Project Description

21st June 2020
Homemade Parade
As part of Barnaby Festival
After the famous Macclesfield Barnaby Parade was cancelled due to Covid-19, IDST! (led by Becca Smith and Neil Puttick) helped mobilise hundreds of local people, groups, schools, and communities to make a “Homemade Parade from the comfort of people’s home” to celebrate our town’s incredible creative vision. The result was thousands of people getting involved taking part or celebrating in a wonderful watch party to raise the spirits and mark the Barnaby tradition.
On Saturday 21 June, almost 2,000 people took part the Barnaby Homemade Parade via an online watch party, joining the 500 parade makers on the facebook group creating performances, designing and building floats and decorations for a virtual celebration. The theme was VISION 2020 and it was fantastic to see how local people, schools, groups, faith groups, organisations rose to the occasion.
From the comfort of your own home
Instead of meeting in person, participants were encouraged to take part from the comfort of their own home, and using their front gardens, windows and balconies to showcase their creativity.
The Show must go on!
Inspirations
Preparations for 2021?
Make-Along Workshops
So many brilliant of Macclesfield’s makers lent us their experience and expertise to create “Make-along” videos (several who regularly work on IDST! projects with us). We loved how they came up with simple easy to create things to celebrate.
Follow the workshop activities here and listen and watch again all the video content from the Barnaby Festival events so far this year from the website. We have also attached some of the accompanying instruction sheets to go with it!
Our crew
IDST! are a group of makers, artists, techies and experimenters working together to make community artworks.
Creating artworks, performances, games and events that are playful, purposeful and people powered and celebrate community strength.
Collaborating with others, training and running experiments, workshops, and projects so people can learn and get involved and communities can own their ideas.