Victoria. BC Island Farms Santa's "Lite" Parade

This is a request to any and all interested Fan Force costuming members to join with the Outerrim Squadron in our endeavour to show the public, Star Wars pressence in British Columbia! This has been my pet project that I have wanted to pull off all year! I am also requesting reinforcments from Garrison Titan, Cloud City Squad, Badlands, and Rebel Legion.
This event will have local television coverage and is an excellent time to see one of the most beautiful cities in Canada!

Here are the big details:

- Date: November 19, 2005
- Time: All participants must be present and ready to go for 5:00 PM, Ideal to show up early to dress, and sign any waivers, head counts, and last minute details that may pop up.
- Marshalling Area: Superior at Government.
- Parade Route: Government to Chatam to Capital Iron
- Reference Web site: http://www.city.victoria.bc.ca/residents/artscl_artfest.shtml#nov_island

Other details:

- Lights! Your costume must be decorated with illumination of some kind, the parade is both in the dark and falling in with the theme of Xmas, stock up on chemical lights now during Halloween (multiple colors). There is no limit but please don't cheap out on this detail.
- No Santas or variation on the theme of Santa, the organizers are a little passionate on this point.
- We have a Vader, and Emperor locally, please default to a secondary outfit, and apologies if these are the only suits you have.
- I need a definite "I will attend" by Nov 9th to submit to the Comittee. "Sorry can't attends" please do not reply unless you said you would come in an earlier letter, you'll just confuse me, but please make plans to come next year!
- Please be willing to sign a waiver dismissing any responsibility/liability from the event organizers of the parade, in the event of damage to your outfit during the parade.
- My dream is to have 25 white troopers marching down Government Street, we will definitely turn some heads! If we get 8-15 I'll still be thrilled! I have a 501 st banner that will be leading our group or mounted on a vehicle if, we can throw Palpatines throne together soon enough!
- The march isn't very far 6-8 blocks so this would be ideal to incorporate as a small family vacation. I have a little space at my house for the money crunched, and can pick up people from the airport or ferry as needed.
(FIRST COME FIRST SERVED)

- Questions Concerns please do contact me: Randy
malarat @ pacificcoast . net (without the spaces)

Many thx in advance of your support!

Randy

 

More to this; we have a flatbed from a racing car (plus driver) on which to build a set and carry those of us not quite up to trudging along a parade route --- even if it is short. So we need help building something unpretentious that can be "whipped up" in approximately six weeks.

 

So are you only wanting troopers/501st related costumes, or is anything Star Wars acceptable? I have a Padme costume from each prequel - I'd wear the pregnant 'action' suit if that would fit in with your theme. I don't know how weird it would look to have the emperor and Vader... and then randomly Padme.

 

Whatever Star Wars themed costume your compfortable wearing is good with us, but as mentioned earlier, it HAS to be decorated with lights as per the organizers requirements.

multiple dangling chemical lights are acceptable!

Randy

 

F.Y.I.: I would suggest that everyone planning to participate should ensure they are dressed "for the weather". It'll be late November and could very well be raining. At the very least it'll be cold.

 

The colder, the better I say we should do a Snowtrooper theme.

 

If you have the outfit your welcome to wear it! However we can't do themes unless we have the bodies to pull it off. Thats part of our participation in the parade, to make people aware of the local SW groups and encourage them to join and do cool stuff like the parade. With enough local interest we may be able to enter the Victoria Day parade... but we need a lot more troopers!

Jedi and Rebels are fine, but the crowd loves a trooper in white plastic!

Randy

 

I've run off a batch of approx 1000 small flyers (8x7 inches) for the convention so we can hand them out along the parade route.