Holon’s annual Purim parade will march to a Latin beat this year! Holon will celebrate carnival style, in tribute to the countries of Latin America! Join 4,500 dancers, musicians, street theatre performers, and acrobats for a colorful carnival on Sunday, March 16, 2014!
Opening the parade will be a tribute to Mexico, in the shape of a giant sombrero with musicians performing against the background of an ancient Inca Temple surrounded by enormous cacti. The parade will start at 12:00, but come early, not just to save a place – beginning at 11:00 there will be music and theatre performances along the parade route.
Football fans – sad as we are over the end of the Puyol era, there is still the 2014 World Cup to look forward to, in Brazil! Coming to Holon straight from Brazil, Barca and the wild imagination of the designers are Neymar and Messi, larger than life…
And for all you Charles Darwin fans out there: the Galapagos islands will be presented in all their evolutionary glory, with giant lizards, iguanas, turtles, in homage to the Latin American landscapes: a rain forest float with a really big parrot and other exotic creatures, including Motti Kirshenbaum documenting it all with his camera.
What would a parade be without politics? Images of Obama, Bibi, Merkel, and other leaders, the famous and the infamous, with a backpack and gear, climbing to the top… of a volcano! Where they will meet up with a Samba dance party! Politics should be more like this!
New this year: the parade will be broadcast live on the Holon Municipality website and facebook page. Connect and share your own parade photos and videos on Instagram with the hashtag Holon2014 and they may be included in the live broadcast!
The parade will march the length of Sokolov and HaNesi’im streets, ending at the corner of Histadrut and Weizmann, in HaPoel Square. Samba party with DJ Kika Samuel in the square opposite the Holon Municipality. Producer and general manager: Doron Shalom, Director of Events Dept. Holon Municipality; Artistic director: Eran Fisher; Design: Zipi Ifat. The Holon Purim parade is produced in collaboration with Nickolodeon.
