PAST PARADES
We had a film crew shooting the whole thing. The result is an 11-minute video that has every group in it.
Support our Supporters
May 25, 2025: Art from La Selva Art Studios in the Hippodrome gallery. This group marched in the parade and included some of the art they had made for the display.
The Flying Pig Parade 2024
THIS FESTIVE AFFAIR IS LIKE NO OTHER. IT’S LIKE TAKING A BATH IN LAUGHTER. THE PIG CELEBRATES EVERYTHING WILD AND WONDERFUL ABOUT LIVING IN NORTH CENTRAL FLORIDA. It is a light-hearted version of a traditional holiday parade. Its chief engineer, Glenn Terry, says, “Again we’ll be celebrating all that’s wild and wonderful about Hogtown while poking fun at the year gone by”. Most know ”Hogtown” was Gainesville’s original name. Over fifty groups have signed up to march. They include Sgt. Pepper’s Heart Throb Band, Pigs in a Blanket, and The Rhythm Method Drum Line. The Flying Pig Parade is a great way to begin your new year celebration.
The Flying Pig Parade news clip
flooded the streets of downtown Gainesville looking back on key moments of 2024, and celebrating the wild and weird of North Central Florida. Channel 20 Video news clip
Click for more information on the 2024 parade.
Flying Pig Parade 2023
The Flying Pig Parade
Breaking News, We did it!
Hello Everyone, It’s hard to say how much I appreciate everyone who helped make the pig fly yesterday. But fly she did and it was spectacular, the Flying Pig Parade was the realization of a dream I’ve had for years. I see folks are enjoying it today all over social media. I know I am. Here’s a batch of photos from one skilled photographer… https://www.facebook.com/stilljustabillphotography/ and a 16-minute drone shot (just the first third, accompanied by cheesy music) by my friend, Dan, that’s pretty cool. https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-e&q=flying+pig+parade#fpstate=ive&ip=1&vld=cid:f5ca38d3,vid:V7IOY6hPz0Q,st:0 Yep, we made somethin’ happen! Time to start planning for next year. -Glenn
Last Year’s FPP 2023 articles
It’ll take wing in Downtown Gainesville, Florida, on December 30th. Our procession will be impossibly cute and enormous fun for both participants and spectators. As temperatures rise and the world gets crazier we need a good laugh… a humongous laugh! A sassy processional led by smiling swine can do that.
Anyone can be in the parade as long as they are colorful and entertaining – think costumes, dancing, music, and theatrical performances. Giant puppets will engage and inspire. Presidential contenders will fight with pillows and happy fish will gush about sea level rise (their motto, “You can’t have too much water!”). Click to read more.
We’ll all be strutting our stuff when pigs finally fly here in Hogtown
Glenn Terry was a co-founder of Miami’s annual King Mango Strut. Now a resident of GNV, Terry is organizing the first Flying Pig Parade to be held on Dec. 30. For more information or to get involved contact Terry at bettermiami1@yahoo.com
Press release: Gainesville will laugh like never before when the Flying Pig Parade steps out on December 30th. Click here to read more.
