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Get Ready to Honk! with Cambridge Wildlife Arts

Sep

26

Get Ready to Honk! with Cambridge Wildlife Arts

by Green Cambridge

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Date and time

Sun, September 26, 2021

10:00 AM – 12:00 PM EDT

Location

Fresh Pond Reservation

250 Fresh Pond Parkway

Cambridge, MA 02138

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This volunteer event is for adults and teens who like to work with their hands (whether artistically or to construct and engineer things).

About this event

Our giant puppets of the animals of Cambridge need your help! Volunteer to apply your skills with duct tape, wing nuts, bits of wood, and needle and thread to enable our menagerie of local creatures to participate once again in the Honk! Parade.

This is a repair-and-construction workshop for adult and teen volunteers.

Why contribute your time and skill to this project? You'll be helping to create the pageantry and spectacle of our local animals taking their place amongst the bands and community groups of October's Honk! Parade. Otherwise, this event offers a couple of hours in good company, with shared purpose—promoting environmental stewardship through the arts.

Here's a preview of our tasks:

  • Our butterfly and moth puppets need holes in their delicate wings repaired and resealed
  • Our painted cardboard Alewife (fish) puppet needs to be made wearable by two puppeteers (we've sliced it in half!)
  • Our giant Great Blue Heron puppets needs their "dresses" repaired
  • Our Northern Cardinal puppet needs a new neck apparatus
  • Our sunflower and coneflower hats are going to get some native pollinator attachments
  • We need our Little Brown Bats' headgear repaired
  • Our Great Horned Owl puppet needs its moving wing mechanism repaired.

If you have construction, engineering, sewing, or artistic skills, or are generally good with making things from scratch, we're inviting you to spend part of your morning in a congenial outdoor setting at Fresh Pond Reservation to prepare and repairing our puppets. Sign up with a friend, neighbor, or family member. Teenagers can receive documented volunteer hours.

Volunteering your time at this event will help Cambridge kids and families celebrate and learn about our city's wildlife species and urban habitats at the Honk! Parade on the second Sunday of October (and you're also welcome to march with us!).

Adults must accompany any volunteer who is 13 and are kindly requested not to bring any children under 13.

In the event of rain, this workshop is tentatively scheduled to be moved indoors, with masks required.

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  • Massachusetts Events
  • Things to do in Cambridge, MA
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  • Cambridge Charity & Causes Other
  • #parade
  • #puppetry
  • #cambridgema
  • #wildlife_education
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