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The New York Clown Theatre Festival - Special Events
Posted August 20, 2008
Back for its third year, the New York Clown Theatre Festival presents
another incredible line-up of shows, workshops, lectures, films, and
activities ranging from parades to pie fights. Clear your schedule.
You want to go to as much of this as you can. We're trying to list
everything so see also Shows
and Workshops, and find
full information on all Festival activities at bricktheater.com/clown/.
The Brick Theater, Inc. presents
Winner of The New York Downtown Clown
2008 Golden Nose Award for "Clown Achievement of the Year!"
The New York Clown Theatre Festival
September 5 through 28, 2008 at The Brick
SPECIAL EVENTS
Subway Parade, Pie Fight, and Free Preview Cabaret
We'll kick off the NY CLOWN THEATRE FESTIVAL with our 3rd annual
opening day parade! Anyone and everyone is invited to join the city's
finest clowns, jugglers, stilt-walkers, and more as they gather at
Union Square Park and ride the "L" train to the Bedford stop, then
march to The Brick Theater for a massive public pie fight. Red noses
and pies will be handed out. The pie fight will be followed by a Clown
Cabaret previewing festival highlights.
Where: Subway Parade begins at Union Square Park, the L train, The Brick
How much: ALL FREE!
The Presence of the Clown with David Shiner
Award winning director, writer and performer of clown, David Shiner
discusses creating new work in clown, working with Cirque du Soleil
and on Broadway.
90 minutes
Sat, September 6 at 5pm
Undercranking: The Magic Behind the Slapstick with Ben
Model
Ben Model's talk/screening for this year's clown theatre festival will
concentrate on this notion of using undercranking as a key element of
silent film comedy and how the comics took their stage/physical chops
and adapted it to this type of filmmaking (which stopped in 1929) This
event will include short film clips and discussion led by Ben Model of
Moma's Silent Clown Series.
silentfilmmusic.com
90 minutes
Sat 9/13 at 7pm
Clown Funeral Procession & Closing Night Party
Theatre Group Dzieci leads the Clown Funeral Procession of The NY
Clown Theatre Festival 2008 through the streets of Williamsburg with
morbid buffoonery, audience participation, and the choral singing of
sacred hymns. As clown mourners follow the casket to its final
destination at The Brick Theater, the bereaved are likely to cry out
in anguish to unsuspecting passersby. At the funeral rite following,
clown widows and widowers will remember with great passion the
achievements of the festival in its 4 short weeks of life. Be sure to
stay after the funeral rite for the traditional Closing Night Party.
He would have wanted it so.
dziecitheatre.org
When: Sat, 9/28 at 6pm
Where: Procession begins at Bedford Ave. and North 7th Street (Bedford
stop of the L Train)
How much: ALL FREE!
For more information or to purchase tickets for these events, see bricktheater.com/clown/.
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