Join the DIY (Do-It-Yourself) New Year's Eve Parade in Downtown Santa Cruz! We will be meeting at 5pm at the Saturn Cafe parking lot. Come express yourself and join the fun in Downtown Santa Cruz for a New Year’s parade crammed with jugglers, clowns, samba drums, pirates, bikes, dancers and marching bands. Last Night Santa Cruz is a spontaneous people’s parade, a do-it-yourself (DIY) celebration organized at a grassroots level.

If you or your group are joining us at the Last Night parade on New Year's, add your name to the list of folks on the Who's In page on the website:
www.seedwiki.com/wiki/last_night_diy/who

If you are undecided, we offer you this:

First off, don't wait to see who's in. Jump in.

Everyone wants to bet on the winning horse. But ask yourself, how far did that get you in the last election? We'll vote with our heart. This is the Last Night we depend on parties and
elected officials to look after us. The Last Night we wait and see.

We don't just have to keep Santa Cruz weird. Make it weird. Make it fun. Take part in something. If you don't, no one is going to do it for you.

Or Ease In - a step bystep guide...
If you are not a jump-from-the-heights sorta person, here's a step-by-step guide to easing your way into the water:

- Commit to being downtown at sunset on New Year's Eve just to check out the Last Night parade.

- Allow for the possibility that if the spirit strikes you, you might just jump in and march with the passing revelers of the Last Night Santa Cruz parade.

- Call up some friends, tentatively at first, and see if they might just want to do something with you for the parade. Make some music, or build a float or puppets, create a contingent of pseudo-official marchers (the ministry of sillywalks, ninjas for peace, whatever), spin fire, create a bike gang, anything and everything.

- Move from the tentative "we'll-see" stage to the "let's-make-it-happen" stage. Commit, you waffler.

- Add your group or individual performance to "Who?" page, using the wiki "Edit Page" option.

- Signup to the Last Night announcement list to get updates and breaking news.

- Join in the discussion. Lively debates and brainstorming about everything really. Something akin to a public working group online.

www.lastnightdiy.org/