At Christmastime, council members would ride through town on tow trucks, tossing candy to children in processions that would often end with toy give-aways at El Potrero — which would sometimes host events such as G-string contests at night.
Such funerals are a punctuating rhythm of life here, the bodies taken from the morgue to the family home, then to the mosque and on to the cemetery in processions that attract large crowds.
She remembers marching in funeral processions that often turned into angry political demonstrations, Ms. Hughes said, and watching her father, a freelance television cameraman, film confrontations between mourners and riot police.
St . Patricks Day & the cluster of nationalistic, religious, and martial processions that will start in May.
Thus, for example, the carnival processions that precede Lent in many Roman Catholic countries are probably derived from the ancient Roman pagan feasts of the Saturnalia, the Lupercalia, and the Bacchanalia, which were occasions for parades, music, sacrifices, and general merrymaking.
Several of these entrances and exits are where the choreography is at its most masterful, notably in slow processions that quietly fragment one way or another.
The coffins are followed by relatives and friends dressed in black, in a procession that replicates a Spanish funeral.
"In the past we've been wary of processions that use banger carts, too," he says.
On this Valentine's Day, when more than 20,000 came to the stadium to view Thomas in an open coffin in a procession that lasted all day, everyone tried convincing others to just believe.
In the procession that had brought the coffins to the graveyard, and in the parking lot nearby, angry men fired AK-47's into the air in competitive bursts of outrage.
Among a crowd of women dressed in black, she stood out wearing a bright yellow print dress in a procession that was carefully controlled by the Chinese police trying to prevent it from reaching Tiananmen Square, the parade ground where prodemocracy Chinese students were gunned down in June 1989.
