This FOOLSFEST

On October 31, 2010 I started my seventieth year of living. Then I got the idea to organize a FOOLS FEST around the week or the weekend of October 30, 2011. I invited Franki Anderson to facilitate Fools workshops together for Fools from past and present and to share this event with everybody. 

I met Franki in 1980 in Utrecht, where she gave a workshop organized by Etha Struyck. Franki taught me juggling three bean bags and she showed me how to fabricate those bags themselves. I also had the honor of her tutorship to do a number of fearsome acrobatics. 

This led to a lengthy collaboration as a fool and clown, as we still do. I organized workshops for Franki in Rotterdam, simply to be able to join them as much as I could. 

Franki also directed a large number of shows for the Foundation for the Preservation of Little Red Riding Hood & the Bad Wolf, in which both Cecilia Meinders and I played the lead: Circus Rijn & Trijn, Snow White & the 7 Dwarfs, Wild Child, the Inspectorate, the Fool Plays The Emperor's New Clothes. Some of these productions we still play ...

Now I lead a monthly Sunday Fool In The Empty Space workshop at SKVR in Rotterdam and hope to spread this valuable way of working.

So the plan grew for a some Franki & Me Fools workshops around my birthday. I made this known to the Fools Forum, half in November 2010.

The response was huge! Rotterdam, birthplace of Erasmus, author of 'Praise of Folly', was chosen as the center of activity.The week(end) workshops on October 22- 23 and October 24 to 28 week workshop each have a reservelist now (February 20). 

For Saturday there is a Fools-show "Reint & Franki & Guests" on the program, in 'De Oude Lantaren' in the Gouvernestraat. 
And Franki's Fool and partner Ray Bowler will facilitate an 'Open Fools Space Plaza' on my birthday anniversary: Sunday 30 October 10 to 17 hours in the building of the SKVR , Hennekijnstraat 6. 
Details Fools and Open Space is on this website. 
If you want to participate in the Open Space or to order tickets for the show fool, then via the website. 

Hope to see you! 
Reint Laan