{"id":466523,"date":"2026-09-17T07:34:15","date_gmt":"2026-09-17T07:34:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/466523\/"},"modified":"2026-09-17T07:34:15","modified_gmt":"2026-09-17T07:34:15","slug":"out-come-the-freaks-diy-puppet-parade-takes-over-founders-park-annenberg-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/466523\/","title":{"rendered":"Out come the freaks: DIY puppet parade takes over Founder\u2019s Park \u2013 Annenberg Media"},"content":{"rendered":"

Freak March<\/a>, a DIY puppet parade held by \u201cFreak Nature Puppets<\/a>,\u201d an LA-based self-taught puppetry and art collective, appeared on campus Wednesday afternoon in a joint collaboration between Visions and Voices<\/a>, Roski and the School of Dramatic Arts. <\/p>\n

According to their website<\/a>, the Freak Nature Puppets work towards creating dreamlike worlds through giant puppetry, physical theater, music and performance.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur mission is to show everybody that they could make art out of garbage, and to get people to stop doubting themselves about whether or not they\u2019re an artist,\u201d said Matthew Sater, a member of Freak Nature. <\/p>\n

Sater mentioned that art can become overly complicated when you strive to make the perfect piece. <\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s easy to fall into the trap of thinking that everything you do has to be complete and perfect,\u201d said Sater, \u201cand making puppets, especially with cardboard and cheap materials, is such an imperfect art by design that you start to see the value in making things that don\u2019t have to have a beautiful final product.\u201d <\/p>\n

Sater also shared their mission to release creatives from this trap, and foster a \u201cteach yourself to do it and great things will happen\u201d mindset. <\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s just fun to make puppets and make people laugh,\u201d said Freak Nature member Bobby Bergin. \u201cWe\u2019re gonna have a marching band of people that don\u2019t really know their instruments too well, and a bunch of garbage puppets that fall apart. It\u2019s just gonna be a big ride and a lot of fun.\u201d<\/p>\n

The exhibition caught the attention of many students on campus, like Alice Branicio, a senior studying art history, who decided to stop by with a friend and match the parade\u2019s freak. <\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re both making eyeballs, and then later today we\u2019re gonna march with them,\u201d Branicio said.<\/p>\n

David Delgado, the event organizer and a member of USC Visions and Voices, teased the chaotic creative energy that the parade will bring to campus by listing some of the featured artwork: \u201cminiature floats, massive installations, puppets, noisemakers \u2013 really anything that creativity inspires.\u201d<\/p>\n

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