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Funny Business
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| May 2005 Volume 14 Number 12 |
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Next meeting
Monday, May 9 2005, 7:00 PM
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This MonthSWAP MEET & CLUB ELECTIONSOur May meeting will be a very busy one so we need you to arrive promptly at 6:30 p.m. so we can get going at 7 p.m. exactly. We have our club's annual Swap Meet. Clean out your closets, sheds & garages. One man's discards are another man's treasure. Bring enough change to make change. The charge is $5.00 for members and $10.00 for non-members per table. Come on time to set up your table. Participate in your club. And we also are having our club elections. We need people to run for an office. "Step up to the plate" & run. Your club is only as good as you make it. This is the one month that we do not have any guest speaker!
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The Art Of Trade Shows
There will be an ongoing monthly article on trade shows. Each month I will give you trade show topic and expand on it. This first article will tell you about trade shows in general and the specifics will be in subsequent monthly newsletter articles. Are trade shows for you? At trade shows they are usually looking for specific bits & routines, which are devices to achieve their needs & goals. First look at the needs of the person who hired you. Your job is usually to entertain the crowd when it is busy and entertain the other vendors when it is slow. You have to keep both groups happy. You are one of the tools in achieving that goal. Whether you are booked at an industry-only trade show or an "open to the public" consumer trade show the focus is always on product, customers and sales. The entertainment that you provide should be designed to stimulate a conductive sales environment and encourage business. You might be hired to work for the show's promoter to work the entire venue or to work for one company at a specific booth. You may be strolling the grounds doing walk-arounds for the vendors as well as the showgoers or doing strictly close-up entertainment in one specific area. You might be doing walk-arounds and scheduled shows. You may be needed strictly just for fun "meet & greet" routines and give-aways. Or you may want your material tailored for their specific products, show themes or services. Those products, themes or services, not the entertainers, are always the stars of the trade shows. This is a challenge of combining variety, skills, arts and sales. There is excitement of working with crowds of people at a venue, out on the floor or even on a stage. Performing in the marketplace is a very old idea. And your financial rewards are worth all of the effort you give. Return next month for an educational trade show topic!
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Clown With A Passion - Stage ClowningFeel good about what you do. You have the best job in the world! Not many jobs will pay you to play. And that is what we do. We play. It's hard work, but what a blast! What we do is not a hobby unless we think of it that way. It is not collecting magic tricks or how many different types of balloon sculptures we can do. It is what we can do with one magic trick or one balloon that makes the magic in our clown. Take a feather duster and make it into a bouquet of flowers and hand out one feather at a time. What is left when all the feathers are gone? A trumpet to lead a band or an oar to row a boat? How about a microphone to interview people? Get it? It's not the tools we have but what we do with them! Our power to transform something into what is not is endless. Our power to be the best that we can be is there, but only if we believe in the goodness that we give. Heah! We are in great company! Emmett Kelly, Laurel & Hardy, Frosty Little, Lou Jacobs, Charlie Chaplin, Lucille Ball, Buster Keyton and so many more. And there was a time when clowns dominated the world's greatest stages and were paid very well for their contributions to the entertainment world. They were respected for their craft. Let's get that respect back. There is always room on stage for great clowns. Soooo. . . . Just do it, and do it with passion! (from laugh makers vol. 14 - no. 1 & 2 1996)
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BOB BERKY A group of fourteen of us went to see BOB
BERKY at the La Mirada Theatre. He was very entertaining. Some of his
skits were very funny and his interaction with his adult volunteers
was very good. Some people expressed a wish to do something like this
again. So let me know if you have any shows or other entertainment in
mind. A group trip to the circus would be a kick- Pom-Pom |
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