CLOWN IMPROVISATION EVENINGS – a glimpse into the world of Nose to Nose

IS THIS FUNNY?
An evening with Nose to Nose

Simply turn up for an evening’s entertainment.
The content of sharings is an exciting adventure and journey into the world of the clown for both participant and audience member. You may even get a chance to observe our feedback process first hand. A warm welcome is guaranteed.

Dates and times:

Friday 7th February 2025 – 7.30-9pm
Friday 7th March 2025 – 7.30-9pm

Entrance : suggested donation of £5 – £15 each time.

Venue:

Peredur Centre for the Arts
West Hoathly Road,
East Grinstead.
West Sussex, RH19 4NF.

info@peredurcentre.org.uk
01342 312527

Click here to book your place(s) – 07 Feb 2025

Facilitators:

Vivian Gladwell

Vivian is the founder and director of Nose to Nose and has given hundreds of workshops around the world. He lives both in the UK and France where he started clowning in 1978. He speaks French and English fluently.
Vivian began teaching in 1988 as part of the Lifeways Festival at Emerson College – UK. He trained as a facilitator with the Bataclown in 1990 and joined their team in 1991 also working as a modern day Court Jester (Clownanalyst).
He created Nose to Nose UK in 1990, Nose to Nose of North America in 2006 and Fool View, the Social Clowning group and has trained facilitators in the UK, the USA, Germany and Italy – view history.
He continues his role as ambassador for the work by researching the applications of clowning in the context of teacher training, medicine, conflict management, ecology and intercultural work in many countries (South Africa, USA, Senegal, Vietnam, India, Malaysia, Italy, Germany, Norway…)

He holds clowning as a social playground for exploring our humanity.

Melody Brink

Melody first participated in a Nose to Nose course in 2012, in New York. The playfulness and profundity of the work was contagious and she knew she wanted to do more, and lots of it. Seeing how clowning could be brought into the social realm and the impact it could have on individuals and communities, Melody pursued studying with Nose to Nose when she moved to England. In 2023 she graduated from the Facilitator’s training, eager to share the work with many!

As a facilitator, Melody values the exploration of free space; the possibility, which the clown offers, to move beyond and through limitations of patterns and habits. Clowning invites one to stay malleable and to play with these limitations and habits, it calls for wakefulness, so something new can happen. Melody’s teaching is inspired by the weaving of inner and outer, which brings a playful fluidity into ones relationship with ones surroundings.

Besides clowning, Melody brings creative education to both adults and children locally and globally. She teaches and performs storytelling, holds a Masters in Social Sculpture, co-founded a small Steiner homeschool initiative, leads singing groups, and teaches handwork, seasonal crafts and art. She also works as a trauma-pedagogue for stART International, going to places hit by natural disasters and bringing trauma pedagogy to groups of children.

Alison Stockford

Ali has been facilitating nose to Nose workshops since 2014. She holds this work in high esteem as a perfect grounding for all creative work and the bigger picture of trusting ourselves and life. Alison is a qualified and experienced teacher of over 25 years having delivered Performing Arts workshops in mainstream and special schools and older peoples settings. Dancing since the age of four she is drawn to facilitating how others explore the dimension of movement in their clown.
Performing experience includes: tap dancing and comedy in café-théâtre with Les Amuses Gueules Lille, France; Street Theatre and Theatre in Education with Inside Out Theatre Company, Hastings. In recent work for Nose to Nose, Ali has delivered trainings for the Giggle Doctors – Theodora Foundation, Lis’n Tell Speech and Language Practitioners, Quantum Marketing, London, medical students at the University of Bristol and social clowning at The Imaginarium, a writers conference, Cambridge. Ali speaks both English and French.