Each year, Carnaby Street light up a new set of Christmas lights for the season. This year, their lights are a collaboration with charity Choose Love, who raise funding for refugees by allowing visitors to buy blankets, mobile phone credit or shoes that are then donated. With the year that 2020 has turned out to be, the new lights offer hope, love, and kindness.
Look up and you will see various gifts that describe how community have come together: gift, hope, together, brave, hero, thank you, kind, and happy are some of the words above the "Choose Love in Carnaby" banners. The design is a lot more subtle than in previous years where Carnaby Street pull out all the stops. This year's display features purple banners with simple words.
The side streets and the row of bulbs on Grafton Street are decorated with pink bulbs in keeping in the purple and pink theme this year.
Due to the pandemic, the switch-on event at Carnaby Street (and all of the other streets) was cancelled, but the lights themselves are not cancelled.
To see previous Carnaby Street Christmas lights in my blog, see the below posts:
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