Founded in 1947 Clowns International is the oldest club for clowns & friends of clowns. We pride ourselves on networking, education & collaboration.
London, England
Joined December 2015
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We hope that you will be able to join us for our 78th Annual Grimaldi Service on Sunday, 4th of Feb at 3pm (clowns arrive from 12pm) at All Saints Church, Haggerston, E8 4EZ the service will be streamed online here trinitysaintsunited.co.uk
Happy Monday! Today we're finally bridging the gap between the Commedia and the clown!
Happy Labor Day to those who celebrate! Let's enjoy our day off by picking up where we left off in our story about the history of the clown!
Rise and shine, let's get to work! This is a portrait by Vern Orten of an unnamed (but very fashionable) working circus clown c.1954!
Happy History Monday everyone! Today we're going to start a long story going way, way back, to the very origin of clowns themselves: The Commedia Dell'arte! To start, we're going to 16th century Italy.
Happy Egg Day everyone! We're here again to feature an egg from our registry. Today's egg belongs to: Flossie! An expert in face painting and balloons, Flossy had nearly two decades of clowning under her belt before retiring in 2004.
Happy Egg Day once again! Today's featured egg from our registry belongs to Tom Fun. Tom hails from Wales and actually starred in a documentary about his own life, called "The Lonely Clown" in 2008!
Happy Wednesday! When things get hectic, try to take a page out of this copacetic clown and stay balanced! By artist Russel Limbach, traditional artist.
Happy Eggday! Today's egg we're featuring from our collection is Buttons the clown! Buttons learned how to clown at the Ringling Bros Clown College in 1969, and would later teach there. Buttons spent over 60 years clowning, and was inducted into the Clown Hall of Fame in 1990!
Ever wondered how so many clowns are able to fit into one small car? This article by Car and Driver breaks it down, complete with highly-scientific Clown Equations! caranddriver.com/features/a1…
Here’s a high five from us to you, courtesy of Valery Musin, career clown in the Soviet circus!
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Happy Fourth of July to all who celebrate! In honor of America's Independence Day, let's take a quick look at one of America's most iconic figures, and the clown that inspired him:
Happy Monday everyone! Today we're going to cover a little known piece of American history. Did you know that Uncle Sam was a clown?
ALT Close up illustration of the famous Uncle Sam, with a stern look and pointing at the viewer.
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Hello, and welcome back to another long-awaited Egg Day! Today we have the egg of French clown Francois Fratellini. With his brothers Paul and Albert, Francois traveled Europe in his family circus in the 1910s and 20s, becoming one of the most well known circuses at the time!
Kick your feet up and take a break, you've earned it! Here's a little illustration from Norman Rockwell simply titled "Clown and Boy".
Happy Egg Day! It's time again to feature another one of our member's egg from our registry. Here we have Bluebottle the clown!
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Talk about waterworks! Here's Dr. Charles Boas circa 1961 performing for the Penny Brothers Circus.
ALT black and white photograph of a man from the chest up, the perspective of the shot low so the sky is behind him. he is in clown paint. he's holding an onion in one hand and a prop knife in the other, acting as if he is cutting the onion. he is wearing a pair of glasses that are sprinkling water from the frames, like he's crying a comedic amount from the act of the onion cutting.
Hello everyone, it's Egg Day once again! It's time to shine a spotlight on another one of our members' eggs from our registry. Today we have Buttons! Buttons has clowned across the world from Europe to South Africa. You can find him here: facebook.com/buttons.clown/
It's Egg Day once again! It's time to shine a spotlight on another one of our members' eggs from our registry. Today we have Tina! Tina was an acrobatic clown, who performed aerial rope work and trapeze acts with her partner Ricardo.
