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Online Form - 2024 Christmas Pageant Registration

About the Christmas Festival & Pageant 

The City of Albany’s Christmas Festival & Pageant is one of the most significant events in the Great Southern region, attracting up to 10,000 community members to the Albany CBD on the first Saturday of December each year. The event brings together all members of the community in a collective celebration of the start of the holiday season. Albany’s CBD will come alive with a fun-filled afternoon of entertainment, featuring live music and family-orientated activities in the Town Square and Alison Hartman Gardens, centering around the traditional Christmas pageant on the main street of Albany.

This vibrant celebration also aims to showcase the diversity of cultures in the Great Southern region. Every year, the event brings together community members from various cultural backgrounds to share in the joy of the holiday season. In addition to the traditional Christmas pageant, the festival will feature performances, markets, activities, and displays that represent the rich tapestry of cultures found in Albany.

The 2024 Christmas Pageant is open to all community groups, businesses, schools, not-for-profits, and individuals. It provides a wonderful opportunity to promote your group or organisation to the community and participate in a community-wide celebration. We welcome all to participate and share their cultural and religious heritage as part of this inclusive and joyous event.

The 2024 Christmas Pageant will be held on Saturday, 7 December from 6pm. The Pageant will travel from Peels Place up York Street to the Albany Highway roundabout (approximately 600m) and return down the street to conclude at the Peels Place roundabout at approximately 7pm. 

To register to be a part of the pageant please complete the form below.

Please note submission of this form does not confirm your involvement in the pageant. You will receive confirmation of your registration via email within 72 hours. If you do not receive notification, please contact the Events team at [email protected] or phone 6820 3031. 

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You have the ability to save this form and complete it at a later date. An email will be generated and sent to the specified address.

Note: Incomplete forms are kept for a period of 2 day(s), after this time the system will automatically delete your response.

Applicant Details

Entry Details

Please specify your entry type*




Please indicate whether your group will have any of the following (Playing Christmas Music and Christmas Carols is strongly encouraged)

Adult Supervision

If uncertain, register your name and inform the events team no later than two weeks before the Pageant.

Please note:
• All children involved in the parade must be supervised at all times.
• Children aged under 7 who are traveling on the back of a moving vehicle, including trailers, must be accompanied by an adult supervisor.
• A minimum of one (1) adult for every 10 children is required. The adult supervisor(s) must remain on the vehicle at all times.

Vehicle Details

If the details are unknown, please confirm them no later than two weeks before the Pageant

Please note: For safety, there must be an adult “wheel walker” on each side of all large vehicles and trailers in the parade.

Terms and Conditions


GENERAL
• NO FLOAT/GROUP IS TO HAVE A FATHER CHRISTMAS/SANTA. Only one Father Christmas/Santa will appear in the Pageant and this will be organised by the City of Albany.

• The City of Albany retain the right to not accept any entry, or delete or modify any aspect of an entry, at its absolute discretion.

• The City of Albany also retain the right to position each entry in the parade as it sees fit, giving consideration to content, theme, and possible impacts upon other entries.

• The conduct and movement of the Pageant will be controlled by the assigned Events Team and designated Parade Marshals along the parade route. Participants must adhere to the direction of these supervisors at all times.

• Participants accept full responsibility for their own safety when taking part in the Parade and/or travelling in moving vehicles. It is therefore recommended that you have suitable Public Liability Insurance.

• The throwing of any object (including Lollies) by Participants is considered dangerous and is strictly prohibited. Children can be seriously injured by running in front of oncoming vehicles while trying to retrieve Lollies/giveaways. Anyone violating this rule will be removed from the parade immediately.

• If you DO wish to have participants walking along side your float giving out promotional goodies or wrapped Lollies please do so safely and hand directly to the crowd.

• Advertising of alcoholic drinks or prohibited substances on vehicles or by participants is strictly forbidden.

• Float/group Arrival times and assembly area details will be allocated at Pageant Briefing in late November (date to be confirmed).

• Participants agree to adhere to all COVID Safety requirements and follow the direction of the COVID Safety Marshal/s during the event.

VEHICLE ENTRIES
• Vehicle height is limited to 4.6 metres.

• Vehicle length is limited to 12.5 metres.

• Vehicle size is limited to 8 tonne.

• Drivers of vehicles must hold a valid drivers license.

• All vehicles in the parade must not exceed “walking pace” speed during the event.

• Pageant entrants will be positioned by the City of Albany Events Team according to the size, type and musical arrangements identified in your registration form. The order of procession cannot be changed once it is finalised.

• Dangerous driving in the Pageant Assembly Area is not acceptable.

• Private vehicles that are not participating in the Pageant must not be parked in the Pageant Assembly Area.

• Excessive noise from Pageant vehicles is prohibited, e.g. the revving of engines, horns, sirens etc.

• There will be a City of Albany Traffic Warden at the pageant assembly area. The warden will ensure the Terms & Conditions and the Conditions of Exemption From WA Road Traffic Code 2000 are adhered to. Failure to comply with any of these conditions will result in the entrant being asked to leave.

CHILDREN PARTICIPATING IN THE PARADE/MOVING VEHICLES
• All children involved in the parade must be supervised at all times.
• Children aged under 7 who are traveling on the back of a moving vehicle, including trailers, must be accompanied by an adult supervisor. A minimum of one (1) adult for every 10 children is required. The adult supervisor(s) must remain on the vehicle at all times.
Please provide the details of the adult supervisors.

• Children are not to leave a vehicle, be removed from a vehicle or be placed onto a vehicle while that vehicle is moving.

• Parents or guardians responsible for children participating in the pageant must be at the finishing location no later than 6.30pm.

• Pageant entrant coordinators (individual groups) are responsible for all children in their group until they are collected by a parent or guardian.

• No child is to be left unattended at the finishing location.

Acknowledgement of Terms and Conditions

I have read and understood the Terms and Conditions*
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