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Group Name: Donate Life
Float Theme: Seize the Day!
Why was this theme chosen?
Flying a kite is an opportunity seized to share laughter, sun, wind, and the visual beauty of the moment. Through their life-changing experiences, the families of organ and tissue donors, living donors, and recipients of life-saving transplants teach us all a profound lesson: to Seize the Day and make the most of every moment to build dreams, friendships and memories with loved ones.
How does our theme relate to the Parade theme, Building Dreams, Friendships & Memories?
We build dreams, friendships and memories through life’s little moments. Through the gift of organ and tissue donation, transplant recipients are able to live their dreams, living donors and recipients build the deepest friendships, and donor families are comforted by the memories and living legacy of their loved ones.
What is the significance of the theme to your group?
Donate Life hopes millions of parade viewers and spectators are inspired to Seize the Day, spend time with their families and join the 92 million Americans who have registered as organ, eye and tissue donors on their state donor registries.
Float Music: TBD
Years in the Rose Parade: 7
Float Builder:
Phoenix Decorating Co.
Larry Palmer, Media Liaison
(626) 793-3174, Fax (626) 793-7187
Phone Dec. 25 - Jan. 2: (626) 375-1025
E-mail: larry.palmer@phoenixdecoratingco.com
Float Designer's Name: Dave Pittman
Float Description:
Colorful kites soar in the wind as donor families, living donors and transplant recipients enjoy a special moment and make new memories. Adorning several kites are 60 memorial ‘floragraph’ portraits of deceased donors whose legacies lift the kites and the hopes of those in need of transplants. The float’s 30 float riders, including three selected as honorary walkers, represent all donors and the everyday dreams they make possible through the gift of life. Thousands of organ, eye and tissue donors nationwide are memorialized with dedicated roses, each vial carrying a personal message of love, hope and remembrance.
Concept:
Soaring kites remind us of the exhilaration that comes from seeing them lift off, creating a precious memory shared with family and friends. The tails of the kites, adorned with dozens of memorial ‘floragraph’ portraits of deceased donors, lift the hopes and lives of transplant recipients into flight.
Construction Dimensions: 35’H x 17’W x 55’L
Flowering Details:
TBA
Animation: N/A
Float Participants:
The 2010 Donate Life Rose Parade float features:
- 30 float riders,each a transplant recipient, living donor, or family members of an organ, eye or tissue donor, including three honorary walkers.
- 60 memorial floragraph portraits honoring deceased organ, eye and tissue donors.
- Thousands of roses from all 50 states and many countries dedicated to donors, transplant recipients and patients in need through the float's Donate Life Family Circle program.
Donate Life is a not-for-profit alliance of local affiliates and national organizations dedicated to inspiring all people to donate life through organ, eye and tissue donation. Hundreds of thousands of people from all walks of life in every corner of the country are in need of life-saving and healing gifts that are possible only through organ, eye and tissue donation. The float’s national campaign is coordinated by OneLegacy, the non-profit, federally designated organ and tissue recovery organization serving the seven-county greater Los Angeles area, and is supported by more than 60 organizations nationwide.
Of Special Interest:
- On December 5, 11 and 18, donor families will personally decorate floragraphs – artistic portraits created with floral materials – of their deceased loved ones. Other floragraphs are nearly completed in early December, shipped to the donor families for completion in their hometowns, and returned to Pasadena for placement on the float.
- Participating in the decoration of the Donate Life float are hundreds of donor family members celebrating their loved ones, transplant recipients honoring their donors, living donors, and allied professionals who steward the donation and transplant process.
- The logos on each side of the Donate Life float will again be presented both in English and in Spanish (“Done Vida”) – a multicultural first for the Rose Parade, introduced in 2006.
- Donate Life is proud to provide official artist renderings in multiple languages.
- Donate Life was awarded the Judges Special Trophy in 2008, the Queen’s Trophy in 2009, and the Theme Trophy in 2010.
- All Donate Life float sponsors and participants encourage parade viewers to save lives by registering in their states to be organ, eye and tissue donors and donating blood in their communities.
Participant Contact:
Bryan Stewart
Chairman, Donate Life Rose Parade Float Committee
Vice President of Communications, OneLegacy
(213) 229-5650
(213) 633-1650 fax
Phone Dec. 25 - Jan. 1: (213) 400-8304
bstewart@onelegacy.org
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