A workshop to help with reparations for a festival to celebrate the closing of the Year of Our Island project takes place this weekend.

People have been invited to join in with the forthcoming festival of light, taking place over a week in the middle of March , by making willow lanterns, which they will be able to parade through Ramsey and Castletown.

There will be a free craft session, held this Saturday afternoon at St Mary’s on the Harbour, in Castletown, between 10am and 4pm, where people are welcome to design and build their own lanterns, with all materials supplied.