ONLINE CERTIFICATE PROGRAM: TRICKSTER

Class Type Online, 1-on-1 Experience
Dates  Open
Times Open
Location Wherever you are!
Instructor Mike Funt
Cost $499 (discounts for previous Clown School participants)

Another totally unique new offering from The Clown School, the world’s first Certificate Program in the art the Trickster.

“Many native traditions held clowns and tricksters as essential to any contact with the sacred. People could not pray until they had laughed, because laughter opens and frees from rigid preconception. Humans had to have tricksters within the most sacred ceremonies for fear that they forget the sacred comes through upset, reversal, surprise. The trickster in most native traditions is essential to creation, to birth.” Professor Byrd Gibbens in a letter to George Carlin.

Explore the playful and disruptive side of human imagination as it is embodied in Trickster mythos. Borrowing from many art forms through the lens of Trickster traditions and mythologies from around the world, you’ll play in a realm where the artist is there to disrupt, mock, and entertain: the realm of the Trickster. These archetypal figures have served as leaders in communication and healing since our cultural beginnings. They feature as prominent parts of story-telling, tribal rituals, performing arts, and ceremonies in cultures all over the world to entertain and amuse, but also provoke and unsettle. They control through chaos. They give, and they take. They flatter you, and they mock you. They are ridiculous and sublime. Enter and surrender to the world of the Trickster.