{"id":141370,"date":"2018-09-09T21:09:33","date_gmt":"2018-09-10T01:09:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/?p=141370"},"modified":"2018-10-29T16:39:34","modified_gmt":"2018-10-29T20:39:34","slug":"puppet-workshop-spotlights-local-sheroes-heroes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2018\/09\/puppet-workshop-spotlights-local-sheroes-heroes\/","title":{"rendered":"Puppet Workshop Spotlights Local ‘Sheroes and Heroes’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Story Healer mask pictured here was created by an independent group out of Brooklyn, who came up to Storrs specifically for this event. (Lucas Voghell\/UConn Photo)<\/div><\/div>\"IMG_3811\"<\/a>
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Puppetry graduate student Mac Dillman gets some help from fellow student Sarah Samascott in getting their Oberon costume ready. (Lucas Voghell\/UConn Photo)<\/div><\/div>\"IMG_3921\"<\/a>
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Storrs resident Sara Peattie carefully sews together one of the ponchos that the performers will wear alongside their handcrafted masks. (Lucas Voghell\/UConn Photo)<\/div><\/div>\"IMG_4002\"<\/a>
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Aspiring young artist Nikhil, age 3, works on a fa\u00e7ade of Game of Thrones\u2019 Daenerys Targaryen accompanied by his father Arun. (Lucas Voghell\/UConn Photo)<\/div><\/div>\"IMG_3782\"<\/a>
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UConn graduate student Matt Sorenson (front) and Marlon Fernandes (back) work on masks of Frank Ballard, the founder of the Ballard Institute, and Annie E. Vinton \u2013 a local founder in education in Storrs. (Lucas Voghell\/UConn Photo)<\/div><\/div>\"IMG_4034\"<\/a>
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Puppeteer Marlon Fernandes shows off his Annie E. Vinton mask and costume. (Lucas Voghell\/UConn Photo)<\/div><\/div>\"IMG_3756\"<\/a>
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Brother and sister Annie and Robby work on a mask of Mark Twain. (Lucas Voghell\/UConn Photo)<\/div><\/div>\"IMG_3917\"<\/a>
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Member of the Cetacean Society International Youth Group Noah Radcliffe holds the tail end of his Chinese Dragon inspired North Atlantic Right Wale puppet. (Lucas Voghell\/UConn Photo)<\/div><\/div>\"IMG_3914\"<\/a>
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UConn student Neda Izadi shows off her almost complete Margaret Bourke-White mask. (Lucas Voghell\/UConn Photo)<\/div><\/div>\"IMG_3840\"<\/a>
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UConn student and Ballard Institute employee Kat Folker works on a mask of Charles Storrs, the brother of Augustus Storrs. Chuck and Augie\u2019s was named after these two brothers. (Lucas Voghell\/UConn Photo)<\/div><\/div>\"IMG_3901\"<\/a>
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A collection of masks left to dry, including Charles Storrs (front) and Pat, a local hero in the eyes of many residents who works at the Post Office (second). (Lucas Voghell\/UConn Photo)<\/div><\/div>\"IMG_3753\"<\/a>
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Created by an unknown sculptor, this basketball symbolizes the influence and culture of the sport here at UConn. (Lucas Voghell\/UConn Photo)<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n

The Ballard Institute and Museum of Puppetry buzzed with community puppet-building workshops this weekend in preparation for the parade and pageant “Sheroes, Heroes, and other Champions of the Mansfield Community” that will take place Sunday.<\/p>\n

Workshop participants will carry the puppets as part of the Celebrate Mansfield Parade on Sept. 16 at noon, part of the 15th Annual Celebrate Mansfield Festival. Line-up begins at 10:30 a.m. at Farrell Field near the Post Office.<\/p>\n

Acclaimed Boston puppeteer Sara Peattie led the efforts to design and build life-size and over-life-size puppets of community role models for the parade.<\/p>\n

Peattie is known for her dramatic creations that have become a central feature of community parades and pageants across the United States. Long a mainstay of Boston First Night festivities and the Greenwich Village Halloween Parade in New York City, Peattie’s work\u2014through her Boston-based Puppeteers Cooperative company and Puppet Free Library\u2014combines community participation; simple, cheap, and practical puppet-building techniques; and design sense to allow community members of all ages to take part in the age-old pleasures of participatory puppet performance in public spaces.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

UConn held two days of puppet-building workshops in preparation for the parade and pageant “Sheroes, Heroes, and other Champions of the Mansfield Community” that will take place Sunday in Dowtown Storrs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":141365,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_crdt_document":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_series":0,"wds_primary_attribution":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1711,1715,1914,2225],"tags":[],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[175],"class_list":["post-141370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arts-culture","category-community-impact","category-sfa","category-uconn-storrs","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-04 14:44:23","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\/141370","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\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141370"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141370\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":141375,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141370\/revisions\/141375"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/141365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141370"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=141370"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=141370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}