Los Angeles celebrates the Pride festival in mid-June each year with a series of events culminating in the Pride parade thrugh the streets of the city.
This year's pride parade in LA is being broadcast live online:
LA Pride Live
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Christopher Street West (CSW) is the non-profit organization that produces the Los Angeles Pride Celebration (Parade and Festival) held every June in its host city of West Hollywood, California, USA.
Named after New York City's famed Christopher Street, the June 1969 site of the Stonewall Rebellion. The CSW parade was started in June 1970 the year following the Stonewall Riot, by a number of Los Angeles' activists, prominent among them Morris Kight, Reverend Troy Perry, and Bob Humphries. The first parade traveled east on Hollywood Boulevard starting from McCadden Place in the Hollywood section of Los Angeles, California. Although one of several pride parades that took place that day around the United States, this was the only "street closing" pride parade held in 1970 - something emulated by the other parades the following year. After several troubled years (no parade was held in 1973), the CSW parade returned in 1974, and originated yet another feature of the modern pride movement by adding a festival to its annual event.
St. Petersburg will be celebrating it's 308th anniversary this year, with free concerts, street parties and fireworks display. St Petersburg's City Day bring all the residents out to celebrate.
This live feed is in St Petersburg for the fireworks and celebrations:
St Petersburg City Day Live
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Saint Petersburg is a city and a federal subject (a federal city) of Russia located on the Neva River at the head of the Gulf of Finland on the Baltic Sea. The city's other names were Petrograd and Leningrad It is often called just Petersburg (Russian: Петербург) and is informally known as Piter
Founded by Tsar Peter I of Russia on May 27, 1703, it was the capital of the Russian Empire for more than two hundred years (1713–1728, 1732–1918). Saint Petersburg ceased being the capital in 1918 after the Russian Revolution of 1917. It is Russia's second largest city after Moscow with 4.6 million inhabitants, and fourth in Europe after Istanbul, London and Moscow. Saint Petersburg is a major European cultural centre, and an important Russian port on the Baltic Sea.
Now in its 11th year, the annual Regent Street Festival will take place from 12noon to 7pm, with novelist Kathy Lette kicking off the proceedings! What's more this year’s traffic free event is dedicated to fashion and lifestyle, with the iconic theme Mile of Style.
This live webcam is on Regent Street on the day of the festival:
Regent Street webcam
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The Regent Street Festival celebrates over 180 years of shopping history in 2010, with a number of spectacular live performances and events coming to central London for a massive street party. Regent Street, Heddon Street and Swallow Street will be alive with activity in September including quality dining, music, dance and more. A series of events are also taking place throughout the day to help you gear up for a full on party.
London's elegant Regent Street becomes traffic-free for a one-day musical and theatrical extravaganza. Catch the live music, whizz round on the carousels, watch street entertainers and bag discounts in the shops at the annual Regent Street Festival.
As ever, there's storytelling and other entertainment throughout the Regent Street area, with al fresco dining in restaurants and bars and music, magicians and face painters on hand.
Technoparade is a parade of vehicles equipped with strong loudspeakers and amplifiers playing techno music. It resembles a carnival parade in some respects, but the vehicles (called lovemobiles) are usually less elaborately decorated.
This live web camera feed is in Paris for this event:
Paris Techno Parade Live
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Technoparade doesn't share the carnival parade tradition of bombarding the spectators with sweets. However, the revellers do occasionally throw confetti (usually larger and more sparkly than that in a carnival parade) and spray foam from the vehicles onto the crowd.
Nearly all of the vehicles are converted trucks. In order to power the amplifiers, the trucks are frequently equipped with an additional electrical generator. For safety reasons, horse-drawn floats are never used in technoparades: there would be a danger of horses panicking from the noise and chaos. However, there are occasional human-drawn floats equipped with generators, record players, amplifiers and loudspeakers. Some of the vehicles allow people to ride along, for a fee. For those on the sidelines, or travelling alongside on foot or bicycles, attendance is free.
Barcelona's festival celebrating La Mercè (Mercè the patron saint of the city), which dates all the way back to 1902, waves goodbye to summer and welcomes autumn.
This live webcam is in the city for the festival:
Barcelona webcam
What you can expect:
Gironese Sardana, the human castles from the Camp of Tarragona, street parades, originating from the spectacular processions which took place centuries ago for the celebration of Corpus Christi, concerts, street arts, street processions, concerts, traditional dances & fireworks.
Events take place day and night. Particularly spectacular is the Carrefoc, a midnight train of dragons, eagles and devils accompanied by fireworks. During the day, crowds pour into the streets of the Old Quarter to witness the red-and-blue costumed teams of castellers, who try to build the tallest human tower possible.
