I learned of this event when I was attending college in Olympia, WA at The Evergreen State College.
The event was given birth in 1995 by a group of Olympia residents. The Procession was originally created to commemorate the 25th anniversary of Earth Day and to support Congressional renewal of the Endangered Species Act.
What does the Procession look like? Well according to the site..
- A preschool class attending as frogs after making their masks out of cereal boxes and paint.
- Two young friends in batik butterfly wings, fluttering high in the air on stilts.
- Species of all kinds created in a wide range of nature art.
- People of all ages bound by a common desire to play music, who learn to drum in a workshop, form a band, and celebrate by dressing as the element of fire.
- A community group in love with movement, who form a dance group and choreograph their steps to become a night of swirling stars.
- The Procession is a few thousand people, melded into a sea of celebration--colorful, diverse, alive. They flow through another 30,000-plus people who are watching, laughing, dancing, and cheering to the infectious beats of homegrown bands.
- From jazz to samba to world beat rhythms, community musicians pound out sound on five-gallon buckets, tin can shakers, and handmade and conventional musical instruments.
- It looks like all of us, using our creativity to celebrate the natural world and holding these things (and each other) close to our hearts.
Procession of the Species 2011
For more information visit POSC.
To see a slide show of the event from The Evergreen State College click here.
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