The Second Annual Hillsborough Handmade Parade! Saturday, October 17, 2009 "The Waters of The Eno and her Creatures" 2009 Sub-Theme: "Metamorphosis" The Handmade Parade is a grass roots community participation celebration. In other words, this is your event! What do we need most? You! magical handmade parade on the streets of Hillsborough. Join the Parade! Why a Parade?
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Workshop information can be found at our Workshop web-page.Current Workshops include Giant Puppet Construction and Stilt Walking. Liz Lerman in 'Dancing in Community: Its Roots in Art' You can! Anyone can participate... don’t just be a spectator… join the parade! Everyone is welcome to come to public workshops where instruction will be provided for them to make their own costumes, masks, and giant puppets for the parade, or you could volunteer on a larger build led by a professional artist. This parade is for not just for kids— Adults are needed for the really large puppets! We encourage adults to bring their friends, neighbors and social groups to create their own Handmade Parade ensemble. Think about encouraging your running group, school class, sports team, business group, association, or church group etc. to work together with a theme and participate in the parade as a group! What will the parade be? A walking theatrical performance. A spectacle of art, creativity, and public theatre. Celebration Art combines the challenges of three-dimensional design with the richness of working in community, and the excitement of watching pieces come alive with movement. Giant puppets, banners, and costumes will evoke humor, drama, and beauty with their larger-than-life expressions. The Handmade Parade will offer everyone in the community an opportunity to make art together and create a public theatrical performance. Artists will assist participants in creating their own masks, costumes and giant puppets. Parade workshops are designed to include all ages and a broad and culturally diverse cross section of the entire community. Workshops will include music, movement, drumming, and stilt walking! Hosted by the Hillsborough Arts Council, The Hillsborough Handmade Parade and festivities will take place Saturday October 17, 2009 at 2:30 pm The theme of this year's parade will remain "The Waters of the Eno and her creatures" The 2009 sub-theme is: "Metamorphosis on the Eno" This year, in addition to all the creative entries in the parade, we will be joined by the incredible Paperhand Puppet Intervention, Cakalak Thunder and the Central Community Band. We hope to announce more groups as 'parade season' progresses! |
The Hillsborough Handmade Parade was conceived in 2007 as an annual community participation celebration by Mark Donley and Tinka Jordy. In the spring of 2008 a series of workshops both public and private were initiated that led to the First Annual Handmade Parade in October 2008.
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Our volunteer artists have a wealth of experience as teachers and leaders in creating celebration art. Project leaders, Mark Donley and Tinka Jordy are longtime residents of Orange County. Tinka is a nationally recognized figurative sculptor. Donley and Jordy are originally from New Orleans, where street performance is part of the culture.
We are actively seeking volunteers to help make this community building project a success. Please consider volunteering a bit of time to this worth-while project!
The purpose of this outreach event is to foster community involvement in the arts through participation in every aspect. The informal atmosphere and hands-on character of the experience allows members of the community to work directly with creative people while gaining confidence in their own abilities.
There is a natural exchange across cultures in this artistic process. Parading their artistic creations in and around the town center before an appreciative audience links the townspeople of Hillsborough to the act of creativity in the most rewarding and public way possible.
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