DK Kloven festival write-up & pics
30 May 2012 Leave a Comment
What a great trip to Denmark, I know the sea side town of Svendborg well now as I think this year was my 8th time taking part in DK Kloven festival.
This year the festival reached further than before with many different locations including the beautiful traditional theatre and modern venue with additional kidz stage, the fun fair, schools, hospitals, & the beach which was a great way to end a hard days clowning & have a face wash. Being foreign it can seem hard at first engaging with families, which leads to trying different methods of merriment! A great learning experience. The people of Svendborg really added there support by giving free live music & a street party atmosphere to the street. Wonderful to see the the decorated street full of tables & chairs, Kidz playing. Perfect blue sky’s for the whole weekend & meeting with many clown friends to perform & socialise, believe me clowns know how to party! It was also so refreshing to be amongst a multi cultural mix of pro & amateur performers from more than 20 countries. Young junior joeys to clown legends Dez & Zilly who are over 80 years young! Hats off to them for making the trip and contributing so much by just being there! Another great working holiday to remember! below are a few photos shared by clown fan meka at the festival.
Overseas to Denmark for Klovenfest (clownfest) back in time for Jubilee long weekend!
22 May 2012 Leave a Comment
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Zaz will be overseas from Weds23rd-Tues29th May in Denmark. Zaz & many friends from the UK will be performing at Klovenfest in Svendborg DK. This festival has been a regular feature in Zaz’s diary over the years & is a great “working holiday” chance to meet & share ideas with our Danish clown cousins. You can contact Zaz here whilst away, but we will be back in time for the busy Jubilee long weekend!
Kemptown Carnival Kidz stage 9thJune looking for help from kidz/family friendly performers & musicians
22 May 2012 1 Comment
Sat 9th june ClownZaz & friends will be @ Kemptown carnival, the mini circus will be set up hosting the Kidz stage. This year we have a great space behind St George’s church & the kidz area will be bigger and better! set just off the busy street party on St Georges rd. We are looking for family entertainers, musicians, circus skills, if you have a kidz friendly show or performance or you are wanting to promote yourself to a cool family audience or you may be starting out & want gain experience, if you can spare some time on Sat 9th June Kemptown Carnival kidz stage needs You! please email mattzaz@hotmail.com
Argus news Brighton Kidz parade in pictures
08 May 2012 Leave a Comment
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in todays Argus their are some Great pics of last saturdays children’s parade here in Brighton. So glad we got to take part in this great family event, Since living in Brighton Zaz has never made it! due to entertaining too far away but this year thanks to oddballs for a good spot to park the van and change, Kev & Zaz could join the parade before hot footing it to London for the afternoons gig. Well done to All the hundreds of Kidz that made the Parade fantastic & not forgetting all the mums n dads that got them there in the drizzle rain!
family fun & food @ West Norwood slow food festival
29 Mar 2012 Leave a Comment
Zaz is really looking forward to tasting some yummy food, not forgetting entertaining the Kidz & families at the West Norwood Slow food festival this saturday! for more info check out their website here
Thanks Mum, for the great birthday party feedback!
24 Mar 2012 Leave a Comment
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Here is the new Zazzy family entertainment poster for 2012
17 Mar 2012 Leave a Comment
in Uncategorized Tags: children's entertainment, circus workshops, mini circus
teaching the mini tight wire – circus workshops in school today!
10 Mar 2012 Leave a Comment
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Teaching the mini tight wire.
Today we set up the mini circus in a Kent primary school, the usual fun was had, circus skills is so popular now, its great to see kids and mums & dads hula hooping together! Three full shows in the school hall along with have a go circus workshops running all day……..
Back from clowns festival butlins Bognor my photos & write-up
07 Mar 2012 Leave a Comment
Now I’m back from the annual Clowns weekend in Butlins Bognor Regis here is my review and some photos thanks to circus/clown fan Steve Jacks. This festival was my inspiration to become a clown as a kid So I always give my support along with many other working clowns from Clowns Intentional the oldest clown club in the world. At this years festival as well as clown shows on the skyline stage in butlins I set up the Zaz mini circus for an additional stage within butlins massive bigtop. The shows were busy, many mums & dads watching said that they preferred watching shows here as sometimes the main stage can seem a little big & distant for the little ones….for me I enjoyed performing on the main stage with all Butlins technical support & lighting but did shows in both spots. Every year a different Town mayor dons the red nose, but this time it was great to see personal friend & former clown Cllr Jim Brooks. Jim is a former clown himself, he performed summer seasons back in the day with his father Kerby Drill, who is a local hero now retired, clown & artist an a real inspiration to me ever since I saw him perform at my primary school when I was a kid. As usual I felt myself lucky having only to travel down the coast from Brighton to meet many clown friends coming from as far as USA, NZ, Denmark & even way up in Scotland. Sunday sadly was a bit rainy & windy they did say they would have a word “upstairs” at the sunday morning clowns church service but never the less the show must go on, and on we paraded through the butlins bigtop along the seafront & through the town following a fantastic calypso steel band. Thanks to all my Bognor friends & locals for supporting us in the rainy weather, A highlight for me was bumping into a lovely older lady that could also see the funny side of my giant Ipod gag, she agreed, thats the problem with the kids these days always with those music things in their ears! I cant hear you i’m listening to music I replied……who says clowns ARE just for kids eh!. Once back in the warm we started up the shows again for the clown hungry audiences of families from all over uk many returning specially to see us clowns! After loading the van a butlins sunday roast dinner went down well & myself & Susi Oddball also from Brighton said our goodbyes to another fun but tiring weekend. See you all next March! in Clown town Bognor.
Clowns festival time again this weekend in Bognor Regis with Parade along the beach sunday@2pm
29 Feb 2012 Leave a Comment
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This weekend sees the return of clowns convention held in Butlins holiday centre Bognor Regis. family Clown fun can be found at events both in Butlins & around the town with the highlight being the Parade along the beach road on Sunday 6th March, starting from butlins (beach gate) at 2pm. For more info click here for some Clown convention history click here See you soon Bognor Regis!
