u/Harold_supertramp

So I just learnt that tomorrow night is the Water Lantern Festival at Eastern Beach.

I’m curious and a little frustrated.

For these reasons:

-There is little to no information about the actual festival and what it entails

- How can a community event on the waterfront be ticketed at $51 online and $83 at the ‘door’. That’s insanely expensive and exclusive.

- They have denied back legit local performing artist to be included.

-if it’s lanterns there’s cultural appropriation and environmental issues here, especially when there’s little to no context here.

-they’ve bragged about running for 9 years and releasing over 2 million lanterns

Can someone explain what this is haha, it’s voted best festival by USA today apparently, merica 🇺🇸