Little Amal will join children and families at this year's Manchester Day Parade after a forced three-year absence due to Covid

Little Amal will join children and families at this year’s Manchester Day Parade

As the return of the legendary Manchester Day on Sunday 19 June gets closer, preparations are underway to make sure the event – last held in 2019 – will be the best ever this year.

Organisers are pulling out all the stops to make sure the city centre will be buzzing all day long with plenty of things to see and do, as well as making sure the iconic Manchester Day Parade – full of music, colour, and dance – is the most memorable yet.

Outdoor arts specialists Walk the Plank have been working with community groups and local artists throughout the past few months to help them perfect their all-important parade routines and to make the fabulous parade floats that Manchester Day is famous for, all in preparation for the big day.

After a forced three-year absence due to Covid, this year’s parade promises to be an absolute showstopper as it also welcomes, for their very first Manchester Day, a very special young guest who recently made her home in the city after an epic 8,000 km journey through Turkey and across Europe from Syria.

Little Amal – the 3.4 metre high puppet of a Syrian girl refugee who arrived in Manchester last summer – will be out and about in the city centre during the day, taking in all the sights and sounds of the unforgettable annual parade as it makes its way through the city streets.

With the spotlight for the return of Manchester Day this year firmly fixed on children and young people as part of the city’s year-long 2022 Our Year campaign, and as Manchester works towards becoming a UNICEF recognised child-friendly city, event organisers are asking the city’s children and young people to look out for Little Amal and be ready to extend the hand of friendship to her, and show her the true spirit of Manchester and how the city likes to celebrate.

Young people themselves are playing a big part in all aspects of this year’s Manchester Day. As well as helping make some of the fantastic costumes and parade floats, taking part in the parade itself, singing, dancing, and helping to choreograph it, young people have also been given the special job of curating all the activity on the day that will take place in the event space on Piccadilly Gardens.

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