🎉 Handmade Parade 2025: Unity Through Creativity 🎉

📅 Friday, October 3 | 📍 Benson Creative District

BFF Omaha + Giant Joy Collective present the first-ever Handmade Parade — a community celebration where art takes to the streets! Giant puppets, DIY floats, costumes, and banners will transform Benson into a moving work of art created by neighbors, families, schools, and YOU.

🖌️ Pre-Parade Fun (Free & Family-Friendly!)
📍 Rosehill Elementary Blacktop | 4–6 PM
✨ Creation Station – Mask & prop making
✨ Collaborative Faces Mural – Add your mark
✨ Face Painting – by Liudmyla Levinson

📍 Benson Community Center | 1–3 PM
✨ Schools Out Craft Day – kid-friendly DIY projects

🎭 Handmade Parade
📍 Rosehill Elementary | Lineup 6 PM | Parade Start 6:30 PM
Neighbors, artists, and organizations bring UNITY THROUGH CREATIVITY to life with puppets, costumes, floats, and people-powered magic!

🎶 Post-Parade Party
📍 Petshop Gallery & Backlot | 7:30–10 PM
🎵 The Cruel Idiots (7:00)
🎵 Root (7:30)
🎵 Hair Person (8:00)
🎵 The Mercurys (8:30)

Puppet theatre, skateboarding, face painting, library fun, DIY junk wall, photo ops & more along 62nd Street!

🌟 Get Involved
Everyone’s invited to march, build, perform, or cheer from the sidelines.

🙏 The first annual Handmade Parade is made possible thanks to the support of Dundee Bank, WP Engine, Rose Hill PTO, Montessori Co-Op School, Central Skate Shop, Park Omaha, The Nebraska Arts Council and Cultural Endowment.

👉 Learn more & sign up: bffomaha.org/parade