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 What
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The Parade the Circle is an annual event is held at University Circle.
This parade encourages appreciation of the arts in Cleveland. Most of
the museums sponsored booths and activities surrounding the parade route.
Children could make hats and instruments, feel animal pelts and get some
ice cream. Parade participants are a mixture of school and community organizations.
Free training workshops in parade skills are offered to group leaders
a few months before the parade. This allows a wide range of participants
to do their best in designing and preparing their parade exhibit. Participants
ranged from people in wheel chairs dressed up like elephants to students
on stilts to dance troops with steel drums. The theme of the Parade was
"Springs among Stones" and each group was encouraged to make
floats or wear costumes expressing this theme. Several ethnic dance groups
paraded including African dancers and belly dancers. We saw dragons, skeletons,
unicorns, medieval sprites, and even walking works or art. Some of the
floats were huge skeletons, elephants and men. The parade emanated a small-town
feel even though Cleveland is a large city.
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