Most communities across the country will host organized celebrations for Canada Day, usually outdoor public events, such as parades, carnivals, festivals, barbecues, air and maritime shows, fireworks, and free musical concerts, as well as citizenship ceremonies for new citizens.

Mulan appears regularly for meet-and-greets, parades and shows at the Walt Disney Parks and Resorts.

She has also appeared in several Disneyland parades and shows over the years, including The World According to Goofy, Light Magic, the Parade of the Stars, Fantasmic, A Christmas Fantasy Parade and Celebrate!

Clarabelle and Horace come out for meet-and-greets and appear in parades and shows on a regular basis at Tokyo Disneyland as well.

Horace and Clarabelle come out for meet-and-greets and appear in parades and shows on a regular basis at Tokyo Disneyland as well.

The event includes parades, art shows, rodeos, concerts, and food events.

Much of the negative media that surrounds the gay community has to do with pride parades that turn into drag shows or riots.

Additionally, there is a beauty pageant where an Oildorado Queen is selected, a facial hair growing contest, talent shows, barbecues, street fairs, parades, and in 2005, motocross races.

Other equine events in the area include cowboy mounted shooting by the Florida Outlaws, as well as endurance rides, barrel races, " extreme " cowboy events, jumper shows, trick shows, parades, draft pulls, and more.

Oldsmar celebrates its history every year with Oldsmar Days and Nights, where residents and visitors take part in parades, car shows ( featuring the Oldsmobile ) and carnival rides.

Grangeville's " Border Days " is a large public celebration on the weekend of July 4 ( Independence Day ), which features the state's oldest rodeo as well as parades, art shows, and the world's largest egg toss.

* Suzanne Muldowney, most famous for her Underdog portrayals, is a fixture in New York parades, conventions, and entertainment shows.

The festival is a large tourist draw and includes parades, firework shows, craft shows, and rural competitions, such as horse pulls.

As of 2003, there are approximately 25, 000 horses worldwide, used for pleasure riding, trail, horse shows, parades, and endurance riding.

As a walkaround costumed character, Zeke also appears at the Walt Disney Parks and Resorts for meet-and-greets, parades and shows.

During the event there are also colourful kite parades, folk performances, shows and booths displaying the local products.

There are beauty pageants, cultural shows, street dancing, parades, and arts and crafts local products exhibits.

Activities at the celebration include three parades, fireworks, a Dutch Market, various shows and concerts, a craft fair, klompen dancing, and street scrubbing.

It has been announced that the FLOWRIDER Splash Zone will return as an attraction this year along with the regular exhibitions, horse and dog shows, parades, international cuisine, the International Marketplace, live farm, musical performances, midway and the Canadian International Air Show, which has become a tradition at the CNE during Labour Day weekend.

These have included pop concerts, yacht regattas and power boat races, donkey derbies, parades, fairs and fetes in the parks, tea dances, stage shows, art exhibitions and spectacular firework displays.

Confetti is a multitude of pieces of paper, mylar or metallic material which is usually thrown at parades and celebrations, especially weddings ( and game shows, following the end of a milestone or the occasion of a big win ).

This is the idea of all gay pride parades: through celebrating, the LGBT community shows that they can be proud of themselves and their community.

Buses are often hired for parades or processions.

Victory parades are often held for triumphant sports teams, who often tour their home town or city in an open-top bus.

At home, they are expected to render luster to various occasions by their presence, such as by attending artistic or sports performances or competitions, expositions, celebrations, military parades and remembrances, prominent funerals, visiting parts of the country, enterprises, care facilities ( often in a theatrical honor box, on a platform, on the front row, at the honours table etc.

The event, known as Spam Jam, is a carnival-type celebration that coincides with local Fourth of July festivities, featuring parades and fireworks that often relate to the popular luncheon meat.

Shriners often participate in local parades, sometimes as rather elaborate units: miniature vehicles in themes ( all sports cars ; all miniature 18-wheeler trucks ; all fire engines, and so on ), an " Oriental Band " dressed in cartoonish versions of Middle Eastern dress ; pipe bands, drummers, motorcycle units, Drum and Bugle Corps, and even traditional brass bands.

A ceremonial or celebratory form of aerial salute is the flypast ( known as a " flyover " in the United States ), which often follows major parades such as the annual Trooping the Colour in the United Kingdom or the French défilé du 14 juillet.

Carnival is celebrated with lively parades often surrounding bull riding, cockfights and dancing.

Active duty military marching bands often perform in parades with other military units and march in the same manner as other military personnel.

Large parades often involve floats, dancers, drag queens, and amplified music ; but even such celebratory parades usually include political and educational contingents, such as local politicians and marching groups from LGBT institutions of various kinds.

This belief is partly based on certain things often found in the parades, such as public nudity, BDSM paraphernalia, and other sexualized features.

* Because the regimental march is considerably shorter than a military march ( due to its lack of a third trio repeat and breakstrain ), it is often played by marching bands in parades ( hence the name " review march ").

* Bald Dwarf-A small man who attended the University of Alberta, Bald Dwarf often organizes equal rights parades for various socioeconomic groups.

The holidays of All Saints ' Day and All Souls ' Day were often celebrated with costume parades, wild parties, and licentiousness of all sorts.

The song remains a local favorite, and it is often played at ceremonies, parades, and sporting events.

The song remains a local favorite, and it is often played at ceremonies, parades, and sporting events.

Hanja are often used for advertising or decorative purposes, and appear frequently in athletic events and cultural parades, dictionaries and atlases.

A flag strongly symbolic of Irish nationalism, it is often seen on Saint Patrick's Day, usually displayed during the parades.

Community theatre is often devised and may draw on popular theatrical forms, such as carnival, circus, and parades, as well as performance modes from commercial theatre.

Prior to the advent of Comus, Carnival celebrations in New Orleans were mostly confined to the Roman Catholic Creole community, and parades were irregular and often very informally organized.

At demonstrations and parades, Yippies often wore face paint or colorful bandannas to keep from being identified in photographs.

The square has often been the scene of public meetings, political gatherings, riots, protests, celebrations, ceremonies, parades and concerts.

The local boys ' brigades often take part in parades in the town during the festival of Easter.