What does the Procession look like?

• 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.