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Mump & Smoot in "Flux" - photo by Ian Jackson
| • Clown Camps on Manitoulin Island with John Turner : Summer 2008 |
THE MANITOULIN ISLAND CLOWN INTENSIVES
2008
with John Turner
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Baby Clown Intensive
This 16 day workshop is based on the Pochinko technique. Richard Pochinko was
a Canadian visionary who developed a style of creative exploration and/or performance
training, drawing on three traditions: American circus clown, European clowning
and North American Aboriginal mask work. It is not necessary to be a perfomer
to take this course. All are welcome, from all walks of life.
Students begin with a focus on listening. Games and exercises
are used to awaken and encourage a sense of pleasure, an awareness of one's immediate
environment, and an honest response to internal impulses and external events.
Individual creativity is explored with colour work and body work and eventually
the students begin the making and wearing of six masks. These masks mark out the
playground for the clown (creative self), guiding the participants through their
innocence and experience, extremities and normalcies, culminating in the "birth"
of their individual clown. This workshop is an intense blast and furnishes the
student with a malleable structure for continued creative exploration, with
limitless applications.
Baby Clown Dates:
August 9 - 24, 2008
$1000 + gst
| -- | 50% deposit necessary upon acceptance of application to insure a spot in the class. |
| - | deposit can be refunded minus a $35.00 administration fee until 90 days prior to start-date. |
| - | deposit is non-refundable after 90 days prior to start-date unless a replacement is found |
| - | enrolment limited to 14 |
Accommodation, transportation and food are NOT included. For the hearty adventure seeker there is plenty of room to set up a tent for free. Bathing is done with outdoor, sun heated shower bags. Two very nice high end port-a-potties are provided for toilet facilities. Two B-B-Q's are supplied for cooking (1 veggie, 1 meat). One freezer is supplied for food storage. All camping gear, cooking utensils, bedding etc. must be brought by the students.
For
those requiring indoor sleeping facilities there are very reasonably priced cabins
and B & B's nearby. Once each session's class list is set the group will be
put in touch with each other for the co-ordination of transportation and supplies.
Further details and recommendations will be provided at this time as well.
The luxuries that ARE offered are fresh air, room to go off on your own for peace and quiet, and a pastoral setting ideal for a creative adventure. There is also swimming nearby in Lake Huron, the North Channel, or in small inland lakes. Classes will be held in the studio, in the fields, in the forest, in the swamp and at the beach.
If you're coming
from Toronto it's a full day journey. From Sudbury it's two and a half to three
hours.
TO APPLY:
Please send resume, photo (photo copy is fine) and brief discussion of reasons
for applying for this course to
John Turner
RR1 Evansville, ON
P0P 1E0
Address, telephone number and email
address (if available) should be
included with application.
or by email
to jackturns@gmail.csom
or contact by phone 705-282-1741
Students are selected according
to application information, date of application and possibly a telephone interview.