The Culture
The people who come, what they wear, and what they say the day is for. The parade's stated message — love, peace, freedom, generosity, tolerance — has been its legal basis since 1992, and the mottos keep returning to it.
Part of Street Parade
10 moments in this segment.
- — The Antiparade Soundsystem, 2000. A record of the Antiparade Soundsystem, the noise-making counter-current that set up near the Street Parade on the same day in Zurich and preceded the later Antiparade. It documents the criticism the parade attracted from within the city's own club and squat scene.
- — A French-language look at the parade. A short French-narrated piece introducing the Street Parade as the annual techno march held along the Zurich lakefront since 1992, and comparing its scale with Berlin's Love Parade.
- — Announcing the twentieth parade, 2011. A short piece announcing the twentieth Street Parade for 13 August 2011 under the motto 20 Years Love, Freedom, Tolerance and Respect. It restates the organisers' position that the parade remains a demonstration calling for peaceful and tolerant coexistence.
- — Official trailer for the 2013 parade. The organisers' own trailer announcing the 2013 Street Parade. Short, cut to music, and aimed at bringing people to the lakeside on the day.
- — Street preachers at the 2014 parade. Twenty-three minutes following Christian street preachers working the crowd at the 2014 Street Parade. It records one of the counter-currents the parade attracts and the reactions of the ravers who stop to argue.
- — Official trailer for the 2014 parade. The organisers' trailer for the 2014 Street Parade, held under the motto Enjoy the Dancefloor and Save It.
- — Official trailer for the 2015 parade. The organisers' trailer for the 2015 Street Parade, the edition held late in August under the motto Magic Moments.
- — Official trailer for the 2016 parade. The organisers' trailer for the 2016 Street Parade, the twenty-fifth edition, held on 13 August under the motto Zurich is unique.
- — A participant's diary of the 2022 parade. A vlogger's run through the 2022 Street Parade, mixing crowd footage with short interviews with other ravers and following the day through to where she ends up at the close.
- — Raver church service at the Wasserkirche, 2024. A church service held in Zurich's Wasserkirche on 10 August 2024 to open the thirty-first Street Parade, with the congregation and the parade crowd mixing in the medieval church. An unusual record of how the city's institutions have absorbed the event.
