Arts & CulturePuppets Up! 10th anniversary festival a sold out success

Puppets Up! 10th anniversary festival a sold out success

August 11, 2014

by Edith Cody-Rice

Photos by Marilyn Snedden and Edith Cody-Rice

The streets of Almonte came alive on August 9 and 10 for the 10th anniversary edition of Puppets Up! . The festival was oversold and thousands of children and adults roamed the streets of Almonte and sat in the tent theatres delighting in the performances. The Millstone and Marilyn Snedden snapped these photos of the Puppet Parade on Saturday and Sunday. The weather was glorious!

puppets — Volunteers at the festival in their green volunthero shirts

parade flying pig — If pigs could fly

MP & mayor — Mississippi Mills John Levi and local MP Gordon O’Connor accompanied by their puppets

mayor watson — Ottawa Mayor Jim Watson and his new Noreen Young puppet were the parade marshalls

Elvis

A dragon snakes its way down Mill Street

A Dixieland band provides parade accompaniment

a foot puppet

Tim Holland’s Puppet Tamer puppets in a boar

stilt walker

Kids on the Block puppets

Dancers

Try yourself in a new persona

Balcony puppets provide a running commentary on the parade

A puppet look alike

Soldier puppets perform to music on Mill Street

Puppets Up! 10th anniversary birthday cake.

The children’s Chalk Garden

An exhausted puppet at the end of Sunday’s activity

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