Join Cattywampus Puppet Council and the Knox Honkers & Bangers at this year’s Rossini Festival on Market Square for a participatory Parade! We’ll be lining up around 2:30pm with a variety of puppets and other art to carry and processing from 3-3:30pm. All are welcome!

The Art●Struck Festival brings together artists and arts organizations to celebrate and support the arts community! Join Cattywampus and the Knox Honkers & Bangers for this amazing free festival organized by our friends at Johnson City Public Art.

Visit a wide array of talented local artists at the festival’s art market. Bring the whole family and enjoy hands-on activities such as wand making, mask decorating, bucket drumming, a weaving fence, and marbled paper making. Stop by the road roller printmaking station to witness large-scale printmaking in action and check out the art demo booths to see creative activities in the works. Enjoy some delicious food from the food trucks by the Founders Park amphitheater. Learn more about local arts programs and organizations, and above all, have some fun and help us celebrate the arts in Johnson City! This family-friendly event is free and open to the public. To learn more visit https://jcpublicart.com/art-struck-festival/

Cattywampus and the Knox Honkers & Bangers will be leading to participatory Parades at 12pm & 1:15pm and roving throughout the festival until 2:45pm.

This workshop is designed for teachers, community leaders, and any other individuals ages 13 & up who would like to learn how to design and create giant puppets and other parade art for this spring's Cattywampus Parade on Sunday, May 19th, 2024 as part of Open Streets Knoxville.

Now in its 7 year, Cattywampus's people-powered Parade invites community members of all ages to make giant puppets, costumes, and other art and come together to parade as one. This year’s parade theme “We Dwell Together” will focus on housing justice, inviting us to use art as a vehicle to imagine and bring to life a Knoxville that cultivates affordable, safe, and healthy housing for all.  

During this workshop, we will focus on papier-mâché, cardboard sculpting, rigging, and other methods for making inexpensive parade art. There will not be enough time for participants to complete their own project during this workshop but each participant will receive a Giant Puppet Making & Parade Art Manual to take home, plenty of hands-on experience, and time to work on their own design/brainstorm a project for their group.

Cost: Sliding-scale donation ($0-35)

*Please fill out a registration form for each individual you would like to reserve a spot for. Attendees must be at least 13 years of age.

This workshop is designed for teachers, community leaders, and any other individuals ages 13 & up who would like to learn how to design and create giant puppets and other parade art for this spring's Cattywampus Parade on Sunday, May 19th, 2024 as part of Open Streets Knoxville.

Now in its 7 year, Cattywampus's people-powered Parade invites community members of all ages to make giant puppets, costumes, and other art and come together to parade as one. This year’s parade theme “We Dwell Together” will focus on housing justice, inviting us to use art as a vehicle to imagine and bring to life a Knoxville that cultivates affordable, safe, and healthy housing for all.  

During this workshop, we will focus on papier-mâché, cardboard sculpting, rigging, and other methods for making inexpensive parade art. There will not be enough time for participants to complete their own project during this workshop but each participant will receive a Giant Puppet Making & Parade Art Manual to take home, plenty of hands-on experience, and time to work on their own design/brainstorm a project for their group.

Cost: Sliding-scale donation ($0-35)

*Please fill out a registration form for each individual you would like to reserve a spot for. Attendees must be at least 13 years of age.

SOCM and Cattywampus Puppet Council are excited to partner together this spring on Cattywampus's annual Parade & Street Party, happening May 19th as part of Open Streets Knoxville. Now in its 7 year, Cattywampus's people-powered Parade invites community members of all ages to make giant puppets, costumes, and other art and come together to parade as one. This year’s parade theme “We Dwell Together” will focus on housing justice, inviting us to use art as a vehicle to imagine and bring to life a Knoxville that cultivates affordable, safe, and healthy housing for all.

This special workshop is designed for nonprofits, grassroots groups, and any other individuals who are organizing around housing issues and would like to learn how to design and create giant puppets and other art for the Parade and for use in their broader organizing work.

During this workshop, we will focus on papier-mâché, cardboard sculpting, rigging, and other methods for making inexpensive parade art. There will not be enough time for participants to complete their own project during this workshop, but each participant will receive a Giant Puppet Making & Parade Art Manual to take home, plenty of hands-on experience, and time to work on their own design/brainstorm a project for their group.

Cost: FREE (But donations are welcome!)

*Please fill out a registration form for each individual you would like to reserve a spot for. Attendees must be at least 13 years of age.

Learn the basics of giant puppet making, receive an instruction manual, and then take your new knowledge to your group who would like to make a puppet together! You are invited to bring your puppet creations to the Kingsport Arts Festival on April 19th, details to come! Limited to 30-35 attendees. The workshop is in the Kingsport Renaissance Arts Center on the 2nd floor in room #239.

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