Eulogy of the Fool

eulogy of the fool

A SAMHAIN CLOWN RITUAL

THE INVITATION
As the nights draw in and the veil between worlds thins, we invite the spirit of the clown to guide us in releasing what no longer serves us.

Join us for a playful and transformative workshop where we explore the power of humour and ritual.

Together, we will create a clown funeral to bid farewell to limiting ideas, thoughts, and habits.

Embrace the spirit of Samhain through our collective clown ritual that celebrates transformation and the lightness of letting go.

WHAT TO EXPECT:
🌙 Clown games
🌙 Connection
🌙 Creative Ritual Play
🌙 Community
🌙 Joy and release

WHO IS THIS FOR?
For ages 16 and over

This workshop is for anyone wanting to mark the changing of the seasons and explore co-created rites and rituals, the intertwining of theatre and spirituality through the playfulness of the clown.
You don't have to be a clown. Just a desire to be in nature, in the changing seasons and be in connection in the receptive, playful state of the clown.

HOW IT WORKS

Dates & times:
Saturday 2 November
2.45pm – arrival at the woodland area at the top of the site
3pm – workshop begins
4pm - finish

Venue:
Bridge Farm Bristol, BS16 1BQ

Cost:
FREE with your Samhain at Bridge Farm ticket
£2 - £11
However booking is essential as places are limited

Booking:
Email [email protected] to book your place and receive full workshop information

ABOUT ROBYN

Robyn is a Bristol-based director, teacher and performer. With over 20 years experience she is a passionate practitioner of clowning, physical theatre, circus and street arts. She has a MA in Circus Directing, a Diploma of Physical Theatre Practice and trained with a long line of inspiring teachers including Holly Stoppit, Peta Lily, Giovanni Fusetti, Bim Mason, Jon Davison, Zuma Puma, Lucy Hopkins and John Wright.
Over the past five years she has been exploring the meeting point of clowning and a deep desire to address the injustices in the world. This specialism has developed through her Masters Research ‘Small Circus Acts of Resistance’, on the streets and in protests with the Bristol Rebel Clowns and in research residencies with The Trickster Laboratory.
Robyn’s Activist Clown research has led to collaborations with Jay Jordan (Laboratory of Insurrectionary Imagination, France), Clown Me In (Beirut), LM Bogad (US), Hilary Ramsden (Greece) and international Tricksters; ‘The Yes Men’ (US).
During the pandemic in 2020, Robyn set up The Online Clown Academy with Holly Stoppit and developed a series of Zoom Clown Courses. Robyn’s research, started during her Masters, has been exploring the meeting point of clowning and activism, online, in the real world and with international collaborators. With this drive to explore political edges of her work she has also dived back into the world of the Bouffon; training with Jaime Mears, Bim Mason, Nathaniel Justiniano, Eric Davis, Tim Licata, Al Seed and the grand master Bouffon-himself; Philippe Gaulier.
Keen to explore the intersection of clowning and politics, Robyn is driven to create collaborative, research spaces, testing and pushing the limits of the artform to create new knowledge and methodologies for her industry and strengthen partnerships for future work. Some of her most recent collaborations and teaching projects have included 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 & academics collectively exploring what it means to be a clown in this current era)

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