Event - O-Parade Genk (2024)

Every May 1st, a national holiday in Belgium, Genk becomes a city of colour, of fantasy and of cheering people. 55000 cheering people in 2024 to be exact. Because that many people lined the road for the O-parade. Luckily at the same time it's kermis (carnival fair), jaarmarkt (market), fireworks, and hundreds of stalls to drink & eat.. a grand total of 130000 visitors for 1 day is a lot for a city with only 63000 inhabitants.

These are some impressions from the editions in 2022 & 2023. 

Eventhough 2024 has had an extremely rainy, stormy and dreary Spring, the weather shifted for a few days and the parade enjoyed the sun and a decent 26°Fahrenheit. The day after it rained again and was 14 degrees colder. So a big thanks to all the witches who made sure Beltane would be a great day.

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Let's provide you a few links:

▷ All photos can always be found on/downloaded from my Flickr and here!
▷ A "How to download stills from Flickr" tutorial was posted here.
▷ Updates are on THE Facebook.
▷ Buy Red Cathedral a whisky on Ko-Fi
▷ A tiny video might go to Clapper & to Instagram or even Threads.
▷ Give a follow to this young creative foundation: Deep Red Noise vzw/asbl

Eventhough I feel that last year I made more creative photo's, here's a gallery:
(Click on the arrows on the side to scroll)

Do you share my opinion?

UPDATE: 15% of the photos have been processed & uploaded.

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PS. The Green Dragon's head and mine crashed.. hard.. and neither was broken, so we both rock!
The things we'll do for a shot!
(Just know that it was my own fault because I was filming while the dragon spinned around and still the driver apologized, so: respect.. and I'm 100% sure the dragon's bump is bigger than mine.😏)

A direct link to this article: https://tinyurl.com/OParade2024

Peace