Mmmmonster Parade!

Monster Parade the 4th! How regal! MMMMONSTER PARADE IS HERE, AGAIN! Let’s let our freak flags fly! Your nightmares can come true!

Long live monsters! Be a creepy and bring your ghoulfriends to celebrate all things misunderstood and spooky. Come in your monster gear and walk from Ride It Skatepark to Hamtramck Disneyland singing monster chants and signs!

Not sure about your costume? We'll be hosting a costume/puppet making workshop from 1pm-4pm at Buffalo Prescott on Sept. 20nd for those who want to hang and get ideas! Register here

For more ideas, here are a few great resources!

Puppeteers' Cooperative (amazing resource of large puppet makers)!

F antastic PDF Puppet Co made of 68 ways to make big puppets!

G reat paper mache recipe for making masks

G iant puppet making manual!

Monster Parade is run by Renee Willoughby and Monty Etzcorn, and hosted by Hamtramck Disneyland + Buffalo Prescott

Renee Willoughby is an interdisciplinary artist working within themes of collage, ghosts + telematics. She creates both individually and collaboratively in Detroit and lives at Hamtramck Disneyland.

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Monty Etzcorn is a Detroit-based interdisciplinary artist working in puppetry performance and fabrication, drawing, and alternative comics.

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Hamtramck Disneyland is A Site-Specific Folk Art Installation Created By Artist Dmytro Szylak (1920-2015). It is currently being restored by

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Buffalo Prescott is a Detroit nonprofit artist incubator and hub, providing a dynamic studio residency program, engaging community workshops, and vibrant public programming.
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