A COMMUNITY HOLIDAY EVERY AUTUMN

Every year, PEOPLEHOOD evolves from an unlikely force of individuals and organizations, friends, strangers, neighbors, co-workers, organizers, artists, grown-ups and children, bike riders, grandmothers, teachers, builders, drummers, dog walkers, fathers, singers, preachers, activists, storytellers, bankers, librarians, leaders, people of faith, atheists, people of all cultural backgrounds, immigrants, exiles, refugees. We move through a meandering dialogue of drawing, listening, dance, words, puppet-making, dreaming, truck-loading and, finally, parading through our neighborhood to Clark Park.

The pulse of the people
community conversations
about what matters
workshops in public spaces
and partner organizations
begin to yield a cast of characters
and sketches of scenes emerge

The push
finishing puppets at the studio
painting, stapling, papier macheing
sewing, stenciling, sculpting
spinning cardboard into stories
putting the pieces together

At the park with puppets
in various stages of completion
scenes move from ideas to action
choreographing, coordinating
dodging soccer balls and dogs

The big day
line up at Paul Robeson house
drums beating, flags waving,

The parade steps off at one
friends waving and joining in
arrive at Clark Park

 

Places!
those who think that they know
what is happening (?)
and those with no idea
gravitate to the puppets
the band strikes up

 

A pageant unfolds
there are surprises
moments of unrehearsed serendipity
as the shadows move across the park
neighbor to neighbor

 

A story is told

PEOPLEHOOD NEWSPAPERS

click on the images below to view past PEOPLEHOOD newspapers on ISSUU!

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