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CARNIVAL STREET PARADE
The carnival street parade will take the form of a procession with all participants in fancy dress. The theme of this fancy dress will be “Welcome to Summer, the Sun and The Sea”.
Entries will be invited from individuals, schools, local youth organisations, clubs and businesses. These entries could be walking, pushing prams, on bicycles, on decorated towed trailers or on the back of small decorated lorries or other small forms of light motorised transport e.g. cars, jeeps and dolmus. The use of large lorries will be strictly prohibited.
There will also be marching bands, musical entertainment, folk dancing and street entertainers in the parade and around the parade route.
Participants will be collecting money from the spectators to donate to the chosen charities as they pass along the parade route
There will be several categories for the parade entries and these will be judged using the following criteria:
Artistic impression and creativity
Performance and effort
Interpretation of the theme
Cups and trophies will be awarded for the best in class and certificates awarded to other entries.
The whole event will be free to spectators and we do not intend to charge an entry fee to participants of the parade. However corporate businesses will be charged an entry fee for their float, as it will be providing advertising for their business/products.
Prior to the Carnival, children, aged 8 – 14, will be invited to a Competition where a boy and girl will be chosen as Carnival Prince and Princess and these will head the Carnival in a decorated float.
The parade will assemble in the Dolmus parking area from 15.00 and the procession will start off at 16.00, proceeding at walking pace, along the route shown on the attached map. The route will pass through Koca Çaliş and turn on to the promenade at Seril 1 Restaurant. It will continue down the promenade until it reaches the turning by the Harem Restaurant and Er-oz Hotel where it will turn left over the canal bridge up the main street to the Dolphin Roundabout where it will turn and return down the main street to the promenade and continue along the promenade to the parking area outside the Sat Restaurant. Judging will take place as it passes the Harem Restaurant and trophies/certificates will be awarded at the end of the parade before dispersal.
The above route will involve the removal of the small traffic barriers where the parade enters and leaves the promenade. It will also involve some road closures and the Zabita will need to be consulted on exact timings. It will also require some co-operation from the Dolmus Co-operative who will need to re-site some of their vehicles for about 1-2 hours to avoid disruption to services.
For health and safety reasons we will need to ensure that spectators remain within the perimeters of the restaurant/bar areas or beachside of the promenade during the procession. This will entail the provision of barriers/marshals at the direction of the Belediye. A full health and safety assessment of the route has been carried by the Carnival Committee and officers from Fethiye Belediye Zabita.
To ease traffic congestion in and around the seafront area, free parking for visitors will be provided at the Sunday Market area in Calis (approximately 10 minutes walk from the promenade). The Dolmus co-operative will run a shuttle bus service from the market place to the Dolphin Roundabout throughout the day and evening at minimal cost.
The Carnival Committee have recently visited schools in the Çaliş area and all of the head teachers are pleased to support and participate in the Carnival. The schools will provide drum bands, dance displays and musicians and hope to use elements of the carnival theme in their next year’s curriculum. We will also be asking schoolchildren to design posters for the Carnival with a prize for the winning entries.
There will also be mask/costume-making workshops in the run up to the Carnival.
We intend to explore the possibility of the Çaliş Boat Co-operative providing a floating procession of decorated boats along Çaliş seafront on the day of the Carnival as well as a kite surfing demonstration and rowing races.
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