Effigies of a syringe, knife, and off-road bike will be torched - followed by a colliery pit head.
The event will take place in Salford - where according to legend Guy Fawkes planned his gunpowder plot in Ordsall Hall.
Made from bamboo and paper the effigies will be set on fire in Peel Park next to the city's museum and art gallery.
Called `Strike the Light' the spectacle is the end of a 14-month project in Little Hulton where artists from The Lowry arts centre have worked with local people. It will be lit on March 15 .
Graeme Urlwin, manager of the project, said: "The burning of objects created by local residents is symbolic of burning everything that is negative in their lives, looking to the future, and what people would want Little Hulton to be like.
"The idea of a bonfire to end the project came from the community." Before becoming a number of huge overspill estates following slum clearance in Salford Little Hulton was a mining village.
Graeme said: "Creating a sculpture of a pit head to be used as backdrop to the bonfire will reflect the history of the area. It will be burned at the end of the event.
"Various groups in the community have come up with items which they identify as being a negative image of where they live. The syringe reflects drug use, the motorbike the fact that there has been problems with off-road bikers, and the knife violent crime."
Children and teenagers from Little Hulton have created a musical score for the show. Internationally-acclaimed arts organisation, Walk the Plank, which is based in Salford, will help create the sculpture for the bonfire.
Cath Hamilton, of Kenyon Way Residents' Association, said: "It's an incentive to get together and participate. The final night will be wonderful."
The Wicker Man is a cult British film from 1973. In the final shot inhabitants of a remote island in the Hebrides set fire to a hollow wicker statue of a man. Imprisoned inside it is a policeman who had been investigating a girl's disappearance. Tweet
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Why not just burn the druggies, the off-road bikers, and the muggers instead? Fill the air with the sweet scent of roast pork, and do the community a favour at the same time...
You could add to this by burning all the black tracksuits,all hooded tops,jewellery,a picture of somebody with a shaven head,4 wheel drive black cars,dyed blond hair with routs comming through etc.
Surly, the bishop of somewhere will complain that this is a relapse into pre-christian traditions. Answer: yes it is, like Easter, Christmas, May Day, etc etc.
Sounds like a brilliant spectacle - I may go along.
Can we add the Congestion charge too.
Whats negative about a pit?
Lol at Mr Angry. I like the idea, might spurn a whole new generation of young arsonists though :S