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Chinese Clown Festivals

2009-02-11Where in the world am I today?: North Vancouver, BC, Canada

I’m not sure why, but for some reason there seem to be a bunch of Clown Festivals popping up in China. I was in China in October at the Nanjing Euro-Americas Clown Carnival and had a blast. Something like twenty or thirty different acts and we had so much fun as a group that a ‘Facebook Group’ was created. Prior to taking that job I had also had another offer from another agent about another Clown Festival happening at the same time. On the way back to Vancouver I ran into a ton of the performers who had been at that other festival at the Shanghai Airport. I just recently got contacted about another festival that’s happening in April in Beijing.

So…

In spite of the general panic about global economics clowns and interactive comedy seem to be in demand in China.  For today’s post I thought I’d pass along a couple of addresses for agents who I’ve encountered who are starting to work with China. So here you go –

The Agent responsible for my gig at the Nanjing Euro-Americas Clown Carnival was –

Orbital Entertainment
Attn: Brian Wilson
Suite 1500 Bank Street
Ottawa, Ontario
K1H 1B8, Canada
Phone: (613) 860-1846
Fax: (613) 443-9978
web: http://www.orbitalent.ca

The agent that booked the ‘other’ Clown Festival that was going on at the same time as the one that I was doing was – 

Brenn Swanson
2296 Lanes Mill Road
Brick, NJ 08724
USA
email: seaclown11@aol.com

Also, for those of you interested, the production company that handled the on-site production needs of the Nanjing Euro-Americas Clown Carnival was –

Sunglow Entertaiment Ltd.
1906 Zhonghuan Building N0. 2
Lane 3856
North Zhongshan Road, SHANGHAI 20063
CHINA
Web: http://www.sunglow-entertainment.com

Now all you have to do is learn how to speak Mandarine and you’ll have a whole new market to jump into!

Happy Happy Good Good!

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