This comes from Kurt Hunter, the Director of the 2005 National Festival for Puppeteers of America:
Greetings,
It's time for another update on Puppet Fest 2005, the Puppeteers of America's next national festival. More exciting details have been firmed up. Attached is an article that you can use in your guild newsletter to let your members know what is in the works.
The opening of the festival will take place Sunday evening, July 24, in the enormous, athletic field house on campus. In keeping with the setting, we are planning to include an Olympic style "Parade of Guilds" as part of the opening. Picture the ceremony of the Olympic's Parade of Nations as all the athletes parade into the statium along with their fellow country members. We hope this will be a fun and creative way to recognize the guilds as the heart of the Puppeteers of America. Each guild that chooses to be involved will have a delegation parade into the opening as a group. If you have a guild banner, your standard bearer can use that to lead your guild. If you have guild t-shirts, that would be a great way to identify your guild members as a group. A parade puppet or walking theatre would also be fitting. We hope you'll have fun coming up with a creative way to make your guild shine.
We hope to see you in Minnesota next summer.
All the best,
Kurt Hunter, Festival Director
Puppet Fest 2005
www.PuppetFest2005.org
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