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Autumn clown classes for adults in Exmouth

Finding the Funny Peculiar: Autumn Clown Classes for Adults Starting 29 September 2016, 6.30 – 8.30 pm at the Kennaway Centre, Exmouth, Devon These classes, led by Dr Maggie Irving, are about letting your hair down and revealing your strangely smart yet fabulously foolish side. Maggie’s AHRC-funded practice-as-research PhD at Plymouth University explored clowning for… Continue reading Autumn clown classes for adults in Exmouth

Feature: “Remembering Archaos: circus with attitude”

Archaos's Gelbrich Bierma and Peter Van Valeknhoef. Photograph ©Gavin Evans

BY ROBERTA MOCK It was the summer of 1989 and my heart began beating double-time from the moment Archaos entered their tent on Edinburgh’s Leith Links. The maniacally grinning clown positioned two feet from my head started smashing a flaming baton against a metal tent support. To my left, sparks were flying from a similar confrontation… Continue reading Feature: “Remembering Archaos: circus with attitude”