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Date(s): Sunday, April 12, 2026
Time: 4:00pm-5:00pm
Venue: Main Street Area
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20 years ago, FestiFools exploded onto Ann Arbor’s Main Street with enormous kinetic papier-mâché sculptures created by a joyous collaboration of students and community members. Time sure flies when you’re having (Foolish) fun!
Come help celebrate “Back to the FOOLture”, where they’ll reconstruct our past, present, and FOOLture with bizarro, street-sized Puppets created and animated by U-M students and community members! Make a crazy costume, bring an old pan to bang on, or just come as you are, to help celebrate the 20th Annual FestiFools Spectacle on Main Street in downtown Ann Arbor! This not-2-B-missed one-hour only event starts at 4pm sharp!
Volunteers still wanted to help out at FestiFools and FoolMoon:
https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C0B4FADA823A0F8C43-58015387-festifools#/
If you want to help animate a puppet or make some noise in the parade with the “Buckettes”, meet them at the Palio parking lot on the corner of Washington and William at 3pm on April 12th! Sign up here so they know they can count on you:
https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C0B4FADA823A0F8C43-58015387-festifools#/
Donation Giving link: https://giving.umich.edu/basket/fund/386297
For more information on FestiFools & FoolMoon 2026, visit Facebook at ‘FestiFools Studio’ : https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61552054502529
All FestiFools Events
Check out some of the public events to make puppets for FestiFools
| Date/Time | Event | |
|---|---|---|
| 💙🆓🎟 | March 1
10:00am-4:00pm |
Fool U! FoolMoon Luminary Making Workshops
at Hathaway’s Hideaway, Ann Arbor Michigan |
| 💙🆓🎟 | March 8
10:00am-4:00pm |
Fool U! FoolMoon Luminary Making Workshops
at Hathaway’s Hideaway, Ann Arbor Michigan |
| 💙🆓🎟 | March 15
10:00am-4:00pm |
Fool U! FoolMoon Luminary Making Workshops
at Hathaway’s Hideaway, Ann Arbor Michigan |
| 💙🆓🎟 | March 22
10:00am-4:00pm |
Fool U! FoolMoon Luminary Making Workshops
at Hathaway’s Hideaway, Ann Arbor Michigan |
| 💙🆓🎟 | March 29
10:00am-4:00pm |
Fool U! FoolMoon Luminary Making Workshops
at Hathaway’s Hideaway, Ann Arbor Michigan |
| 💙🆓 | April 10
7:30pm-11:30pm |
FoolMoon 2026: Fools of a Feather
at Main Street Area, Ann Arbor MI |
| 💙🆓 | April 12
4:00pm-5:00pm |
FestiFools 2026: Back ot the Foolture
at Main Street Area, Ann Arbor MI |
Have a Foolish Time at FoolMoon & FestiFools 2026
It’s Foolish Time Ann Arbor! Yes, it is time for FoolMoon and FestiFools. 2026 marks the 20th Annual FestiFools! Ann Arbor FestiFools first foolishly paraded on Ann Arbor streets in 2007, and quickly become an Ann Arbor tradition! FoolMoon was added in 2011. Ann Arbor FoolMoon 2026 is on Friday, April 10 with processions across […]
- Date(s): Sunday, April 12, 2026
- Time: 4:00pm-5:00pm
- Cost: Free
- Event Website
- Organizer: FestiFools Studios
- Organizer Phone: 734-763-7550
- Organizer Email: joolie@umich.edu
Venue: Main Street Area
Address: Main Street and Liberty, Ann Arbor
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