern. View examples of lantern pictures and designs here.

    OR

    To save us time, you can make “ready to assemble” lantern paper: Staple, tape or glue together two legal size (8.5 inches x 14 inches) sheets of paper or three letter size (8 inches x 11.5 inches) sheets of paper to form a square with each side measuring 6.5 inches (same size as past lanterns). Write or draw on the sides of your lantern and send it in. View specific instructions for “ready to assemble” lantern paper here.

  2. Take a photo or video on your cell phone of your lantern design and post it on Facebook, Instagram or Twitter with the hashtag “#LanternsForPeace”

  3. Mail your design to our office (720 Hill Street, Suite 200, Madison, WI 53705), or contact Grace (info@psrwisconsin.org) to drop the posters off at the office. We will construct your lantern with your artwork. You can fold the lantern paper into normal envelopes. If you are mailing 3 letter sized papers in a standard envelope it will need 1 stamp. If you are sending 6 sheets of papers in a standard envelope it will be $0.70 and need 2 stamps. If you mail in a 10’x13’ orange envelope it is $1.20.

*You will not receive your lantern back. We will try our best to take images of each lantern and we suggest you take a photo of your artwork before mailing it in.