In the Crowd: Ladysmith Festival of Lights
Daxton Comba | Associate Media Editor
01.08.26| Vol. 57, No. 4 | Video
During the holiday season on Vancouver Island, it’s unfortunately dark outside most of the time, and when the sun goes down before 5:00 pm, what better than a colourful display of lights to stave off the darkness? This issue, Daxton Comba tours Ladysmith’s 2025 annual Festival of Lights, held Thursday, November 27. With coverage from all across First Avenue of local performers, jugglers and people on stilts, the Kinsmen light-up parade, dozens of holiday light displays, and a drone show. If you missed out on the events this year, this is your chance to catch up!
Daxton Comba
Daxtonis a fourth-year Creative Writing student at VIU, a Graphic Designer, physical media hoarder, and filmmaker. He served as Script Editor and Audio/Visual intern forPortal2025, and moved to Acquisitions Editor forPortal2026 while working as videographer forThe Nav. His writing has been published in bothPortalandGOOEYmagazines, and he received the Meadowlarks Award for Fiction in 2025.
A short stage play of his was produced for VIU’s 2025 One-Act Festival, and over the summer he wrote and directed a stage play titled Funeral Cake for the 2026 Nanaimo Fringe Fest. He is now the Associate Media Manager for Vol. 58 atThe Navigator, and insists that he has overcome his fear of ghosts.
