Hip Hip Hooray! — It's PiP PiP Parade!
The 2022 Puppets in Portland international puppet festival kicks-off with a parade featuring giant puppets and masks, tall stilt-walkers, wild drummers, and huge assemblages of color, costume, and sound!
Free to the Public
Portland’s own Shoestring Theater will lead the merry procession down Washington Ave and through our Kennedy Park neighborhood!
Parade Volunteers
Join in the fun and parade alongside PiP’s visiting artists from Kenya, Germany, Czech Republic, and the USA!
Volunteers are invited to be part of the pageantry and help bring Shoestring Theater’s puppets to life as puppeteers-for-the-day.
No experience is required. Volunteers should be adults at least 5’5” with the strength and enthusiasm to walk the 30 minute parade route. Teams of three will work together with wooden rods to keep each puppet aloft.
Strong funny bones and can-do attitude recommended!
For more information on volunteering, contact PiP’s Festival Coordinator, Amy Krawczyk, at pip@mayostreetarts.org.