For years, the Clearwater Sister Cities nonprofit group wanted to launch a lantern festival to showcase and show respect for the culture of longtime counterpart Nagano, Japan.
After a few years on the drawing board, the inaugural Clearwater Illuminations: Lantern Festival & International Night Market lifts off December 6th at Coachman Park on the downtown waterfront. The Clearwater lantern festival’s debut is also the finale of Art Everywhere, a new month-long celebration of arts and culture winding through Pinellas County later this year
A new collaboration between Creative Pinellas and Visit St. Pete-Clearwater, Art Everywhere awarded $350,000 in grants to close to 30 artists and arts organizations for events, exhibits, performances, and programming taking place from early November to early December…