Fwd: [smedleyvfp] Honk Parade Particulars

[Dan]

Please join us for the best parade ever.

March with us and stand up for social, economic and political Justice.

Great bands and food.

All the parade info and bands are attached. Hope to see you there!

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From: "VFP Smedley" <vfpsm...@gmail.com>
To: "smedleyvfp" <smedl...@googlegroups.com>
Sent: Monday, October 3, 2016 6:39:29 PM
Subject: [smedleyvfp] Honk Parade Particulars

Smedleys and Supporters,

Below is all the information you could ever want to know about Sunday's Oct. 9 Honk Parade: where and when we assemble (11:00 a.m. Herbert and Day Streets in Davis Sq., Somerville) and how the parade is conducted.  At the end is a full list of all the bands and groups participating.  All we need now is to make sure we have a good sized VFP contingent.  So far only six members have confirmed that they'll be marching.  We need at least a half-dozen more.  Please let us know if  you'll be on board by emailing: vfpsm...@gmail.com. 

Also, we're going to need help staffing our table in Harvard Sq. throughout the day. Again, please let us know if you can help out with that by emailing: vfpsm...@gmail.com.  Thanks!

Greetings 2016 Honk Parade Participants!!

We look forward to seeing you all next weekend at the 11th Honk Festival of Activist Street Bands, and especially Sunday, October 9at the 2016 HONK! Parade, when we will once more Reclaim the Streets for Horns, Bikes, and Feet!!  Your spirited participation, creative genius, and boundless energy make the parade one of the most significant public events in the Boston area.  

We understand that Veterans For Peace is confirmed to participate in the 2016 Honk Parade.  Here below is information you will need for the parade.

Before the parade:

1. Please arrive with your group, your band, or as individual volunteers at 11 a.m. on Sunday, October 9 in our staging area in the parking lots at Herbert and Day Streets in Davis Square, Somerville.  We will have parade marshals there who can tell you exactly where your band or community group should go to set up. See also the parade order below to see where your group will be.

2. The parade starts promptly at 12 noon; please be ready to honk and roll!

During the parade:

1. Here is a link to a map of the parade route, which follows Elm Street to Beech Street, Massachusetts Avenue, Harvard Square.  The route is 1.8 miles long.  We should begin to reach the Harvard Square reviewing stand around 1:00; the end of the parade should arrive by 1:45.

2. We see the HONK! Parade as a processional theater performance for 30 brass bands and 46 community groups.  Although such a long processional event takes on a life of its own, we ask you to help maintain the unity of the event by keep a consistent distance of about 20 feet between your group and the group directly in front of you.  Through the efforts of our parade marshals, we shall try to keep the parade at a good pace  and keep the groups properly distanced.  If a parade marshal asks you and your group to slow down or speed up a bit, please honor their request. Please help us keep the parade close together from Davis Square until we reach Massachusetts Avenue.

3.  Please do not pass out any fliers, marketing material or anything else during the parade.

4. The parade will pass through Harvard Square to Winthrop Park, go through Winthrop Park and finish on Winthrop Street.  Please follow our parade marshals' instructions and proceed with the parade through Harvard Square until you arrive on Winthrop Street, where you can break down and pack up. Please help us avoid congestion in Harvard Square and in Winthrop Park. Here is a link to the schedule of HONK! events at Harvard Square Oktoberfest that will follow the parade.  

Thanks to all of you for making the parade such a spell-binding community activist event!  We look forward to seeing you there!

Best wishes and happy HONK! Festival!

Charlo Maurer, Cecily Miller, John Bell and Paul Gregory
for the HONK! Parade Committee 

Here is the parade order (subject to change):

 

Honk Banners, Vice Mayor Dennis Benzan of Cambridge

Parade Marshals

Boston Hoop Troop

Second Line Social Aid and Pleasure Society

Gays for Patsy

Food Not Bombs

Yes Ma'am Brass Band

Mothers Out Front from Somerville and Cambridge

Le Fanfare Invisible

Resist the West Roxbury Pipeline

Associacion Carnavalesca de Mass.

Caka!ak Thunder

Boston Feminists for Liberation

Children for Children

Fast Food Workers

Hartford Hot Several

Barbecue Co-op

Extraordinary Rendition Band

Red Bandana Brigade

United Food and Commercial Workers

Forward Marching Band

Day de Dada Performance Art Collective

SCUL

What Cheer? Brigade

Open Air Circus

New England Region Unitarian Universalist -Children and Youth Religious Education Programs

Somerville High School Band and Drumline*

Let it Snow

Dirty Water Brass Band

Artisan's Asylum

Wheelright's One-Man Marching Band

SEIU 32 BJ

Local 26

Le Pompier Pony Club

Tibetan Association of Boston

Brass Messengers

350 Massachusetts for a Better Future

Mayday Marching Band

Boston Workmen's Circle Teen Group

City Life/Vida Urbana

Rude Mechanical Orchestra

Midwives for Peace and Justice

Brass Balagan

First Church Somerville

First Church Somerville Band*

Veterans for Peace

Leftist Marching Band

Bread & Puppet Theater

Bread and Puppet Circus Band

Tufts Students for Justice in Palestine

Tufts BEATs*

Boston Hoohas

Pinettes

Boston Area Guild of Puppetry

Modern Peasant Brigade

Environmental Encroachment

Circus Up!

Massachusetts Teachers Association

Detroit Party Marching Band

Tutoring Plus

Mortal Beasts and Deities

The Party Band

If Not Now

Royal Frog Ballet

Expandable Brass Band

Cambridge Friends School

Puppeteers Cooperative

Stand with Standing Rock/NoDAPL section

J.P. Honk Band*

Cambridge Wildlife

Newtalians & Friends of Webster Woods

Parts and Crafts

School of Honk

Somerville Open Studios

ANIKAYA Dance Theater

aNova Brazil

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