COMMUNITY PUPPET PAGEANT

The Conference of the Birds puppet pageant, directed by Sara Peattie, and loosely based on the 12th-century poem by Persian poet Farid ud-Din Attar, will employ masks and puppets of all sizes to celebrate specific birds of Connecticut, as well as endangered bird species and imaginary birds.

The puppets were created by participants in our Community Puppet-Building Workshops on September 14 and 15, 2024.

Workshop participants will perform with their creations alongside students from UConn’s famed Puppet Arts program at 2:30 PM on Betsy Paterson Square during the 21st Annual Celebrate Mansfield Festival on Saturday, Sept. 28, 2024.

The Community Puppet-Building Workshops and Puppet Pageant are presented annually by the Ballard Institute and Museum of Puppetry and the Mansfield Downtown Partnership, Inc.