A short drive outside Ottawa, Canada's capital city, is a community that can't get enough of puppets. On the weekend of August 7 & 8, 2010, the uber- friendly community of Almonte (situated in the Town of Mississippi Mills, Ontario) will turn its hearts and streets over to the Puppets Up! International Puppet Festival once again. Puppets Up! is a two-day international festival devoted to the art of puppetry and the creation of fun. The festival is proudly endorsed by the Canadian Commission for UNESCO.
The world will be on stage again this year with troupes travelling from around the globe to entertain the thousands of visitors who visit each year. "Around the World in Two Days" is our 2010 festival theme. This year's festival will pay tribute to the diversity of world languages, culture, and art that puppets so easily express.
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I think I mentioned that everyone associated with Puppets Up! is pretty fond of Max Keeping, CTV’s Community Ambassador. This year, he was one of our celebrity parade marshals once again, and in years past he was always a huge supporter of the festival.
Just before this year’s festival, we paid tribute to Max in Almonte and presented him with a new celebrity look-alike puppet at a community picnic event.…
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I could just hug them to pieces! There are so many people to thank for the success of this year’s puppet festival in Almonte.
The 2010 Puppets Up! International Puppet Festival was a huge success for a whole bunch of reasons. First, the puppet talent was spectacular and kids and their parents couldn’t help but have a fantastic time in our tented and storefront theatres. The kids were either rolling…
Read more...ALMONTE (Town of Mississippi Mills), July 30, 2010 – Spend a weekend in Almonte at the Puppets Up! International Festival and you’ll feel like you’ve been around the world in two days. For the sixth year running, Puppets Up! will welcome puppet troupes from around the globe and they, in turn, will deliver 54 world-class puppet shows in tented or storefront theatres in downtown Almonte.
Puppets Up! runs…
Read more...People come to Puppets Up! to see the puppet shows – that’s for sure. But they also come to take in the entertainment on Almonte’s Mill Street, a hilly main street that rolls through the downtown district. You can somehow just imagine the cobblestones under the pavement.
But in addition to the puppet shows in theatres around town, there is free street entertainment all day, every day, during the festival.…
Read more...If you knew me, you would know that although I have a very big head, I don’t have an ego to match. Good thing too, because during the festival, I get to share the stage, and the street, with some pretty amazing characters.
Every year, the festival asks some Very Important People to join our daily parade. We call them parade marshals. They don’t really get to “marshal” anybody or…
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