Clown Teacher Call Out
Dec 11 2024
***Applications are now closed! Thanks for applying - we'll be in touch with everyone soon!***
Hello! We are Holly Stoppit and Robyn Hambrook and we are looking for four established, UK-based clown teachers to join us in a 5-day clown teaching lab in February 2025.
The Clown Teachers Lab will take place from 17th-21st February 2025
We have an incredible opportunity to spend 5 days together in the countryside with a small group of established clown teachers at the exquisite Hawkwood Centre for Future Thinking near Stroud.
If you are a UK based clown teacher with a fair amount of experience of teaching clowning, then read on!
The Offer
Hawkwood have awarded us an artists’ residency to explore the following questions:
What is the future of clowning in turbulent times?
How can we use clowning to build community, empowerment, and resilience?
How can we make our teaching methods more relevant, inclusive and accessible?
We are putting a group of diverse practitioners together who teach clowning in many different contexts. Holly is a clown-therapist, Robyn is an activist-clown, you might be a clown doctor or a humanitarian clown or you might be using clowning in another way…
We get a beautiful space to work in for 5 days, ridiculously delicious food ALL THE TIME, our own rooms and gorgeous grounds to roam and romp, all for FREE!
The Plan
The plan is to spend the time together exploring our teaching practice through practical experimentation, play and discussion. We want the week to be nourishing and enlightening! We will create a spacious schedule with time to play, time to rest and time for each of us to bring an inquiry to the group. Maybe you have discovered something wonderful in your teaching practice that you'd like to share? Maybe you have a question you'd like support from the group to unpick?
It is so rare that we clown teachers get to gather in this way, behind closed doors. We want a space where we can be vulnerable, where we can play and learn, ask big and small questions and develop our skills and awareness as clown teachers in the modern age.
This could be the beginning of a new model of joined-up, collaborative peer support...
Money + Eligibility
We have the Hawkwood residency confirmed - it is free for us all to attend - they will feed us and house us for those dates.
We don’t have any other money to cover travel expenses, so you would need to cover that, but there’s nothing more to pay once you’ve arrived.
To qualify for Hawkwood’s bursary, you need to be UK-based with a UK bank account and you need to be earning your living primarily as an artist.
We will be collectively documenting the week with photos, writing, film and artwork to share on with the wider clown community.
