FestiFools: Ann Arbor’s Annual Street Festival of Huge Puppets & Random Acts of April Foolishness

FestiFools 2010 was awesome!

Huge thanks to everyone who helped make it so great! If you’re not already familiar with FestiFools, you can get a sense of what we’re about by watching some videos on the YouTube FestiFools channel, reading a few good blog entries, and diving into the photographically refreshing flickr FestiFools group pool.

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FestiFools’ Sponsors: Lloyd Hall Scholars Program, Arts on Earth, University of Michigan, University of Michigan School of Art & Design.

About us

FestiFools is a non-profit production of the START Project, a University of Michigan Lloyd Hall Scholars Program initiative. FestiFools brings students and community volunteers together to create unique public art that is free and accessible to everyone. Specifically, we make huge-mongous papier-mâché puppets and march them around downtown Ann Arbor on a Sunday early in April. If that sounds like your speed, then dig deeper:

Get involved

Join the fun! Become a full-fledged, card-carrying Fool:

Help make art

Participate in making the actual puppets

We need money!

We want your body

Ideas…

Wanna help in some other way that we weren’t Foolish enough to think of? Drop us an email.

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Contact

Email: startproject@umich.edu
Phone: 734.763.7550
Studio: 1239 Kipke St., Room 1309
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI 48109
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