The ArcanaCrawl: Creek to River Parade will be a joyful night parade in southwest Queens. More than 125 people will promenade along the Newtown Creek and East River from Flux Factory IV at Hunter’s Point to Gantry Plaza State Park and back.

Per the Tarot Arcana theme, giant puppets will depict The Fool, The Magician, The Lovers, The World, and the other 22 arcana. Participants will dance and play with them to musical accompaniment. Water crafts will float in the Newtown Creek in parallel to the land parade with musicians and projections on sails. 

Hundreds of LEDs lighting high held bamboo and paper sculptures will mix with the city’s skyline backdrop. Harp and violin will mix with waterway sounds. Projectors powered by solar energy batteries will show exciting animations en route. The tone will be inclusion and wonder. Before the parade, in four weekends’ workshops, community artists and public will make costumes, paint and assemble giant puppets.

Workshop Leaders
Sally Beauti Twin and Heather Rose Piper. Sally is a Queens resident for half her life. In her New Orleans youth she formed parades for more than 20 years. This will be her 6th NYC parade in 4 years and a culmination of her cultural background. A former intern at Long Island City’s Henson Creature Shop and a winner of a 2025 Henson Grant, Heather is a high quality puppet and costume maker, a perennial Mermaid Parade star and professional scenic artist.