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Another silly clown character picture from our photo archives to celebrate #InternationalClownWeek

This is Cecil St. Barbara, who I created to host a Shakespeare-themed variety show. He spent the evening sipping "wine" out of a glass skull until he hallucinated faeries, mocking the over-importance of Shakespeare, and generally proving I am a close runner up to Dick Van Dyke for worst Brit-ish accent in a character performance.

Another photo from waaaaay back when for #InternationalClownWeek

I'm grumpy because I missed the first day of posting images for #InternationalClownWeek!

Here's a photo of my clown in a mood, to begin the belated celebration.

The photo I've selected for the final day of #InternationalClownWeek is likely the most difficult one for me to share.

This was taken at a festival, just before the pandemic was declared, and the life we knew was absolutely blown apart.

We shut everything down and hid in our little #clown bunker. Despite this, a couple of years later I caught covid and ended up in the hospital.

That was two years ago today.

I'm still battling #LongCovid.

And I still hope to see those clowns again.

#MaskUp

#InternationalClownWeek is coming to an end 😢
#InternationalLuckyPlushieMonth is still going on! 😍

There's a shiny new episode of the #2ClownsInACloset #podcast, released just in time for #InternationalClownWeek

You can grab the feed URL, listen to the episodes, find show notes, and read full transcriptions here:

https://circusfreaks.org/podcast

Special thanks to @Tom and @Buttonseed_Nikki for this episode's image.

#PleaseBoost
#PleaseShare
#PleaseEnjoy

It's day six of #InternationalClownWeek, and I'm pulling random images from our performing company's archive to share and celebrate.

In the episode of the #2ClownsInACloset #podcast I'm currently editing, I tell a story about working with an incredible juggler called Alan.

Here he is on my left as we do a bit of street performing.

#Clown #Juggling

Up early today, and editing a new episode of the #2ClownsInACloset #podcast for you to enjoy!

I hope to have it ready to go before the end of #InternationalClownWeek

In the meantime you can listen to previous episodes of our silly conversations here:

https://circusfreaks.org/podcast

Day five of #InternationalClownWeek, and I'm still digging around in our archives for fun images to share.

Here's another one from Salmagundi, circa 2015.

During our Halloween theme show, the #clown found a terrific improvised moment while delivering hula hoops to the stage.

The collision of day four of #InternationalClownWeek and the ending of round one of the #CluckMe crocheted chicken name-off was unplanned, however our performing company's photo archives did provide the perfect image.

This was from early in the run of Salmagundi, a monthly dinner theater show we performed in an old historic theater. A new show every month means we were working constantly, and it's during that blur that I really learned how to bolt together a show.

#Clown
#NoChickensWereHarmed

#SilentSunday
#InternationalClownWeek

Happy day three of International Clown Week!

I've been drowning in nostalgia this year, as I dig around in our performing troupe's archives for images to share each day.

Today's features Jane, who's a topic on the episode of the #2ClownsInACloset #podcast I've been editing with @SocialGaff

This is one of her preferred methods of backstage travel.

#InternationalClownWeek
#Clown
#KeepYourShoesCleanWithThisOneTrick

It's day two of International Clown Week!

I'm pulling fun photos from our performing company's archive all week to celebrate.

This is Foley, in her hot air balloon. I helped build this giant prop/costume around 2015.

What you can't see in the cropped image is that the performer is on three foot dancing stilts. With a pair of dark pants below the basket, the illusion on stage was spectacular and silly.

#Clown
#InternationalClownWeek
#BeautifulBalloon

Daily #Hashtags For August

Aug 01
#InternationalClownWeek 🤡 #LammasDay #WorldBreastfeedingWeek #WorldWideWebDay

Aug 02
#InternationalFriendshipDay 👩🏻‍🤝‍👨🏾

Aug 03 •

Aug 04
#InternationalBeerDay 🍻 #InternationalOwlAwarenessDay 🦉

Aug 05
#InternationalHangoverDay 🤢

Aug 06
#HiroshimaDay #InternationalForgivenessDay

Aug 07 •

Aug 08
#InternationalCatDay 🐈 #InternationalInfinityDay ♾

Aug 09
#InternationalDayOfTheWorldsIndigenousPeoples #NagasakiDay #NationalScienceWeek (Aus)

Aug 10
#WorldBiofuelDay #WorldLionDay 🦁

Aug 11 •

Aug 12
#InternationalYouthDay #WorldElephantDay 🐘

Aug 13
#InternationalLefthandersDay 🤳🏽#WorldOrganDonationDay ❤️

Aug 14
#WorldLizardDay 🦎

Aug 15 •
Aug 16 •

Aug 17
#CatNights 🐈‍⬛

Aug 18 •

Aug 19
#InternationalOrangutanDay 🦧 #WorldHumanitarianDay #WorldPhotographyDay 📸

Aug 20
#WorldHoneybeeDay 🐝 #WorldMosquitoDay 🦟

Aug 21 •

Aug 22
#WorldSeniorCitizenDay

Aug 23
#BlackRibbonDay #InternationalDayForTheRemembranceOfTheSlaveTradeAndItsAbolition

Aug 24 •
Aug 25 •

Aug 26
#InternationalDogDay 🐕

Aug 27
#InternationalDayAgainstNuclearTests ☢️

Aug 28 •

Aug 29
#InternationalBatNight 🦇

Aug 30
#InternationalDayOfTheVictimsOfEnforcedDisappearance

Aug 31
#InternationalDayForPeopleOfAfricanDescent 🙋🏾 #WorldDaffodilDay 🌼

(See Index For More Hashtags)

Happy #InternationalClownWeek Day 7 - Annie Fratellini (1932-97), 4th generation Algerian of the Italian Fratellini clown dynasty. At 18 she ran AWAY from the circus to become a singer/actress. In 1975 she founded Europe's 2nd professional clown school, École Nationale du Cirque

Happy #InternationalClownWeek Day 6 - Oleg Popov (1930-2016) most famous in Soviet Russia was a mime, tightrope walker, animal trainer, acrobat & juggler. Popov's "sunshine clown" character was based on the fool Ivanushka, a gentle little man baffled by the big, precarious world

Happy #InternationalClownWeek Day 5 - The sad hobo Weary Willie, played by Emmett Kelly (1898-1979). Kelly originally studied to become a cartoonist and taught himself to be a trapeze artist. In 1944 he rescued children from a burning tent during the Hartford Circus Fire.

Happy #InternationalClownWeek Day 4 - Herschel Shmoikel Pinchas Yerucham Krustofsky, aka Krusty the Clown, star of hit game "Krusty's Fun House" (1992). A live action Krusty spin-off was canceled because trained beavers and animatronic ones were too expensive. Really!