Clowns International
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Founded in 1947 Clowns International is the oldest organization for clowns & friends of clowns. We pride ourselves on networking, education, and collaboration.
Clowns International
9M ago
Exciting news just received over at Clowns International H.Q.: The Bavarian Clown Festival is back on for 2019! This is a wonderful festival run by good friends and members of Clowns International Sepp and Kerstin Egerer, and the invitations for participants will be going out very soon. This year the festival will run from Tuesday ..read more
Clowns International
2y ago
From 1884 to 1939, the Great Porter Circus makes the unlikely choice to winter in an Indiana town called Lima, a place that feels as classic as Sherwood Anderson’s Winesburg, Ohio, and as wondrous as a first trip to the Big Top. In Lima an elephant can change the course of a man’s life-or the ..read more
Clowns International
2y ago
Circus is one of the oldest and most popular art forms and during the last hundred years or so, it has also helped to revolutionise “straight” theatre by bringing back “theatre in the round” and introducing clown and music-hall techniques to wider audiences. The Italian futurists Marinetti and Bragaglia adopted circus styles and characterisations. Mayakovsky ..read more
Clowns International
2y ago
Born May 6, 1915, deceased November 16, 1993. He was a French clown, an artist and circus operator, born in La Goulette, Tunisia. The son of Federico Zavatta, a circus owner from a family of Italian fairground artists, his mother was Emma Tholomet, and both of Alfonso’s (known as Achille) parents began their careers as ..read more
Clowns International
2y ago
18.9.1935 at 09.30 a.m. Dimitri was born in Ascona, Vicolo Ghiriglione (opposite the theatre of puppeteers which later will be his first stage), son of the sculptor and architect Werner Jakob Müller and the handweaver and artisan Maja, born Tschirren. Due to the close proximity of the Teatro San Materno which belonged to the dancer Charlotte Bara ..read more
Clowns International
2y ago
From your feedback it looks like you enjoyed our newsletters about Jacko Fossett, so here’s another short biography of another famous clown this time far from Manchester. We head to Russia and the fantastic Yuri Nikulin. Born: 18th December 1921 Deceased: 21st August 1997 Yuri Nikulin was a Russian film actor, comedian, mime ..read more
Clowns International
2y ago
For nearly 150 years, Belle-Vue Zoological Gardens was one of the most continuously successful entertainment destinations in the United Kingdom. Founded in 1836 by John Jennison and by 1856 the collection included monkeys, kangaroos, rhinos, lions and bears, and even more animals joined after Jennison handed over the running of the zoo to his children ..read more
Clowns International
2y ago
The Barnum & Bailey show created quite a stir during the 1895 season with Josephine Mathews (also sometimes labeled as Williams in the press) aka Evetta, The Lady Clown. That season Barnum & Bailey had a strong female presence and the posters also announced a master of ceremonies, Millie Dunbar. Here’s a snippet of an ..read more
Clowns International
2y ago
On the 8th March 1600, a noisy and excited crowd of spectators gathered to witness the final stage of a remarkable event, (which later became known as the “9 Day Wonder”) an event that had long been anticipated and had captured the imagination of a city. The spectators came from far and wide and from ..read more
Clowns International
2y ago
Did you know when it comes to our unofficial holidays, April Fools’ Day is one of the weirder ones.? It’s a folk holiday of pranks and mild humiliations, in which children get to pull one over on their parents or teachers, and vice-versa; in which media outlets can make things up, all in good fun ..read more