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SUMMARY:Twitterview @Ascher_SocietyGiora Seeliger“Ask A Healthcare Clown!”
DESCRIPTION:Twitter @Ascher_Society \n\n\n\n\n\n\nGiora Seeliger\, Artistic Director and Founder of Red Noses Clowndoctors International\, takes over the FAS Twitter account to answer your burning questions about clowning\, the role of a healthcare clown\, and anything else that comes to mind! \n\n\n\nSubmit your questions in advance by writing to info@fritzaschersociety.org \n\n\n\nPart of “Send in the Clowns\,” an interactive two-week digital initiative\, which explores the clown as a figure between tragedy and comedy\, between self- identification and stage–a character designed to (literally) mask the performer’s true feelings behind a facade of happiness. “Send in the Clowns” uses the prominence of the “clown” figure in Fritz Ascher’s work as a lens through which to explore the duality of the clown both historically and today. \nGenerously sponsored by Allianz Partners. \nGiora Seeliger is a renowned clowning expert\, actor and director. He founded RED NOSES in 1994 in Austria/Europe and built up 11 RED NOSES organizations in Europe and the Middle East as well as many artistic programs as “Emergency Smile\,” where clowns work worldwide with people affected by crisis. As he is responsible for the high artistic quality within the group\, he developed a rigorous curriculum that every clown has to go through.
URL:https://fritzaschersociety.org/exhibition-event/twitter-takeover-ascher_society-ask-a-hospital-clown/
LOCATION:1014 – space for ideas\, 1014 5th Avenue\, New York\, New York\, NY\, 10028\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events,Past Events,Send in the Clowns
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SUMMARY:"The Hospital Clown: Between Joy and Sadness"Roundtable featuringGiora Seeliger\, Harry Page\, Ed StephanModerated by Elizabeth Berkowitz
DESCRIPTION:Watch the recording of this event HERE. \nRoundtable featuring\nGiora Seeliger\nArtistic Director and Founder of the Red Noses Clowndoctors International\nHarry Page\n“Flash” the Clown\nEd Stephan\n“Dumbbell” the Clown\nModerated by\nElizabeth Berkowitz\nArt Historian and Digital Interpretation Manager\, The Fritz Ascher Society in New York \nOne of the more appealing aspects of the clown subject to artists like Fritz Ascher was the divide between a public persona committed to joy and happiness\, and the pain or sadness that might lurk beneath the real\, human surface. Hospital or healthcare clowns straddle this divide every day of their professional lives—working to bring happiness to child patients who are often in circumstances that might otherwise inspire grief or pain. This roundtable features three professional hospital or healthcare clowns who will reflect upon their experiences in the field\, their most popular programming\, as well as coping mechanisms they use to ensure that their audience receives only positivity from their encounter. \nPart of “Send in the Clowns\,” an interactive two-week digital initiative\, which explores the clown as a figure between tragedy and comedy\, between self- identification and stage–a character designed to (literally) mask the performer’s true feelings behind a facade of happiness. “Send in the Clowns” uses the prominence of the “clown” figure in Fritz Ascher’s work as a lens through which to explore the duality of the clown both historically and today. \nGenerously sponsored by Allianz Partners. \nGiora Seeliger is a renowned clowning expert\, actor and director. He founded RED NOSES in 1994 in Austria/Europe and built up 11 RED NOSES organizations in Europe and the Middle East as well as many artistic programs as “Emergency Smile”\, where clowns work worldwide with people affected by crisis. As he is responsible for the high artistic quality within the group\, he developed a rigorous curriculum that every clown has to go through. \n\nHarry Page retired from Chrysler Corporation in 2001 and shortly thereafter moved with his wife to Knoxville\, Tennessee. In the development where they lived there was a group of people who organized the Volunteer Clowns of Tellico Village\, and Harry soon joined. The clown trope visited assisted living\, nursing homes\, and the area hospitals\, and Harry soon focused solely on hospital clowning at Fort Loudon Hospital and the University of Tennessee Medical Center. In 2016\, Harry and his wife moved to Marco Island\, FL\, where he has been clowning at Naples Community Hospital and the Golisano Children’s Hospital.\n\nEd Stephan is currently clowning at Golisano Children’s Hospital in Ft. Myers\, Florida. As “Dumbbell\,” Ed entertains children\, staff\, and visitors. Ed’s work at Golisano Children’s Hospital includes participating in special events held at the Hospital and the offsite offices. \nElizabeth Berkowitz is an art historian specializing in European modernism and modern art historiography. She currently serves as the Fritz Ascher Society’s Digital Interpretation Manager\, and previously was the Mellon/ACLS Public Fellow at the Rockefeller Archive Center. She has extensive experience as a university and museum educator\, and her writings have appeared in both popular and academic publications.
URL:https://fritzaschersociety.org/exhibition-event/the-hospital-clown/
LOCATION:1014 – space for ideas\, 1014 5th Avenue\, New York\, New York\, NY\, 10028\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events,Past Events,Send in the Clowns
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SUMMARY:Twitter Takeover @Ascher_SocietyMatthew R. Wilson\, PhD“Commedia dell’Arte and the Clown in Popular Culture”
DESCRIPTION:Twitter @Ascher_Society \n\n\n\nActor and theater historian Matthew R. Wilson takes over the FAS Twitter account to discuss the history of the Commedia dell’Arte\, key themes in the genre\, and how the Commedia dell’Arte has impacted popular culture. \nSubmit your questions in advance by writing to info@fritzaschersociety.org \n\n\n\nPart of “Send in the Clowns\,” an interactive two-week digital initiative\, which explores the clown as a figure between tragedy and comedy\, between self- identification and stage–a character designed to (literally) mask the performer’s true feelings behind a facade of happiness. “Send in the Clowns” uses the prominence of the “clown” figure in Fritz Ascher’s work as a lens through which to explore the duality of the clown both historically and today. \nGenerously sponsored by Allianz Partners. \nMatthew R. Wilson is Director (SDC)\, Actor (AEA\, SAG-AFTRA)\, and Fight Director (SAFD\, SDC)\, as well as a scholar and playwright.\nHe teaches at The George Washington University’s Corcoran School of the Arts & Design and serves as Director of Graduate Studies for its Academy for Classical Acting in partnership with The Shakespeare Theatre Company. Dr. Wilson previously served as the International Coordinator of SAT’s worldwide Commedia dell’Arte Day and as Chair of Movement & Physical Theatre for the Southeastern Theatre Conference. He has studied\, taught\, and performed Commedia across Europe and North America including six years teaching at Antonio Fava’s Stage Internazionale di Commedia dell’Arte in Reggio-Emilia\, Italy. Wilson earned a Helen Hayes Award as founder and former Artistic Director of DC’s Faction of Fools Theatre and has toured the world with The Great One-Man Commedia Epic since 2004. Selected publications include chapters in The Routledge Companion to Commedia dell’Arte (Routledge 2015)\, the play A Commedia Christmas Carol (Playscripts 2013). Visit www.matthewrwilson.com for more information.
URL:https://fritzaschersociety.org/exhibition-event/twitter-takeover-wilson/
LOCATION:1014 – space for ideas\, 1014 5th Avenue\, New York\, New York\, NY\, 10028\, United States
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SUMMARY:“The Clown on Stage”Roundtable featuringMatthew R. Wilson\, Ori Z. Soltes\, Tricia Manuel / "Pricilla Mooseburger"Moderated by Elizabeth Berkowitz
DESCRIPTION:Watch the recording of this event HERE. \nRoundtable featuring\nMatthew R. Wilson\nDirector (SDC)\, Actor (AEA\, SAG-AFTRA)\, and Fight Director (SAFD\, SDC)\, as well as a scholar and playwright\nOri Z. Soltes\nTeaching Professor at Center for Jewish Civilization\, Georgetown University\, Washington D.C.\nTricia Manuel / “Pricilla Mooseburger” the Clown\nTricia Manuel is the unmistakable Pricilla Mooseburger!\nModerated by\nElizabeth Berkowitz\nArt Historian and Digital Interpretation Manager\, The Fritz Ascher Society in New York \nHow do we define “the clown\,” historically\, in art\, and today\, in practice? What is the appeal of the clown in performance\, and how has the clown subject impacted popular culture? This roundtable pools the expertise from a diversity of fields to place Fritz Ascher’s interest in “the clown” in the context of historical and contemporary performance and imagery. \nPart of “Send in the Clowns\,” an interactive two-week digital initiative\, which explores the clown as a figure between tragedy and comedy\, between self- identification and stage–a character designed to (literally) mask the performer’s true feelings behind a facade of happiness. “Send in the Clowns” uses the prominence of the “clown” figure in Fritz Ascher’s work as a lens through which to explore the duality of the clown both historically and today. \nGenerously sponsored by Allianz Partners. \nMatthew R. Wilson teaches at The George Washington University’s Corcoran School of the Arts & Design and serves as Director of Graduate Studies for its Academy for Classical Acting in partnership with The Shakespeare Theatre Company. Dr. Wilson previously served as the International Coordinator of SAT’s worldwide Commedia dell’Arte Day and as Chair of Movement & Physical Theatre for the Southeastern Theatre Conference. He has studied\, taught\, and performed Commedia across Europe and North America including six years teaching at Antonio Fava’s Stage Internazionale di Commedia dell’Arte in Reggio-Emilia\, Italy. Wilson earned a Helen Hayes Award as founder and former Artistic Director of DC’s Faction of Fools Theatre and has toured the world with The Great One-Man Commedia Epic since 2004. Selected publications include chapters in The Routledge Companion to Commedia dell’Arte (Routledge 2015)\, the play A Commedia Christmas Carol (Playscripts 2013). Visit www.matthewrwilson.com for more information. \n\nOri Z. Soltes teaches at Georgetown University across a range of disciplines. He is former Director the B’nai B’rith Klutznick National Jewish Museum. In that capacity he has curated over 80 exhibitions domestically and internationally. Soltes has authored or edited 24 books and scores of articles and exhibition catalogue essays including Our Sacred Signs: How Jewish\, Christian and Muslim Art Draw from the Same Source; Mysticism in Judaism; Tradition and Transformation: Three Millennia of Jewish art and Architecture; and Magic and Religion in the Greco-Roman World: The Beginnings of Judaism and Christianity.\n\nPricilla Mooseburger got her start clowning with Ringling Bros. Barnum and Bailey in 1982. She is the owner of Pricilla Mooseburger Originals supplying high quality clown costumes and make-up for over 25 years. She is the founder of Mooseburger Clown Arts Camp and received the prestigious Lifetime Achievement award from the Midwest Clown Assoc. and Clowns of America International. Sher was honored with the Lifetime of Laughter award from the International Clown Hall of Fame for her contribution to clown arts education and 24 years of Mooseburger Clown Arts Camp. She launched a new virtual program The Joyful Journey bring together clowns from all over the world! Her e-newsletter Mooseburger Newz is followed by thousands providing free clown arts education.
URL:https://fritzaschersociety.org/exhibition-event/the-clown-on-stage/
LOCATION:1014 – space for ideas\, 1014 5th Avenue\, New York\, New York\, NY\, 10028\, United States
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