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The Tauranga Arts Festival ANZ Community Day will include a Creatures of Wonderland procession of larger-than-life puppets. Photo/supplied

The Tauranga Arts Festival ANZ Community Day will include a Creatures of Wonderland procession of larger-than-life puppets. Photo/supplied

Most locals will know the biennial Tauranga Arts Festival is coming up, but they may not know that this year they can help create one of the shows.

This year is the 150th anniversary of Alice in Wonderland, and The Incubator is celebrating it in their usual inventive and suitably eccentric style by creating a Creatures of Wonderland procession during the ANZ Community Day on October 24.

It will include a procession of larger-than-life puppets, created by members of the public during free Incubator-hosted workshops.

Incubator Director Simone Anderson wants the event to reflect the core mission of the Incubator, which is "cohesiveness and interaction in the arts".

"It's a community day - the community becomes the art. It's processional art," she says. Simone says puppetry processions play a huge part in many European festivals and the local version will resemble the work of Julie Taymor, the award winning director of The Lion King musical.

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"We wantto encourage that scale of creating, operating and participation and essentially a connection to the festival itself," she says.

Event co-ordinator Jannine Bishop says it won't be a traditional Santa-type parade. "We want people to engage, to join in!" People can either head along to one of the puppet-making workshops at the Incubator, or create their own puppets in school groups, at come or in teams to bring along and join in the procession on October 24.

The Incubator workshops are this Sunday, August 30, and Saturday and Sunday, September 12 and 13,from 10am till 3pm at the Historic Village.

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Workshops are free and participants are encouraged to bring their lunch and newspaper ifthey have any.

*Contact info@theincubator.co.nz for
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check out the Incubatorwebsite
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www.theincubator.co.nz
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