Saturday 14 November 2026 | Rose Hill Community Centre | 2pm onwards
Join us for Creative Lights Festival: Fantastic Fiction, a free family event celebrating reading, creativity and community as part of Oxford’s Christmas Lights Festival 2026
From 2.00pm, enjoy creative activities including lantern-making workshops inspired by books, stories and fictional adventures and a free community meal. Then bring it to the parade.
Celebrating the joy of reading and imagination, local young people will create lanterns based on their favourite books, characters and stories, bringing fiction to life through light and creativity.
As darkness falls, join a colourful lantern parade around the Rose Hill estate, featuring hand-made lanterns, spectacular large-scale creations and a live band.
Gather outside Rose Hill Community Centre from 4.30 pm with your lanterns. The parade sets off at 5.00pm and ends at The Oval by 6pm.
A joint project by Rose Hill Junior Youth Club (RHJYC) , Film Oxford, Rose Hill Community Centre and other groups based in the area.
Free and open to all. Come and help light up Rose Hill with Fantastic Fiction!
Volunteers and Parade stewards wanted to help make this another amazing festival. If interested email office@filmoxford.org
Additional Free activities in the lead-up to the Festival:
October Half Term 2026 – All Free
Family Days – Monday 26th and Tuesday 27th October – 11am-2pm
Free Drop-in activities for families, including making a lantern for the parade! Just turn up.
Film Club 26th to 28th October, Rose Hill Community Centre, 10am-3pm
3 days of filmmaking for 11- 15-year-olds, includes free lunch. Young people who complete this will be invited to film the Creative Lights Festival and parade on 14th November 2026 – Contact RHJYC aimee@rhjyc.org
Video and Photos from previous year’s Creative Light Festival.
