Puppets in the Park Halloween Hayride
On Saturday, Oct. 14th from 1-6pm, Franconia Sculpture Park is hosting Puppets in the Park Halloween Hayride in collaboration with In the Heart of the Beast Puppet and Mask Theatre and the Flying Foot Forum dance/theater company! 
We invite visitors to experience a whimsical hayride or self-guided walking tour through the 50-acre sculpture park where they will view large-scale puppets interacting with contemporary sculptures as well as music and percussive dance performances!
In addition, there will be other fun and family-friendly activities such as a mask-making workshop, pumpkin-carving, face-painting, performances, and a Halloween candy scavenger hunt.
This entire event is free but $5-20 parking donations are encouraged upon arrival! Looking to join the fun as a volunteer? Sign up here!
1pm-5pm Hayride
Join us on the front lawn starting at 1pm to hop on a hayride through the park! We will have two trailer hayrides circling throughout the park to witness the magical puppets and performers throughout the park.
1pm-5pm Make-and-Take Mask Activity
Visit the Driscoll Education Center in the Franconia Commons building from 1-5pm to participate in an make-and-take mask workshop courtesy of In the Heart of the Beast!
Flying Foot Forum Performances
2pm and 5pm Long Performances
Join us at Franconia’s Earthen Amphitheater at 2pm and 5pm for 30-45 minute percussive dance performances by the Flying foot Forum!
Pop-up Performances
Flying Foot Forum will orchestrate multiple pop-up performances throughout the event including a sing-a-long, flamenco dancing, and more! More details to come.
About In the Heart of the Beast Puppet and Mask Theatre
Start with Water, flour, newspaper, paint. Add a large measure of IMAGINATION and a dollop of ARTISTRY to make STORIES about our world come ALIVE through PUPPETS. This is in the Heart of the Beast’s nearly 50 year-old puppet recipe.
Since 1973, In the Heart of the Beast Puppet and Mask Theatre has helped to create and cultivate the puppetry community in the Twin Cities. We are a world-renowned theater recognized for our large scale puppets and political activism. We have brought some of the most talented puppeteers to Minneapolis while maintaining a strong connection to the local puppet community.
In the HEART of the BEAST (HOBT) is a community of artists working within our larger community to create magic together. We make puppets large and small—monstrous, beautiful, silly, human, plant, animal, you name it. We use gesture, voice, form, and color, giving life to puppets that help tell stories to represent the world as it is and as we dream it could be.
About Flying Foot Forum
Flying Foot Forum is a vibrant and bold percussive dance/theater company that fuses percussion and percussive dances with many other forms of music, dance and theater, telling unusual tales, creating a wild variety of characters, and exploring universal ideas in inventive and exciting new ways.
Repertory concerts and full-length pieces are available for touring along with an exciting mixture of residency activities for people of all ages and degrees of dance ability.
This activity is made possible by the voters of Minnesota through a grant from the East Central Regional Arts Council, thanks to a legislative appropriation from the arts and cultural heritage fund.