Community Puppet Building Workshop

The Ballard Institute and Museum of Puppetry at the University of Connecticut will once again offer fall community puppet-building workshops to design and build life-size and over-life-size puppets for a new pageant production to be performed at the Celebrate Mansfield Festival in Downtown Storrs. These free workshops will be led by internationally acclaimed puppeteer and pageant director Sara Peattie of Boston’s Puppeteers Cooperative.

The pageant will be performed outdoors in Betsy Paterson Square with live music as part of the 22nd-annual Celebrate Mansfield Festival on the afternoon of Saturday, Sept. 27.

No experience is necessary to participate in these free community puppet-building workshops. Space is limited, so advance registration is strongly encouraged. Participants can come for one or both days but should register for the 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. or/and 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. time slot(s). Minors must be accompanied by an adult.

This community puppet project is sponsored by the Ballard Institute and Museum of Puppetry, the Mansfield Downtown Partnership, Inc., and the Connecticut State Museum of Natural History. For more information about the 22nd-annual Celebrate Mansfield Festival, visit downtownstorrsfestival.org.

Registration and more information will be coming soon!

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