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Mardi Gras Plus; Plan your Festival experience; Join the Festival. 2025 Parade applications; Fair Day 2025 EOIs; Mardi Gras + applications; Volunteer; 2025 tickets; MobTix; Accessibility; Sustainability. How to be a green festival-goer; Sydney Mardi Gras Packages. 3 Night Mardi Gras Package; 4 Night Mardi Gras Package; 7 Night Mardi Gras Sydney Mardi Gras said it is anticipating about 250,000 spectators and 10,000 marchers across 180 floats this year. Participants get ready from the start of the 2024 Sydney Mardi Gras parade. Tens of thousands of people lined Oxford Street and craned necks from rooftops and balconies to catch a glimpse of 181 floats taking part in the 47th Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras parade. Tens of thousands of people from across Australia turned up to watch more than 10,000 participants and 180 floats in the 47th annual Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras parade. Tomorrow night, for the 41st time since 1978, Sydney's CBD will light up with all the magic of the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras. And with a ginormous 197 floats scheduled in, the parade is At Mardi Gras 2023, Ms Thorpe momentarily stopped the parade after laying on the ground in front of a float in protest. She was escorted away by officers, but was not arrested. When is the 2025 Sydney Mardi Gras? The festival is being held from February 14 to March 2, with this year’s theme, “free to be”, inspiring events, floats and revellers throughout the fortnight. Sydney's 46th annual Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras parade is held on Saturday 2 March. The parade travels down Oxford and Flinders Streets to Moore Park. More than 200 floats will take part this year. Lighting: LED lighting is often a popular choice for parade floats due to its energy efficiency. Consider battery-pack lighting for a simple but effective display. 5. INSURANCE Please note that whilst Mardi Gras has insurance for the event, this does not cover the participants/actions of individual float groups. We recommend float organisers NUMBER? If you are hiring a vehicle, we recommend that before booking it, you tell the hire company that you intend to use the vehicle for the Sydney Mardi Gras Parade and ensure that they have confirmed this is approved. You should also tell the hire company that you will require the vehicle registration number by the 11th of February 2024 12. CAN I USE THE MARDI GRAS LOGO ON OUR COSTUMES OR FLOAT? No, this is a trademarked logo and cannot be used on any floats, signs or costumes without the written approval of Sydney Mardi Gras. 13. DO I NEED MUSIC LICENSING FOR THE EVENT? Sydney Mardi Gras and the broadcast partner cover music licensing for the event and Applications are now open to join the 2025 Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras Parade!. The world-renowned Sydney Mardi Gras Parade returns to Oxford Street, Flinders Street and Anzac Parade on Saturday 1 March 2025, and we’re inviting our communities to bring to life the 2025 Festival theme Free to be! The roar of dozens of motorbikes carrying women and rainbow flags, or "Dykes on Bikes", kicked off the parade, followed by the First Nations Community Float and the 78ers -- a group of activists who marched in Sydney's first Mardi Gras event in 1978. The 2018 Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras Parade was proudly supported by the NSW Government through its tourism and major events agency, Destination NSW. Watch Joel Creasey, Magda Szubanski, Urzila Carlson and Patrick Abboud presenting the 40th Annual Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras broadcast here on SBS OnDemand. Samuel Barnett stars in this award-winning show, playing during the Sydney Mardi Gras (photo supplied). 4. Feeling Afraid As If Something Terrible Is Going To Happen. The Sydney Opera House will be getting involved in the Sydney Mardi Gras this year by hosting this darkly comedic one-man show starring Tony and Olivier-nominated actor Samuel Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras Limited Level 2, 81-83 Oxford Street, Darlinghurst NSW 2010, Australia ABN 87 102 451 785 T + 61 2 9383 0900 | W: mardigras.org.au For any enquiries regarding your parade application or these conditions, please contact parade@mardigrasarts.org.au 2025 Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras Parade Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras (SGLMG) is an LGBTQIA+ not-for-profit member-based organisation that produces the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras Parade and Festival and several other events and supportive initiatives throughout the year. SGLMG is a registered charity and does not have a funding or grants program. A further sponsorship agreement for Mardi Gras is now in place, valued at almost $1 million, including an $800,000 cash contribution to the festival for 2018 to 2020. The City of Sydney has entered a float in the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras Parade every year since 2005. The Mardi Gras Parade. When: Saturday, March 1, 6:45pm to 11pm Where: Oxford St, Flinders St and Anzac Parade, Sydney Tickets: free, with tickets to special parade viewing areas, more info (some sold out) The Sydney Gay And Lesbian Mardi Gras Parade is now in its 47th year and is the jewel in the crown of the two-week Mardi Gras festival. Sydney’s Oxford Street precinct saw the biggest gains, up 38% across the entire festival and up 74% in the evenings. The 2024 Parade Broadcast on ABC reached a staggering 1.86m viewers, ranking
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