£7.50 a Report on Our Flow Gives Us a Report on Our First Marathon of a Report of a Recent Social Held for Show Held in Milton Show Funded by Juniors Keynes
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SPRING 2010 ISSUE 89 ISSN - 1359-4893 Page 14 Page 24 Page 36 A Marathon of a Flo’s Clownability Junior Social Show Show Pippa gives us a £7.50 A report on our Flow gives us a report on our first marathon of a report of a recent social held for show held in Milton show funded by Juniors Keynes. our Clownability Fund. 2 Contents 2 Content and Picture Index 32 Looking Up From Down Under 3 Editor’s Thoughts 33 Bonzo’s Bit...cont 4 Chairman’s Chatter 34 Serious Small Thoughts 5 Chairman’s Chatter...cont 36 Junior Christmas Social 6 The 34th Festival International Du Cirque 37 Your Photos 2 7 The 34th Festival International 38 Missive from Leipzig 1 from Hilary Chaplian Du Cirque...cont 39 Missive from Leipzig 1 from 8 A Thank You & To be Hilary Chaplian...cont Remembered Every Year 40 From the Notebook of the Custard Clowns 9 Bonzo’s Bit 41 From the Notebook of the 10 Greetings From Across The Pond Custard Clowns...cont 11 Greetings From Across The Pond...cont 42 Missive from Leipzig 2 from Hilary Chaplian 12 Humour from the Net: The 43 Missive from Leipzig 2 from Latest Darwin Awards Hilary Chaplian...cont 13 Humour from the Net: The Latest 44 Junior Christmas Social Comments Darwin Awards...cont 45 Bonzo’s Bit...cont 14 Milton Keynes Marathon Clown Show 46 Bubblz the Maths Clown 15 Your Photos 1 47 Bubblz the Maths Clown...cont 17 Hal Brooks - Royalty and The Guild 48 The Uplifting Programme 18 Hal Brooks - Royalty and The Guild...cont 49 The Uplifting Programme...cont 19 Hal Brooks - Royalty and The Guild...cont 50 The Uplifting Programme...cont 20 Hal Brooks - Royalty and The Guild...cont 51 The Uplifting Programme...cont 21 Hal Brooks - Royalty and The Guild...cont 52 Standing Order Form for C.I. 22 Hal Brooks - Royalty and The Guild...cont Annual Subscription 24 Flo’s Clownability Show 53 C.I. Membership Application Form 25 Zazzy Comments 54 The Uplifting Programme...cont 26 Zazzy Comments...cont 55 The Uplifting Programme...cont 26 Junior Colouring Competition 56 The Uplifting Programme...cont 27 Calendar of Events 56 Hey I can do This 28 Clowning from The High Diving Board 57 Hey I can do This...cont 29 Join In 58 C.I. Egg Registration Form 29 Calendar of Events 59 Committee List and Contact Details 30 History Lesson 31 Quips for Kids Picture Index 3 Stevie D 24 Flo (Mother Christmas) 4 Rainbow 25 Zaz from report in paper 10 Toto 25 Zaz 15 The Milton Keynes Group 26 Zaz on unicycle 15 Roly with the aid of Chris Stone and 28 High diving clowns Zaz rehearses his next role 34 BB Bubbles Content and Picture Index 15 Flo as Mother Xmas 34 It’s all to much for BB 15 Jolly Jingle with Dizzy Dez 37 Ally Pally and Silkie and surprized shopper 37 Pepe and Conk 15 Benjo 37 Rainbow 15 Curley Wurley and shopper 37 Dotty 15 EEK gets his marching orders from Conk 37 Junior Party Group Photo 15 Conk blows the whistle 37 Tisha 17 Hal ‘Kirby Drill’ Brooks 40 The Custard Clowns 19 Hal with Ron Moody and Bingo 60 Sonny & Rainbow at Bognor Regis in 1985 21 Hal leading Clowns’ Procession in 1986 Cover - Matthew ‘ZAZ’ Indge Editor - Stephen ‘Stevie D’ Davies Design - Stephen ‘Stevie D’ Davies Printing - Sarsen Press, Winchester Welcome to the first issue of “The Joey” for 2010 and my 3 first issue as Editor and Co-ordinator of our magazine (this may change at the AGM). May I first of all thank Caroline “Bubblz” Ainslie for all her work on “The Joey” and her enthusiasm that she has shown for the role. Believe it or not, when “The Joey” comes through my letter box, it is as fresh to me as it is to you. Until now I have not read all the articles that you send in but just laid them out in the magazine. I hope that this can be the case in the future. I believe our magazine is the best clown magazine around and I’m sure that with your help it will remain in that position. We rely on you, the members, to supply us with articles suitable for publishing and I would like to see more of you supplying items to be inserted into our great magazine. I would also like to see more articles showing how to do tricks or articles about building and using props so here’s your chance. Get writing, taking photo’s etc and let’s see those articles pouring in. Once again thanks to all who contribute to this great magazine. Editor’s Thoughts Stevie D Your magazine needs your input. We need articles/ reports, tricks, prop making and prop use, Hi res images. send to: [email protected] 4 Hello Everyone, A new year again, what should we try and do? As I sit here starting to write this, wondering what I might even write about, the news is on, telling of the dreadful devastating disaster of the Haiti earthquake. So I wonder, what is this sad and happy life all about? So far this New Year I have heard so many bad things about people being ill and passing away - and it’s only the 18th day. As I get older I realise how important it is to enjoy life. I believe we are lucky to be able to share and invite others to enjoy. Talking of enjoying, I have just returned from Monte Carlo where I was fortunate to watch some marvellous exhilarating performances at the 34th Festival International du Cirque de Monte Carlo. I have talked of this great event before, but you have to go and watch to be able to understand how you come away feeling excited and exhilarated. Not only do I feel full of inspiration but a part of me feels scared at the thought I might be back in Monte Carlo in December to perform in the same ring as the wonderful artistes I have just seen. [Ed Note: see separate write-up on this Cirque Festival elsewhere in this issue] I will try and share some moments of magic: as music plays a performer (Alain Allegria), all in white, proudly walks into the ring. As he does so a trapeze falls slowly to his level, he stands on the trapeze and calms himself, balancing (using no hands) as the trapeze rises back up into the roof of the great circus tent. My heart is now pumping a little faster as I watch in astonishment that this man has no harness and has no net below, he is relying on his skill and years of practice, using only his body to swing the trapeze from side to side without holding on. He slows the swing down and turns as he swings the trapeze forward and back, now he kneels while swinging again without holding on. My heart is now gulping: to think, one mistake and this man could fall; then from the roof of the tent, he smiles as he grabs a chair hung on a nearby line. No, no, no, Chairman’s Chatter Chairman’s surely not, I think! Is he mad? He places the chair across the trapeze from front to rear leg at a diagonal, then sits on the chair still swinging, everyone is silent and some cannot watch, now my heart is pumping and I feel hot, amazed and overwhelmed but also glad he comes safely down to ground level. A non traditional clown, Rob Torres, enters. He is dressed in a light blue suite with quarter length trousers, black polished shoes, a small cone shaped cloth hat and a short dark haircut, carrying a box and a small briefcase. He puts down his tools and allows the crowds to clap, as we clap he reaches up for more applause, and more and more he stretches and we clap, he calms us down taking us low to the ground as he picks up the wooden box: he seems to put the applause into it, opening and shutting the box, he works us and laughs himself as he puts our applause into his box. His hat becomes a tool as he throws it and catches it, playing with the audience he throws it out, as the hat is thrown back he plays catch and then places a cross of tape on his hair so that the participant knows exactly where to throw it too, after so many attempts .YES, it lands on his head, with glee the performer runs across to a lady to take off the tape, he screams, shrieks and cries and we laugh. He walks back to the middle taking off his wig; more laughter erupts as he places his wig back on. He opens his brief case and shares its contents: a set of aluminium juggling cups with which he starts to juggle, performing many great tricks, he stops, awaiting applause, then suddenly he traps his thumb between two cups. He screams with pain and walks in pain towards the same lady beckoning her to kiss his thumb better, she does and he is better. He proceeds with his act adding a fourth cup, 5 yet whatever he does he cannot seem to catch that fourth cup, throwing them down and stamping the ground he bangs his nose and creates another reason for the same kiss from the poor lady, we are all in fits of laughter.