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Run Smelt Run Puppet Parade Workshop

  • Lafayette Community Center - Park Point 3016 Minnesota Avenue Duluth, MN, 55802 United States (map)

Family fun, costumes, puppets!

Lafayette Community Center 3016 Minnesota Ave. Park Point.

Saturdays
May 11, 18, 25 3-6pm

Wednesdays
May 15, 22 6-8pm

Fridays
May 17, 24 6-8pm.

This will be a lively, site-specific spectacle, featuring masks, large puppets, and a 10-piece brass band, the Brass Messengers.

Images will include:

  • a stilt-walking Royal Guard.

  • an energetic school of silver-smelt puppet and mask dancers.

  • a musical procession featuring a giant Smelt Queen and her underwater retinue.

  • hundreds of individuals and families joining the parade in homemade costumes and smelt regalia.

Parade
May 26, 2024 at 3:30 pm
Maritime Visitor's Center (600 Canal Park Dr. Duluth, MN 55802), continuing on the Lakewalk, downtown Duluth

The parade will begin at 3:30 pm, at the Aerial Lift Bridge, on the lawn in front of the Maritime Museum, with a brief performance to introduce the puppets and the Brass Messengers. The parade will conclude with a smelt fry and party at Zeitgeist Cafe, 222 East Superior St.

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