Children's Parade
Saturday 3 May 2014
Starts at Kensington Street, Brighton
10.30am
Children's Parade - one of Brighton Festival's most enduring spectacles.
5,000 children from 83 schools, colleges and community groups will take over the streets of our city to open The Brighton Festival.
Start Brighton Festival the way you mean to go on: with an explosion of fun, colour, music and style. The parade - probably the largest of its kind in Europe - always gets things off to an exhilarating start, and this year the arts provide the inspiration for the 83 schools and 5,000 young people involved. Different sections of the spectacle will focus on dance, theatre, film, visual arts and books, and with musician-in-residence James Keane on board for the first time, music will play a major role. Anything that can be played on the move will feature, ensuring that this year's children's parade will have to be heard to be believed
Same Sky is one of the UK's leading participatory arts companies producing events that 'mobilise the imagination, strengthen communities and gladden the heart'.
Enjoy watching the parade as it makes it way from Kensington Street, through the North Laines and onto Madeira Drive on the seafront. The fun and entertainment will continue with performances from some of the schools and groups who have taken part.