ACTIVIST CLOWN TOOLKIT: Become An Activist Clown Mocking Authoritarianism
HAVE FUN AND BE MORE EFFECTIVE IN YOUR PROTESTS --De-escalate tension and create more Instagrammable moments when you learn to utilize clowning as a playful means to address the injustices of authoritarianism. Clowns have always been society’s tricksters - exposing truths, mocking power, and bringing disruption & play to the frontlines of protests.
THE UNIQUE SPACE A CLOWN OCCUPIES derives its power from being on the fringes, from being not-quite-like-the-others, being a commentator, a rebel, a soothsayer.
--STREET THEATRE is the key ingredient in STRATEGIC NONVIOLENT ACTION. Explore clown as trickster, shaman, spectacle: who heals and critiques by disrupting the status quo.
DISCOVER YOUR ACTIVIST CLOWN Tap into your inner activist clown with Indivisible activist Sheridan Hill and her UK colleague Robyn Hambrook www.robynhambrook.com A UK-based director, teacher and performer, Robyn is a passionate practitioner of clowning, physical theatre, circus and street arts, and founder of the Bristol Clown School.
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-AN ANTIDOTE TO THESE OVERWHELMING TIMES, this four-part series will prepare you to speak truth to power at your next event, make a more significant impact than ever before, and have so much fun at the same time.
-A TRICKSTER’S GUIDE TO PLAYFUL REBELLION will explore the rebellious history and tactics of activist clowning, from ancient fools to modern disruptors. Through history, case studies, and hands-on exercises, we’ll play with the tools of satire, spectacle, and collective mischief to challenge the status quo—one red nose at a time.
--FIRST FOUR TUESDAYS IN JULY AT NOON EDT, this 4-part workshop series explores the dynamics of clowning; from the deeply regenerative practice of play, presence and pleasure to the liberation in being ridiculous, transgressive and rebellious.
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Over the past six years, Robyn Hambrook has been researching the intersection of clowning and protest driven by a deep desire to address the injustices in the world. This research has taken place in the streets, in protests, in research labs, online, with international collaborators and her Masters Research; ‘Small Circus Acts of Resistance’.
Robyn’s recent collaborations and teaching projects include the Nomadic Rebel Clown Academy (5-day Activist Clown Training), The Laboratory of the Un-beautiful (Feminist Grotesque Bouffon Training for Womxn Theatre Makers) and the Clown Congress (annual gathering of clowns, activists and academics collectively exploring what it means to be a clown in this current era). Robyn has most recently founded the Bristol Clown School, creating a home for clowning in the South West of England. www.robynhambrook.com / www.bristolclownschool.co.uk
Here's the link if you'd like to sign up:
https://www.mobilize.us/indivisiblewestmetro/event/788802/
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