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.
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.
# posted by Randy @ 4:20 PM 
