About Last Night Santa Cruz DIY Parade
A do-it-yourself, decentralized, collective, spontaneous, open, public New Year's Eve celebration!
Let downtown Santa Cruz be filled with music and dancing as we ring in the new year!
DIY stands for do-it-yourself. And that is what we are doing. A little bit of planning, a little bit of work, some getting together. This is our celebration that you and I make happen. It's a people's event. We are doing this just for the love of it.
How do you make a parade without the help of professional organizers, event wranglers, scheduled bands and performers, and any money whatsoever?
You just do it.
We are the organizers -- you and I. We tell our friends and they tell theirs. We commit to doing it because it's a swell idea and we make it happen. We call up improbable connections and talk people into it.
We have no scheduled bands and performers. We tell a bunch of people we know, all the talented jugglers, artists and musicians we know in town and do our best to sell them on this unlikely (but alluring) idea and see if they'll come.
We are participating in the Gift Economy. It is our gift to our community, to each other, and to ourselves. In the morning hours on January 1st we'll finally go to bed after the best New Year's celebration we can remember thinking, "Wow, did we really just pull that off?" And that will be all the payment any of us will need.
http://www.lastnightdiy.org
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