Join us at the Grand Marais Public Library on Thursday, August 17th at 10:30 a.m. for a free, family friendly puppet showcase, followed by a summer reading celebration picnic.

COMPAS Teaching Artist Christopher Lutter-Gardella will set-up a traditional hand-puppet stage, provide puppet guidance, musical accompaniment and plain-ol’ puppet comradery (with a hand-puppet of his own) to facilitate a spontaneous, highly improvised showcase of the unique puppet creations of the participants. Christopher will welcome any willing puppets onstage and will help them pluck up their puppetry confidence to perform for the audience. If you received a Found Object Puppet Legacy Take & Create Art Kit from your local library in July, feel free to bring the puppet you made, as well as any unused materials from your kits for a puppet-part swap!

The program we’ll close out this year’s Find Your Voice summer reading program with a picnic lunch, provided by the Library Friends of Cook County and Gene’s Foods, and bubbles, temporary tattoos and more on the lawn. Everyone is welcome!

The puppet showcase, sponsored by Arrowhead Library System and developed by COMPAS, is funded in part or in whole with money from Minnesota's Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund (ACFH).