National Day of Puppetry, 2001

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Columbia Association of Puppeteers
A chartered guild of the Puppeteers of America
Serving Oregon and Southwestern Washington since 1975

National Day of Puppetry, April 28th, 2001

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Members of CAP joined the Procession of the Species, which began at 11 a.m., Saturday, April 28 at Portland, Oregon's Oregon Square, near Lloyd Center and wound, hopped, slithered, and galloped its way across the Burnside Bridge, down SW Broadway to the South Park Blocks near Portland State University for a community celebration, which featured live music, a Natural Living Fair, and lots and lots of rain.

A wide variety of community arts workshops were offered during the month of April that gave people of all ages an opportunity to create costumes, masks, streamers, giant puppets, musical instruments, and dances to bring to the Procession.

Included in these were workshops by CAP Guild President Steven M. Overton and Vice-President Kris Bluett-Woolen. It was a chance for newcomers to puppetry to discover their inner puppet and to generally have a ball.

Here's some pictures of the puppet building sessions, and if you click here, you will go to three pages of pictures of the actual parade.

Assisting Steve are members of the Columbia Association of Puppeteers (CAP), the Portland-based local guild of the Puppeteers of America.

The slogan of this year's procession was: You've Never Seen the Streets of Portland So Wild!- Truer words were never coined for an event.

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