"A huge thank you to all participants, families, community groups, artists, bands, friends, volunteers, supporters and sponsors for helping Same Sky produce this fantastic event".

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Burning the Clocks started in 1995 and the event combines a family solstice lantern parade with a spectacular fire and fireworks show. Burning the Clocks is a unique community event that brings the whole city together to mark the shortest day and ushers in the new sun. Lantern makers invest their lanterns with their wishes, hopes and fears and then pass them into the fire.

Same Sky would like to thank our sponsors: University of Brighton, Care Home Insurance Service, The Guinness Trust, Southern Water and our regular supporters: Juice 107.2 fm, Visit Brighton, Guide to Brighton, Tea cups and Tiaras, ACA Scaffolding and Brighton and Hove City Council

Support Burning the Clocks!

Burning the Clocks needs your support! This much loved local event relies on the support of local businesses and individuals to continue.

This year we are asking everyone who participates and watches the event to donate £1 by texting the word sameskyclocks to 70100 there by securing the event for next year.

Facebook competition:
How many Burning the clocks parades have you participated in?
Do you have a photo to prove you are a mega fan?
If so like us on the burning the clocks facebook and you and your family could lead the parade in 2012!

Have you seen our new cartoon? Use link in right menu or click on any on the thumbnails to download the pdf.

Our Lady of Light

Our Lady of Light carries a shining germ of light in her warm heart. Follow her down to the sea where the tides rise and the world turns and the sun is reborn. Help us carry this spark of the new sun to sow on the beach ready for the next spring.

The solstice marks the winter turning point of the solar year, so dress up warm and come and greet the new sun! See the baton pass from our lady to the spirit of the earth. Watch as he takes the spark into the cold ground holding it as it grows into the new sun.

All is not lost, all is regained, and this is indeed Paradise.

Once we burn our hopes and fears the heat of the fire brings up the new sun, the pendulum starts, the clocks tick and all is saved. The silence is broken by the cheers and music of the new solar year.

Thank you and your colleagues, on behalf of everyone at the college and the wider community, for the incredible support you provide, enabling our students and their families to contribute to and take part in some fantastic events

 College Principal

Thank you for doing a workshop in our classroom. My partner was William and we worked as a team when we stuck the tissue paper on. I learned a lot and I hope I can do it again

 Year 5 Pupil

Thanks for the tremendous evening you organised. My son thoroughly enjoyed the experience of making the moth and taking part in the event as a team member. It was a great experience and I think he gained a lot from it

 Parent

This event now plays a large part in our City’s Christmas celebrations, and is extremely popular with those who live here and visitors alike. I had a wonderful evening

 Mayor of Brighton and Hove

What a fantastic initiative to reinstate rituals in our lives! Much needed...

 Family participating in Burning the Clocks

Same Sky are so great to work with and the students really love working with you too – you always manage to stay calm and reasonable, plus you are very respectful to them and they respond in the same way

 Assistant Head at Secondary School

It’s the most beautiful thing I’ve ever seen

 4 year old audience member at Burning the Clocks

The impact on the group is immeasurable, but seeing them so proud of who they are and what they are taking part in, speaks volumes. They know they have a voice and it is listened to

 Youth Carnival Club Leader

I especially liked using tools I had never used before and I liked the fact that there was something different to do every day

 Vocational Experience Student

Thanks to everyone for being so welcoming, friendly and happy to show me new creative skills

 Volunteer

Same Sky is very good at giving one the confidence to get out there and give it a go

 Arts in Education Co-ordinator

I really admire the way Same Sky has continued to combine good community involvement and a spectacular event. It takes a rare talent and good judgement to manage both

 Pyrotechnician about Burning the Clocks

 “You let the pupils take charge of decisions in their work, which we do not always manage to do and it is great to remember how this does often work”

 Art and Design Teacher at Secondary School

 “The impact on the group is immeasurable, but seeing them so proud of who they are and what they are taking part in, speaks volumes.  They know they have a voice and it is listened to”

 Youth Carnival Club Leader

“I especially liked using tools I had never used before and I liked the fact that there was something different to do every day”

 Vocational Experience Student

 “Thanks to everyone for being so welcoming, friendly and happy to show me new creative skills”

 Volunteer

“Same Sky is very good at giving one the confidence to get out there and give it a go”

 Arts in Education Co-ordinator

  “I really admire the way Same Sky has continued to combine good community involvement and a spectacular event.  It takes a rare talent and good judgement to manage both”

 Pyrotechnician about Burning the Clocks

Find Out More & Get Involved

Explore the site to find out more about Same Sky, this year's carnival and lantern making; and revisit the sight and sounds from Burning the Clocks past. Burning the Clocks is just one of the many events and community activities that same sky helps bring to life every year. We rely on the support of funding, sponsorship and community involvement. Right now we need your support to ensure that same sky can continue to help the community dream and build.