What's Going On In The USA?

(Via Facebook): Stuart Curtis will be performing with the venerable, time-honored Yachats Big Band at the Yachats Commons on Thursday, April 1, 7-9 pm. Come as you are, $5 donation at the door, kids are free. The Yachats band has been playing at this venue for decades and a lot of enthusiastic dancers and listeners typically turn out.
Special note ... to alert readers: even though this takes place on April Fool's Day, (Stuart is) not making this up.

Yachats is on the Oregon coast, 80 or so miles west of Eugene, then a little further north.

Update, April 2: Stuart Curtis commented on (Facebook): "It was big. There were plenty of happy dancers and a good time was had by all. "

Nouveau Clown Institute Graduation This Weekend!

Assemblage from photos by Juan K. Casado
Jango Edwards' second series of Master Classes at the Nouveau Clown Institute in Barcelona is throwing-down it's graduation on SUNDAY, March 28, 2010, according to new intelligence from Facebook:

Jango Edwards March 27, 2010 at 5:19pm

Subject: N.C.I. MARCH 2010 "CLOWN MASTERCLASS" GRADUATlON 28TH.
I'M SORRY THAT I WASN'T WITH YOU ALL ON THE LAST CABARET BUT I'M SURE IT WAS FUNTACULAR. TOMORROW THE FINAL DAY OF SCHOOL IS AS FOLLOWS.

S.O.S.
CALLING ALL CLOWNS, FOOLS AND STREET ARTISTS:
TODAY WE BEGIN THE BATTLE TO F.T.F.S. IN BARCELONA. YOUR INVITED TO JOIN US AND PARTICIPATE IN OUR NUMEROUS INVISIBLE THEATER MANEUVERS ON SUNDAY, MARCH 28TH BETWEEN 13:30 AND 17:00 HOURS.

13:30 MEETING AT THE TENT (LA CARPA) AT THE BOTTOM OF LA RAMBLA WHERE WE PERFORMED THE "DIANA-CABRON CABARET".

13:30-14:00 ANIMATION AND MANIFASTATION ORGANIZATION FOR "FREE THE F***ING STREETS" CLOWN MILITIA EVENT.

ITEMS REQUESTED FOR THE ACTIONS
TOOTHBRUSH
N.C.I. TEE SHIRT BASE WITH ADDITIONAL JACKET OR SHIRT TO COVER N.C.I. SHIRT.
STATUE ACCESSORY
SHOE BOX PET FOR "BOX ZOO"
RED NOSE (CLOWN CHI)

14:00- 17:00 ENSEMBLE AND TEAM STREET EVENTS.
18:00 GRADUATION ASSEMBLY AT CLOWNFISH, C/CROS
29 bx, 08014, BARCELONA, TEL. 93 432 2814.
DIPLOMAS AND GRADUATION FIESTA.
DON'T BE LATE AND COME WITH FRIENDS IF YOU LIKE.
SEE YOU AT THE TENT

WE ARE FAMILY
JANGO

Check out the wealth of photos on their Facebook Site.
Just follow the links and click away -- the "Pie In The Face Portraits" are pretty funny! AND DON'T FORGET (like I did) John Towsen's Blog with cross-over links and other fun stuff!

Webmaster Michael Created Another Blog!

Yes I did! I'm keeping THIS blog dedicated to Troupers and fellow-travelers.

I'm calling the other one Michael's Blog: To Beat The Devil -- Personal Musings & Items of Interest, but there's some images from the Mime Troupe Saga there, and totally-unrelated stuff as well!

At the moment, it is dedicated to Ada Lovelace Day 2010, with an essay entitled Radioactive Women and Lise Meitner, and you're all welcome to check it out by clicking on the link above.
(The blog for worldwide Ada Lovelace Day is HERE)

I wrote another essay about Ada Byron, Countess of Lovelace, for this occasion last year called Unnatural Cousins. It's on my "old blog" HERE

Lise Meitner, born in Austria, is the subject of this year's essay. She co-discovered nuclear fission along with her nephew Otto Frisch, and German scientist Otto Hahn in 1938. Being of Jewish lineage, Frisch and Meitner fled to neutral Sweden before WWII began. They received NO credit in the paper which secured Hahn the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1944.

Lightening Up:
George Clinton famously said: Mankind is nuclear fishin’ — And the fish on his line is bigger in his mind than the reality of the reel he has to reel it in. You Shouldn’t Nuff Bit Fish!

Where's Katie? Somewhere on Planet Earth!

Katie returns to Dartington Hall in Devon, where she was a lecturer in the late 80's! Anybody know any jokes about Buckfastleigh or Totnes? Fawltey Towers was supposedly set in Torquay, but the venerable old school is closer to Plymouth.

April 3-4 workshops Manchester

April 10-11 workshop Devon England

April 12-17 workshop + performance Berlin Schwelle 7

April 23-May 2 Seoul, Korea, 10th Seoul International Dance Festival

Parliament/Funkadelic's Own Clown, Stozo

Just ONE of George Clinton's crew members on the legendary Mothership -- which landed in major Rock arenas during the mid to late 1970's while the Great Salt Lake Mime Troupe was gigging in small theaters. (The production was designed by Jules Fisher of Kiss and David Bowie fame.) Stozo's given name is Ronald Edwards, and although he's a cartoonist and graphic artist, he is also a professional clown who has performed on TV and all other traditional red-nose venues. P-Funk is and was a band of bandleaders, and Stozo puts out his own music as well -- most recently two volumes of the DigiDonz.
Read about his new CD HERE!

Jango's Nouveau Clown Institute in Barcelona!

Our ol' man Stan is hosting a series of master classes in Barcelona, Spain all month -- Rick Parets and many others were scheduled to share ideas and fun.
This poster (stolen from Facebook) tells about the weekly performances associated with Jango's menage de clowns!
Added 3/7/10: John Towsen is blogging from the NCI -- Here's his LINK, with lots of pictures!