Parade
The opening night of the Fringe includes a parade through Adelaide city. The parade is free for groups to register to participate in, as well as for people to watch. Roads are blocked off and Fringe venues host opening night parties. A range of community organisations participate in the parade, ranging from Adelaide Roller Derby to the Royal Institution of Australia. The parade can be affected by Adelaide's extreme summer weather. It was cancelled in 2011 due to rain, while the 2012 parade happened on a 39°C day.
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Famous quotes containing the word parade:
“Chaucer’s remarkably trustful and affectionate character appears in his familiar, yet innocent and reverent, manner of speaking of his God. He comes into his thought without any false reverence, and with no more parade than the zephyr to his ear.... There is less love and simple, practical trust in Shakespeare and Milton. How rarely in our English tongue do we find expressed any affection for God! Herbert almost alone expresses it, “Ah, my dear God!””
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“The thing that struck me forcefully was the feeling of great age about the place. Standing on that old parade ground, which is now a cricket field, I could feel the dead generations crowding me. Here was the oldest settlement of freedmen in the Western world, no doubt. Men who had thrown off the bands of slavery by their own courage and ingenuity. The courage and daring of the Maroons strike like a purple beam across the history of Jamaica.”
—Zora Neale Hurston (1891–1960)
“The parade was here, but it disappeared around a corner.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)