Introduction
The community power of puppets!
With the support of the Arroyo Arts Collective, I organized and led a series of three community puppet workshops in May 2006, to create street puppets for the Lummis Day Festival of Northeast Los Angeles.
This project was successful due to the inspiration by the spirits of the Arroyo and the Tongva, the magic of community art making, and a lot of work by volunteers, especially Board members Laurie Arroyo, Heather Hoggan, Linda Hoag and Suzanne Siegel.
I am grateful to Franklin Transportation Academy, its students and teachers, for contributing the work space and for their tremendous support. I would also like to thank Don Newton for sharing his stories and images and, of course, the many community volunteers who participated.
