Wednesday, August 30, 2023

 

Additional Thoughts As You Prepare For Our Workshop

 Housing

Rooms are reserved at a local hotel (Microtel Hotel & Suites) by the “Next Step Workshop.” Hotel expense is not included in the registration fee. It's about $120 per night. If you want one of these rooms you will need to personally contact the hotel. Randy will not do this for you. If you want to share a room / expense, Randy will try to connect you with other attendees.

Make-up & Costume
We encourage you to bring your make-up and costume to wear as part of our Sunday morning presentations in the kid’s services at the local church. If you are not a "clown" character, you may still participate. How you participate will be determined during the writing process during our workshop.

Since “The Next Step” is intended to be an advanced training workshop, we assume that the attendees basic skills of clown make-up and costuming are already developed so we will not be offering any workshops on these areas. 

You will want to bring your clown shoes, nose, hat and wardrobe, jacket or vest with you for some of our practice sessions, but applying your actual make-up will only be needed for the worship services on Sunday.

Staff are willing to give feedback and advice in this area on a one-to-one basis. Personal coaching will be available as time allows. 

Time Schedule
We will plan to start on time in the morning, after lunch and in the evening.  We will plan to not end on time for any session.  Our desire is to help you work through various concepts and exercises that will really be beneficial.  We’re not going to try to run on a rigid timeline.  This is not a conference where numerous classes are beginning and ending at the same time.  This is a time where we can spend some personal time together and really dig into some areas of clowning and ministry and effective communication and writing material that we often don’t have time to focus on.  These are advanced concepts from learned instructors. 

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Registration for Next Step 2023

 Registration Form for Next Step Workshop 2023

 Name_____________________________________________________ Age__________ Guy or Gal? 

Mailing Address:____________________________________________________________________________ 

Telephone:__________________________________ 

Email:_______________________________________________________ 

Previous Training_____________________________________________________________________

 __________________________________________________________________________________

Foods you won’t eat __________________________________________________________________ 

Medical issues we should be aware of:___________________________________________________ 

Favorite comic actor/comedian?________________________________________________________ 

Where do you perform?________________________________________________________________

 __________________________________________________________________ 

What specific topics are you hoping to learn________________________________________________

 __________________________________________________________________________________

 Interested in sharing hotel room expense? Yes / No 

 Need transportation from the airport? Yes / No ($10 travel fee accepted at pick-up) 

Other stuff you want us to know:_______________________________________________________

 __________________________________________________________________________________

 Payment included: $_______________ (Registration is $395. Alumni rate is $345.) 

Please email to pastorclown@gmail.com or paper mail to: 

Randy Christensen, 2117 Peregrine Lane, North Mankato, MN 5600


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2023 Tentative Schedule for Next Step Participants

 

Wednesday:

 

1:00  …Randy, Nick & Aurora walk through for Wednesday night program

 

2:30 Participants arrive at Hillside Church in Mankato

3:00 Opening Session

          -Meet other clowns

          -Creativity & Improve Your Improv - Randy

          -The Next Step Process & How To Get the Most Out of It – Randy

4:15 Body Movement and Facial Expressions - Aurora

5:30  Supper provided on site

6:30 Children’s Service presented by Randy, Nick & Aurora

7:45  Balloon twistin’ for the kids that are there! (by Next Step attendees)

8:00-8:30 Afterglow with snacks 

Thursday:

8:30 Prayer/Relection in sanctuary

9:00 Spiritual Warm-Ups with Aurora

9:30 Physical Warm-Ups with Randy

10:00 The Simplicity of Clowning with Aurora

11:00 Heart & Humor with Randy

11:40 Mime Concepts (Part 1)

12:20 LUNCH on site

1:15-45 “Using Misunderstandings As A Writing Method”  -  Randy

2:00-3:00  Character Development – Aurora

3:00 Circus Skills & Comedy Stunts - Randy

3:45  Developing Routines with Objects - Randy

4:30  Mime-based Communication with Randy

5:15 Supper off site with a friend

7:00-9:00?   Student Demonstrations (with coaching)

PLUS discussion of Sunday service development

Friday:

 

8:30 Prayer

9:00 Spiritual Warm-Ups with Randy

9:30 Physical Warm-Ups with Aurora

10:00 TBD with Aurora

10:50  Art of Clown / Comedy  with Randy

12:00 LUNCH on site

1:30 Walkaround Fun & Comedy Antics - Aurora

2:15 Writing Message-Based Material with Stories- Randy

3:00 break

3:15 Writing Message Based Material (Group Exercise)

4:00  Program Development for Sunday with Randy

4:30 The Power of Unified Movement / Tableaus -  Randy

5:45 Supper at Randy's house 

7:15 Student Demonstrations & Randy's favorite videos

Saturday:

 8:30 Prayer

9:00 Spiritual Warm-Ups

9:30 Physical Warm-Ups - Randy

10:00  Clowning & Working With A Partner - Aurora

11:00 Music In Performance - Randy

12:00 Lunch

1:00 Student Demonstration

2:30  Breath and Focus – Randy

3:15  Scripture Memory Methods – Randy/Nick

4:00  Blocking & focus for Sunday’s services - Randy

5:00 Supper off site


6:30-8:30 Run-through of program for Sunday 

Sunday:

 

8:00 Participants at church in “full-clown”

8:15  Clown meeting and prayer

8:30 Official service time start 

9:35 Service ends


*meet & greet

 

9:50 Official service time start 

10:55 Service ends


*meet & greet

11:15 Official service time start

12:30 Optional lunch on site  (Review & Rejoice!)




1:30 On the way “down the road”


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