School of Clowning

The last two weeks I've been working with a concept for a clown school and in the process worked together with some others in the further shaping of the concept for the youth group that the clown school will be a part of. The first semester of the clown school will be a try-out semester to see if this is an appealing concept for the kids in the age 12-15 in Oslo. The first semester I will be the only teacher and the topics will be face painting, juggling and balloon twisting. There will be 10 evenings with teaching during the semester. The students will get material that makes it possible for them to train more at home if they want to.

I sent out a press release to most national and local norwegian media, including more than 30 newspapers, TV-stations and radios a few days ago. I haven't got any feedback at all. Interesting to see some media headlines that are preferred over the startup of something as rare and funny as a clown school. Well... I still hope that someone will write about it :)

All information on the web is in norwegian.

The clown school site: www.klovneskole.no
The youth group site: www.connection.oslo.no

Well... The youth group is named Connection... Wasn't my idea... as far as I know it didn't get inspired by Connect Europe. Anyway... It's a great name :)

New Clown Style

Yesterday I was clowning in a big store. My job was to make balloons for the children and let them have their photo by my side. There was another dude who took photos and printed them on the spot. Very good idea, but the thing is: there was a misunderstanding - the chief of this operation thought she had hired a "traditional clown" and not a clown having a very non standard creative style. We ended up on agreeing that I would pose as a regular clown the two next days of this job. So this morning I bought some new clowning clothes. The picture shows how I ended up looking.

Shopping Center Decoration

Today me and Frank worked for ten hours decorating with balloons at Bærums Verk shopping center outside of Oslo.






The pictures shows just a small bit of the decor. Colors and style was decided by customer.