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Parade Application

Applications for 2025 are noW currently open!

vote for your favorite parade float! 

Voting for the parade is currently closed

Our Theme This Year is:
once upon a Time:  41 years!

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Check out last year's Winners!

First Place: Jeannie Cleaning

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Theme: Cat in The Hat Cleaning Machine 

Second Place: Great Lakes PeaceJam

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Theme: The Lorax

Check out our Parade Route here!
After its success last year, we kept it the same!
Join us Saturday, J
une 7th!
11 a.m. start time in downtown Kalamazoo
















 

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this year's Line up for the theme:
"board-amazoo"

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Interested in Do-Dah-Ing Again? APPLY NOW!

About the Parade:

Do‐Dah Parade has been a tradition for 41 years.  It started in 1984, when WKMI organizers designed the parade as a way for companies and organizations to provide unique entertainment through a satire and host a parade that wasn’t “stuffy.”  The purpose remains the same – create the un‐structured, spontaneous, and totally hilarious parade. Each year, participants are challenged to reinvigorate the meaning of “Do‐Dah” (a satire based on an ironic and iconic use of a person, place, event or thing).

VOTING FOR YOUR FAVORITE PARADE UNIT IS A BIG PART OF THE DO-DAH FUN!
(VOTING IS CURRENTLY CLOSED UNTIL THE 2025 PARADE)

VOTE

Some Inspiration from Past years...

Pictures!
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Thank you to Our 2024 Presenting Sponsors!

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