Tick! Tock! is the Theme this year for the Village Halloween Parade

The 2012 PARADE THEME IS: Tick! Tock!

This year, as 2012 ticks away the final year of the Mayan Calendar, and visions apocalyptic or euphoric fill our imaginations; we will explore the many embodiments of Time. 

We think of time as immutable, 
yet we know it to be elastic, as certain moments pass with glacial slowness, while others speed past us.

The sound of ticking seconds reassures us of the continuity of our universe, a mechanical heartbeat, definite yet infinite.

Time bends and stretches, like Dali’s drooping watch-faces and Einstein’s light-speed trains.

We think of time as intangible, yet we can know it only through physical forms: swinging pendulums or orbiting celestial bodies.

We think of time as infinite, yet modern physicists tell the story of its 
beginning, and ancient calendar-makers tell of its end.

This year’s Parade will be led by a giant White Rabbit, glancing anxiously at his watch

as a squadron of winged alarm 

 

 

This year’s Parade will be on Wednesday, October 31, 2012 

7 p.m.

All Those in Costume are Welcome to Join Hundreds of Puppets, 53 Bands of Different Types of Music, Dancers and Artists, and Thousands of other New Yorkers in Costumes of their Own Creation in the Nation’s Most Wildly Creative Public Participatory Event in the Greatest City in the World!

Line-up

For all those in costume is on 6th Avenue South of Spring Street and North of Canal between 6:30pm and 8:30pm.

The Parade STARTS at 7 pm!

Alert! ONLY enter the line-up on 6th Ave. from the East and South between Canal and Spring!

Watch

Live: On 6th Avenue from Spring Street to 16th Street  from 7:00pm - 10:30pm

TV:  WPIX CHANNEL 11: 7:30pm - 10:00pm, and on NY 1: 8:00pm - 9:30pm

Posted by Mags