🏝️ Ceremony is at Ala Moana Beach 6:30-7:30 pm.👇🏽See below for how to take part.
Can't be on the beach in person? 📺 View the ceremony live on KHON2 TV, on our website (
https://lanternfloatinghawaii.com/) or our YouTube (
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Visit our website
https://lanternfloatinghawaii.com/ for additional info.
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There are many ways to participate:
1.) Write a remembrance for the wood-framed *Collective Remembrance Lanterns*, which are floated during the ceremony by volunteers on the canoes 🛶 :
💻 Online: Submit at
https://lanternfloatinghawaii.com/remembrances/ by Monday, May 25 11:59pm Hawaiʻi time.
✍️ In-person until May 22: Visit the Shinnyo-en Hawaiʻi temple to write your remembrance, 10am-5 pm. (Please confirm open days at
https://www.shinnyoenusa.net/?page_id=295)
🌺 In-person on event day: Write a message by visiting the Collective Remembrance Tent at the beach from 10am-6pm.
2.) Personally float an *Individual Lantern* in the water yourself during the ceremony 🌊 :
- Visit the Lantern Request Tent from 10am-4pm at the beach on event day to request a lantern.
- First-come, first-served, while available. One per family/group, please.
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Everyone is welcome to take part in this annual Memorial Day ceremony of remembrance and aloha for those who have touched our lives, for those we miss.
Candle-lit lanterns are floated in the water to carry our gratitude and prayers for all spirits and forms of life that have supported our existence since the beginning of time.
By sharing our feelings of loss and grief, we may also experience the lights of hope, courage and compassion, kindling a desire for connection and healing not just for ourselves, but for those around us.
