Community organizers, dancers, stilters, puppeteers, bicyclers, hoopers, movers and shakers, roller-skaters, color guards, cheerleaders, business owners, union members, and neighbors –

We invite you to participate in this year's HONK! Parade, which will take place on Sunday, October 10, starting at noon from Davis Square and traveling, as in past years, to Harvard Square!

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Community organizers, dancers, stilters, puppeteers, bicyclers, hoopers, movers and shakers, roller-skaters, color guards, cheerleaders, business owners, union members, and neighbors –

We invite you to participate in this year's HONK! Parade, which will take place on Sunday, October 10, starting at noon from Davis Square and traveling, as in past years, to Harvard Square!

The HONK! Parade is a processional theater event for 25 brass bands and 26 community groups (more or less), and our theme is "Reclaim the Streets for Horns, Bikes and Feet!" This theme has been interpreted in many ways by different groups, with many different creative and spectacular means, and we look forward to seeing your particular inspirations and insights this year.

The HONK! Parade has developed into a wonderful performance of community celebration marking the ingenuity and thoughtful theatricality of home-grown street spectacle. In these parades, you have created colorful processional street art with banners, bikes, floats, puppets, hoops, stilts, and many other elements that fill up the streets with celebratory images that thrill our audiences.

In the past two years, the parade has included the following groups: the Boston Hoop Troop, Bikes Not Bombs, Endangered Species With Lipstick, Mitch Ryerson's Star Wheel, ANIKAI Dance, The Miracle 5, SCUL, Royal Frog Ballet, the Disbanded Drill Team, Spontaneous Celebrations, JP Bikes, Somerville Climate Action, the Livable Streets Alliance, The Barbecue Co-op, Food Not Bombs, Veterans for Peace, the Red Bandanna Brigade, the Open Air Circus, Green Streets Initiative, the Bread and Puppet Theater, Can-Can Revolution, the First Church Somerville, Tufts University Peace and Justice Studies, the Puppeteers Cooperative, Boston Pedicab, Wheelright's One-Man Marching Band, Stop the BU Bioterror Lab Coalition, the Boston Derby Dames, Amnesty International, Tumbling for Two, Design Studio for Social Intervention, the Boston Anti-Authoritarian Movement, the Hasty Pudding Club, Club Oberon, Iraqi Veterans Against the War, and the Institute for Infinitely Small Things.

We have also depended upon scores of volunteers to help different parading groups and to help marshal the parade.

WE HOPE YOU WILL JOIN US AGAIN (OR FOR THE FIRST TIME) FOR THIS YEAR'S PARADE!

Please let us know by Friday, September 17 if you would like to take part in the parade this year--we would be happy to brainstorm with you about cheap and spectacular parade designs.

Send your questions and ideas to John Bell, parade@honkfest.org!

We look forward to seeing you at the HONK! Festival and at the HONK! Parade!

Yours,
The HONK! committee