Virtual March

We are focusing our energies on the virtual march that will take place in a broadcast online, September 20, 2020.

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Each team is asked to submit something that we can share or post during our online broadcast virtual march. It may be an image (or collage of images) of your team, a video clip, a poster, or an audio clip. It will need to be prepared by your team in advance and sent to the Suffragist City Parade leaders so that we can organize them for presentation during the virtual march.

The 2020 Suffragist City Parade will go on!  We will still CELEBRATE through YOUR VIDEOS …

  • The 100th Anniversary of the 19th Amendment
  • Hope, Courage, & Change
  • Black Lives Matter, and taking an anti-racist stance
  • The progress women have made in the last 100 years
  • Our Sheroes
  • Susan B. Anthony’s 200th birthday, the Anthony Museum’s 75th anniversary, and a big election year

A virtual march will be created with the digital assets you submit and will go live September 20, 2020.  For convenience we are calling these digital assets “virtual float.” The march will be broadcast beginning at 10:30 am EDT.  We plan to “step off” virtually at 10:30 am on September 20.

Example of a virtual float.

How to create a “virtual float”:

  • Individuals are encouraged to start or join a team. A team is two or more individuals.  (Remember: with the virtual option, your team may cross geographic lines, and you don’t have to journey to Rochester to participate! Gather others from your profession, group, or family!) We welcome individual registration, but we reserve the right to organize individuals into virtual floats (in the same way that we would group individuals into marching groups in a physical parade).
  • Individuals may submit a digital image of themselves that we can place into a collage of images with other individuals to be posted during the boradcast. As with a live parade, you may want to dress in a certain way that reflects your profession or cultural identity.  You may want to carry a sign or poster.  See Guidelines for Participants below.
  • Teams may submit virtual floats comprised of an image, a collage, or a videos of their team.  For the virtual parade, video clips should be 20 seconds or less. We may accept a few longer videos, see the section below outlining videos of 1 minute or less. 
  • Here are some ideas to get your float committee started:
    • Dress up in a uniform or costume that represents your group or profession, meet on “zoom” and take an image of your gallery.
    • Take a group photo or video, be sure to practice social distancing, (judges on courtroom steps, professors on campus, nurses in front of a hospital, dancers at a barre, etc).
    • Create a story video to encourage people to VOTE:
      • Pass a VOTE sign as in the video above (be sure to take your sign from your right and pass it on to your left).
      • Hold up a sign that reads I FIRST VOTED IN _____  (fill in year).
      • Have your child or grandchild dress up as a superhero and hold a sign VOTING IN _____ (fill in year) or SUPERHEROES VOTE! 
    • Film your group marching 6’ apart – be sure to wave to the camera – you may want close-ups of individuals and/or signs.
    • Dress up as your favorite suffragist(s).
    • You are not limited to the above choices. Be creative! Have fun! Celebrate!
  • An individual or team may submit a longer video (1 minute or less). Depending on how many register for the Suffragist City Parade, longer videos may not be included in the online March on September 12. However, we may select your video to be used to promote the March, to be broadcast on the day of the March, or to be published on the Suffragist City Parade website and social media. If you submit a video we will include it in this historic event. Some ideas for longer videos:  
    • Choreograph a dance, do a cheer, sing (be sure to have good audio).
    • Highlight a trailblazer or the progress women have made in your field.
    • Celebrate – Hope, Courage and Change!
    • Be creative! Have fun!
  • We are not looking for highly polished images or videos – use your smartphone or tablet to film. Google how to create a video or ask your kids!
  • We can help you. We can edit your video such as, removing the parts of you starting and stopping to shoot, removing sound and adding music, and editing out bloopers – or keeping them in, depending upon how hilarious they are!
  • Submit virtual floats no later than September 1, 2020.
  • Be sure there are no copyright restrictions on the music you are using. Go to https://www.youtube.com/audiolibrary/music for free music.
  • Ask your friends to submit a video – anyone from around the world can be part of our Virtual March.
  • Contact us with any questions, suggestions or offers to help.
  • Be sure to agree to our Terms & Conditions.
  • Please follow our Guidelines to assure we can use your digital float.
  • Virtual floats may be submitted between July 1 and September 1. Details on how to submit your virtual float will be emailed to you if you are registered in the March.

Guidelines for Participants

  • We encourage creativity!
  • We do not allow banners, signs, images, lyrics, or chants that endorse a particular political candidate or party, attack a particular individual or group, use profanity, encourage violence, or evidence discrimination or bias in regard to another’s race, religion, culture, ethnicity, sexual orientation, or gender presentation.
  • You and your team must be represented in your virtual float, just as your presence would be required if you were marching. No “anonymous” images or videos.
  • Be sure there are no copyright restrictions on any images or music that you include in your virtual floats.

Here is another virtual float as an example!