INVITATION TO PARTICIPATE IN THE CHRISTMAS PAGEANT FOR 2025
The 23 December Lobethal Pageant Committee invite you to participate in the fun and festivities of the Lobethal Pageant on 23 December 2025. We’re looking for:
- CLOWNS
- DANCERS
- MUSICAL BANDS
- CREATIVE FLOATS
- COMEDY FLOATS
- PROMOTE YOUR BUSINESS
Prizes awarded for:
- $400 Best Christmas Float
- $400 Best Creative Float
- $200 Best Comedy Float
Enquiries
Nerissa Schache
0408 846 236
Email: Click here
PO Box 483, Lobethal SA 5241
Please return your completed Entry Form (below), completed Indemnity Form and Proof of Insurance Cover to PO Box 483, Lobethal SA 5241 or email.
Unfortunately you will not be able to participate unless these documents are provided.
You will be notified of acceptance of your entry via email.
Please remember floats must be suitable for family viewing.
Entry and Participation Guidelines Assembly Information:
- Arrival time for floats is 6.00pm sharp on Monday 23 December 2024. Children participating on floats – arrival 6.30pm – 6.45 pm.
- Floats cannot enter from the Main Street after 6.00 pm as the road is closed.
- Pageant rules state that entrants cannot travel to and from parade routes on the float.
- Queue in the Main Street from David Street towards Pioneer Avenue, where entrants will be allocated a float number by a marshal.
- Ensure you have a form and number for each float.
General Entrant Safety:
- All vehicles must be roadworthy and have current registrations. Drivers must be fully licensed and abide by the appropriate legislation pertaining to road rules.
- Children under the age of seven are not to ride on floats and other pageant entries without direct adult supervision. Please ensure your group has an appropriate ratio of adults to children.
- Bike riding, skateboarding, rollerblading and scooter riding are permitted in the pageant, however appropriate personal protective equipment must be worn.
- All floats including bands and participants must proceed to the oval before disbanding. This enables the residents of Restvale Aged Care Facility, to get a glimpse of the pageant.
- Clown bikes and small two and four wheeled vehicles must remain within the blue lines on the road at all times for safety reasons. Please be mindful not to hinder the progress of all the other participants.
- The South Australia Police would like to remind participants that non-compliance to the Australian rules will incur infringement notices and loss of demerit points. The only time you may legally ride on a float is on the Pageant route.
- The 23 December Lobethal Pageant Inc insurance policy does not cover live animals. Please contact the float co-ordinator for more information.
- Entrants will need to provide evidence of their own insurance covering public liability and animals prior to the pageant.