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Start planning now for Fat Tuesday 2012 (Feb. 21)

BERKELEY MARDI GRAS 2012 SCHEDULE: 

Sunrise: Between Here and There -  MLKjr and Adeline
3:00 Lunch:People's Park - Dwight and Haste
Sunset: Ashby Bart - Adeline and MLKjr
2012 THEME:
Another end of the world is possible!

Fat Tuesday, Feb. 21, 2012 -- all day parade.

Check the facebook events pages too...

...IF YOU DARE, HAHAHAHAHAAA!

A Group of floats prepares to join the main parade at Berkeley Mardi Gras several years ago...
A group of froggy floats make their way to join the big parade!

2007 PICTURES!

All New Orleans Invited
Justice Now.



PRESS RELEASES: 2008 2007

VIDEO!


Mardi Gras schedule (Feb. 24, 2009): 

                  Music and dancing at every turn. Come in Costume..take the day off,  
it's a religious holiday and Reverend Jim is offering faith healings  
if you need to call in sick. Let's give the frogs the vote!


Detailed schedule:

        Sunrise:  Top of Derby Creek

        2:30 PM:  Lunch, People's Park (Food Not Bombs serves)
                  (Dwight & Hillegass)

        SUNSET:   Ashby BART
                  (Ashby & Adeline)

        And beyond...
      WeAr YoUr CoStUmE

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      King Cake Finale: Fabulous Party Photos
      Countdown to Mardi Gras!


      MORE PHOTOS FROM PAST YEARS

      SO JOIN US FEBRUARY 21, 2012 -- ALL DAY PARADE !!!

      The One True Church of the Great Green Frog
      invites you to join us on our
      High Hoppin' Holy Holiday.

      Put on a new or unusual Costume to
      Dance through the Streets Praising the Frog.
      Make a leap of Faith and
      Let Her Hop into Your Heart.


      The season kicked off on Twelth Night, January 6 with homebrew, gumbo, and
      the first King Kake of Two Double Aught Seven. We've already bifurcated as it's
      a short season, with two parties a week!

      Last year's theme was: Straining the world through a flat screen....
      Note: March 8, 2011 was Women's Day around the world and the exact
      19th birthday of Berkeley Critical Mass!

      Before that the year's theme (2010) was:
      America DRONES ON

      In 2009 it was "Amphibian Suffrage."

      Before that, the year's theme was
      "Commuting the death sentence of global warming."

      The 2006 theme was: "Get Mo Betta." The year before that's theme (2005) was: "The World is a Little Bit Under the Weather" (Doodle Loop -The Meters)

Two minions of the Great One pull a holy frog pond in the Berkeley Mardi Gras parade recently Berkeley Mardi Gras has been an annual tradition all about Berkeley for over thirteen years! Each year on Fat Tuesday (the same day as Mardi Gras in New Orleans), the Berkeley Mardi Gras parade takes to the streets for an all-day roving costume party. A free lunch in People's Park and music and performance at the Farmer's Market are regular features. The parade generally begins at daybreak at the top of Derby Creek and usually finishes at a grand party somewhere in North Oakland...join up any time during the day, check the map (see flyers, below) for great hop-portunities!

KING CAKE season has already begun: theme parties are held each week in which a cake is served, leading up to the big day. Each cake has a special toy hidden inside. Whoever gets the piece with the prize holds the next party!

Real life just isn't good enough without the enhancement of pixelation and distillation into a small window on the world. Everyone wants to be on teevee so why not bring it with you, wherever you go? Certainly at Mardi Gras in Berkeley! Here pictured at the farmer's market.

--------------- You might even get on teevee! --------------- >>>>>>>>>>>>

Here in Berkeley folks celebrate the ONE TRUE CHURCH OF THE GREAT GREEN FROG. Don't worry, people from other denominations are welcome, and it's all in good fun. You don't have to be an ardent frog worshipper to parade in Berkeley, but it sure helps!


Personalize a float to express what your inner frog feels:

Justice: Sold!
Floats not required to participate no way baybee

Remember folks, these are serious times, so always keep your One-True-Church card on hand:

Get out of Purgatory Free Card.



Special Event from Feb. 2007: King Cake Party on Wheels During Berkeley Critical Mass,
with a howler of a showing of "The Inconvenient Truth" to follow at the The Long Haul
infoshop on Friday, Feb. 9. THEME: BIRTHDAYS.



This web site just got started February 2, 2003...and went into limbo until February 8, 2004!
Then it tangled with some tornadoes.
More to come soon...could be including some films!
Also see a sister site. The Great Green Frog is migh-Tee-populah!



This site has enmjoyed over 1007 visitors this Mardi Gras season, and the day is young!
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