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Big Head Puppet Workshop with Michele Menard
Join our exciting workshop for ages eight and up—ideal for families! Enjoy a special discount for family participants.
Please bring extra cardboard, aprons, hot glue guns, glue, and scissors. Michele will provide additional materials. Light snacks and beverages will be available during the lunch break. We can't wait to see you there!
Holy Fools Day Parade
Join us for Church of Clown's Fourth Annual Holy Fools Day Parade!
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 10am 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!
The Fetus Show
“The Fetus…you are a gem, just the perfect timbre of strange.”
-Puppet Party/All Out Comedy
“Not quite the Fetus Show you might be expecting.”-Sabrina
“The Fetus show is NOT about abortion”-Whoopsie
Playfulness with Daniel Orrantia
Anything is possible if it happens within a game. In a friendly and secure atmosphere the participants will look for ways to unleash themselves into a world of endless opportunities within the act of play. They will find the pleasure in taking risks, finding ways of raising the stakes in a playful way. The workshop is designed to be suitable for beginners and will also allow experienced players to learn a lot about themselves.
Clown Drawing
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
Camp Orientation
Get ready for Camp Orientation at Camp KinZ—a summer camp that has been through more than its fair share of ups, downs, and bear-related lawsuits. Director Randy (Kendra Ferguson) is hanging on by a thread, trying to keep his beloved camp afloat after financial collapse and the messy fallout from last year's incidents. Enter Counselor Juicykinz (Juice Ried), a well-meaning (but totally unpredictable) trust-fund bro who is trying to save the camp in the only way he knows—by embracing complete and utter chaos.
Blake Rosier LIVE!
Blake Rosier's Live! is an amalgamation of danger, disgust, discomfort and art. Expect this internet-famous performer to bring you some of your favorite characters - like Damien the crying frat bro and Nathan the third grader - and reactions to some of the worst DIY videos you will ever see. Along the way, Blake will be mixing in singing, dancing and some of the most uncomfortable moments you’ll witness this whole year. Currently touring the country in 28 states, this show is truly unmissable. Come be a part of history!
Due to an Unforseen Apocalypse…
In this World Premiere one-man clown variety show, Gherkin Picklewater takes audiences on a wild trip to the final performance of humanity’s last-ever dinner show, taking place mid-apocalypse.
Clown Drawing
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
Feral Child
Classically trained mime, our very own technical director and famous fixer-of-toilets, Jamin Jollo presents his solo show.
Miss American Dream Show
ONE NIGHT ONLY! March 26 @ 8PM
Join Sierra Camille as faux fox news cheerleader Blanca Fiberton as she delivers thought provoking snacks about immigration, romance, gun control, babies, dating, sex, and popcorn! Prepare to be saved by the Church Of All Screens and laugh your way through unsettling truths as Sierra Camille takes you away on a comedic political thrill ride.
Clown & the Animate World
Step into the playful, unpredictable, and joyfully chaotic world of clowning! This workshop explores the profound connection between the clown’s body and the animate world around them. Through the lenses of physical comedy, slapstick, knockabout, and prop play, participants will discover how to transform simple actions into moments of hilarity.
Student Showcase Winter 2025
Come check out what the heck has been going on at that colorful new spot in Vis Valley for - you got that right - ABSOLUTELY FREE!
Clown Drawing
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
Bring Life 2 U
Bring Life 2 U is an original song and dance performance of vast scope and profound meaning. Experience the full human lifespan in only 30 minutes! This show features handmade costumes, original choreography, and unstoppable dance music, courtesy of nightmayor, the underground musical theater sensation from Olympia, Washington. Do not miss this once in a lifetime chance to see a lifetime all at once!
Larval Mask Workshop
In this unique workshop at Church of Clown, mask maker and teacher Jamin Jollo will guide students through a world of improvised play using Larval/Basel masks to hone delightfully eccentric physicality and kindle the flames of character discovery.
Clown Karaoke
Grab your friends, grab your cash, hop in the car or take the 8 bus in San Francisco, and land right in front of The Church’s door. Make a grand entrance, get your song(s) on the list, and prepare to dazzle the crowd!
Solos, duets, trios and more are most welcome. We’ll sing on stage while dancing and goofing off everywhere else, so prepare to get silly and be amazed by the sounds of the night!
Punching Judy
Wickedly funny, and unapologetically raw, this performance slices through patriarchal brutality, systemic violence, and domestic abuse with biting insight and humor. It lays bare the absurdity of exploitation creeping into our most intimate spaces and dares you to laugh, squirm, and reflect. Bold, daring, and darkly comedic—this is truth-telling at its most irresistible.
Drea’s Clown Lab Workshop
Kick off with playful games, dive into the psychology of comedy, creativity, and connection, then wrap up with low-pressure, hands-on stage experiments. Perfect for aspiring clowns, comedians, improvisers, teachers, facilitators, hosts—or anyone who wants to bring more humor, curiosity, and authenticity to the stage and beyond. Come ready to play, laugh, and explore what it means to be unapologetically human!
Play in a day!
Join us for a whirlwind day of creativity, collaboration, and circus magic! Designed for students ages 7 to 12, this immersive experience invites young performers to devise, play, and create alongside seasoned instructors. Through mask, mime, clowning, juggling, acrobatics, object manipulation, and more, students will craft their own original performance—culminating in a spectacular final show at 3pm!
Clown Drawing
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
3rd Annual Dirty Puppet Soirée
Come prepared for adult content, bring a puppet if you got one, and leave your purity at the door.
CLOWN Clothing Swap 2025
Dress up and play in a giant pile of clothes!!! All clothing and people welcome, not just clowns and costumes but regular clothes too :)
Mime Flow
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.
Beyond the Fourth Wall
The clown's relationship to the audience is at the heart of what makes this theatrical style vibrant and powerful. Audience participation and interaction is rarely focused on in clown training and this element of performance is so valued when well done. Oftentimes audience engagement is under rehearsed because it is hard to simulate. In this workshop we will explore techniques, methodology and practical skills of working with audience participants, creating interactive characters and creating effective gags, games and bits that use the audience as partners in your performance.
Good Ol’ American Satire
Inauguration gotcha down? Head over to the Church you wish was married to state, Church of Clown, for Good Ol’ American Satire: an evening of political comedy by clowns and queens you’ll love to hate while they fly our Americana Pride high in the sky.
Clown Drawing
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
Falsettos and Sunsets
Falsettos and Sunsets is the story of Richard Begaldix and George Lamps, a pair of cartoony cool guys who fall in love and stumble through the world of polyamory with outrageous physical comedy, startling emotional honesty, and slapstick existential confusion.
Clown Drawing
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 *June’s Clown Drawing will deviate and be held on June 23
Clown-a-Thon
Clown-a-Thon Video Content Creation!
Join us in thanking all of the people who donated to our Winter Fundraiser.
Clown Karaoke
Grab your friends, grab your cash, hop in the car or take the 8 bus in San Francisco, and land right in front of The Church’s door. Make a grand entrance, get your song(s) on the list, and prepare to dazzle the crowd!
Solos, duets, trios and more are most welcome. We’ll sing on stage while dancing and goofing off everywhere else, so prepare to get silly and be amazed by the sounds of the night!
Fall 2024 Bouffon Class Recital
It’s gonna be something…else.
Show starts promptly at 7pm!
Fall 2024 Mime Class Recital
Join us for the Mime student showcase, where we build worlds out of nothing! Each recital, the mimes steal the show, so they’ve earned their own performance.
Show starts promptly at 7pm!
Bangtail
Baddest. Cowboy. Texas. These are just a few words to describe the Baddest Cowboy in Texas. He roots n’ toots n’ roots from the mightiest mountains to the sauciest saloons. But what happens when a Badder Cowboy-er Texas-er (AKA his nemesis) rides into town and steals his title?
BANGTAIL is an epic tale of a man in search of his manhood. So saddle up for an hour of unbridled cowboy clown chaos as our hero journeys from the Wild West to the American office.
Fresh from a sold out tour in the US (March 2024), a sold-out run in Edinburgh, and a transfer to SOHO Theatre in London BANGTAIL is back in his home territory and … dare he say it … on the road again!
Fall 2024 Mask Class Recital
Join us at the Church of Clown to see our first Mask recital. For the past 10 weeks, the students have developed characters and transformed themselves physically, learning the technique of mask work.
Recital starts promptly at 7pm!
Fall 2024 Clown Class Recital
Come see what our students have been creating!
Our students have been studying and training in clown for 10 weeks. Join us for their end of session recital. Laugh your butt off and come support A R T!
These recitals are some of our favorite performances of the year every time.
Show will start promptly at 7!
Clown Drawing
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 *June’s Clown Drawing will deviate and be held on June 23
FLOP FEST ‘24 Awards Ceremony
💥 Sunday, November 3 at 7pm. Join us for food, awards, drinks, laughs, & a celebration of the beauty & frivolity of life. Bring something to share if you please. Bring your friend, bring yourself, bring a joke — 🐓 see you there.
Help Wanted
Running from la Migra, a runaway child slips into the big top and becomes bonded to circus life in an exchange that sends them on a search to find themselves and their place on the stage.
