Troupe Bal Hepsi will be joining up with Troupe Zahara to perform at GeckoFest
GULFPORT GOES GECKOS!
September 1, 2007, 12 Noon to 10 PM
DURING LABOR DAY WEEKEND!
on Beach Blvd. in Gulfport
MUSIC - STREET ENTERTAINERS - WALKING PARADE AT 6PM
COSTUME AWARDS 6:30PM
SPECIAL AWARD CATEGORY ADDED THIS YEAR: THE GECKO GODDESS COURT!
Event details and entertainment to be announced.
ADMISSION IS FREE!
Artsy Gulfport continues their whimsical salute to the Gecko with the Sixth Annual Gecko Fest. This family festival and walking parade celebrates the End of Summer and Labor Day weekend with color, whimsy, extraordinary entertainment and a street dance on Saturday, September 2, 2006. Gecko Fest is easily described as a whimsical combination of a family-oriented Mardi Gras, Renaissance Faire, and British Loony Party gone Gecko in Gulfport, Florida.
Wear Gecko hats, fish hats, colorful hats and costumes to celebrate the many colors of Geckos! Bring drums, rattles, noise makers, kazoos, musical instruments, balloons, decorated umbrellas - just use your imagination. Join in or be a spectator - this parade is full of colorful surprises and characters!
Selected as "Best Bet," "Hot Ticket," "Hot Road Trip," AOLs top ten for Labor Day Weekend, and "Planet Pick," this locally cultivated festival is filled with whimsy and charm as is this quaint waterfront community.
Basic directions
Take I-275 South or U.S. 19 towards St. Petersburg to 22nd Avenue South, go right (or west) to Beach Blvd., turn left and go south on Beach Blvd. towards the waterfront area.
Another option would be to travel south on 58th Street until you reach 28th Avenue South and go left to Beach Blvd., then turn right - or, take 58th Street South to Shore Blvd. South and turn left and go to Beach Blvd. (which is past the beach parking lot on the waterside and before the pier).
GULFPORT GOES GECKOS!
September 1, 2007, 12 Noon to 10 PM
DURING LABOR DAY WEEKEND!
on Beach Blvd. in Gulfport
MUSIC - STREET ENTERTAINERS - WALKING PARADE AT 6PM
COSTUME AWARDS 6:30PM
SPECIAL AWARD CATEGORY ADDED THIS YEAR: THE GECKO GODDESS COURT!
Event details and entertainment to be announced.
ADMISSION IS FREE!
Artsy Gulfport continues their whimsical salute to the Gecko with the Sixth Annual Gecko Fest. This family festival and walking parade celebrates the End of Summer and Labor Day weekend with color, whimsy, extraordinary entertainment and a street dance on Saturday, September 2, 2006. Gecko Fest is easily described as a whimsical combination of a family-oriented Mardi Gras, Renaissance Faire, and British Loony Party gone Gecko in Gulfport, Florida.
Wear Gecko hats, fish hats, colorful hats and costumes to celebrate the many colors of Geckos! Bring drums, rattles, noise makers, kazoos, musical instruments, balloons, decorated umbrellas - just use your imagination. Join in or be a spectator - this parade is full of colorful surprises and characters!
Selected as "Best Bet," "Hot Ticket," "Hot Road Trip," AOLs top ten for Labor Day Weekend, and "Planet Pick," this locally cultivated festival is filled with whimsy and charm as is this quaint waterfront community.
Basic directions
Take I-275 South or U.S. 19 towards St. Petersburg to 22nd Avenue South, go right (or west) to Beach Blvd., turn left and go south on Beach Blvd. towards the waterfront area.
Another option would be to travel south on 58th Street until you reach 28th Avenue South and go left to Beach Blvd., then turn right - or, take 58th Street South to Shore Blvd. South and turn left and go to Beach Blvd. (which is past the beach parking lot on the waterside and before the pier).
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I vote for lotssa color...
Good Lord my guy was thinking and kept insisting "Gulfport "was up in the panhandle. thanks for the confirm on the directions.
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siiiiiigggghhhh....little goth girl mourns the "add color" suggestion
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''siiiiiigggghhhh....little goth girl mourns the "add color" suggestion "
Now be creative... there are lots of choices that are still in the "goth" group...and I now you will come up with a version that is festive....You looked lovely and very festive at Pirate fest.
At my age if I wear too much black they may try to bury me!!!! RED is a color....
I want a parasole (SP?) too!!!! a portable shade tree.
I love your look...
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Wear FESTIVE stuff!!
If we can get PaLaNah to come as a mermaid.... (she already has the tail) that would rock - lol
MJ is correct. It will be a long hot day. I am thinking somewhere between pirate and tribal fusion maybe.
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Yippee Bare butts, boots and yarn skirts!!!! What a vision!!!!!
Actually I am thinkin Reggae Tribal...a whole new fusion...Bob Marley on a camel...Steel drums and dumbeks....I am still VERY tired and punchy...But I am getting a vision....let me just let some smoke out of the room....Oh wait.... that;s kinda scary lookin.....Hmnnn -
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Yeah!!!!...you are contagious....I am excited this will be fun....it's the company and the people.
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I meant yay not yeah. LOL! You are right. We always have a really good time...
Have a great week.
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by the by...I WAS just being silly and joking about the "bare butts" thing....I know we would never ever in any situation dance with "bare butts" NO MATTER HOW hot and humid it gets.
Gecko FEst was GOOD...I became very tired towards the end and my back got tired faster than I did...but I wil do it again because it is so much fun and such an emotional high.
EVERYONE looked so good...even the Gecko who danced with us ( how on earth did that poor soul survive in that costume?)
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