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ARTmoves Parade

Interested in being involved this year? The deadline for application for the 2010 ARTmoves Parade is December 18, 2009.
Application form can be found here.

Join us for the 2010 ARTmoves parade being held on
Saturday, June 5 at 1:00PM.

Create your parade unit on your own or collaborate with your classroom, after school program, or community group. Collaborate with an artist to dream up a concept and work as a team to create your art in motion! Youth participate in free community workshops with Twin Cities’ artists to prepare for the parade. Materials are supplied by Ordway Center and community partners and we encourage you to use found objects and recycled goods. Children and families are able to decorate their bikes, trikes, scooters, wagons, puppets, and bodies for the Parade and Festival, and then keep their art and bikes when the Festival is finished. Families are also invited to create their own ARTmoves pieces at home and join in the festivities!

Children and adults, families and groups, are invited to create banners, flags, puppets, musical instruments, and other materials to adorn bikes, trikes, wheelchairs, strollers, scooters, wagons, or other non-motorized vehicles (wheelchairs may be motorized) to ride, walk, run, jump, float, fly, stroll, shake, rattle, and roll in a pageant of moving art pieces. Everyone is invited to participate in the ARTmoves Parade. Contact us to find out how you can be involved!

Contact parade@ordway.org or 651.282.3035 with questions.

2009 ARTmoves Community Partners:
CHAT (Center for Hmong Arts and Talent) http://www.aboutchat.org/
Conway Community Recreation Center
Duluth & Case Recreation Center http://www.stpaul.gov/
Folwell Middle School http://folwell.mpls.k12.mn.us/
Hallie Q. Brown/ Martin Luther King Center http://www.MACCalliance.org
Hancock Recreation Center http://www.stpaul.gov/
Merrick Community Center http://www.merrickcs.org/
North Dale Recreation Center http://www.stpaul.gov/
West 7th Community Center http://www.west7th.org/
Scheffer Recreation Center http://www.stpaul.gov/

 

 

Special thanks to Theresa Weinfurtner, 2009 ARTmoves Parade Coordinator.

2009 ARTmoves Parade Participants

1.      St. Paul Bike Patrol

2.      Women’s Drum Center – Drum Heart Drum Line

3.      St. Paul Police Band – marching band

4.      St. Paul ECFE – approx. 30 families walking with the windsocks they created

5.      Music Together – approx. 20 decorated strollers and Music Together banner

6.      Chicks on Sticks – Twin Cities all female stilt-walking troupe

7.      Los Alegres Bailadores – Mexican traditional dance and music

8.      Rince na Chroi Irish Dancers – traditional Irish dance presented by this St. Paul based Irish dance school

9.      Sumunar  Youth Gamelan Ensemble - Students ages 6-15 perform Javanese gamelan music as part of Indonesian Performing Arts Association of Minnesota (IPAAM)

10.   Chinese American Association of Minnesota/CAAM - CAAM Chinese Dance Theater has served families and delighted audiences with some of the best locally-produced Chinese dance in the country

11.   Kalpulli Yaocenoxtli - a collective of families committed to teaching the traditions, history, and art of dance of the Mexihca (Aztec) culture.

12.   Sidi Goma - presents the joyful and exuberant devotional music and dance of the traditional rituals of the Sidi African-Indians from Gujarat, India.

13.  West 7th Community Center - Artist and Puppeteer Soozin Hirschmugl worked with the awesome kids from the West 7th Community Center.  They created 2 Giant Insect Puppets, a lady bug and spider costumes and flying insect flags flags. The 5th- 8th grade students created a giant 4 pole Dragonfly Puppet and flying insect flags. The 3-4th grade students  created a giant 3 pole Butterfly Puppet and flying insect flags, and the K-2nd grades created ladybug and spider costumes. In total 60 youth from the center participated in this residency, 20 from each age group.

14.   Merrick Community Center - Gustavo Boada crafted masks and stilts with participants from the after school project.

15.  CHAT/Center for Hmong Arts and Talent - Song Thao worked with a dozen students to produce a piece of abstract art. Each student created a self-portrait story cloth which become part of a abstract frame house.

16.  Hancock Recreation Center - Mark Stafford and his students created colorful dragons. The older students will move the dragon down the street while performing on stilts while the younger students perform a Taiwanese dragon dance with the smaller dragon.

17.  Duluth and Case Recreation Center - Julian McFaul  and his residency students used stilts, unusual costumery and mask performance techniques to devise, create and inhabit several never-seen-before creatures.  Some of the beasts  involve multiple performers.

18.  Folwell Middle School - Estela De Paola worked with special needs students at Folwell Middle School of Minneapolis Public Schools, to create paper mache masks featuring african designs.

19.  North Dale Recreation Center - Bart Buch worked with the kids at North Dale Recreation Center in St. Paul to make a parade section about gardening.  Together, they made a garden dragon, a big sun puppet, and garden creature masks.

20.  Scheffer Recreation Center - Resident artist, Mary Plaster, worked with a dozen kids to create whimsically-winged creatures.

21.  Hallie Q. Brown/MLK Center – Allison Heimstead

22.  Battle Creek Recreation Center – Chris Lutter and his students designed and created a mermaid, two dogs, a dragon, Sponge Bob, a frog, a horse and a giant butterfly. These masks and puppets will entertain parade viewer in some wholly unexpected way.

23. Lelavision – artists representing their production “The Anther, My Friend”

24. Esta – Israeli band represented by master reed musician, Amir Gwirtzman, playing bagpipes

 
 

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