Five years after tragedy struck Las Vegas on October 1, 2017, during the Route 91 Harvest Festival, the Vegas Strong Resiliency Center invited everyone impacted by this dark day to represent the strong, burning light that continues to shine throughout our resilient community.
We hosted a virtual evening of remembrance, reflection, and healing as we designed lanterns to honor the victims, survivors, and responders of 1 October. We guided viewers through the process to make and customize a lantern with a free kit that was mailed to them or picked up from a local partner.
Watch the Event
The event was streamed live on September 30, 2022, at 6:30 p.m. PT/9:30 p.m. ET. You can watch a recording of the broadcast from this page, our YouTube channel, or from the Facebook event page.
Master of Ceremonies
Tennille Pereira, Esq.
Vegas Strong Resiliency Center Director
Opening Remarks
Jim Gibson
Clark County Commission Chairman
Lantern Creation & Reflection
Jacqueline Harris, MA, LMFT, LADC
Creative Solutions Counseling Center Therapist
Lantern Gallery
Thank you to everyone who shared these photos and videos of the lanterns they made during this online remembrance event. We are so impressed by the detail and emotion put into all of them.
Special thanks to all of our community partners for helping us to pack and mail the lantern kits, getting the word out about the event, and even hosting watch parties—United Way of Southern Nevada, Silver State Health Services, Fuente de Vida Mental Health Services, Las Vegas-Clark County Library District, and Make The Road Nevada. We’re also touched by the solidarity from our partners across the country, including the National Mass Violence Victimization Resource Center and the 10.27 Healing Partnership.
Share on Social Media
If you haven’t already, please post photos of your completed lanterns so we can share them. You can use #VegasStronger and tag the Vegas Strong Resiliency Center’s accounts on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and Instagram.
Partnering agencies represented at the Resiliency & Justice Center include Clark County, Legal Aid Center of Southern Nevada, the State of Nevada, and Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department Victim Services Unit.
The Department of Justice’s Office for Victims of Crime recognized the Resiliency & Justice Center with the National Crime Victims Service Award in 2021, and the center received the Congressional Crime Survivor’s Award in 2023 for our efforts in the community and across the country serving survivors of violent crime.
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