Ann Arbor Summer Festival Top of the Park Spectacles & Attractions

Top of the Park Spectacles are one of the most fun parts of the Ann Arbor Summer Festival! They provide amazing free shows downtown. The 2025 Top of the Park Spectacles were announced on April 11. The Ann Arbor Summer Festival takes place from mid-June through early July. has announced more of their schedule. The Top of the Park movie lineup was initially announced last week (April 3). Today (April 11) they announced the Special Attractions.

This season, A2SF presents four extraordinary attractions designed to surprise and delight!

From giant interactive squeeze boxes to endearing twin clowns, playful shadow puppets, and the whimsical chalk creations of David Zinn, every event promises wonder, joy, and a touch of magic. Additional events and series will be announced throughout the spring, with the full 2025 season to be unveiled on May 1.

Top of the Park Outdoor Spectacles

Top of the Park is our favorite part of the Ann Arbor Summer Festival. We love to grab dinner from Culinary Row, meet up with friends, listen to music and hopefully catch some of the spectacle performances.

One of our favorite activities is the outdoor spectacles – large scale performances in the middle of the Top of the Park area. We

For 2025, there are two large spectacle performances the first and second weekends of Top of the Park. The Kif-Kif Sisters performing Jam Side Up! and Squonk performing Brouhaha. Ann Arbor District Library is the co-presenter for both events.

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Jam Side Up!

The Kif-Kif Sisters, identical twin sisters from Montréal, Canada, have been captivating audiences worldwide since 2007 with their innovative visual shows for both stage and outdoor public spaces. Renowned for their tender yet intelligent humor, their performances resonate with both children and adults alike. Their unique blend of physical theater, circus arts, music, puppetry, and performance art has been showcased over 1,000 times across 20 countries.

Brouhaha

Brouhaha is an immersive outdoor spectacle bursting with rollicking music, dazzling imagery, and the thrill of audience participation! At the center of this riotous romp is the Squonkcordion, an enormous musical instrument powered by behemoth bellows topped with towering tuba bells. At the peak of the performance, Squonk invites the audience to play this foghorn organ, welcoming them to experience the joy of a brass band and the fireworks of community. The show ends with a 30-foot head made of brilliantly colored banners, comically blinking its eyes and shooting smoke out of its ears.

Ann Arbor Summer Festival Special Events

In addition to the spectacles, there are other special events happening at Top of the Park.

David Zinn and Chalk Art

Ann Arbor’s own David Zinn will be making chalk art on multiple nights during Top of the Park.

David Zinn’s chalk work began in 2001 as an excuse to linger outdoors, but has since achieved global notoriety through the sharing of photos on Facebook, Huffington Post UK, The Cheezburger Network, Street Art Utopia, and Archie McPhee’s Endless Geyser of Awesome. Be inspired by his ability to incorporate 3-D illusions into familiar scenery and have fun searching for his most frequent characters, Sluggo, a bright green monster with stalk eyes and irreverent habits, Philomena, a phlegmatic flying pig, and many entertaining mice.

Sunday, June 15 is Sidewalk Chalk Day with chalk artist David Zinn leading the charge at Top of the Park. Join A2SF on June 15 for an extravaganza of personal expression. Chalk at Top of the Park, on your own sidewalk, or wherever you choose to make your canvas!

Watch David Zinn on:

Still Life with Matt Sandbank

What do we do when the world refuses to behave as we expect it to? Matt Sandbank takes on this question in his charming collection of nonverbal shadow puppetry stories, Still Life. Using lighthearted humor and intricately expressive puppets, Still Life delights audiences of all shapes and sizes! A2SF is pleased to have Matt return after an amazing engagement in 2022.

Still Life is co-presented with the Ann Arbor District Library. Still Life is sponsored by Launch Trampoline Park.

Still Life will take place in the Annex with 3 shows each night. Shows are about 30 minutes long.

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