poster by Pascale Chehade - picture by Farah Kassem
What’s in a Clown Me In workshop??!!!
We will simply discover how to unlock our clown, say yes, dig into our most ridiculous fears, most absurd fantasies, most impressive talents and our deepest dislikes... and we will laugh and play with our clowns
The aim is simple, discovering and accepting the Clown that lies beneath each of us, and let it coexist with oneself in society
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If you feel like laughing a bit in the midst of everything that’s happening around us?
If you need to dig more into yourself? Meet a new group and experience something new?
Then Clown Me In is inviting you to its new workshop between the 20th and 24th of February 2012 at Awrad Organisation - Sin el Fil- Beirut - Lebanon between 6.30 and 9.30 pm
for more info and registration : sabine@clownmein.com
About Clown Me In Clown Me In is a clown theatre company founded Sabine Choucair from Lebanon and Gabriela Munoz from Mexico, two physically trained actors who studied in London. Clown Me In uses clowns to touch and play with the vulnerability and laughter of human beings and their edge, observing mostly the human dynamics and the reality inside each one of us.
Después de varios meses de pre producción y de tener una pastelería en mi casa... finlamente, ya acabados y "recien salidos del horno" estos pasteles, pudimos tomar las fotos.
El concepto era algo que yo tenía en mente, el ojo es de la hermosa Marion Sosa (www.marionsosa.com) y el arte y diseño de vestuario de Valentina Muñoz (valentinavalentine.blogspot.com). Fue sin duda una sesión maravillosa, divertida y muy natural, lo digo con una sonrisa de oreja a oreja.
After several months of "making" cakes, my flat seemed to become a bakery.. well finally, we got everything together for the shooting and this is result. I had been playing with the concept for quite some time now and decided to collaborate, yet again, with wonderful artists, Marion Sosa (photo) & Valentina Muñoz (art & costume deign). It was indeed a great shoot. Stayed tuned as there´s plenty coming up... :)
In the last post I published before going to Egypt, I expressed my excitement of playing with the post-revolution clowns and see how they will look like…
Little had I known that I will be playing with clowns in the time of revolution!!!!
I got to Cairo on a Friday… and the Tahrir demonstration broke out…I thought “oh ok, this is all gonna end tomorrow”. But it didn’t…
I’ve been trying to put this intense experience in words … but in vain, so I thought of “storybuilding” the experience through my facebook and twitter updates
20 Nov
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starting a Clown Me In workshop with Al Warsha theatre group today ...in Cairo....and Tahrir square is still burning!!!!!
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disastrous situation at Tahrir square!!!!...
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Egypt is so quite and empty. no sounds, no cars... Nobody's walking on the streets... we only hear the echo of the Tahrir's demonstration...
21 Nov
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Revolution from dreamzzzzzzzzzzzz
11:22 (fb)
last night's clown workshop got obviously cancelled! Cairo is revolting and demonstrating again! follow the second by second news on #tahrir - twitter
22 Nov
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We had an interesting revolutionary Clown Me In workshop last night in Cairo... 10min away from Tahrir square
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One more hour and the #Tahrir will be even more packed. Ppl are arriving after work!
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Are we gonna clown Tonight at the official space of the workshop or at tahrir square? Question to be answered in an hour
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@johannesmosskin keep us updated! Will know if the clowns are joining u in a hour or not! Will let u know
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The clown workshop looks like that till now!!! In a while it's gonna be more crowded Hahah viva la revolution
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@fletchergull thinking if we will be clowning at the workshop space or at tahrir square? Answer in an hour!
23 Nov
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clowns in the time of revolution!!!! #ylvp... how r u ppl?
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We clowned the revolution today at tahrir square and used the anti tear gas thing I stad of the red noses
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Dalia's clown nose at tahrir
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The Egyptian participants go to tahrir everyday and get suffocated from the tear gas then come to the clown workshop and work like crazy!!!
24 Nov
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Latest chant in tahrir that I find amazing
الشعب يريد الغاز القديم
What is not mentioned in the previous statuses … is the fact of loosing each day at least 4 participants… who they would either be sick in bed because of the tear gas or demonstrating at tahrir.
For that reason and for many other reasons, Hassan el gritly ( the director of Al Warsha theatre group) and I,debated a lot about whether we should cancel the workshop or not… despite everything, there was always this need to keep a bit of a normal life in the midst of revolution and “war” and at the same time, it just wasn’t very natural and we … knew it and felt it!
I thought a lot about the value of clowning in a revolutionary society. And about the one improv session were the clowns freely transposed the life of tahrir square on stage!
I remember at this very moment I felt the need and the energy to just go with the group to Tahrir square…
Sometimes we need to live it 100% wherever it is… and during that time… it was only Tahrir square where the clowns wanted to be….
A picture from the window of the Swedish Institute in Alexandria where Sabine is attending the follow up of theYLVP program.
The Young Leaders Visitors Program (YLVP) is an intercultural leadership program supporting the development of young leaders through a combination of personal growth and practical experience, focusing on social media as a tool for positive change.
The first part of the workshop was held in Sweden in May 2011 and here we are back again all of us in Alexandria and soon to Cairo for the 2nd and last part.
Clown Me In – Cairo….
Finally it is happening
Sabine will be giving a Clown Me In workshop at the venue of Al Warsha Troupe in Cairo/EGYPT, for different actors and performers ….From the 20th till the 24th of November 2011….
So looking forward and excited to see how the post-revolution clowns will look like …
Gracias a todos los clowns de Pachuca por subirse al tren, por soñar y por celebrar la locura. Un agradecimiento muy especial a mis anfitriones Paola Nolasco y Carlos Mentado López, sin su ayuda nada se hubiera logrado. Esperamos con ansias nuestro regreso a Pachuca. Gracias!!!
Last week I found a website called www.thxthxthx.com , where Leah Dieterich offers longhand shows of appreciation for situations one normally doesn’t note…
Some of her notes made me laugh so hard… and I was so curious, I couldn’t stop reading her… (thanking the fridge, the muscle, the blue gas stove flame, the booze, the tatoo etc…)
Only then I realized….that Clown Me In ( Gaby and myself) and before even thinking about thanking random things in life…we never thanked all the “behind the scene” friends who have been helping us since we have started!
So here you go,
Christian Irles… the poor guy who had to bare our stupidity when making the blog
Pascale Chehade whom I just sent a clown me in proposal paper and asked her to make it look better… she not only did that, but also the logo, the designs, some of the posters and the completion certificate.
