Italian Midsummer Pageant PART ONE

A Midsummer Pageant in the village of Morinesio, high in the Val Maira of the Italian Alps. Since 2002, processional artists Alex Kahn and Sophia Michahelles have worked with local villagers to create a "new tradition" that draws on and preserves oral history, agrarian seasonal rituals, and regional culture. Participants from around the world come for the preceding week to help build elements for the procession and to learn to the art of pageant puppetry. This video is Part One of two parts. More at www.processionalart.org.

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Travel & Events

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• Italy
• giant puppets
• Alps
• Piedmont
• Piemonte
• Val Maira
• Morinesio
• Cuneo
• pageant puppetry
• Alex Kahn
• Sophia Michahelles
• pupazzi
• solstice
• Midsumer Pageant