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History
The Mount Barker Christmas Festival
Committee Inc. was formed in 1982.
Our group of volunteers work all year
round, building, renovating and repairing pageant floats for that
one special day.
The parade is conducted on the first
Saturday of December each year.
Over the years, volunteers have constructed
around 18 floats, each has taken hundreds of hours to build. Thanks
to local businesses and support from the District Council of Mt
Barker, sponsorship and donations, we
have been able to continue running this wonderful event each year.
The reward for all the hard work is the look of joy and excitement
on the children's faces on parade day.

The parade starts at the Mount Barker
oval and finishes in Gawler Street. At the end of the pageant, Children
can visit Santa in his mobile cave.
Up to 100 bright and colourful floats
may take part in the procession, including Committee floats such
as the Castle of fairytales, the Toyshop, Snow White and the Seven
Dwarfs, Fairy Dell, the Pirate Ship, Barka the Dog, The Mermaids,
Jack and Jill, The Bumble Bees, The Christmas Stocking, Stone age
Float, Christmas Pudding, the Gingerbread House, A Pageant train,
Santa’s fire service, Nativity float and of the course the
main attraction, Father Christmas.
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