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HARMS MARIONETTES
 Become enchanted with the spectacular puppetry of The Harms Marionettes, performing at the seventeenth annual Grand Kids Festival on Saturday April 14, 2012. Enjoy the mastery of puppeteer Don Harms as he presents performances and workshops featuring hand-carved marionettes that are one-third life size! While viewing these puppets whose faces are masks and whose movements are perfectly in tune with gravity, audiences will identify with their naturalness and spontaneity.
Don Harms became enchanted with marionettes at age nine when he first saw them. In the seventies he became acquainted with the various methods of puppet construction around the world, and remembered what he had learned as a youngster and began experimenting with new ways to construct puppets. “My life had been split into different phases - studying literature, teaching, directing plays, acting, carpentry, painting and sculpture. I saw in the theatre of marionettes the chance to bring all the pieces together while still pursuing each interest.”
The Grand Kids Festival was created as a “friend-raiser” for The Grand 1894 Opera House and its children’s programming. Now in its 17th year, the festival was designed as an avenue to introduce children and families to the arts. The festival will feature six entertainment areas, three blocks of activity and vendor booths as well as the petting zoo, a rock wall, inflatable attractions, a bubble pond, chalk art and more.
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