{"id":103923,"date":"2015-08-17T09:39:23","date_gmt":"2015-08-17T13:39:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/?p=103923"},"modified":"2015-09-29T11:55:11","modified_gmt":"2015-09-29T15:55:11","slug":"puppetry-festival-on-parade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2015\/08\/puppetry-festival-on-parade\/","title":{"rendered":"Puppetry Festival on Parade"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Puppeteers of America on parade from South Campus to Storrs Downtown on Aug. 15, 2015. (Peter Morenus\/UConn Photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The 2015 National Puppetry Festival culminated on Saturday with a parade celebrating puppeteers from 12 nations and 40 U. S. States who spent last week in Storrs. The festival, which kicked off the 50th anniversary of the UConn Puppet Arts Program, included more than 20 performances open to the public that showcased the varied forms of puppetry by members of the Puppeteers of America.<\/p>\n

Among those participating in the festival were “Sesame Street” stars Sonia Manzano (Maria), Caroll Spinney (Big Bird) and Pam Arciero ’82 MFA (Grundgetta Grouch); Jennifer Barnhard ’98 (SFA) and Jean Marie Keevins ’99 (SFA) of the hit Broadway show “Avenue Q; ” Peter Schumann of Bread & Puppet Theater, and legendary New York children’s television star Chuck McCann.<\/p>\n

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John Bell, Executive Director of the Ballard Institute and Museum of Puppetry. (Peter Morenus\/UConn Photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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The Puppeteers of America came from 40 states and many foreign countries. (Peter Morenus\/UConn Photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Sidewalk artistry at the Puppetry Festival. (Peter Morenus\/UConn Photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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The Puppeteers of America on parade at Dog Lane in Storrs Center.\u00a0 (Peter Morenus\/UConn Photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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The Puppeteers of America showing their colors in Storrs Center. (Peter Morenus\/UConn Photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Engaging the crowd in the puppet parade. (Peter Morenus\/UConn Photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"The<\/a>
The Puppeteers of America on parade from South Campus to Storrs Downtown on Aug. 15, 2015. (Peter Morenus\/UConn Photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Engaging the crowd. (Peter Morenus\/UConn Photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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More puppets on parade. (Peter Morenus\/UConn Photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

For more photos, check out our Instagram post<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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It was a beautiful day for a parade and the crowd was entertained by puppeteers from across the globe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":103921,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_crdt_document":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_series":0,"wds_primary_attribution":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1715,1914],"tags":[],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[42],"class_list":["post-103923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community-impact","category-sfa"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-30 14:56:01","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103923"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103923\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":103945,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103923\/revisions\/103945"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/103921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103923"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=103923"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=103923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}