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Run Smelt Run Puppet Parade

  • Maritime Visitor's Center 600 Canal Park Drive Duluth, MN, 55802 United States (map)

The following is an OFFICIAL Magic Smelt transmission:
HEAR YE, HEAR YE!
MARK YOUR CALENDARS
THE PARADE IS BACK!!
RUN, SMELT, RUN 2024
SUN MAY 26TH @ 3:30 pm
HOORAY!
The smelt are coming!

Run Smelt Run is a non-motorized, outdoor parade performance on Sunday May 26th, 2024, in celebration of the annual smelt run on Lake Superior.

This will be a lively, site-specific spectacle, featuring masks, large puppets, and a Twin Cities 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.

The parade will begin at 3:30pm, 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.

Everyone will be invited to join the procession down the Lakewalk.
Wear silver. Smelt Up!

Following the parade will be a smelt fry and dance at Zeitgeist Arts Cafe, 222 E. Superior St

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