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Community Arts Inc.
Zig Zag Festival PARADES
Zig Zag Community Arts (Zig Zag Arts) is a group developing the community through the arts.
Every year as part of the Zig Zag Festival there is a Parade down the main street of Kalamunda with bands, and usually there are dancers, circus performers and clowns, Kites, schools displays, community displays,
and of course there is a PARADE FLOAT.
The Parade is quite a spectacular, with a lot to think about, there are roads closed, some traffic gets diverted and people are using the roads where the cars would normally drive.
To make it all happen takes quite a bit of organising and a lot of collaboration.
The Parades have a tradition all of their own; the floats get built by the community with help and support from artists and engineers. Some of the loats have been small and some have been HUGE...
The Aim of Zig Zag Arts is to involve the community in the appreciation of, and participation in community arts. The Parade is one way that the community gets to make and showcase its creations and to share what can be done with mostly recycled materials and a lot of creativity and ingenuity.
Below are some images from past parades to give you a flavour of what many small hands can make.
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2006 Zestival - five senses
it had
Eyes to see
Hands to touch
Ears to hear
A tongue to taste
and it was a boot ... so it smelled
2009 25th anniversary
a float to represent 25 past Festivals
and the finished float
at the Gumnut roundabout
The "Caterplosion" float had 25 segments and each one depicted a past Festival
2010 Circus Express
where the train is being managed by a bunch of Clowns
Poster with concept for the Community Workshops
Painting in progress
and the finished result
Clowns laid the track in front of the train and retrieved it from behind the train all the way down the main street
And the kids made their own costumes
2011 Pirates in the Park!
the Pirate Ship Kalamunda had a motley crew
And they made the baby walk the plank!
meanwhile there were Street Sharks cruising the bitumen below...
the Proud Crew disembarked at the sound shell stage
There was another ship that didn't make the parade
Run aground on the side of the cliff on the Gooseberry Hill Zig Zag, the Pirate Ship "Stirk Barque"
with her Cap'n was quite a surprise to the people walking down the scenic drive for Walk the Zig Zag.
"Unseasonal high tides, t'is as if the very Globe was warming..."
2012 Medieval Festival
And all it needed was a fire-breathing DRAGON
and there's a video...
Click on the image to play video
24 seconds Flash video (2.1meg)
2013
Hills of Middle Earth
(Hobbits in the Hills)
the Ent stood tall against Gollum, who threatened him with a fish
and finally the travellers returned to the Hobbiton Mill
2014 "Fiesta Munda"
the latin themed festival had a Mexican Cactus Worm float "mr Mustacio"
Seen with the comperes from the main Zig Zag Sound Shell Stage
Also in the parade were Muchas Mariachis
And Latin Dancers and Drummers from the Sambanistas
and they danced all the way to Stirk Park
2015 "Trees Tracks & Trains"
The history of Kalamunda included the railway locomotive famed for pulling the trainup the steep incline of the Gooseberry Hill Zig Zag.
Pulling three carriages, it's the Lil' Black Kettle
At the front of the Parade were CIRQUEST circus performers on tall stilts and clowns
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