An unsanctioned celebration took place at Powderhorn Park while hundreds gathered at the reimagined MayDay festival outside Four Directions Family Center.
MayDay will now take place all year long as HOBT reimagines its future.
The annual MayDay Parade and Festival hosted by In the Heart of the Beast Puppet and Mask Theatre is getting “decentralized” both in 2021 and beyond, according to a recent Zoom meeting held by the company. That means MayDay will not include a large parade, festival and ceremony in Powderhorn Park on the first Sunday in May. Instead, it will be a program that will take place all year long.
HOBT has yet to unveil specific programming that will be part of the new MayDay-centered model, but on its “Roots of MayDay” page on its website, the organization outlines the core values it will be bringing from MayDay into it’s year-long programming, including environmental justice, a labor movement lens, queer values, and BIPOC leadership.