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SHOW ALERT Pastel's Imaginarium is back and it's free baby!

After a year away… …and this time it’s making it’s way up to Brampton as part of PAMA (Peel Art Gallery, Museum & Archives) and their Family Day 2025 celebrations! That’s this coming MONDAY FEB. 17th people! Catch the clowns wandering the halls, jamming in the courthouse, animating the collections and critiquing the art. AND ALSO You can find the clowns in studio 2, where the Imaginarium will…

Andrew is leading a weekend clown intensive in Mississauga from Feb 7-9th! Register for this unique opportunity now.

There are still spots left for this weekend clown intensive happening in Mississauga. While the cold makes the Art Shelter a little difficult to inhabit for long periods of time, I’ve decided to partner with another local Mississauga location, AN1 Studios, just over on Cawthra road near Dundas. We’ll be warm and have a consistent space that will be all ours for the weekend to discover our foolish…

a new blog post in which Andrew announces plans for a weekend clown intensive in February 2025.

All the way back in the fall of 2012, I finally succumbed to the pressure of my friend’s unsolicited encouragement that I should pursue theatrical clown training. It just so happened that her teacher, Helen Donnelly, was offering an affordable entry-level weekly clown one course at a time that I was craving a new approach to performance. I needed to redefine what performance meant to me. Twelve…