November 2025
Pump it Up! A Clown Workshop @ Kestrels
Led by Hannah Mitchell
Produced by LOCAL GRANDMA
Date: Saturday, Nov 15 & Sunday, Nov 16
*Sign up is for both days
Time: 10:30am-2:30pm
Location: 188 6th St. Brooklyn, NY 11215
Price: $200
If you want to avoid the Viewcy fees, feel free to Venmo or Paypal us!
Venmo: Leonie-Bell
Paypal: leoniebell90
Are you a performer looking to pump(kin) it up this fall? Wanna get in touch with your innate and embodied sense of play in a supportive container?
Take this workshop!! We will play a series of games and exercises aimed at connecting you with your juicy impulses and bringing you into the sweet, sweet present moment onstage. It’s all here baby! Your failures are gold if you accept them. Can we play with the heart of everyone’s favorite frog, and the body of a (friendly!) competitor??!
Day 1 is for games and getting juicy in our bodies.
Day 2 is for costumes and quick & dirty devising.
Open to performers and clowns of all experience levels - the only prerequisite is a desire to play. Costumes and snacks provided–feel free to bring more to add to the pile!
Cap: 14 participants
Hannah Mitchell is an award-winning performer with a penchant for clown & bouffon. She devises new experimental works of theater, performs live comedy bits, and regularly collaborates with various ensembles. She is a founding member of the clown company WüfPak and the experimental theater collective, CHILD, whose creative output “so insistently defies human logic” (Helen Shaw, The New Yorker). Hannah has performed at many venues around NYC, including The Public, The Brick, The Park Ave Armory, The Collapsable Hole, Lincoln Center, LifeWorld, The New Ohio, Theater Mitu, HERE Arts, Target Margin, and The Brooklyn Comedy Collective, among others. Her work has been presented at The Philadelphia Fringe Festival, The Exponential Festival, ?!:New Works, and abroad at The Edinburgh Fringe Festival. She guest lectures in clown at The School of Visual Arts, and teaches independent workshops around NYC. hannahmitchell.net
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Do you want to get into your body and out of your head? Want to crawl gently out of your winter bear den for a taste of community and delight? Welcome to the world of the clown! Filled to the brim with beautiful chaos and hilarious failures, in this class, we will play games that get us in touch with our innate sense of play and spontaneity & bring us into the present moment onstage, and in our lives. Sign up for one workshop or both. The only prerequisite is a desire to play.