Participants can send photographs of their Candle Night taken by mobile phone cameras or digital cameras via e–mail, and those photos will appear on the board. And when you put a cursor on a picture, the attached message will also appear. The boards will be a mandala-like photo gallery of various images of the Candle Night event.

Time: June 18, 20:00 through June 21, 22:00 (Japan Standard Time)
e-mail address: photo@candle-n.org

Note: You can send the title (15 letters)
and a message (45 letters) with the picture.

*"Candle Night at Omotesando"
Time: June 19 (SAT) from 19:30 to 22:00
Place: Omotesando, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo
http://www.candle-night.org/2005summer/event/view.php?id=214

*"GeshiFes 2005"
("geshi" means "summer solstice")
Time: June 21 (TUE) from 18:00 to 20:30
Place: Yoyogi Park, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo
http://geshifes.cultivaders.com/event.html

*"Candle Night Summer Solstice in EXPO 2005 Aichi"
Time: June 18 through 21, from 11:00 to 18:00: Candle Workshop—handmade beeswax candles
June 21(TUE) from 16:00-20:30: Talk show & Music Live
Place: Earth Square, "NGO Global Village" in EXPO 2005 AICHI.

Here in Nimbin, Australia we had our first Candle Night party in June 2001. Once again this year our house will be bathed in the ethereal glow of candlelight as we enjoy good food and the company of friends. And as it is mid-winter here in the southern hemisphere, our fireplace will have a roaring fire to ward off the chill of the night.

And once again this year we will be adding a small practical step to the symbolism of our candle night celebration:-

Greenfleet, an Australian not for profit organisation, has a website that makes it very quick and easy for us to neutralise the effect of the carbon dioxide released by our modern lifestyles.

By planting forests of biodiversity in areas that have been damaged by deforestation and land degradation, Greenfleet can offset the CO2 emissions of people living anywhere in the world.

For $20 or less anyone can have their whole year's electricity use offset; alternatively they can sequester the CO2 from their car usage - even their air flights!

By planting trees Greenfleet is not only helping to slow global climate change, but at the same time contributing to the greening the planet. And amazingly your tree planting contributions will only add between 2 and 3% to the utility bills, fuel costs and airfares that make our modern life so comfortable and convenient.

Until renewable, non-polluting sources of energy, and technologies for greater energy efficiency become widely available I recommend this small step to everyone celebrating the Candle Night. Visit the Greenfleet website at:
www.greenfleet.com.au

Wishing everyone an enjoyable Candle Night,

Nigel and Yoko

Nimbin, Australia

http://www.candle-night.org/scape/

Participants can send their messages to the Candlescape. With the use of postal codes, the system can identify the participant's location and can visualize it on the map of Japan with their message. Please visit the site, click "status view" and see how it works. Currently we have only Japanese map, but we would like to expand it worldwide in the near future.

The preparation of the first "Candle Night" event in South Korea has been underway, mainly by college students in Seoul.

On the night of Summer Solstice, June 21, 2005, exterior lights of the youth culture center will be dimmed, and candles designed by art students will be exhibited. Various other plans such as music events and offering organic coffee samples are in preparation.

The students created a "community cafe", an online message board, asking others to join them. With the help and advice of other environmental NGOs and ex-journalists, they have tried to plan the first event in South Korea. The message board is found at: http://cafe.daum.net/candlenight

The students are planning to hold another Candle Night event in larger scale in October 2005. The Candle Night Newsletter will cover their initiative possibly in the future issues.

Summer Solstice--it is the longest day of the year. Many traditional societies cerebrated, worshiped and prayed for it as a holy day. They were in awe and thankful--people at that time realized that they could only live thanks to the solar energy. However, no one today seems to remember those facts.

When you turn off the lights, darkness comes back. It has been a long time since the darkness disappeared from Japanese cities, where 80 percent of people live. Some people want to watch the moon and stars, or fireflies. Some might sit still in the darkness and some exchange their love for each other. Some make fire and others light candles. The flame of candles accentuates the darkness, and the darkness highlights the fire.

The majority of Japanese people eat dinner watching TV. Is this a sign of affluence? To me, this is simply a sign of cultural impoverishment. Let us turn out the lights and eat dinner under andlelight. Just a little act like that can give us a great opportunity: forming a circle, eating together and sitting by the firelight. Just think about it. Aren't these three major factors of culture to show what we, humankind, are all about?

I have had many opportunities to take my students to the ancient forests of North and South America. They looked happiest when they sat around a bonfire at night. Some even cried with a full smile on their faces. Then I realized--I took them all the way to see the moment. At the same time I was appalled by the fact that our "affluent" society could not give our children even that much joy. We seem to have pursued freedom under the fluorescent lamps.

We have been fixed in a strange idea that the more electricity we consume and the brighter the nights are, then society is more affluent and advanced, as the U.S. President Bush suggested 5 years ago that U.S. economy would be secured only if they construct one or two new power plants every week for the next 20 years. However, can we call it "economy" when its pursuit for money allows us to wage a war or to destroy the ecosystem that supports our lives?

Darkness, candlelight and bonfire will bring us a relaxing and peaceful time. Going with the flow of the time, we can come back to life from the madness of the "fast life" that has occupied us for a long time. Some might cynically say to us, "Such a little thing will not work for energy-saving," but we do not need to hold back. Candle Night can change me, and then the world, which I am part of, can certainly change, even though the change may be slight.

There is a folk legend that has been transmitted among indigenous peoples of South America.

"The forest was on fire.

All the animals, insects and birds in the forest rushed to escape.

But there was one little hummingbird named Kurikindi, or Golden Bird,
who stayed behind.

This little bird went back and forth between water and fire, dropping a single
drop of water from its beak onto the fire below.

When the animals saw this, they began to laugh at Kurikindi.
"Why are you doing that?" they asked.

And Kurikindi replied, "I am only doing what I can do."

--I am as little as the hummingbird, but I will do just what I can do, too.

The Candle Night is an event under the slogan of "Turn off lights and take it slow" on the night of summer solstice. This is a voluntary participatory event, initiated by Japan's environmental non government organizations, or NGOs.

The Candle Night Committee hopes to extend this event from Japan to the world, to the "Global Candle Night" event. We will provide readers with information and activities of the Candle Night.

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The website of Candle Night has been updated to "Candle Night Summer Solstice 2005." This year's Candle Night will be enjoyed on the evenings of June 18 to 21, at 8:00 p.m. to 10:00 p. m.

The contents of the website are to be updated as the night of Summer Solstice approaches. Stay tuned at http://www.candle-night.org/
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This issue features the following stories:
Report--Candle Night at Harajuku Cat Street
Essay--"Yobanashi" Tea Ceremony

Japanese people love things that are in constant change. The shadow of fallen bamboo leaves reflecting on shoji (paper) screen. The look of dew on morning glories. Kuzufu, grass cloth, blowing in the wind and changing its shape. We are fascinated by the mutability of things that are transient, ephemeral and gone instantly.

In spring, tasting sake by the reflection of the cherry blossoms.
In summer, pondering at the waterside.
In autumn, traveling through the light of autumn leaves.
In winter, reading letters by the reflection of snow.

The promise made under the dim light through a paper screen or dating in the moonlight remains as sweet memory in one's mind. The shadow, accompanied with the glimmering light, also flickers. The whole thing in the memory is mutable. Images and memories can be reshaped over time.

"yobanashi e shigururu zari no oto tatete"
Yobanashi tea ceremony--
in winter drizzle,
sound of pebbles.

Last winter, I had an opportunity to attend a "Yobanashi" Tea Ceremony in Ohara, Kyoto, at the mountain villa of the long-established confectioner. The host of the tea ceremony was the owner of the villa. "Yobanash" Tea Ceremony is fully presented under candlelight. In the remaining red leaves of winter, guests were lead by handheld candles to the waiting place, walking on the wet pebbles and stepping stones. Whenever the candlelight flickers, wet moss on the stones glimmered. I felt as if I were deep in the water.

When we entered the waiting place, the host welcomed us with a flower and a haiku, as a head verse.

"chanohana ya makkurokuro ni shirosa kana"
A flower--
in darkness
shines white.

After the main guest added the wakiku (second verse) closely followed the host's hokku (the head verse), the guest rang the bell and entered the tea room.

My verse was:
"momijishigure no beni no naka nimo"
In drizzle, maple leaves,
reflects red.

As I was hurried by the other guests in the chilly evening, I had a hard time creating a verse to match the hokku. I used the contrast of colors, white tea flower, black night of darkness in Ohara, and red maple leaves in the winter rain.

The second verses of other guests were as follows:

"kokemederu kokoro o asobu chano shigusa"
Cherish moss
in mind,
the motion of ceremony.

"gankou kiyoshi kangetsu no niwa"
Geese fly in the night sky
moonshine in the cold garden.

"oozora e kumono tanabiku sanzenin"
In the sky,
clouds drift
over Sanzenin Temple.

"izure ro-ma no ano kuukan e"
Through space to Rome
at any point of time.

"ototatete tou o kizukishi yume o mimu"
Dreams of building towers
in sound.

"inishie yorino kaze o hakobite"
Carry winds
from ancient times.

"mirai e to iunano chawan yawarakaku"
Tea cup named future
soft and gentle.

kama naritakaku utsunemo kiyosi"
Sounds of the tea pot,
serene and pure.

The guests added their verses following the other's verse, while they were served tea. They focused colors first: white of a flower, black of darkness, red of maple leaves, green of moss, blue of sky. The verse jumped over space to Rome, and over time to ancient times. Then the teacup called "future" appeared. Following the ancient in the former verse, the host replied offering the teacup called "future". The guests were amazed with the host's witty reply. The whole process was going under the dim and sweet lighting of Japanese candles and flickering shadows. The only sounds were boiling water, serving tea and winter rain over the villa.

The decor and tea utensils by Kobori Enshu, the scroll of Shokado Shojo, a teacup of Rengetsuni, were all seen in the flickering lights and shadows reflected by the flame of candles. We talked and talked, and enjoyed the moment.

"Haikai poetry, the practice of composing linked sequences of waka poetry, is created by the poets' spontaneous ideas and the atmosphere the space provides. When wound up, an interesting play ends, too. I like the instant enjoyment as if I am watching a movie." It is a quote from Hiroshi Kojitani, one of the members of the ceremony.

The memory of the moment woven under the reflecting candlelight emerges more vividly as time goes by.

"Creator's Candle Design Exhibition," a new kind of event, was held at the "Candle Night　at Harajuku Cat Street" in Tokyo on December 21, 2004.

The “Candle Night at Harajuku Cat Street” has been held on the nights of Winter Solstice since 2002. Every year, design students decorate using candles under the theme of "Proposition to Reduce Excessive Lighting from Urban Nights."

In addition to the decoration, "Creator's Candle Design Exhibition" was held in 2004, in which creators in various fields such as graphic design and city planning, joined in and designed artistic candles for the exhibition.

The participants were Naoto Fukazawa, Ayumi Han, Taku Sato, Kazuko Fujie, Hidetoshi Ono, Kaoru Mende, Kazunari Hattori, Yasuhiro Suzuki, and Ryosuke Uehara & Yoshie Watanabe (D-BROS). Those foremost creators designed candles, seeking "a new candle design," which is a simple but challenging theme. Thus ten sets of unique art candles were created and showcased on the fifth floor of "Tree of Life "at Harajuku, a shop dealing with herbs, essential oils and so on. With the lights turned off, the candles were burning with dim flames in the dark exhibition site, displaying their design challenge.

Kaoru Mende, a lighting designer, created artwork named "Eroding Paraffin Lake," a flat white candle embedded with blue candles. As the candle burns, the blue and white wax melts
creating a beautiful blue lake spreading across the white shore with an orange flame flickering on the lake.

Yasuhiro Suzuki, an artist, focused on the dissolving nature of candles and created three art candles: "Balance Scale," "Cup and Ball," a Japanese traditional wooden toy and "Spoon." The balance scale made of candle wax was displayed first unbalanced, then its irregularly set wicks were lit and started to melt and ended up balancing at a certain moment. The moment was so fantastic and the visitors who happened to see it balance were excited with the intellectual performance.

Taku Satoh, a graphic designer, made a candle in the shape of plastic bottle bottom, named "Rutobotoppe", a back slang of "Pettobotoru," which means a "Plastic bottle" in Japanese. The uniquely designed candle molded a plastic bottle upside down with a wick in the center of the bottom of the bottle. The artist who designed package for a plastic beverage bottle before, wanted people to notice how beautiful the bottles are and also humorously expressed the phrase "being lit on one's bottom" meaning to be pressured to meet the deadline, because this exhibition was held on winter solstice, around the end of year, the busiest time of year in Japan.

There were other candles that creators designed focusing on the shadows of flames, expressing how candle wax melts. Those exhibited ten sets of art candles, reflecting each creator's idea and style, entertained people who visited the exhibition.

Even though, those ten sets of candles were artistic expressions by the creators, they gave visitors encouragement to enjoy nighttime in the dim candle light. We hope to keep on holding new types of events like this one.

"The Creator's Candle Design Exhibition"
Time: December 21, 2004
Place: Tree of Life, Harajuku
Participants: Naoto Fukazawa, Ayumi Han, Taku Sato, Kazuko Fujie, Hidetoshi Ono, Kaoru Mende, Kazunari Hattori, Yasuhiro Suzuki, and Ryosuke Uehara + Yoshie Watanabe (D-BROS),
Co-Sponsored by Kameyma Candle

The Candle Night is an event under the slogan of "Turn off lights
and take it slow" on the night of summer solstice. This is a
voluntary participatory event, initiated by Japan's environmental
non government organizations, or NGOs.
http://www.candle-night.org/

The Candle Night Committee hopes to extend this event from Japan
to the world, to the "Global Candle Night" event. We will provide
readers with information and activities of the Candle Night.

This issue features the following stories:
-The report on the "Candle Night"-Summer Solstice 2004 in
Japan
-A Vow to "Diet of Light"
-Japanese stories on "candles" and invitation to the readers

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Shinichi Takemura
Candle Night Committee
Anthropologist, Professor at Kyoto University of Art & Design

The trend in which people seek a new sense of values and
lifestyles beyond the civilization of mass production
and mass consumption in the 20th century have been gaining
momentum among Japanese citizens. One example that
symbolizes this trend is the Candle Night event.
http://www.candle-night.org/

Under the slogan of "Turn off your lights, and take it slow,"
for two hours on the summer solstice, the Candle Night event
started on June 22, 2003. This voluntary participatory
event was originally initiated by several Japan's
environmental non governmental organizations, or NGOs.

Responding to calls from the Candle Night committee, various
groups such as the Ministry of the Environment (MOE),
businesses, municipal governments and public facilities as well
as artists in a variety of fields across Japan showed support for
the event. Thus, the movement gained momentum and its popularity
among the citizens swelled. According to an estimate by the MOE,
a total of 5 million people nationwide participated in the event in
2003. Over 200 major landmark facilities, such as the Tokyo
Tower, Rainbow Bridge and Himeji Castle, turned their lights off.
The Candle Night became one of the major summer events.

NEC Corporation, one of the major manufactures of electrical
machinery in Japan, participated in the event on a company-wide
basis, with about ten million employees and their family members.
Iwate prefectural government also joined the event with all
of its prefectural citizens. In this way, large numbers of businesses
and local governments expressed their support for the events. It is
a clear example showing cooperation and collaboration among the
public sector, private businesses and citizens. This has become a
major trend and is now more common in Japan.

In this year's "Candle Night-Summer Solstice 2004" event, more
than 5,000 major facilities turned off their lights and convenience
stores across Japan voluntarily turned off their signs. During the
three day (Saturday-Monday) 2004 Candle Night, an estimated 6.5
million peopled joined the event.

Last year, many unique local candle events were also held across
the country. During their Candle Night event, some towns
established their own traditional "light"-scape, while others
decided to do a Candle Night every weekend to add to local charm.

Our Candle Night does not place any specific rules on participants.
It only encourages them to turn off the lights voluntarily and to
enjoy something different and unusual for two hours. The idea of
our initiative originated from the Voluntary Blackout movement
that started in the United States, but our approach is not limited
to energy saving nor power saving.

In fact, many people joined the Candle Night with strong hopes for
peace and a clean global environment. However this event is
symbolic. Rather than striving to attain a specific goal such as
reducing carbon dioxide emissions, it simply gives people an
opportunity to review and rethink their lifestyles and themselves
during these two hours.

The style of participating in this event, therefore, varies from
person to person. Some people focus on strengthening and
reconfirming their family bond by taking extra time to enjoy dinner
slowly, or taking a bath together. Others go to events such as the
Candle Concert, or find themselves re-appreciating the beauty of
stars alone in the darkness of downtown. On our website, a truck
driver announced his intention to turn off his engines while
parked.

The Candle Night event does not focus on attaining any specific
goals collectively. Rather, it tries to offer participants an
opportunity to discover a new sense of values, or offer an
alternative lifestyle for their future. The Candle Night Committee
hopes that the event can provide participants with a platform
where people can join it at their own will and way.

Sharing the concept without having any specific "rules" may be one
example of the Japanese way of thinking. We are sure that by
expanding the scope of potential participants, the event has gained
the popularity from people of all ranks, beyond regional borders
and generations. Another typically Japanese element is the use of
cell phones for joining and enjoying this event. This integrates the
cutting-edge IT based community with the slower-paced
environmentally aware movement.

The committee invited participants to send messages via the
internet several weeks before the event. The "Candlescape"
platform can monitor how the participants across Japan have
increased on a real-time basis. Participants visited the
Candlescape website
(http://www.candle-night.org/2004/jp/apply/index.html), and sent
their messages and their postal code. With the use of postal codes,
the system can identify the participant's location and can visualize
it on the map of Japan.

Through this map-typed message board, the participants can
realize the link with other numerous participants scattered all
over Japan. They can share a sense of unity with an invisible
community, a so-called a virtual community, where people are
linked to each other by a new sense of value.

This network-based participation was enhanced by another
web-based program, the "Candle Kaleidoscope," also available on
our website. "Candle Kaleidoscope" was a real-time online message
board for pictures. Participants sent photographs of their Candle
Night taken by mobile phone cameras via e -mail, and those photos
appeared on the board on a real time basis. The boards became a
mandala-like photo gallery of various images of the Candle Night
event. Please visit our website
http://www.candle-night.org/2004/index.html, click
"Kaleidoscope," and you can find the 2004 Kaleidoscope.

Some participants sent pictures of family and friends with a Haiku.
Haiku is a form of traditional Japanese poetry, a 17-syllable verse
form consisting of three metrical units of 5, 7, and 5 syllables. The
art of Haiku or traditional space of light and shadow generated by
candle light were revitalized through electrical network.

The next event is the "Candle Night"-Winter Solicits 2004. This is
not a large-scaled event like in the summer, but grass-root,
voluntary movement for the winter event has already started in
many places. In our next news letter, we will report the result of
the winter event.

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Slow Life-A Vow to "Diet of Light"

Kaoru Mende
Lighting designer, leader of the Transnational Lighting Detectives,
Professor at Musashino Art University

I am a lighting designer and have been working in the field of
urban environmental and architecture lighting. My job is to
propose designs for indoor or outdoor lighting to meet the clients'
expectations. Against the current trend in lighting design i.e.
adding up excessive light, I often focus on "shadow design" as a way
of lighting. That means that beautiful shadows or striking
darkness can be generated by reducing unnecessary light and using
minimum lighting only in necessary places. As a matter of fact,
lighting design is synonymous with shadow design. I believe an
important theme in lighting design is the careful use of shadows
and darkness. It's not just about filling a space with light.

We are all suffering from "bulimia of light." In fact, there are many
people who have never been moved to tears by watching the sky full
of stars, or those who have stepped on shadows under the bright
moon light. They have been forced to live watching bright TV and
computer screens since they were born. Some children are not able
to sleep in the darkness. This is especially true for Japanese
people, who like to use extremely bright fluorescent lamps even for
residential use. Due to limited sources of illumination in the past,
the Japanese have come to associate bright lights with wealth and
abundance. They have come to have an unusual sense of brightness.
The Japanese are not proud of their insensitivity to light. The
reason behind this insensitivity is that Japanese people have never
experienced an eye-friendly, comfortably lit environment. The
Japanese have worked hard to light brightly and evenly but now
realize that it's the quality of the light matters, not the quantity.

Excessively high luminance levels at convenience stores and drug
stores create a living environment where day and night are
reversed. Nobody would be troubled, nor would anything happen if
all the convenience stores across Japan turned off the ceiling
lights by half and lowered the light level to 500 to 700 lux at night.
Customers may be stunned at first, but they would get used to it
comfortably in a week or so. Another change could be made to
vending machines, which are lit up all day. The lights could be
turned off during daylight hours, probably without any notice or
reaction.

To reduce the excessive lighting, what we call "Diet of Light," is
one of the central issues in the 21st century. How can we abandon
the vested interest of using abundant lighting we have created
since the last century, and how can we get away from "light
bulimia?" Lighting habits can be compared to eating habits. This
means that using a small amount of light wisely could be compared
to enjoying a small amount of healthy food. Japanese people have
been enjoying one of the healthiest and the most traditional diets
in the world. Why can't we also enjoy "healthy" amount of lights,
similar to the healthy traditional low-calorie, low-fat
vegetarian-like diet? Should we go to a fasting center to do that?
One of the important goals in living a so-called "slow life," a
relaxed, simplified life, is how to use lighting effectively. We need
to experience the utter darkness and its beauty to find a better way
of using minimum lighting in the so-called "slow life". We need to
reduce the volume of light in life. We need to start by enjoying the
darkness and the night. It is important for us to turn off lights and
get back to darkness because real darkness can make people realize
their fears. It can also make people reflect on their inner self, give
them time to think of their loved ones and of their past.
Furthermore, when in complete darkness people can then
appreciate and be fascinated by even small amounts of light. The
Candle Night movement offers us an opportunity to share the value
of a "Diet of Light" with people all over the world. The experience
of darkness, even for a brief moment, is important.

Notes from the Candlelight Committee: In the Candle
Night-Summer Solstice 2004 event, Japan's major convenience
stores such as Seven-Eleven and Lawson cooperated to turn off
their signs altogether. On Omotesando Street in Harajuku, Tokyo,
one of the trendiest fashion streets in Japan, fancy boutiques such
as Channel and other stores turned off the lights during the Candle
Night event. This means that people's sense of value seems to be
changing.

Kaoru Mende is one of the leading figures of the event in
Omotesando.

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In Japan, there remain many folk tales, stories and local practices
associated with candles. Today, we introduce you to one of those
stories, "The Red Candles and the Mermaid," written by Mimei
Ogawa.

Once, there lived a mermaid in the northern sea .in Japan. The
mermaid, wishing for her daughters happiness, decided to let her
new-born live in human society. The daughter was brought up by an
old couple who made and sold candles. She grew up to be a gentle
girl. She started drawing beautiful pictures on the candles to repay
the old couple for their favor. The candles became very popular as
the rumor spread that if they were offered on the shrine, ships
wouldn't be wrecked. Despite growing very rich, the couple was
enticed by a merchant into selling the girl. The merchant had heard
about the mermaid, wanted her for his freak show. The girl didn't
stop drawing pictures on the candles until the last minute. When
she left the house, she colored some candles all in red. On the night
she was sold, a woman came to the candle shop and bought the red
candle. That night, a big storm broke and the boat the mermaid girl
was onboard sunk. Since then, the superstition has persisted that
if red candles were lit at the mountain shrine, a big storm would
come and the person who saw the flame of the candle light would die
in the ocean. The town was ruined in the end.

Interestingly, other candle-related practices are still observed in
Hokkaido, a northern island of Japan.

On August 7th, the night of Tanabata, the Star Festival according
to lunar calendar, groups of children walk around neighborhoods
knocking at each door singing "Ro-so-ku da-se-yo" meaning "give us
candles," or we will scratch you. (The phrases vary from region to
region.) Then residents give them some sweets. This practice
originated from an old tradition of visiting neighbors to ask for
candles during Obon, the period that ancestor's souls are said to
come home. Recently most residents serve children sweets instead
of candles. This is similar to "Trick or Treat" in the Halloween of
Western countries, isn't it? Although there are only a few towns in
Hokkaido who still observe this annual event, children in those
areas look forward to the local event and enjoy it every year.

Are there any "candle stories" in your country? If you have unique
stories, practices or festivals associated with candles or light and
shadows in your country, please let us know. We would like to
introduce them to our world readers, too.

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The Candle Night Committee has started to prepare for next year's event. The progress of preparations is to be reported on this weblog.

Turn out your lights on the night, and enjoy the darkness together.