Dover Winter Lantern Festival 2025

Event Details

Watch Moving Memory bring in the festive cheer at Pencester Gardens, Dover.

  • 06/12/2025
  • Pencester Gardens, Dover CT16 1NS
  • 3.40pm-4pm

Free

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Moving Memory perform Cracking the Crinoline at Dover Winter Light Up in Pencester Gardens, Dover. Yellow confetti flies around.

Event Info

We are delighted to be taking part in Dover Winter Lantern Festival 2025!

Moving Memory will be performing at 3.40pm until 4pm in Pencester Gardens. Further details about Moving Memory’s involvement will be shared soon.

Now in its fifth year, Dover’s Winter Lantern Festival has become a cherished local tradition. Over the past four years, this magical event has inspired and uplifted the community through workshops, parades, and creative celebrations.

Dover Town Council, in partnership with Future Foundry, present the annual Winter Lantern Procession at 5.30pm on Saturday 6 December.

Between 3pm and 7.30pm, visitors can also enjoy the festive celebrations in Pencester Gardens and Dover Town Centre, with live entertainment, family activities, markets, the Dover Town Christmas Tree and the light trail decorations.

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