MayDay!

The 2011 MayDay Parade and Festival will be held on Sunday, May 1.

In the Heart of the Beast Puppet and Mask Theatre’s annual MayDay and has been a vibrant example of art as community building in the Twin Cities area for 37 years.

For many in Minnesota, the MayDay Parade is a time to celebrate the coming warmth with hand-built puppets and masks (some over 10 feet tall), music, and performance in the street. But the essence of the parade is rooted in the local community and contemporary issues, concerns, and visions for a better world.  By the time the parade unfolds on the first Sunday of May, more than 50,000 people from near and far fill the streets both as participants and spectators for this day of celebration and community. 

1:00 pm: Parade begins at the corner of 25th Street East and Bloomington Avenue South, and travels south on Bloomington to 34th Street East, where the parade turns west towards Powderhorn Park, where the parade ends and the MayDay Ceremony and Festival begins, at approximately 3pm.

Artists will begin performing after the ceremony appoximately 4pm.