Salt Lake City

Pelican Puppet Making

Protect the Pelicans! Make your own pelican puppet out of paper as you learn how climate change is drying out the Great Salt Lake and harming its pelican population.

Goal 𖤣𖥧.𖤣𖥧.𖤣𖥧𖡼.𖤣𖥧

Raise awareness about how climate change is impacting the Great Salt Lake and its pelican population, and provide clear and direct ways to get involved with an active local nonprofit.

Process 𓆝 𓆟 𓆞 𓆝 𓆟

Local nonprofit Save Our Great Salt Lake taught audiences to fold pelican puppets. We thought of it as a fanciful, futile effort to repopulate declining pelican populations. They made this great instruction/info sheet. You can download it yourself: Pelican Flier.pdf (available in Spanish)

Nearby, Brolly Arts screened their short film Illusion of Abundance, sharing Indigenous perspectives on the Great Salt Lake. 

Before the show, Save our Great Salt Lake members greeted the audience with water flags and banners. After, they reprised a song and puppetry parade originally created for a vigil for the Great Salt Lake during a recent state legislative session.  The parade showcased puppets of species that are part of the lake's ecosystem. 

Partners 𓇢𓆸

 Save Our Great Salt Lake and Brolly Arts

Budget ༄

$0– Utah presents didn’t share any numbers with us, but we presume Save Our Great Salt Lake was there as volunteers.

Exiting the play and discovering colorful, life size animal puppets parading through the lobby singing “Oh when the Great Salt Lake Rises Again” to the tune of When the Saints go Marching in!