Nana Projects, Creative Alliance stage 10th Halloween Lantern Parade

Edgar Allan Poe’s poem, Eureka, is the inspiration for this 10th year edition of the Great Halloween Lantern Parade and Festival, Saturday, Oct. 24 in Baltimore’s Patterson Park. The festival runs 3 to 9 p.m., and the parade and show lines up at 7 p.m. for its start at 7:30 p.m.

The parade includes stiltwalkers, ribbon rockets, floats, music and 1,200 paper lanterns. It is directed by Molly Ross’ Nana Projects and presented by the Creative Alliance.

Eureka: A Prose Poem, published in 1848, is Poe’s longest nonfiction work. It addresses the nature of man, God and the universe. This year marks the bicentennial anniversary of Poe’s birth, which is being celebrated in Baltimore as Nevermore 2009.