Don’t miss PiP PiP Parade! with Shoestring Theater’s giant puppets, stilt-walkers, and huge assemblages of color & sound parade through Mayo Street Arts’ Kennedy Park neighborhood.

The parade keeps time to the music of The Ideal Maine Social Aid & Sanctuary Band, a Portland, Maine based community activist band in the New Orleans street band tradition, provides a musical pulse for the parade.

Immediately following the parade, Mayo Street Arts will invite folks inside for a short puppet show by Stop Puppeting Yourself Puppet Company.

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Puppets in Portland
September 18-27, 2026
www.PuppetsinPortland.org

A biennial city-wide festival of international puppetry produced by Mayo Street Arts