Money you donate supports paying for a licensed and insured shuttle service to bring participants back to the start of the parade. This helps increase accessibility for those who can the two-mile parade but need help getting themselves and their costumes back to the starting point. It also supports paying for photo documentation of the event by Tyler Franz.

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Piggery Pete’s Perchten Parade is a public art experiment that uses the tradition of seasonal folk parades to celebrate change, beguile the darkness of winter with gratitude and joy, and invite us to question and remake our relationship to local history, public art, and togetherness. Through monstrous costumes and unapologetic celebration, we open ourselves to the radical possibility of spring and rebirth, while also challenging dominant narratives about obligation, economics, and authority. This parade is about reclaiming our region in the name of feral love, freedom, and rewilding our hearts together.

To make this event possible, we need to cover the costs of a shuttle and photography. The shuttle is essential because the parade is one-way: we begin together, move through the route on foot, and end at a different location. Without a return shuttle, many people would have to leave early, skip parts of the parade, or not participate at all. The shuttle brings participants back to the starting point safely and collectively at the end of the night, directly increasing accessibility and allowing more people to fully commit to the entire experience. Knowing there is a clear, supported way back lowers the barrier to participation and makes the parade feel intentional rather than risky or improvised.

Photography serves a different but equally important role. The parade itself is fleeting, but the relationships, courage, and shared sense of transformation it creates are not. Thoughtful documentation allows the work to be shared with the wider community, future collaborators, and supporters who couldn’t be there in person. It also creates a living archive so this doesn’t disappear as a single night but continues to grow as a local folk tradition.

Your contribution helps cover the real costs that allow this experiment in public art, ritual, and togetherness to happen fully and safely. These include accessibility, documentation, and coordination that make the difference between an idea and a lived experience.

Supporting Piggery Pete’s Perchten Parade means choosing to invest in something local, feral, and collective. It means saying yes to art that does not sit politely on a wall, but walks the streets, asks questions, and invites us back into relationship with each other and the land. If you believe in rewilding our hearts, reclaiming tradition, and making space for joy and transformation in public, your help truly matters.