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HYDRANGEA
BLOSSOM FESTIVAL FACTS SHEET
- This Hydrangea Blossom Festival is the only one of its kind
in the world. The All Floral Parade is expected to be an annual
event. The Festival is developing with help from Pasadena's Tournament
of Roses Parade, Portland's Rose Festival, and Macon, Georgia's
Cherry Blossom Festival. It promises to have the potential to
be one of the top four floral parades in North America, within
a short time.
- The Surrey, Hydrangea Blossom Festival has unanimous approval
by the International Festival and Events Association. Two members
of the Hydrangea Festival received scholarships in October
1997 to attend the IFEA Convention in Montreal, Quebec.
The IFEA is an association of worldwide festival and event organizers
dedicated to the promotion and strengthening of the festivals
and events industry through fostering educating, networking, the
dissemination of useful information and cultivating high standards
for the industry.
- Plans are quickly developing to grow 10,000 Hydrangea Shrubs
every year, to give away in the fall growing season.
- Citizens have spontaneously begun to propagate quantities of
Hydrangea bushes in order to beautify local neighborhoods. They
are doing this as volunteers, taking an active part in promoting
beautification of Surrey.
- The Hydrangea Festival plans to become an internationally recognized
celebration of Canada's culture along with the Pacific Northwest's,
and share in the experience of this history and all its cultural
diversity with the promotion of local and international friendships,
economic and social development, and beautification participation.
- The honored communities of the Hydrangea Festival are Canada
and the Pacific Northwest of the United States.
- This Hydrangea Blossom Festival is again inviting the world
to come and celebrate in the third week of August!
A
New floral Parade is Blossoming
All the World is Invited To Join and Celebrate This Beautiful
Event
- During the year of 2001, a new pageant was introduced. The "Little
Miss Hydrangea" contest opened up for girls from 5 to 10 years
of age. The idea was to have 4 finalists as 'good will' ambassadors
throughout the following year. 19 girls took part. All the children
dressed to match the Festival's theme, "Friends Around The World."
A large mural of Hydrangeas decorated the stage. Each girl did
a few minutes of entertainment, and each one was also judged for
poise, politeness, and personality. Everyone received prizes from
many sponsors, along with the 4 finalists winning silver trophies
and floral bouquets.
- For the year 2000, the Festival re-located to the Amphitheater
on Surrey's Cloverdale Rodeo Grounds. This all floral parade was
host to many countries in the world to celebrate with Canada and
the Pacific Northwest. Parade float entries from countries throughout
the world were invited to show off their beauty, culture, and
style of entertainment. Festival activities followed this theme.
- By 1999, floral parade floats showed the beauty of nature and
flowers by being almost totally covered with natural and floral
materials. Guest parade floats entered from all over Canada and
the U.S.A. Tours were available to view these floats while they
were being decorated and again after the parade at a post parade
display site.
- The Hydrangea Blossom Festival started a new celebration to
promote the beauty of having thousands of Hydrangea Shrubs blooming
from late June through to mid October, in this picturesque seaside
community.
- Surrey's first (Annual) Hydrangea Blossom Festival took place
Friday, August 7th through Sunday, August 9th, 1998. Opening Friday,
August 7, began with an enormous "Symphony of Street and Beach
Sounds." Thousands of people took part, with joyful shouts, bells,
horns, sirens, and creative sounds, at 8 p.m., for 5 minutes.
This signaled the beginning of the growing of one of the most
beautiful festivals Canada and the world can share together.
On August 8th, 1998, the Hydrangea Blossom Festival Parade began
with a "Parade of Bouquets and Wheels." Thousands to millions
of fresh flowers and natural materials added a rich flare of beauty,
aroma, and pleasure to all the parade entries. Antique cars, horses
and carriages, wheel chairs, carts, parade floats, bands, performance
groups and so much more celebrated the roots of Canada and the
Pacific Northwest in a way that has never been done before.
- In 1995, Elaine Cramer approached Council members about the
possibility of having a Hydrangea Festival. The following year
the proposal was accepted unanimously by City Council. Surrey's
City Hall included the Hydrangea Festival in their 1997 events.
e.g. The GVO Golf Tournament.
"We have the unique and different kinds
of qualities within our festival
and population, to welcome the rest of the world to Surrey,
and all of B.C.
The Hydrangea Blossom Festival is promoting this beautiful city
we want the rest of the world to know us."
Take a minute and vist Canada's
Guide to Festivals and Events
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Contact:
Elaine Cramer
P.O. Box 412
12882 26 Avenue
Surrey,
British Columbia, V4P 1R9
Canada
Tel: (604) 538-0598
Fax: (604 ) 538-9651
Email: Click
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