# Derry's Creggan area getting ready for Lúnasa celebrations
Rory Mooney, 14 Aug


   Creggan is set to come alive tomorrow (Thursday, August 15) as Lúnasa,
   a new community celebration takes place across the neighbourhood as
   part of Féíle 2024.

   Historically, Lúnasa was a time of harvest and festivities, featuring
   one of the major fire festivals of the year. Féíle's Lúnasa festival
   will be inspired by traditional celebrations and will combine sport,
   music, carnival and fire that all ages can enjoy,

   The event will get underway at 2pm with the Creggan Games at St
   Cecilia’s College sports grounds at Fanad Drive. The intergenerational
   team sporting event will see local organisations and residents
   competing at various sporting disciplines including Tug of War, Sack
   Race, Welly Toss and The Creggan National.

   Wan Big Street Party returns to Central Drive from 4pm - 7.30pm and
   will feature amusements, inflatables, face painting, music, BME
   cultural workshops, Henna tattoos, Kidz Farm and much more.

   The Lúnasa event will come to a close with a procession of light
   through the streets of Creggan and a fire finale. Over the last few
   weeks, young people from sports clubs, youth groups and community
   organisations have been taking part in workshops where they have been
   creating props and artworks for the event including a willow bull
   structure created by young people and the artist Brendan Farren which
   will form a centrepiece for the finale. The procession of young people
   will leave Fanad Drive at 9.15pm and walk to Greenwalk for a fire based
   spectacle.