The Children's Parade

5000 school children, showstopping designs, self-made costumes and sculptures can only mean one thing – Brighton Festival’s official opening, The Children’s Parade.

This year’s theme is One World, learning and growing from each other, while groups of schools have been given subthemes of Inventions; Culture, Cooking & Fashion; and Our Environment to explore how international collaboration influence these diverse areas.

Artists from Same Sky have come together with teachers, students and volunteers from schools across Brighton & Hove to make magnificent sculptures, choreograph dance routines and compose parade chants.

A carnival of collaboration and imagination, The Children’s Parade is the perfect way to kickstart Brighton Festival. 

Parade starts on Jubilee Street and ends on Madeira Drive