This 3-hour masterclass explores the physics of play—the nuts and bolts of physical presence, attention, and playfulness - and how to use it to create aliveness in a room. Rooted in the principles of clown and physical comedy, you'll learn the foundational mechanics of comedy: physical authenticity, beginning comedic timing, structures for stage-play, and how the clown's relational awareness—connecting to scene partner, audience, space, and self—generates authentic comedy and compelling performance.

Fun with Loony Extravaganza is a 90s style kids show that’s not for kids, full of Fears, Lessons, and Fun! Featuring a Variety of performers

Calling all visual artists! Join us at Church of clown for drawing sessions with live clown models! Bring your own materials.

Every third Sunday of the month

You never perform alone. Whether you’re working with fellow performers or the audience, every performance is an act of ensemble creation.

In this three-hour workshop, you’ll explore practical tools for strengthening your role within an ensemble.

Clown I: Presence, Play, and the Generous Spirit

In this 10-week introduction to Clown, students explore the essential elements of performing for a live audience.

Core Concepts: Character • Presence • Connection • Discovery • Delight • Generosity of Spirit

Instructor

Dan Griffiths 

Clown II: Physical Comedy and the Architecture of Laughter

This 10-week intermediate course deepens the performer’s understanding of Clown through the language of the body. Students will refine their sense of timing, physicality, and spatial awareness, exploring how physical design and movement create comic rhythm and dramatic tension. We will construct bits, play with objects, and investigate the visual structure of comedy. Through physical improvisation and rehearsal, students will build skills in comedic form, movement precision, and ensemble play.

Instructor

Dan Griffiths 

In this advanced 10-week course, Clown steps beyond the nose into the realms of satire, ritual, and ensemble creation. Students will explore clown as social commentary — using humor, absurdity, and vulnerability to reveal deeper human and cultural truths.

Instructor

Dan Griffiths

Dress up and play in a giant pile of clothes!!! All clothing and people welcome, not just clowns and costumes but regular clothes too :)

Join us for Church of Clown's Fourth Annual Holy Fools Day Parade!

Gather at Church at 11am

Parade Starts at 12 pm

We shall gather and parade to celebrate the holiness that is silly, joy, and laughter. Don yourself in your most joyous clown threads and gather at The Church at 11am to prepare for a parade up to our local park. We will be easy to find, so if you're running late, just look up the block for the clowns bumbling their way up the street.

Post parade we’ll congregate for food and yummy potluck. Bring things to share!

See you there!

Got a show coming up and want feedback? Craving an audience? Have a new idea you want to test? Want to develop something but don't know where to start?

Bring it to Clown Jam—a space for physical theater makers to express and develop ideas, characters, and bits in front of others. No idea yet? Even better. Come ready to play and see what emerges.

Calling all visual artists! Join us at Church of clown for drawing sessions with live clown models! Bring your own materials.

Every third Sunday of the month

Fun with Loony is a 90s style kids show that’s not for kids, full of Fears, Lessons, and Fun!

This 3-hour workshop is intended for clowns who could benefit from building more spontaneity, presence, and listening skills and improvisers who could benefit from building some more physical character and play skills.

It's a show about growing up with a father who was a mohel (Jewish ritual circumciser) who buried foreskins at home, failed efforts at finding paternal figures after his untimely death, and wrestling with circumcising his own kid. Weaving together family video, pictures, and audio recordings, this comedic storytelling is a perfect show about the loveable eccentrics we call family.

Where inner experience becomes shared meaning through ritual, movement, and play.

Unlock the next level of mime artistry with Mime Flow, a workshop designed for intermediate and advanced practitioners seeking to refine their imagery and integrate written constructs into their performance. This immersive experience explores the symbiotic relationship between physical movement and narrative design, emphasizing transformational flow, line design, and dynamic expression.

A 5-hour dip into the Pochinko (Canadian) style of clown work, focused on physical exploration, listening to ourselves, and being our most fantastic selves—whatever that may look like.

Full of Grace follows Father Andrea, a very peculiar clergyman as he administers a very peculiar worship service. With hoses-down of holy water and parishioners caught somewhere between a Hail Mary and a Macarena, this 60 year-old Padre clearly grew up Catholic in the most Catholic country. He can't get you to Italy, but he might help get you to heaven. 

Slow-motion boxing, tape measure tangles, wild pizza dancing. In a playful and absurd crescendo, a hopelessly romantic (and sometimes a little naughty) man tries everything to get the only thing he wants. To be loved?

Tis the new year and time for a movie with community! As your local Church we don’t stray away from a  wholesome event such as a movie night! Join us on Sunday, September 7 for a movie showing that starts at 7pm. This is a great time to find the Church, meet your classmates, and get a feel for our neighborhood before the big First Day Of School one week later!