Puppet-Building Workshops for Celebrate Mansfield Festival

Sat Sep 14, 2024
10:00am to 5:00pm ET
Age: 8 and up
Price: Free
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The Ballard Institute will offer community puppet-building workshops to design and build life-size and over-life-size puppets for a pageant production—The Conference of the Birds—to be performed at the Celebrate Mansfield Festival. These free workshops will be led by internationally-acclaimed puppeteer Sara Peattie.

The Conference of the Birds puppet pageant, loosely based on the 12th-century poem by Persian poet Farid ud-Din Attar, will employ masks and puppets of all sizes, created by workshop participants, to celebrate specific birds of Connecticut, as well as endangered bird species and imaginary birds. The pageant will be performed outdoors in Betsy Paterson Square with live music as part of the 21st-annual Celebrate Mansfield Festival on the afternoon of Saturday, Sept. 28.

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