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The Phoenix Project - A Giant Puppet Project
SpringWorks Festival is thrilled to announce the commencement of our giant puppet building project. After years of delighting locals and tourists with visiting parade puppets, it’s time to create our own.
The Phoenix will capture Stratford’s unique intersection of art and industry, taking inspiration from our railroad history to celebrate Stratford’s creativity and capacity for reinvention. Our community meets change like a phoenix, rising from the ashes to transform into something stronger and more resilient than before.
Inspired by
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Fabulous Puppet Friends we've hosted at our festivals
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Stratford's history with Steam Locomotives and the Grand Trunk
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Honouring this city's incredible resilience
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Learning from amazing puppet creatures from around the world
We need your help to make this phoenix rise. Thank you for your support
- Truly every bit counts!​
Follow along as we share more of this adventure and join in our delight as we build our very own giant parade puppet and adjacent puppet programming.
To learn more about how you could support, please reach out to us at email@springworksfestival.ca
The Phoenix Project - A Giant Puppet Project
At $25,800 raised - we are 65% of the way to our $40,000 goal
- The Phoenix - Giant Puppet Project
What does it take to build a Giant Puppet?
People
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Designers & builders - expertise
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and, when finished, puppeteers - skilled operators
Materials
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bamboo, cane, piping, steel, aluminum, fabric, worbla, glue, paint, fasteners, fittings, wire and...
Mechanisms and Equipment
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Tools to cut and carve and weld and sew and build
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fog machines and sound equipment
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portable power sources
Place
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a venue with access to space and tools where we can create and build over time
and there is
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Planning, scheduling, and booking, and telling our story...
And eventually, this magial creature will be able to tour as a representative for our company and the city of Stratford at festivals and events across Canada and, who knows, maybe beyond our borders.
Your support helps ensure that SpringWorks will continue to support joyous and inspiring performing arts, across genres and in all stages of development. ​​
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Help Performing and Creative Arts programming be available to everyone.