Join us for the Sandy Mountain Festival Parade!
Invite your friends and family to participate, support, or come watch the parade! Immerse yourself in local history! Develop your costume and historical character, or just have fun designing and making the museum float for the July 6 parade!
All preparatory workshops are optional and participation is free. Donations to help with float supplies and to thank the museum for their help, space, and resources are greatly appreciated.
Historical Improvisation Workshops will practice speech with the reading of historical writings, and will practice scenes based on historical documents. We will use props and costuming. Learn or improve your acting with group and individual acting exercises.
When: June 3, 10, 24, and July 1 from 2-3:30 p.m. Where: Sandy Historical Museum, upstairs
Set Design and Building Workshop will design, build and paint the parade float for the Sandy Historical Museum while learning and practicing set-design, building, and painting techniques.
When: June 25 from 1-6 p.m.
Where: Sandy Historical Museum parking lot
Participants may use the resources available at the historical museum during all open hours including resources for costumes, props, and historical information to make their characters true to the time in which they lived. Museum staff are happy to recommend historical characters.
You can get an early start on research and other preparations at the Sandy Historical Museum anytime it is open Tuesdays through Saturdays from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at 39345 Pioneer Blvd., Sandy, Oregon 97055. Phone is (503)668-3378, website is www.sandyhistory.com
email is sandyhistorical@sandyhistory.com
Family and individual participant sign-up applications are available at the museum. Minor children applications must have the signature of a responsible adult. Much appreciated are the Sandy Historical Museum’s space and educational resources that make this event possible and all of the individual volunteers and collaborators including Deanna Bananas LLC and Ryan Hall Handyman and Construction Services LLC for donating their time to organize and lead the workshops.
