One of many events cancelled this year was Hebden Bridge’s quirky, colourful street parade, Handmade Parade, named because the participants make the puppets, costumes and parade art over three weeks of workshops. I hope my pictures give some of the flavour of a special day.
When the parade had gone through the town, the performers and their audience gathered in a field set aside for music, dancing and feasting. I’m licking my lips remembering our tasty, healthy, great value plates of food. I ate mine too fast to think of a photo, but here’s the artisan bread that was served. The grey bread had charcoal in it.
For more about the event, including plans to create a collaborative film with families, communities or creative singletons, check out the Handmade Parade website. The projects page has a way to register your interest in appearing in the film, the home page has a video of the event, and there are downloadable instructions for simple bird puppets, sea creature hats and kites on the things to make and do page.
Shared for Under The Sun in celebration of a wonderfully sunny, community day in Hebden Bridge, 2019.
Susan Rushton 
I am in awe! This is what gives us hope! Thank you!
Every community would benefit from having a group like this.
What a fun parade under the under the sun! It cheers me up!
Thank you so much for sharing!
My pleasure. They were certainly blessed with sunshine from above.
So much creativity! I hope wonderful events like these will be back before too much longer.
Oh, me too!
Looks like great fun – the costumes are fantastic!
Fantastic in more ways than one. It’s lovely how they are individually customised within the theme.
Looks like a fun day for whole families. What a shame it has had to be cancelled, but social distancing would be impossible in that type of event.
I can well imagine young children taking delight in the range of hand-made masks and costumes in the parade.
Great photos 🙂
It would – the streets were packed last year. It’s great how the event is much more than ‘just’ the parade, with the workshops and the care lavished on the artwork.
Wow. Excellent. Unique!
I’m sure the film they are planning to make will be an equally high standard.
What fun! It seems to be such a vibrant community.
It has all the ingredients a town should have.
A splendid collection of a delightful event
Thanks, Derrick. The pictures capture the colour and good humour, but leave the liveliness to our imaginations.
🙂
This cheered me up! Thanks for sharing.
That’s good to hear, especially in the circumstances.
Oh my goodness these costumes are AMAZING! I loved your post, thanks for today’s best smile.
I’m glad you enjoyed it, Tina. Smiles have a way of spreading. 🙂
This looks like so much fun, Susan! I hope the parade can return next year. You did a great job of capturing it.
Thank you. I hope so too.
Oh My! This looks like a grand event. I had a click through at the website of the parades past and I am truly impressed. Its really nice that it’s the culmination of workshops and everything is hand-made.
I liked that too.