MANCHESTER DAY PARADE

VOYAGE OF DISCOVERYPROGRAMME

Sunday 19 June, 2pm Manchester City Centre

Founding sponsor

WELCOME TO OUR SECOND MANCHESTER DAY PARADEInspired by this year’s theme, Voyage of Discovery, Manchester is taking to the high seas, reaching for the skies and travelling the globe, bringing to life along the way some of our city’s great discoveries.

Sailing on an ocean of music, colour and dance, a glorious galleon will lead our parade through the streets of Manchester. Imaginations have gone wild and the show-stopping creations of more than 2,000 participants and over 90 community groups will dazzle and amaze on this fun-filled day out for all the family.

We’re going on a journey – and we want to take you with us.

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MANCHESTER DAY PARADE THEMESEach section of the parade represents different ideas generated by the theme: Voyage of Discovery. All the groups and participants worked together with artists to bring their ideas to life.

1 DISCOVERY LEADS THE WAY

On the city’s coat of arms, a boat represents the city’s trading connections and the importance of its waterways – the Irwell, the Manchester Ship Canal, and the Bridgewater Canal, which celebrates its 250th anniversary this year.

Our parade is led by a splendid galleon, containing steel-pan band Steel Tempo, accompanied by the Rainy City Roller Girls bearing waves with ward names on, St Anne’s RC Primary School (Ancoats) as fish and sea creatures, and the Wheeliez as mermaids. Manchester Foster Carers Association and band Seas of Mirth are pirates in pursuit.

2 ExPLORATION OF MYTHICAL LANDS AND BEASTS

Many of this year’s groups have set sail on voyages into their own imaginations, creating mythical lands and beasts, inspired by causes and past times that interest them.

The Booth Centre create an Explorer and his beast, and Youth on Solid Ground celebrate the discovery of a new rainforest species. Watch out for Manchester School of Samba’s mythical Fire Bird and the Recyclops, a unique rubbish-eating monster created by the Home Educators Group.

Other wonderful ideas from: Gorton Egyptian Dance Group, Zion Arts Centre and Dance Initiative Greater Manchester (DIGM), Capoeira Cordao De Ouro, Jodie’s Pure Dance & Drama Kidz, True Blue Dance Crew, Anita Bigg and Family and Brinnington Salsa Band.

3 A VOYAGE THROUGH LITERATURE

Whether reading a brilliant book, or studying the works of a famous playwright for school, it’s likely that you’re one of thousands of Mancunians who are inspired and motivated by literature.

Watch out for Gulliver, one of literature’s largest characters, carried aloft by ten groups from all over Wythenshawe and accompanied by a library of bookworms, the letters of the alphabet and a crew of pirates. The Pankhurst Centre celebrate 20th-century women writers and Nexus Art Café pay homage to Alice in Wonderland with their own Mad Hatter’s Tea Party!

Other wonderful ideas from: Crumpsall Scout and Guide Band, Real Lives Wythenshawe, Brooklands Community Spirit, Manchester Enterprise Academy, The Lantern Band, Wythenshawe Wheelers, Wythenshawe FM, Toetappers School of Dance, Age Concern Manchester, The Addy Young Peoples Centre, Shawe Thing, Norbrook Youth Club, No Eyed Theatre, Manchester Evening News, and Manchester Prairie Dogs

4 FROM FAR AND WIDE – A CELEBRATION OF OUR CULTURAL DIVERSITY

This section celebrates the many communities that choose to make Manchester their home.

Community Arts North West have been working with groups from all over the city on ‘Exodus’, which includes elements of Brazilian carnival and traditional dance from Sudan, Eritrea and China. Manchester’s Italian contingent celebrates the 150th anniversary of Garibaldi’s unification of Italy, while the Chinese Arts Centre in association with Wai Yin Chinese Women’s Society display beautiful opera masks and banners.

Other wonderful ideas from: Societa Dante Alighieri, Bloco Novo, Global Grooves, Cabasa Carnival Arts and Management, Band on the Wall, Bloco Ashe, SambAfriq, Republic of Swing, Eagles Wing, Musicians without Borders, Eritrean Women’s Group, Women from the Far West, Manchester Chinese Centre, Bang Drum, West Gorton Young People, Barlow Moor Young People, Jewish Representative Council of Greater Manchester, WAST (Women Asylum Seekers Together) and WAST Nightingales, the Irish Festival and Master Chu’s Lion Dance Club

5 ACHIEVEMENT THROUGH SPORT

Manchester is crazy for sport and no other passion runs deeper than our love of football. FC United’s distinctly homegrown colours join this year’s parade with red and gold waves carrying the boat from the club’s crest. The Abraham Moss Warriors JFC’s puppet footballer is accompanied by music and dance from Juba de Leao.

6 MEDICAL ADVANCES AND WELLBEING

The team at Wythenshawe Games have worked together to celebrate health and wellbeing with their giant runner, while The Christie illustrate the history of nursing care by pushing their giant hospital bed.

7 MADE IN MANCHESTERAs well as paying tribute to those from the public and voluntary sectors who have supported the city then and now, this section illustrates Manchester’s industrial heritage. Watch out for work inspired by the Avro factory in north Manchester, which built the Lancaster bomber, and Beyer Peacock’s steam locomotive works in Gorton, as well as the St George’s Day Parade celebration of the Ancoats Brotherhood.

Other wonderful ideas from: Newton Heath Eco Group, the Chatterbox Project, the Alzheimer’s Society, the 3rd Davyhulme Scout and Guide Band, Bike Right, Gorton People Stronger Together, Amnesty International, the Manchester Carers Centre, Mustard Tree, Greater Manchester Police, Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service and The Lesbian and Gay Foundation

8 SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY AND THE CITY

Manchester is a city of firsts! As the city in which one of the first public bus routes operated it is fitting that founding sponsor Siemens’ engineers have chosen to illustrate their excellence in the design of electric trains and trams. We’re journeying with the White Moss Centre and Reel Manchester on a voyage from a past of fossil fuels to a more sustainable future; and inspired by Yuri Gagarin’s visit to Manchester in 1961, the Indian Association celebrate Chandrayaan–1, the country’s first unmanned lunar spacecraft.

Other wonderful ideas from: Greater Manchester Play Resource Centre (GRUMPY), Sale Grammar School, The Explosive Baja Band, the Chorlton and Whalley Range Woodcraft Folk, SPIKE Island, The Duchy Estate (Salford), Aiming High for Disabled Children, Pete Johnson

9 MUSICAL CELEBRATIONManchester and music go hand in hand, and the city has been an inspiration for lots of successful musicians, singers and bands. Celebrate four decades of music with the likes of Morrissey, M People and Oasis as we dance along to the rhythm of Manchester’s beat.

Other wonderful ideas from: Eastland Homes North, Central and East District Youth Forums, the 4CT Intergenerational Project and Valuing Older People

MANCHESTER DAY PARADE PHOTO COMPETITIONSupported by Siemens

Calling all amateur photographers! Send us your favourite photo of the Manchester Day Parade 2011* for a chance to win an Olympus EPL2 camera and accessories worth £500, and other prizes.

For details of how to enter and terms and conditions go to www.themanchesterdayparade.co.uk

*Closing date for entries: Sunday 3 July 2011

Last year’s winning image by Steve Joyce

MUSICEN ROUTE

POST-PARADE

PARTY

OTHER EVENTS ON THE DAY

Albert Square Enjoy games, an interactive farm as

well as cookery demonstrations, food tasting and more. Come along and

discover why The Co-operative really is good for everyone.

Great Northern Square, 1–2.15pmManchester Youth Steel Orchestra and

Manchester Youth Wind Orchestra, Manchester Music Service

Brazennose Street/Deansgate, 1.15–3.15pmBrazilia, Manchester Music Service

Albert Square, 2–3pmSing for Water and Golden Voices choirs

St Ann’s Square, 10am – 5.30pmPinnies and rolling pins at the ready! Traders will show their baking skills with a selection of cakes, cupcakes,

bread, biscuits and pastries.

Albert Square, 3.30–6pm Eat, drink and be merry! Visit the

Co-operative Village and try some delicious free food samples while letting your hair

down to the tropical sounds of Juba da Leao, Exodus and the Manchester School of Samba.

As part of Manchester Day, there’s a whole host of sizzling fun, music and activities happening across the city centre.

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ORDER OF THE PARADE AND HIGHLIGHTS

DISCOVERY LEADS THE WAY

Look out for: the magnificent

galleon

1EXPLORATIONOF MYTHICAL

LANDSAND BEASTSLook out for: the mythical

Fire Bird

2A VOYAGE THROUGH

LITERATURELook out for:

Gulliver and the bookworms

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ACHIEVEMENT THROUGH

SPORTLook out for:

the giant footballer

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MEDICAL ADVANCES

AND WELLBEINGLook out for: the sprinter and a huge

hospital bed

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MADE IN MANCHESTER

Look out for: the Lancaster

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SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY AND THE CITY

Look out for: the Siemens

train

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MUSICALCELEBRATIONListen out for: the Manchester

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FROM FAR AND WIDE

Look out for: a Brazilian

carnival andtraditional dance

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ORDER OF THE PARADE AND HIGHLIGHTS

DISCOVERY LEADS THE WAY

Look out for: the magnificent

galleon

1EXPLORATIONOF MYTHICAL

LANDSAND BEASTSLook out for: the mythical

Fire Bird

2A VOYAGE THROUGH

LITERATURELook out for:

Gulliver and the bookworms

3

ACHIEVEMENT THROUGH

SPORTLook out for:

the giant footballer

5

MEDICAL ADVANCES

AND WELLBEINGLook out for: the sprinter and a huge

hospital bed

6

MADE IN MANCHESTER

Look out for: the Lancaster

bomber

7

SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY AND THE CITY

Look out for: the Siemens

train

8

MUSICALCELEBRATIONListen out for: the Manchester

sounds

9

FROM FAR AND WIDE

Look out for: a Brazilian

carnival andtraditional dance

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A big thank you to individuals, organisations and groups that have helped make Manchester Day Parade happen:

YHA Manchester, Bohemia Bar & Grill, Asda (Wythenshawe), Willow Park Housing Trust, Parkway Green Housing Trust, Real Lives Wythenshawe, Eastlands Homes,

Dave Fraser (Community Engagement Officer), Manchester Climbing Centre, Asda (Eastlands), Bownus, MOSI, Manchester International Festival, TubeUK,

Greater Manchester Transport Museum, Sainsbury’s (Regent Road), Liverpool Everyman and Playhouse, Home Bargains (Regent Road), CUE (MMU)

Artists:Ali Pretty (Kinetika), Andrew and Kathy Kim (Thingumajig Theatre), Anna Nekrassova, Beccy Hillam, Becky Bryson, Ben Cook, Brian D Hanlon, Brian Raymond (LEAF Arts), Bridget Fisk, Charlotte Newson, Debbie Cunliffe, Eilidh Bryan, Emily Wood (Cabasa

Carnival Arts), Emma Golnick, Emma Martin, Fiona Smith, Gavin Lewery, Graham Hudson, Graham Robinson, Hannah Bold, Harry Harris, Helen Davies, Helen Plaumer, Jemima Latimer, Lisa Gort and Louise Miller (Space Cadets), Jo Foley, Jo Pocock, Kate Johnson, Katy Anne Bellis, Kay Sayer, Lydia Meiying, Lynne Duric, Maggie McManus,

Mark Bedford, Michelle Pouncey, Naomi Parker, Nerissa Cargill Thompson, Pete Gunson and Eleanor Hooper (Pif-Paf Theatre), Peter Jackson, Sarah Oxley, Sharon Drysdale,

Soesen Edan, Vicky Clarke, Wendy Meadley, Nick Tiernan, Sarah Jane Richards.

Project managers:Carrie English, Ben Turner, Nick Clarke, Paddy Wagon, Jessica Symons,

Lela Keighley, Nora Kuusisto.

With thanks to:All the stage managers, stewards and production crew, and the

many volunteers who have contributed their time and effort.

For :Liz Pugh (Producer), Billie Klinger (Project Director), Candida Boyes (Design

Co-ordinator), Nathan Jackson (Parade Production Manager), Tor Emms (Marketing and Communications Manager), Hugh McGinn (Finance Manager). Walk the Plank

are a creative force of artists, theatre-makers, pyrotechnicians and event engineers. www.walktheplank.co.uk

Created by Manchester people. Commissioned by Manchester City Council. Produced by Walk the Plank.

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