The People's Puppet Parade is a twice-yearly parade and spectacle performance that brings together intergenerational community to build large-scale art and participatory, homegrown theater.
Rooted in Jewish folk arts, participatory theater, & collaboration
Our works are collaboratively-devised, interdisciplinary spectacles that all are welcome to participate and create in! We work with people of all ages and backgrounds to create meaningful art grounded in the diversity, beauty, and rich traditions of Jewish folk art, culture, and music.
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Join us in communal art creation and construction of giant puppets from trash and found objects, live klezmer music and singing in Yiddish, Ladino, and other Jewish diasporic languages, parading through the streets, and performing in public parks, street corners, and parking lots!
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Through ritual expressions of grief and joy, we build resilience, break down walls, and strengthen our collective power to move towards justice and a better world for all.
We are so grateful to all the people who have built puppets with us, donated their time and craft supplies and expertise, performed and paraded with us, cheered us on, and so much more! These parades are only possible together, in community!
We are also endlessly grateful to puppeteer and theater-maker Jenny Romaine and Great Small Works for mentoring, inspiring, collaborating, supporting, consulting, and inspiring us to create spectacle works rooted in Jewish source materials, community, and powerful visual cultures, and for continuing to do incredible, inspiring work in the world!
We are also endlessly grateful to puppeteer and theater-maker Jenny Romaine and Great Small Works for mentoring, inspiring, collaborating, supporting, consulting, and inspiring us to create spectacle works rooted in Jewish source materials, community, and powerful visual cultures, and for continuing to do incredible, inspiring work in the world!