Creativity and project planning are a special challenge when you’re making something that weighs several tons.
Throw into the mix: your finished product will move at about two miles per hour, make millions of people laugh and remain current for about a week.
That’s a challenge which Pam Wiedenbeck, and La Canada Flintridge Tournament of Roses Association, relish.
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Pam is La Canada Flintridge Tournament of Roses Association’s treasurer. And LCFTRA is one of six community organizations which designs and constructs its own Rose Parade® float noncommercially.
(They’re also multiple award-winners! According to their website, their Rose Parade® float entries have received twenty-six trophies since 1978.)
As volunteers decorated their 2018 float, two days before its departure for the 129th Rose Parade®, Pam talked about this year’s float and how LCFTRA is already looking ahead to 2019!
(And–here’s an early heads-up. If you didn’t get to decorate a Rose Float this year, and wanted to, keep LCFTRA’s information. As a nonprofit organization, they won’t mind a bit if you’d like to support them or volunteer in the future!)
In this special edition of Over Coffee®, you will hear:
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The story of “Panda-Monium”, LCFTRA’s float in the 2018 Rose Parade;
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How to enter LCFTRA’s float concept contest for the 2019 parade;
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The three criteria behind LCFTRA’s choice for a winning concept (Anyone can enter! Details are available at www.lcftra.org, and the deadline’s January 17th);
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The process of creating the float;
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How LCFTRA obtained a unique (and expensive) decorating material for “Panda-Monium”;
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Some of the final decorating steps for the 2018 float;
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What will happen on Sunday evening, as “Panda-Monium” prepares to travel to its parade lineup position;
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One of Pam’s favorite stories, about creating this year’s Rose Parade® float.
