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Mission To empower communities to engage in cultural relationships with the natural world as a means of sustaining efforts of environmental protection and restoration.

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2024 Procession of the Species

Saturday April 27th at 4:30pm - Downtown

The Procession of the Species 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.

The Procession is the culmination of Olympia's Spring Arts Walk. It's three months of planning, crafting, building, teaching, and playing, leading to Saturday, April 27, when we all come together, in joy and celebration and gratitude for this wondrous Creation we call home.

Much of that lead-up is spent in the Procession Community Arts Studio, in the old Olympia Armory, free and open to the public, where you can find a supportive, creative community to help you realize your own Procession vision.

Everyone is welcome to participate - so long as you follow the Three Rules (easily found on the Procession website), and sincerely observe the spirit of the event. It's not a parade ("Look at me! Look at me!") - it's a procession ("Behold and celebrate, with awe and joy, the beauty of our natural world!"). Come as your favorite species, build a float, join a band! Create and celebrate!

Directions
At 4:30pm on April 27, the Procession will start from the intersection of Cherry and Legion Ave and proceed west on Legion Ave two blocks to Franklin; turn right (north) one block to 5th Ave; turn left (west) one block to Washington; turn left (south) two blocks to 7th Ave; turn right (west) one block to Capitol; turn right (north) two blocks to 5th Ave; turn left (west) one block to Columbia; turn left (south) one block to Legion; turn right (west) one block to Water Street; turn right (north) one block to 5th Ave; turn left (west) one block to enter fountain area of Heritage Park for closing celebration.

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