GO! 2025 Opening Ceremony: Parade

More information on the parade at the GO! 2025 opening ceremony with more than 1000 performers!

At 14:00, at the customs on Erjavčeva Ulica, Italian artists will hand over the cross-border parade to Slovenian artists. The aerial silks dancers (Aerial Circus) will symbolically demonstrate the unity of European nations by dancing on an iron construction, followed by intertwined performances of percussionists, combined choirs (21 choirs from Slovene Littoral) and roller skaters (KUK Nova Gorica), skateboarders (GO Sk8) and dancers (PRO DC Dance School), as the audience on Erjavčeva Ulica will walk to the next performance by united Slovenian and Italian brass bands, headed by majorettes (Twirling), artists, clowns and acrobats (Bufeto Institute) and cheerleaders (ŠK Twist).

Folklore groups (the Slovenian folklore groups Na Placi and Gartrož, Sloga Serbian folklore group and Ohridski biseri Macedonian folklore group) will continue the parade at the Nova Gorica Local Community building. The parade will stop for a moment at the steps of the Eda Centre, with the performance by combined choirs and NEFES oriental dancers, who will then lead the spectators to Kidričeva Ulica, with combined brass bands waiting to lead the parade to Bevkov Trg, where it will end with a performance by the artists of the Bufeto institute and the song "Gorica je na mapi" (Gorica is on the map), interpreted by the musicians JA SHA and DJ Emily. 

The event will be hosted by actors Andrijana Boškoska and Martin Gerbec.

The director and coordinator of the event is Tamara Babić Nikiforov.

The event is coordinated by the Public Fund for Cultural Activities Nova Gorica Regional Branch (Sabina Volk Simčič and Petra Paravan).

More than 1000 performers will take part in the event:

• Event hosts: Martin Gerbec and Andrijana Boškoska (Kulturno-umetniško društvo Ni Da Ni)
• Aerial Circus (3 aerial silks dancers)
• Combined choirs (400 singers) from:
  • Mladinski pevski zbor KRAS Opatje selo,
  • Mešani pevski zbor Jože Srebrnič Deskle,
  • Ženski pevski zbor Društvo žena Miren - Orehovlje,
  • Mešani pevski zbor Pobratimija,
  • Voklani ansambel Reunion,
  • Mešani mladinski pevski zbor Šempeter - Vrtojba,
  • Vokalna skupina Chorus '97 Miren,
  • Mešani pevski zbor Vrtojba,
  • Vokalna skupina Briške Trcinke,
  • Kulturno društvo ženska vokalna skupina Zimzelen Nova Gorica,
  • Mešani pevski zbor Primorje Ajdovščina,
  • Ženski pevski zbor Sanje,
  • Mešani pevski zbor Ciril Silič Vrtojba,
  • Ženski pevski zbor Soča Kulturnega društva Slavec Solkan,
  • Vokalna skupina VoxDiversa,
  • Skupina Concordia,
  • Ženski pevski zbor Rože Nova Gorica,
  • Kulturno društvo Mešani pevski zbor Nova Gorica,
  • Moški pevski zbor Franc Zgonik Branik,
  • Mešani pevski zbor AmorVincit,
• Klub za umetnostno kotalkanje Nova Gorica (30 kotalkarjev),
• Plesna šola Pro DC (100 plesalcev),
• Združeni pihalni orkestri in mažoretke (200 glasbenikov in 30 mažoretk),
• Goriški pihalni orkester,
• Banda civica Citta di Monfalcone APS,
• Societa Filarmonica G.Verdi APS Ronci dei Legionari,
• Filarmonica di Turiacco,
• Pihalni orkester Vogrsko,
• Prvačka pleh muzika,
• Twirling – mažoretno društvo Nova Gorica,
• Zavod Bufeto (10 akrobatov, klovnov, artistov),
• Športni klub Twist (30 navijačev),
• Folklorno društvo Na placi (15 fokloristov in glasbenikov),
• Foklorno društvo Gartrož (15 fokloristov in glasbenikov),
• Srbsko kulturno društvo Sloga (30 fokloristov in glasbenikov),
• Makedonsko kulturno društvo Ohridski biseri (30 fokloristov in glasbenikov),
• Plesna skupina NEFES (14 plesalk, Kulturno in prosvetno društvo Franc Zgonik Branik),
• Raper JA SHA in DJ Emily.