![]() Toms River Halloween Parade, New JerseyĪn Ocean County tradition, this parade began in 1937 and will return on Oct. With some information via its website, locals can obtain clues about parade floats for joining in on this hunt in downtime Anaheim starting at 4 p.m. This longtime California event runs through the month of October, with costume contests and other Halloween highlights, but culminates with a parade and scavenger hunt on Oct 30. Anaheim Fall Festival and Halloween Parade, California Overseen by the Wild Rumpus Board, a foundation raising money and awareness for non-profit charities, the all-inclusive parade celebrates and promotes artistic creativity and public involvement. 30 and has local participants dress up and march in costumes. ![]() ![]() Happening within downtown Athens, this annual festival will take place on Oct. Elliott Anderson for Visit Athens Wild Rumpus Parade & Spectacle, Athens, Georgia has parade-goers roaming through the city's. (The Wild Rumpus Parade is) really nice,” Bastow said.The 13th Wild Rumpus Parade & Spectacle in Athens, Ga. When you see everyone, it makes you really think of Athens as like this big place where you can have fun and be outside and have you whole family there. “The atmosphere is amazing because of the people. She believes that it would be a great experience for students thinking of attending. “ There’s a different light show, different routing and a different party location at the end so it’s going to be neat.”īastow is expecting to go to the parade this year. “This year, I decided that I would organize entertainment to be along the parade route, so I have four bands, maybe five, that will be setting up along the parade route and be playing as people go by,” Conley said. Those attending can also look forward to a few new surprises. The Wild Rumpus has a new theme usually based on the signs of the zodiac every year. They’re like my second family, so to see them perform and see all of my teachers up there is really cool,” Bastow said. “Canopy is one of the sponsors for it, and I’m a big helper in that. Clarke Central High School junior Mara Bastow has attended Wild Rumpus and to see her teachers from Canopy Studio, a sponsor for the event. They just want to make sure everything is laid out and safe.”įrom then on, Conley has to work on getting sound people for music, the press to help publicize the parade and sponsors. “Then, they’ll submit the permit to Athens Clarke Police Department. Like the city has their requirements, and so I submit a permit and they look at what my plan is,” Conley said. I have also learned how to bring a whole bunch of agencies together. Since 2009, Conley has learned a lot about planning a big public event like Wild Rumpus, especially when it comes to meeting city requirements. And then I went, and it was like three hundred people in the rain.” “I said, ‘Well, one way or another, I have to go because if it’s just eight people in the parade, I said I was gonna do it’. “I didn’t think anybody was gonna show up, and it was raining that night, and it was cold, and I almost didn’t even go,” Conley said. When Conley first started Wild Rumpus, he put the event on Facebook to publicize the parade, along with a short blurb in the Athens Banner Herald. “(Also), I figure out where the parade’s route is gonna be, and I update the website and I tell everybody and make the posters.” I come up with the theme of the year, I do the artwork, and then you know from there on, I talk to the city and I get the permits, and I buy insurance and I organize the entertainment,” Conley said. “I basically do everything getting ready for the Wild Rumpus. After Halloween ends, Conley starts an intensive planning process for the next year. Master of Ceremonies Conley is the main organizer behind the Wild Rumpus parade. Since its start, thousands of people have gathered in Downtown Athens dressed in their best Halloween outfits. Wild Rumpus, an annual Halloween parade, was established in 2009 by Athenian artist Timi Conley. Maybe one year I can be a spectator and just look at the costumes and see what people did.” Photo by Broadcast staff.Įvery year, Wild Rumpus, a Halloween parade, hits the streets of downtown Athens. “That’s how I get to see most of the costumes because I’m running around so crazy. Part of it for me is, I have to look back and see what pictures people took,” Conley said. Ever since the parade’s beginnings in 2009, Conley has seen the parade-goers costumes. Timi Conley, Master of Ceremonies, is the mastermind behind Wild Rumpus Parade.
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