Join StoneLion as we celebrate the planet we live on with ART! Introducing The Puppet Canivale, a surprising interactive performance art spectacle partnering with area environmental educators, community activities and diverse performers. Each event will march in to the beat of drummers and dancers. Watch the canrivale set up and visit each side show; The Extinct Animal Train, The Tiny Tent Puppet Show, Mother Earth's Fortune Telling Booth, The 9' tall Green Man juggling endangered species and more.....Visit The Tattoo Man for your own ink, make a puppet at the Craft Wagon or win a prize at the Eco Wheel. Fun for all ages. Don't be late because half the fun is seeing the carnivale arrive.

March 3,2012

     Garrison Community Center 1124 W 5th Street KC, MO 64106

MARCH 24, 2012

     City Park, 970 S 291 HWY Liberty, MO 64068

MARCH 31, 2012

     Westpoert Roanoke Community Center 3601 Roanoke KC MO

APRIL 14, 2012

      Lakeside Nature Center 4701 East Gregory KC, MO

April 21, 2012

Theis Mall/Brush Creek Amphitheater Oak and 47th Street KC MO in collaboration with EARTHWALK (@11 a.m.)

       Come join our environmental carnival and then walk for the planet.

Following this series, a giant sized puppet performance, Mother’s Day for Mother Earth, takes place utilizing the puppets the community helped to build at the localized festivals.

This year’s giant puppet play is

THE SPIRIT OF THE NORTH

May 13, 2012 at 2 p.m. Theis Park and on Brush Creek!

Over fifty entertainers performing with puppets of enormous proportions. Father Winter battles the monsters of greenhouse gas and oil slick to save the frozen north. Will the spirit of the North prevail? Who can help? Ice flows, orca, seals and of course polar bears join in the fight for their life.

Each community festival takes place at a public community center or park. Every event has a performance stage, hands-on workshop area and games, environmental information tables and refreshment area.

Why: Our goal is to bring awareness to environmental issues in our own area and to provide realistic opportunities for change and involvement, while exposing our audience to a broad range of ARTISTIC mediums; puppetry, theater, music, dance and sculpture. This interactive project will enable community members of all ages, races, and socio-economic strata to become a part of the art of puppet-making and performance while celebrating the environment, and reminding the community as a whole of our impact on the world in which we live.

Sponsored in part by The MIssouri Arts Council, a state agency, The Neighborhood Tourism and Development Fund,

Kansas City Parks and Recreation, ArtsKC Fund and The Johnson County Stormwater Education Committee,

Peacock from 2011 The Greatest Show IS Earth by StoneLion Puppet Theatre