by Deanna Hartmier | Dec 5, 2020 | Uncategorized
From 1884 to 1939, the Great Porter Circus makes the unlikely choice to winter in an Indiana town called Lima, a place that feels as classic as Sherwood Anderson’s Winesburg, Ohio, and as wondrous as a first trip to the Big Top. In Lima an elephant can change...
by Deanna Hartmier | Nov 1, 2020 | Uncategorized
Circus is one of the oldest and most popular art forms and during the last hundred years or so, it has also helped to revolutionise “straight” theatre by bringing back “theatre in the round” and introducing clown and music-hall techniques to...
by Deanna Hartmier | Oct 3, 2020 | Uncategorized
Born May 6, 1915, deceased November 16, 1993. He was a French clown, an artist and circus operator, born in La Goulette, Tunisia. The son of Federico Zavatta, a circus owner from a family of Italian fairground artists, his mother was Emma Tholomet, and both of...
by Deanna Hartmier | Sep 6, 2020 | Uncategorized
18.9.1935 at 09.30 a.m. Dimitri was born in Ascona, Vicolo Ghiriglione (opposite the theatre of puppeteers which later will be his first stage), son of the sculptor and architect Werner Jakob Müller and the handweaver and artisan Maja, born Tschirren. Due to...
by Wendy Ann Gibson | Mar 29, 2018 | Uncategorized
Events CI Official events – non-members welcome (special rates for CI members) First Friday of every month: Clowns’ Gallery-Museum Open House: Open to the public on the first Friday of each month between 12pm and 5pm Rear entrance to Holy Trinity Church, Beechwood Rd,...
