Circus Film Showing March 19

STEP RIGHT UP! TRUE CIRCUS STORIES

OF HIGH ADVENTURE and LOW COMEDY!

“CIRCLE OF SAWDUST: The Mud, Myth, Mayhem, and Magic of Circus!”

with Rob Mermin

          Rob Mermin, founder of the international youth company Circus Smirkus, will entertain with an evening of personal anecdotes and film clips on circus history at the Boulder Circus Center on Saturday, March 19 at 7:30PM. Included in the presentation will be clips from 25 Hollywood circus feature films. Come hear his illustrated tales of wacky characters and wild escapades!

          Mermin is an award-winning performer, with Copenhagen’s Gold Clown, Russia’s Best Director Prize, and the Governor’s Award of Excellence, Vermont’s highest honor in the arts. Mermin trained with the renowned mimes Marcel Marceau and Etienne Decroux, and is also a former Dean of the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Clown College.

          Mermin ran off to join the circus as a teen in the late 60’s. During the next forty years his circus adventures took him clowning with tent shows in Wales, mule wrangling in Lapland with Sweden’s Circus Scott, riding with the Magyars in the Hungarian State Cirkusz, three years with the famous Benneweis Circus Building in Copenhagen, and entertaining royalty in the circus palaces of Europe and Russia.

          In 1987, he founded Circus Smirkus, which The Boston Globe called “one of New England’s most treasured cultural and educational resources.”

Donations accepted at the door; no reservations but space limited.

Address: 4747 N. 26^th St.

For directions to BCC & information on “Circle of Sawdust” see www.bouldercircuscenter.com 

***The organizers of the BCC recently performed at Broomfield Library as Lazer Vaudeville!