32nd Annual Festival of Lights

This year’s Festival of Lights event was celebrated on Sunday, December 2nd and has been regarded by residents as the best to date.  The event preserved long-standing traditions including caroling down Visitacion led by Kathy Wall, a performance by Brisbane Dance Workshop, Santa’s arrival on the firetruck, and of course cookies, cider, and cocoa.  This year’s event also brought back the fan-favorite life-sized inflatable snow globe and introduced new elements including a song by children in the Club Rec afterschool program, photos with Santa, an oversized switch for lighting the tree, and Frosty with his very own snow!  The evening was truly magical and celebrated the founder of the Festival of Lights, Jeri Sulley, who also sang an original song about the festival tree. 

The Parks & Recreation Department would like to thank the following people for whom without them, the event would not have been possible: Clarke Conway, Nancy Colman, Renee Marmion, Kevin Fryer, Santa Claus, Kathy Wall, Jeri Sulley, the Brisbane City Council, the Parks & Recreation Commission, Brisbane Dance Workshop, Brisbane Fire Department, Brisbane Public Works Department, Brisbane Police Department, Club Rec staff, Sharon Boggs, Walt Long, Tim Chang, the Brisbane Library, Generators Unlimited, and a very special thanks to Nick Cohn for building and donating our new official light switch! 

Thank you to all who attended for making the event such a great celebration of community and Happy Holidays!  Enjoy the photos!  More can be found here on the Parks and Recreation Department's Facebook page.  Until next year!