Partyciparade = Participation + Party + Parade
A stubbornly optimistic form of civil protest & party to praise the positive action that everyday climate heroes already do to fight the climate crisis.
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PartyCiParade Manual (EN) - English missing! Do you want to add it? Please do!
We are starting small...
- 2025-11-29 at the Bundesplenum of FridaysForFuture in Innsbruck, a mini inaugural party-ci-parade from plenary room to the dinner table.
- 2026-05-15 at the Critical Mass Vienna Bike Protest with Leobard and @ExBusFahrerMitKappe being the applauders. Video.
- 2026-06-05 at the Radeln4Future Austria Vienna Bike Protest at Steinitzsteg with hundreds of participants. Video.
- 2026-08-09 at Schönburn to celebrate the contributions of the participants
- You are next! Praise you!
- Do it! See what happens! Share your experience with Leobard.
- Translate it! Submit a pull request once you are done.
- Suggest improvements or report partyciparades you did via issues or pull requests.
- Join FridaysForFuture Austria and help co-organizing PartyCiParades. You won't be alone there, Leobard is already a member.
Partyciparade was created by Leo Sauermann for Fridays For Future Austria and is licensed using https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. See more in the manual files.
Partyciparade is a set of instructions how people can moderate a protest. It is intentionally published under CC-BY-4.0. GitHub is great for
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... to many people who contributed to this idea
- Everyone at Fridays For Future Austria who supported this idea. Special thanks to Nina M. from Kärnten/Koroška for your positive protest energy.
- Annie Locke-Scherer, architectural designer and builder, University lector, "MissChief" ALScherer.com for pointing out that temples or monuments are only one possible way to honor someone and that today's climate heroes rather deserve a good party.
- $teven Ra$pa, Associate Director of Community Events, founding member of the Regional Network Committee and Regional Events Committee, Burning Man for brainstorming how to celebrate Climate Heroes in a respectful participatory way.
- Gregor Stöhr / @ExBusFahrerMitKappe for getting it and going all in on our first public attempt. You are the first follower, making this a movement.
The idea has been around in various forms
- Die goldene Brücke
- Some rugby players form a "rugby tunnel" after the match and both teams go through it, receiving and giving credit to their and the opposite team.