The Mahurangi Winter Festival Of Lights is returning, and it's shaping up to be better than ever with some awesome events scheduled.

The Mahurangi Winter Festival of Lights is a community event started to bring Rodney together to brighten up winter and add smiles to the Mahurangi region. The Parade of Lights will be returning for its second year on the 10th of July. All the festival day favourites return for a full day of action-packed fun on the 17th of July.

This year, there are three great events taking place: The Parade of Lights, July 10th, The Gull Laser Light Show on July 17th and the Wonderland Glow Show, a ticketed event, on July 25th.

The Parade Of Lights on Saturday, July 10th, include rides and entertainment, food stalls, face painting, bubbles and lots and lots of lights from 6:00 p.m.

The second event is the Gull Laser Light Show. Activities include laser light show (sponsored by Gull Matakana & Snells), ice skating rink, foam cannon, snow pit, food stalls, music and more.

To wrap up three great events for this year’s Mahurangi Winter Festival of Lights, the Wonderland Glow Show will be coming to Warkworth and the Town Hall for the first time on Sunday July 25th..

The glow show team will put on a ‘Kiwified’ interpretation of the classic ‘Alice in Wonderland' tale for tamariki, educators and whanau. Let your imagination soar as you're transported by the magic of giant scale glow-in-the-dark puppetry. Wonderland Glow Show is an upbeat, engaging show that dives headlong into a weird and wonderful world of dancing flamingos, shuffling cards, an eight-metre caterpillar and giant flowers. But it’s not all rosy… there’s a march hare on the loose!