Promote your own Capybara Parade

Capi Parade of Palladium Mall in Curitiba/May 2016 - photo Luiz Pagano and Mall's marketing team

Conceived in 2008 in Brazil, Capybara Parade is a project based on Pascal Knapp’s  CowParade, and aims to be an artistic, in form of protest march, with the purpose of decontaminate the Brazilian rivers, almost all Brazilian cities have polluted rivers and lakes, "in fact they are open air sewers" says Luiz Pagano, creator of Capybara Parade.

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The capybara was chosen because it is the only large size animal of Brazilian fauna that dares to reach in urban areas and swimming in virtually dead waters.

“Brazilian rivers not toilets”, says Pagano “I love my country, but I envy cities that has beautiful rivers, where we can sail on boats, eat in floating restaurants and stroll through promenades alongside its banks, living spaces of tranquility and beauty”. Capybaras arrived and settled on the banks of the main rivers in Brazil, Rio Tiete and Pinheiros in São Paulo, in Tingüi and Barigui parks of Curitiba, at Lagoa Rodrigo de Freitas in Rio.

Urban capybara at São Paulo - bank of Pinheiros river / Capivara Paulistana fan page on Facebook

The Capybara Parade is free of copyright, and is also completely free with respect to the material used to make the CABAPs and artistic interventions as well as the selling price of the parts. Our only request is to do the closest capybara as possible to their original model in the pose that we suggest in order to standardize and organize their cause.

The Capybara Parade is free of copyright, and is also completely free with regard to their artistic interventions as well as the selling price of the pieces. Our only request is to do the closest capybara as possible to their original model in the pose that we suggest in order to standardize and organize their cause.

Those interested in participating in the project, just follow the reproduction instructions and start reproducing your CABAPs, apply his works on them and put them on sale.

CAPIVARA PARADE - CABAP 'BIG'

Capybara Parade default CABAP BIG model - Luiz Pagano, creator of the capybara Parade, poses beside a finished model.

CAPIVARA PARADE - CABAP 'TOY'

Model Capybara Parade Standard Model CABAP TOY - left a finished model.

A todos interessados em participar do projeto, basta seguir as instruções de reprodução e começarem a reproduzir suas CABAPs, aplicarem suas obras sobre elas e colocá-las a venda.

O projeto é completamente livre no que diz respeito ao material utilizado para fazer a CABAPs, suas intervenções artísticas bem como no preço de venda das peças. Nosso único pedido é que façam a capivara o mais próximo possível de seu modelo original, na pose em que se encontra.

Send us photos of their activities, they will be posted on our channels, Blog and fan page on Facebook.

We hope that, such as capybaras, which arrived by Brazilian banks without much fanfare, we can inspire all cities to rethink the ecology of the river banks and lakes, usually polluted, and bring the hope of having cities in complete balance with nature.