Clown Army training ! Hebden Bridge.

Lalaluscious | 20.07.2007 12:23 | Culture | Other Press | Social Struggles

Clown Army basic training.

Roll up ! Roll up & Run away from the Circus !

Come join the Clown Army.

We warmly welcome you to join us for a
1 day intense introduction to the Clown Army/activist Clowning.

Get in touch with your INNER FOOL.
And maybe bash out some Samba beats too !

Sunday August 5th
2:00 - 5:00pm.

Hebden Bridge
W. Yorkshire

Donation
£3 - 6
To cover costs of room and travel fund for
people coming form outside of Calderdale.
No on ewill be turned away for lack of funds !!
Please bring:
A red or other nose
Props, toys, costumes, mayhem & joy.
Oh and snacks & water too !

Please ring for venue details.

mob
07981180304

lusciousanarchy@hotmail.com

Lalaluscious
e-mail: lusciousanarchy@hotmail.com

Additions

Clown Army Workshop - A success !

08.08.2007 16:25

Ha !!

The Clown Army Workshop was a success,
despite nasty venegful pea brained waster attempts at sabotage.

Thank you to all the lovely people who made this excellent day happen.

We will be running the full 2 day training in Spring 2008.
Where will you be ? Creating joy or hiding behind your keyboards ?

Love you ALL
Totally LOUD Lalaluscious

lalaluscious
mail e-mail: lusciousanarchy@hotmail.com

Comments

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3hrs?

22.07.2007 11:31

a 3 hour course?? i thought the Clown Army did 2 days. who's doing it?

old fashioned

um...

22.07.2007 14:42

why the fuck would you think it was men only?

rasputin

because

23.07.2007 07:13

last time i went to attend an event by the same contact/place i was told it was gender specific, thats all. and its good to know before making it all the way there

who?

23.07.2007 17:29

hiya, best wishes for the course! who is running it? i am not sure how many of the ins and outs you can get in 2 hours, but good luck for it!

london clown

"Born Women Only" Clowns? Yr avin' a larf...

25.07.2007 03:01

I am reliably informed that after a similar Clown Army Training Weekend held by a radical samba band in Manchester, 2006, one of the participants from Hebden Bridge tried their best to sabotage and destroy the samba band with a "born women only" separatist lesbian feminist agenda...
Good Luck to any body considering attending this event, especially if you do not self-identify as a 1970's era separatist lesbian feminist sambista, as you will definitely need it...

TransFeminist
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TransFeminist
Homepage: http://www.get-bent-manchester.com

Response to your comments

25.07.2007 15:22

Hello all,

The Clown Army Workshop is intended as an `introduction` - only...........
We hope to run the full training over 2 days in Spring 2008.
We are offering this workshop and further full traing in a spirit of foolery & joy.

This event is open to all.
It isn`t a women only workshop & so what if it was????
Anyone attempting to stop this workshop will be ejected & not welcome.
Come in peace or do`nt come.
We will refuse entry to anyone attempting to
sabotage this event.

My personal response to (hmmm shouldn`t that be trashing) from `transfeminist`.
Why are you so obviously threatened by women only space & Lesbians ???
My personnal experience of the Manchester ROR Sambistas (who transfeminists is one) has been
extreme anti Lesbian and anti Feminist and problems with anyone over 30 or not white & middle class. Many women & Lesbians have left that group, (Mancs Rhythms of Resistance)
including me because of this.
I do`nt want to be part of your white middle class homophobic woman hating `revolution`.

Clowns with an open mind are welcome at this workshop.
That`s all I have to say...........

Love, Joy & slap a tendy liberal for peace..

Ziggy Luscious

Ziggy Luscious
mail e-mail: lusciousanarchy@hotmail.com

clowns

26.07.2007 12:42

I personaly find that clown training suddenly makes people (who were previously happily going about their activism) incredibly funny and talented clowns and in no way do they annoy other activists.The ability to adopt a funny voice and wave a feather duster is not only very subversive but outrageously funny.

I am Boring

???

26.07.2007 23:40

Hello, all these comments have been brought to my attention by a friend and frankly i do not understand why Rhythms of Resistance is mentioned.

Just to clarify things, Rhythms of Resistance is NOT involved with this workshop. Yes it did host a workshop on Clowing carried out by The Clown Army, a year ago as part of the very successful exhibition on creative activism (including video activism, clowning, music and creative writing) where alot of people attended. Rhythms of Resistance has members of different backgrounds and as long as everyone respects the principles of ROR the individual members' gender, sexual orientation, religion, race or class is irrelevant as our aim is to break down oppression.

ps

26.07.2007 23:56

Yes two women who defined themselves as feminist-lesbians left the ROR group because they asked for men not to be involved in ROR action. It was suggested that a working group is created to accommodate the 2 people for specific actions but as ROR welcomes all genders it was not appropriate to kick out males or our transgender members because 2 women did not wish to work with other members because of their gender.

Also ROR has members of different backgrounds including race, religion, class, sexuality and age. These differences are not an issue since the principles and activism is our shared aim.

It is sad to see comments by Luscioun "anarchy" as they have no grounds as the group is quite diverse and does reflect in welcoming diversity. The members however have to respect certain core principles like respecting transgenderism which is unfortunatly something that ROR has been attacked by others like Luscious Anarchy i.e. th fact that ROR had/has members who are transgendered/lesbian/bi/heterosexual. ROR will continue to stand up for Gay Rights, Trans Rights and Human Rights something that we ROR has been repetely attacked for by Luscious Anarchy.

However, good luck with the clown workshop and hopefully the energy will be spend on creativity rather than attacking ROR just because it has/had a person who was born male but identified as "queer" .

io - again!

lalalalala - you can`t stop the clowns

29.07.2007 14:05

HO HUM,

This is the last I am saying on the matter.............
I will not be replying to anymore comments here.

I was just trying to advertise the Clown Army workshop here on Indymedia
and a disgruntled person (`transfeminist` hahahaha) from Manchester Rhythms of Resistance
whom if it`s who I think it is used this space here to try trash me.
Ho hum online trashing/flaming instead of talking to me face to face.....that`s very brave of you.
Strange as I had never had any probelems with that person, and usually had a laugh with them
and in fact I had supported them around the homophobia they were experiencing the last time
I spent time/workd with them

AGAIN,
The Clown Army worskhop is an introductionary day
and not the full 2 day training, which will take
place in Spring 2008.

Come in peace & joy

Lalaluscious

Lalaluscious
mail e-mail: lusciousanarchy@hotmail.com

luscious...

29.07.2007 22:51

i am not aware if anyone is trying to "trash u". Rhythms of Resistance Manchester belives the more people joining activities the better. it is you (Luscious) who has brought up ROR in this discussion through your comments, and this surely is irrelevant if as you claim is to purely advertising something that is not even related to ROR.

And as we said before, good luck with the event and hopefully your energy will be used creatively.

Feminist Lesbian

31.07.2007 00:57

The feminist lesbians did not leave Manchester ROR cos of not wanting men to be included in actions, it was because Manchester ROR wouldn't support women's issues...too boring you see.

charliegrrl
mail e-mail: charliegrrl@gmail.com
Homepage: http://www.charliegrrl.wordpress.com

i was there - Luscious wasn't

31.07.2007 08:12

The 2 "feminist lesbians" as you refer to them wished for a womens only action. ROR wished to support that by creating a working group within the mixed ROR group to focus on the feminist action, rather than excluding other members altogether from ROR actions. This aimed to empower the feminist lesbians into having the support of the women in ROR (as these feminist lesbians did not want men in that action) but also still involving male ROR members to be in the ROR group. The "femist lesbians" rejected that proposal.

The points of disagreement were that the feminist lesbians wished to:

1) use pornographic material for their campaign against porn. One other lesbian ROR member was uncomfortable with this as she belived it was not appropriate to duplicate what we were ment to be campaigning against.
2) call men rapists (this was found offensive by men and women in the group.)
3) ROR members asked the feminists lesbians to ammend their proposal and consider some slogans that would suit the whole group. The feminist lesbians unfortunately showed no flexibility and said these were the banners and slogans. As a result some ROR members stepped aside as they felt uncomfortable with the slogans

Some ROR members (mixture of heterosexuals, lesbians, bisexuals, and "queer") did not feel comfortable being in a campaign that used language like "men are rapists", and as the feminist lebians did not wished to change their slogan, some ROR members stood aside on the matter. Others were debating whether it was appropriate for such slogan to be used as ROR. These were discussed at quite a few meetings. At the same time the queer (self identified queer) member proposed a queer action were ROR members accepted. Unfortunately this was seen as a vendetta, rather than the fact that via consensus decision making proposals have to suit the group and that the original feminist proposal was something some people found offensive NOT because of they were not supportive of lesbians but because of the choice of slogans that were seen as non-factual i.e. are all men rapists?

what's this got to do with clowns...

31.07.2007 12:01

Its good to have the background to the discussion –but does any of this have anything to do with clowns? (the idea of a clown carrying a sign saying ‘men are rapists’ just seems somewhat bizarre). I suppose I can see the point to illustrate how important it is to have clear aims/objectives and a shared understanding of how issues will be constructed/decided/resolved .

(I personally can’t be arsed with women only events. I find anyone who thinks they were born with a body deluded)

Best
i

unique and meaningless title, not in capitals, nearly got it right...

31.07.2007 12:21

Message from the radical feminist gate of celestial peace, beijing, 1970 (what year is it? who cares it's not like time affected us anyway)
Long live half of the glorious proletariat!
Long live the anti imperialist misandric cultural revolution!
Long live humanity wont be happy until the last male is hung by the guts of the last transexual!
Down with the male imperialist pig dogs!
Down with free love!
Long live the shining path of the radical feminist grim reaper!

Astronaut

i,

31.07.2007 16:50

hey I ,

yeah it has nothing to do with Clowns but as Luscious decided to attack ROR (not sure why!!) then the record had to be set right.
Anyway, clowning is about removing all these layers society imposed on us and reaching humanity....

kisses,

io

what?

01.08.2007 00:16

Sorry Ioanna to be rude, but you talk so much shit.
We never approved the slogan 'men are rapists' for use at an anti-rape demo. Men raping women everyday on an international scale is an issue however us feminist lesbians wish to address, not cloud within queer rhetoric cos people can't decide what constitutes woman or man. All the reasons why ROR didn't approve of our proposed actions, where exactly the reasons why we left, cos ROR doesn't consider feminism to be an important issue to address...cos we might upset the men in the group- oh dear... as an activist, there's nothing like waking up and smelling your own privilege to challenge oppression.
The crux is that Ziggy has been criticised here by a transactivist because she puts her energy into female, lesbian activism. ROR with it's queer bias, doesn't see eye to eye with the feminist lesbians over the definition of woman. You do your thing, we do our thing, so lets leave it.

Charliegrrl
mail e-mail: charliegrrl@gmail.com
Homepage: http://www.charliegrrl.wordpress.com

Charlie

01.08.2007 08:57

Charlie,

"The crux is that Ziggy has been criticised here by a transactivist because she puts her energy into female, lesbian activism."

Then if thats your issue why attack ROR? This has nothing to do with ROR!

Yes ROR accepts queers cos gee, somehow it belives in equality where gender, sexuality, race are not an issue of discrimination!

Also, no there's NO bullshit posted by Io (except Ziggy's childlike viscious comments). Everything posted regarding ROR by Io, is what the minutes document(!) which YOU (Charlie) also approved! Ziggy had never joined ROR so not sure where she is getting her info or why she is so angry and posting things about ROR where ROR kept out of all these!

As for the disagreements outlined in the ealier post by Io, these are as i said, from the approved minutes! Also why are you so disapproving if some people within ROR wished to discuss Queer issues too? Or should the group kick out the one self-identified queer who dared to express that although they were not a born-female they considered themselves to be inline with feminist matters ?

end

01.08.2007 09:04

What Ziggy decides to spend her time on is up to her. But she cannot dominate who enters and who is a member of ROR and what less rights everyone else but her should be given!

Also, Charlie cannot force a ROR member to hold placards that are non-factual or they do not agree to (i.e degrading images).

Why? cos ROR members are allowed to think and decide for themselves rather than blindly follow Ziggy's or Charlie's orders.

end of

male feminist

it's not fascism when "feminists" do it!

01.08.2007 09:18

hebden hippy

Simple Simon ?

01.08.2007 10:02

I'm a local builder, born and bred in the area of Hebden Bridge and now currently residing in the Sowerby Bridge area..............You people are all alike, you come around here....young....trying to touch the local things, you will be spraying me with one of those cans of paint next, smearing the front of my home with excrement. Now listen here ! this is a decent Town and a Local community, there's nothing for you here !

Simon Hinsley

CALL OUT: demonstrate

01.08.2007 11:11

Feminists unite and smash ROR!
Smash bi's
Smash queers
Smash lesbians who have male friends
Smash anyone who works for equality.

Sunday August 5th
2:00 - 5:00pm.

Hebden Bridge
W. Yorkshire

Donation
£3 - 6
to your leader Ziggy

All donations will be used for equipment to smash any queer friendly group and anyone who stands in the way of Ziggy domination

ziggy follower

Simon Hinsley

01.08.2007 11:13

Hi Simon,

are people from Todmorden welcome? or are they included in the unwelcome ones? :-p

tod

Clowns

01.08.2007 11:31

Hi,
has anyone got a spare colander? I've got some old fatigues and some amusing fluffy trimming but my mum won't part with her colander. She is, unfortunatley, a Lib Dem voter and as such is not entirely convinced that rebel clown armies should bring down the capitalist/military machine through the medium of mime. I'm working on her though.
Ian sereant (sounds a bit like insurgent).
ps, sorry if i've posted this message twice.

Ian sergeant

Todmorden

01.08.2007 14:26

People from Todmorden are welcome of course ! I am a simple man, i have a macho front but couldn't fight my way out of a paper bag, i was an ugly child, often bullied and often in tears over something or other. Today i am a small time builder, i struggle with a drink problem, have a broken marriage and a limp manor. Of course you are welcome if you are from Tod. God bless The Bear Cafe and all who enter the staff there .

Simon Hinsley

Fake Ziggy Follower apologise

01.08.2007 16:08

It is malicious to state that Ziggy wishes to bash bi's, queers etc.
I have never ordered anyone to hold a placard they would disapprove of and my approach to activism is not to 'order' people around.
This goes to show how marginalised feminist lesbian activism is, when a feminist lesbian publicises an event making no reference to gender, and straightaway gets criticised.

charliegrrl
mail e-mail: charliegrrl@gmail.com
Homepage: http://www.charliegrrl.wordpress.com

hhmmmm

01.08.2007 17:18

the problem is not feminists publicising an event, but accusing other groups. and thats what Ziggy has done through her mindless comments on Indymedia.

Objective Observer

Ziggy Rocks !

04.08.2007 14:43

Hmmmm,

Good luck with the workshop Ziggy !

You are an excellent organizer and activist and have done so much
good in the local community ....
and I hope you will continue to and not let these aresholes stop you.

Hoping nice, open minded people go to the workshop tommorrow.
It`s OPEN TO ALL, but some of you who`ve been posting comments here
seem to not understand that.
And instead have been going out of your way to rubbish and attack Ziggy.

I wonder if Ziggy is being bashed so badly here because she has spoken out
about the bullshit she has seen and experienced elsewhere in the `Anarchist/alternative`
community ?
She replied to the trashing and untruths posted about her by
`transfeminist` and now this whole thing has been blown out of
proprtion..........

Or is it just because she is actually organizing things while you sit there
at your computer moaning like a good spoilt liberal brat ?
Are you jealous or just do`nt like the competition ?
Or can`t think outside of your trendy lifestyle politics ghetto ?

Funny she tells me that NOT one of you who has rubbished her here has had the guts
to speak to her face to face, but have hidden behind your keyboards and totally rubbished her.
She is also perplexed at the accusations of all these supposed `phobias` of hers as all of her
non Lesbian friends female and male, of all varying sexual and otherwise backgrounds
would be confused by all the accusations you make against her.
And probably laugh at this whole stupid situation.

So Ziggy if your reading this..
You go girl !
Keep those trendy liberals squirming !
Keep being a loud, vocal strong Lesbian and community activist
and congratulations on breaking out of the pea brained `anarchist` ghetto.

A friend

Love You Ziggy !

rock

06.08.2007 22:40

Did Ziggy write the comment above (ziggy rocks)?

zoggo

hhmmm

06.08.2007 22:43

"Keep being a loud"

Unfortunately thats ALL ziggy is: loud.

"hiding beind keyboards"
Unfortuantely Ziggy "ejects" as she says anyone who verbalises an opinion that doesn't suit her.

hhmmm

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