Faroles on the 14th, the parade on the 15th.
One gallery for every family.
This page is for the school director, the teacher who organised the banda, and the neighbourhood association that lines the street with chairs. On the evening of the 14th the children walk with the faroles they made at the kitchen table, the whole country stops at six to sing the himno as the torch arrives, and the next morning the abanderados lead the school down the main street in typical dress. Every parent is filming their own child, the grandparents in Pérez Zeledón want every frame, and the photos vanish into a class WhatsApp group by the afternoon. One QR code on the circular keeps them together.
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The moments guests actually photograph at Fiestas Patrias celebrations
Why Fiestas Patrias celebrations work better on Picsui
Written for the person hosting this one, and checked against what the product actually does.
Every family's angle on the same parade
A school parade is long and the street is crowded, so each family photographs its own child from its own stretch of kerb and misses the rest. One code on the circular means every family gets every photo of the class, including the ones taken from the far end of the route by someone else's mother.
The school decides what is shared
These are photos of children, and a director answers for them. The gallery is private and reachable only by the link the school sends home. Turn on host review and a teacher approves each upload from a phone before any other parent sees it, and can remove any photo a family asks about, at once.
For the abuela who cannot stand for two hours
A private live broadcast is included with the Event Pass: up to 90 minutes and 100 viewers on one link, so the grandparents in Guanacaste, or the tía who moved to New Jersey, watch the faroles go past from a chair at home and hear the banda play.
No app. No account. One scan.
Guests point their camera at a QR code and are uploading in seconds. Nobody installs anything, nobody creates a login, and the grandparents can do it as easily as the teenagers.
You approve before anyone sees
Turn on host review and every upload waits in your queue until you approve it. AI screening flags anything questionable so you are not scrolling through hundreds of photos at midnight.
Private by default, never indexed
The gallery is only reachable by the link or code you share. Guest pages are blocked from search engines and named AI crawlers, and you can close the gallery whenever you choose.
Live photo wall on any screen
Open the slideshow on a TV, projector or laptop and new uploads appear as they arrive. Grid and collage layouts, transition presets, and a phone remote to control it from across the room.
Broadcast it to the people who couldn't come
A private live broadcast is included with the Event Pass: stream up to 90 minutes to 100 viewers on a private link, with sound, and keep the recording afterwards.
Full-resolution downloads
Download any photo, or the whole event as one archive, at original quality. What guests uploaded is what you keep — no compression, no watermark on paid events.
How it works
Set up in a minute. Collect for the whole event.
Create the event under the school's name and add the desfile de faroles and the parade as two sub-events, so the evening of the 14th and the morning of the 15th stay sorted in one gallery.
Put the QR code on the circular that goes home the week before, on the sign at the assembly point, and on the screen in the gym where the acto cívico happens.
Families scan and upload from the kerb. With host review on, a teacher approves from a phone while the banda is still playing, and the slideshow runs at the acto afterwards.
Send every family the gallery link that evening, and download the full-resolution archive for the school's records and the yearbook committee.
Try uploading as a guest.
Scan this with your phone the way a guest at your event would. Choose a sample photo and upload it from your browser, then open the demo gallery to see it land. Photos pass a quick AI check first; videos wait for a person.
- Scan the code with your phone camera — it opens straight in the browser.
- Upload a sample photo. Look for the upload confirmation so you know it reached the host.
Use a sample you are comfortable sharing with Picsui. Please keep personal or sensitive photos out of the demo.
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This is the same kind of code your guests scan at your event.
Getting the most from Fiestas Patrias celebrations
Decide who hosts before the circular goes out. If the school creates the event, the director controls host review and keeps the archive for the yearbook and next year's committee, and every parent gets the same link home in the child's notebook. If the parents' association creates it, they get the same controls but the school depends on them for the photos. For a whole-school parade, the school should host. For a neighbourhood desfile de faroles run by the association, the association hosts, and the local school can share the link. Whoever hosts should hand the login to a second person, because the director is on the street with a megaphone on the morning of the 15th and someone at the gate needs to approve uploads.
Say plainly on the circular that the gallery is private, that only families with the link can see it, and that a teacher approves every photo before it appears. Parents in Costa Rica are rightly careful with photos of children, and a clear line beats silence. Turn on host review when you create the event and keep it on. Approving is quick: AI screening flags anything questionable first, so the teacher is reading a short list, not scrolling through hundreds of photos of faroles. Close uploads the day after the parade, download the archive, and delete the event when the school no longer needs it online. That is the whole policy, and it fits on one line of the circular.
The parade in Costa Rica starts at nine, but the Tico community in New Jersey and Los Angeles is up early too, and a live link with the hour written in their own time is a small gift. Costa Rica does not change its clocks, so the difference shifts with the season; put both times on the message. The same works in reverse: Tico associations in Elizabeth, Bound Brook and Los Angeles hold their own Fiestas Patrias with faroles and a banda, and an abuela in Cartago will watch a grandchild parade in a New Jersey church hall with the same link and the same tears.
Common questions about Fiestas Patrias celebrations
Who should create the event, the school or the parents' group?
The school, for a school parade. One event under the director's name, one code on the circular, host review controlled by a teacher, and one link for every family afterwards. The parents' association hosts when it runs the event itself, such as a neighbourhood desfile de faroles. In either case share the host login with a second adult, because whoever organised the banda is busy on the morning of the 15th. The archive stays with the host, which is why the school should usually be the one holding it.
These are photos of children. Is the gallery private?
The gallery is private by default and reachable only by the link or code the school shares. It is never listed publicly, and guest pages are blocked from search engines and named AI crawlers. With host review on, a teacher approves every upload before any parent sees it and can remove a photo the moment a family asks. The school can close uploads at any time, download the archive, and delete the whole event whenever it likes, before or after the 365 days of hosting on an Event Pass run out.
Can grandparents in another province watch the desfile de faroles live?
Yes. A private live broadcast is included with every Event Pass: up to 90 minutes and 100 viewers on one link the school sends home with the code. Grandparents open it on a phone or a TV browser with no account and watch the faroles go past and hear the himno at six. The recording is kept, so the parents who were marching beside the banda can watch it back that night. The person streaming needs a phone with a real data connection along the route, so pick the spot in advance.
The parade is at nine and several hundred families will be uploading at once. Will it cope?
Yes. An Event Pass allows unlimited uploads with a 25 GB fair-use bound, which covers a whole school's parade with video clips of the banda from every family on the route. Uploads go straight to storage, so a rush of parents sending photos at the same moment after the abanderados pass does not slow anyone down. What the mobile network along the street cannot carry at nine goes up from home at lunch, through the same code, because the page keeps working all week.
We are a Tico association in New Jersey. Does this work outside Costa Rica?
Yes, and the same page works for the reverse case. Picsui is operated from the United States, so an association in Elizabeth or Bound Brook, or a church hall in Los Angeles, creates the event the same way a school in Heredia does. The guest page is in English, Español, Français, chosen from each phone, so the grandparents who only read Spanish and the grandchildren who only read English scan the same code. The live broadcast link crosses the border in both directions, and the family in Cartago sees the faroles in New Jersey the same evening.
Every photo from Fiestas Patrias celebrations, in one place
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