Hip Hip Hooray, it’s PiP PiP Parade!
Join us for during the opening weekend of PiP 2024 for a parade featuring giant puppets and masks, tall stilt-walkers, wild drummers, and huge assemblages of color, costume, and sound!
Portland’s own Shoestring Theater will lead the merry procession down Washington Ave and through our Kennedy Park neighborhood! Our friends in the Ideal Maine Social Aid & Sanctuary Band will join the parade along with festival artists and community members.
Immediately following the parade, join us at Mayo Street Arts for a puppet show by Modern Times Theater from Vermont!
All Ages
The parade will start at the Root Cellar (94 Washington Avenue) and will continue along Oxford Street to Mayo Street Arts (10 Mayo Street)
RAIN DATE: Monday, September 16 at 6:00 PM
Parade Volunteers
If you would like to participate, please click here to sign-up to volunteer as a puppeteer!
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, please contact PiP Festival Coordinator Amy Krawczyk, at amy@mayostreetarts.org.
PAY WHAT YOU CAN
No one will be turned away from PiP events for lack of funds; please contact us at 207-879-4629 or pip@mayostreetarts.org for information on our pay-what-you-can admission policy. Our box office staff are also happy to help.
Xavier Bobés Things Easily Forgotten in PiP 2024 is an intimate performance for which only 50 total seats are available. We have allocated 30 tickets for sale at $50, 12 seats as pay-what-you-can via a sweepstakes, and 8 seats for staff and volunteers. Tell us what you think.
ACCESSIBILITY
The parade route is very hilly. The intersection of Oxford St and Mayo St will provide the flattest terrain and is nearby Mayo Street Arts for those attendees who are interested in enjoying a performance by Modern Times Theater immediately following the parade.
Mayo Street Arts has an ADA compliant lift up to the main hall for performances, workshop space, concessions, and restrooms. Parking is available on the street with sidewalk cutouts at the top and bottom of the hill.
If you would benefit from additional information or accommodations, we invite you to contact Amy Krawczyk, PiP Festival Coordinator, at amy@mayostreetarts.org or 207-879-4629.
EVENT PARKING
Free on-street parking is available in Mayo Street Arts’ neighborhood.
One paid parking lot conveniently located a six-minute walk from the venue:
Top of the Old Port Parking (119 Pearl St, Portland ME 04101)
Mayo Street Arts is accessible by Greater Portland Metro bus routes with nearby transfer points 7, 9A & 9B. Click here to learn more.
Please be advised that traffic will be stopped along the route during the parade and people may remain in the street in front of MSA for up to an hour after the start of the parade.
SEATING POLICY
We will save your reserved seat until showtime, at which point any unclaimed seats may be offered to other people.
COMMUNITY HEALTH
Audience members — in addition to artists, staff & volunteers — who feel sick or exhibit symptoms of illness should stay home out of respect for others.
CANCELATION POLICY
PiP has a no refund policy for all reservations. In the event that PiP is forced to cancel an event due to weather, illness, etc., refunds will be offered via the Ticket Tailor platform.